Modelling
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St Ann’s Cove: It’s time for a dress rehearsal
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Putting the second chunk of landscaping in place on RMM’s project N-scale layout brings an opportunity to appraise where everything else might eventually fit, particularly the harbour and its surrounds that will feature next month, writes Pete Kelly. As the construction of any model railway layout progresses, there comes a time to pause, take stock…
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Thinking about the great outdoors?
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With spring in the air once again, some railway modellers might well be thinking about constructing a garden layout – but how many dare go a step further and consider the possibility of live steam? Perhaps last year’s TV mini-series The Biggest Little Railway in the World, which followed the progress of a dedicated team…
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They just wave flags and blow whistles, don’t they?
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Train guards have a vitally important role to play on any railway – real or imagined – but what exactly do they do? Ian Lamb discovers that it’s an awful lot more than many of us might imagine. An essential part of any model railway layout featuring a station is the provision of suitable train…
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Model railways at the Crewe Heritage Centre
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Pete Kelly pays an out-of-season visit to the Crewe Heritage Centre to see what remains of the massive junction of his youth, and is surprised to discover that the railway modeller will also find something of interest there. So rapid is the pace of change these days that it can be a terrible mistake to…
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What’s in the Shops: Classic Freightliner wagons from Bachmann
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Nigel Burkin reviews Bachmann’s OO-gauge FFA and FGA container flats in pre-TOPS condition, complete with early BR Freightliner containers. A revolution in railway wagon design took place during the 1960s, when inefficient standard wagons started to be replaced with modern long-wheelbase and bogie air-braked stock. The wholesale containerisation of goods was also on the horizon…
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Model review: An all-metal Irish masterpiece
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A fine model of the once-numerous Great Southern & Western Railway of Ireland Class 101 0-6-0 steam locomotives has been released by OO Works – and it has all the feel of a quality hand-built product, writes Nigel Burkin. The most numerous steam locomotive class to run in Ireland was the Class 101 0-6-0 tender…
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Darstaed Finescale BR Mk 1 suburbans from Ellis Clark
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One of the recently announced Set A packs of Darstaed Finescale O-gauge BR 57ft suburban coaches comprising two brake seconds (BS), a single second (S) class and a composite with lavatory (CL) is expected during the first quarter of this year, and is available to pre-order at £665 from Ellis Clark Trains of Skipton, North…
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Tech Talk: How to deal with dirty track
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Keeping track clean is one job we all have to do to keep the trains running well, and there are several effective ways of going about it, explains Nigel Burkin. One chore that faces all modellers in almost every scale and gauge – particularly at the smaller end of the spectrum – is track cleaning.…
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Unboxing of Hornby’s King George VI and Duchess of Hamilton
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Here’s the latest unboxing of Hornby’s LMS Princess Class Locomotives, the Duchess of Hamilton and King George VI.
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Product Review: KPF Zeller rolling road for O gauge
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How do we test large-scale locomotives submitted for review such as the Heljan 43XX Class locomotive? With a workbench rolling road, of course! Large-scale models are collected by a lot of modellers who don’t have a layout on which to operate them, and that sometimes applies to the compilation of reviews here in the studio.…
