British Railway Modelling (BRM)

LNER motive power: The supporting cast

It is the same almost everywhere you look, plenty of information about the star of the show, but with everdecreasing amounts about the supporting cast, depending on how far down the pecking order they come. On the London & North Eastern Railway, there...

THE WHARFEDALE LINE, DC DETOURS AND MORE

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CAMEO IDEAS AND DETAILS THAT ADD THE FINAL TOUCH

SWAN SONG

THE FINAL DAYS BEFORE DIESEL DOMINATED THE RAILS

Budget Modelling: Tri-ang brick wagon

MANY YEARS ago, I saw a full-sized advert for the Tri-ang bogie brick wagon in one of the model railway magazines, and I was immediately hooked; spending my paper round money on buying it from Mr Trickett’s shop in Garden Lane, Chester. As you’ll see,...

Janes’ Creek (EM)

An interest in shipping and a return to EM gauge sowed the seeds for this picturesque layout.

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FLIRT!

HORNBY’S LATEST MODEL CAUSES QUITE A STIR...

Heol-y-Cyw (OO)

This reimagined line gets plenty of action, including passenger services, freight workings and serving Raglan Colliery.

TOWER MODELS,

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TOWER MODELS,

Visit our new well stocked shop, a mile from Blackpool North Railway Station Open Mon to Sat 9.30 to 4.45

HISTORY OF THE HUMBLE PLATELAYER HUT

Withins (0-16.5)

Activity in the Yorkshire Dales in the early 1900s provided plenty of inspiration for this reservoir construction railway.

Bilston Steelworks (OO)

A typical slice of an industrial West Midlands landscape from the 1970s – a steelworks alongside a canal.

Dduallt (OO9)

UP THE MOUNTAIN Once upon a time, 009 layouts had a reputation for being ‘rabbit warrens’, with trackplans that almost tied themselves into knots, but this one actually exists. In the mid-1960s, volunteers on the Ffestiniog Railway began constructing...

p126 Old Town to Riddle (N)

Layout owner, Anthony Hubbard, took the opportunity to get a head start with an exhibition layout by purchasing a compact, clever design that ensures operators and audience alike can be kept entertained with plenty of activity, all with good reasons...