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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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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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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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Locomotive Performance | Then and Now
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Don Benn describes the performance of Merchant Navy Pacific No. 35028 Clan Line.
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Back to Buntingford
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Pete Fowler first thought about building an OO-scale layout of the former Buntingford branch terminus in Hertfordshire 30 years ago, but was put off by the lack of information then available. The internet has changed all that – and Pete Kelly brings this progress report on a charming and atmospheric layout in progress. Imagine the…
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Catch a glimpse into the future of high-speed rail
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Spain’s AVE high-speed network is the largest in Europe.
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Great steam engineers of the nineteenth century: PART IIII
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Brian Sharpe outlines how the role of the chief mechanical engineer developed during the 1840s.
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Running-in your new model locomotive
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Many readers will have received new model locomotives for Christmas – but they need to be carefully prepared for use, and running-in is an important part of ensuring years of reliable service, writes Nigel Burkin. ‘Running-in’ or ‘breaking-in’ new models is a perennial subject, and one that comes to the fore around Christmas. Many people…
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Those lovely model cab details – but what does everything do?
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Anyone who models the steam era cannot have failed to notice the ever-growing complexity of cab detailing in recent years — but what are the real-life functions of all of those levers, gauges and pipes? Craig Amess visits the Swindon & Cricklade Railway to find out for himself on the footplate of 56XX 0-6-2T No.…
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A Settle & Carlisle goods shed in ‘N’
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Pete Kelly spends an absorbing weekend putting together a well-detailed Metcalfe building kit from a series of buildings based around the legendary Settle & Carlisle line that are also available in the even more richly detailed OO scale. Just like model trains, card kit buildings are becoming more sophisticated by the day – and one…
