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All 6 Issues of the Märklin Magazin

The leading magazine for model railroaders! You’ll find everything about your hobby here: Detailed information on layout construction, product and other technical information straight from the source, exciting reports on models, tips for forthcoming events, and lots more. Club membership includes the Märklin Magazin subscription of 33 euro. Existing Märklin Magazin subscription accounts can be extended as required.

Insider Club News 6 times a year

On 24 pages and this six times a year you will find everything about “Your Gauge and Your Club”. Behind-thescene articles and looking over the shoulder of the people in production making your models for an in-depth look at the world of Märklin.

Exclusive Club Models

The exclusively designed and manufactured club models are made available only to Club members. You receive a personalized, high-quality certificate for all the locomotive models you order, sent to your home after shipping.

Club Car of the Year, free of charge

Look forward to the attraction of Car of the Year only available to club members. Choose between H0 Gauge and Z Gauge. Each model a collectible every year.

Annual Chronicle

Re-live the highlights of the Märklin model railroading year as an exclusive club download.

Catalog / New Items Brochures

Club members receive the annual main catalogue free of charge from their retailer. We also send you our new items brochures direct to your home.

Club Card

Your personal club card, issued each year, opens up the world of model railway hobbyists in a very special way. Because as a member, not only are you a premium customer, but you also receive impressive benefits from currently over 100 participating partners. Moreover, your personal membership card can be used to place orders for all the exclusive products offered to club members.

Discounts for attending seminars

Club members benefit from lower prices when they book seminars that we arrange.

Favorable shipping terms from the Online Shop

Club members enjoy favorable shipping terms within Germany from our Online Shop.

Club trips**

Experience your hobby in a very special way and connect your model railway with its real-life example. On our club trips, as we travel through fairytale landscapes to wonderful destinations, you can also talk shop with your like-minded fellow travelers. And to top it all, club members receive a discount on the cost of the trip. And on top of that there is a 5% discount on the travel price for club members – at Bahnreisen Sutter www.bahnen.info and the tour operator LGBTOURS www.lgbtours.de

* These offers are not binding; the right to make alterations is reserved.
** Subject to availability

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Membership Conditions

Your personal club year starts from the date on which payment is received after you register with the club. You will receive all club benefits for a duration of 12 months. It is not possible to apply benefits retroactively.
Your Car of the Year and Marklin Club models will be sent to your dealer for collection after you hand in your order form to your dealer. The order forms are sent to you with your respective club sending.

Right of Cancellation

Your membership will be automatically renewed for a further year unless you give notice of termination six weeks prior to the end of your personal club year.

In the event that we increase the membership subscription and/or we change the terms of membership you have an extraordinary right of cancellation, which you may exercise in writing within a period of three weeks from receipt of the notice of the increase in your subscription rate or the notice of a change to the terms and conditions.

The right to terminate for a significant reason remains unaffected.

US statutory regulations apply in the USA.

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