Membership
One parcel, or one every month.
Every parcel is the same six pieces, wrapped in kraft, tied and wax sealed.
Try one on its own, pay monthly and stop when you like, or pay once for three or twelve months, which is the tidy way to give it to somebody else.
One parcel
Try one first
£8.99 once
This month's issue, on its own
One parcel, posted within three working days. No membership.
Earlier issues can be bought the same way while they last.
Monthly
Most flexible
£7.99 a month
One parcel a month
Until you stop it. No minimum term.
Pause or cancel from your account whenever you like.
Three months
The easy gift
£23.97 once
£7.99 a parcel
Three issues, paid once. Then it ends.
Nothing renews afterwards.
Twelve months
Best value
£95.88 if paid monthly
£87.89 once
£7.32 a parcel
Twelve issues for the price of eleven, paid once. Then it ends.
Nothing renews afterwards.
Every price includes UK postage; postage to Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand is added at checkout. Each button opens our payment page, run by Stripe. Which parcel comes first, and when, is in the panel below.
In every parcel
The same six pieces, whichever you choose.
- 01The story, an A5 booklet with a back page on what is real
- 02The route chart, both sides
- 03The signal box diagram, from the Ordnance Survey
- 04The crossword
- 05Two collectable cards from Inside the Machine
- 06The postcard, then and now
Every piece is marked as a replica, and the history is checked against sources.
When you pay, and when it arrives
If you join today
- When you join£7.99 for your first parcel.
- Within 3 working daysYour first parcel, Issue One: Kinnaber, is posted within three working days.
- From 1 DecThen £7.99 on the 1st of each month, starting on 1 December 2026, for that month’s parcel, posted on 10 December and the 10th of each month after.
You pay once today, and nothing again until 1 December 2026, after your first parcel has been posted. We take payment on the 1st, nine days before the parcels go, so there is time to sort out a card problem before anything goes in the post. The dates above are worked out for today.
Buying for someone else
Enter their address at checkout and your own email for the account. You manage the membership; they get the post. Nothing inside mentions what it cost. A three or twelve month term is the easier gift, because it ends on its own and leaves them nothing to cancel.
Joining part way through
Every issue stands on its own: a different story, line and year each month. Whenever you join, your first parcel is that month’s issue, and nothing is missing. Earlier issues can be bought on their own from the issues page while they last.
The small print
Paid by card when you join, then on the 1st of each month for that month’s parcel, posted on the 10th; or once for a three or twelve month term that ends on its own; or once for a single parcel. Cancel a membership from your account at any time; no minimum term. Prices include VAT where applicable and UK postage; to Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand the postage is added at checkout, by Royal Mail International Standard, and the price of the parcel itself is the same. If a parcel goes missing, tell us and we send another. If you cancel within 14 days of your first parcel arriving and want that month refunded, you post the parcel and its contents back to us at your own cost. Full terms and your cancellation rights: Terms and Cancellation. More answers on the questions page, and what we do with your address on the privacy page.
Receipts come to the email on the account.