Sam Hewitt
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Southwold’s Blyth Valley Light Railway opens for passengers
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THE 7¼in-gauge Blyth Valley Light Railway (BVLR) at the Southwold Railway Trust’s ‘Steamworks’ in Blyth Road, Southwold, Suffolk, opened for passengers, along with the centre, on July 14. It runs around part of the one-acre site, but it is planned to enhance the layout and add more facilities for passengers and stock. A carriage shed…
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Feature | Bleak winters on the Highland Line
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Ian Lamb shares the memories of the legendary Jimmy Gray, who passed away at 94.
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Bleak winters on the Highland Line
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Have you ever wondered what it must have been like to experience from a locomotive footplate the fearsome challenges posed by the snowy winters of the Scottish Highlands? Ian Lamb shares with us the memories of the legendary Jimmy Gray, who passed away recently at the grand old age of 94. A background of wonderful…
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Skytrex – the Next Generation!
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Go behind the scenes at Skytrex, which produce O and OO-scale model railway buildings.
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Skytrex – the Next Generation!
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Pete Kelly visits the reborn Loughborough firm of Skytrex (2013) Ltd, which produces ever-expanding ranges of O and OO-scale model railway buildings and accessories in both resin and white metal. Skytrex (2013) Ltd was created from assets purchased from the administrators when the original firm of Skytrex Ltd went into administration in the summer of…
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Feature | St Ann’s Cove: Groping in the dark
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Pete Kelly tells of the latest progress on RMM’s N-scale project layout, ‘St Ann’s Cove’.
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And now for something a little different…
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Pete Kelly uncovers a treasured cache of Alphagraphix buildings from his OO-scale ‘Slagdyke’ layout that was dismantled and boxed up almost five years ago. While rooting through boxes and boxes of OO-scale buildings from my stored ‘Slagdyke’ layout recently, I came across a number of almost-forgotten structures that I’d built up from Alphagraphix kits. Run…
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Tales From Knottewithought Junction: The Dedicated Traveller
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He never left the train, even when it was shunted into the sidings at the end of the day.
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Heritage Railway | Issue 250
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Tornado Returns! 2019 Gala Guide! 150th Barry Rebuild! The special 250th issue of Heritage Railway magazine has got the lot!
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Colourful N-gauge wagons from Pennine
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Pennine Wagons, who supply limited-edition ready-to-run N-gauge wagons by mail order via the internet, have just taken delivery of two new special commission wagons. These latest additions to the range are wooden-bodied open wagons made by Peco, one a seven-plank wagon in the livery of British Insulated & Helsby Cables Ltd, and the other a…
