Modelling
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Layouts we love: The delicate dance of an A4 Pacific
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Pete Kelly is caught up in nostalgia as he spends an hour surrounded by John White’s remarkable OO-scale Leeds and Doncaster layout. John White has built several well-known O-scale layouts, including one that can now be seen at the Oakham Treasures Museum in Bristol called ‘Oakham Halt’, which the public can operate, and which he…
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Layouts we love: What are my model locos and rolling stock really worth?
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There are many ways of disposing of model railway collections, and each has its benefits. We look at today’s booming pre-used market. Railway modelling is a restless hobby: no sooner is a layout complete than a new idea crops up and we find ourselves already thinking about something else – and if that entails a…
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What’s in the Shops: Another ‘Toad’ from Hornby
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Hot on the heels of Hornby’s excellent OO-scale ‘Toad E’ brake van comes a former LNER 20t ‘Toad B’ – and it’s another cracker, writes Nigel Burkin Hornby’s new OO-gauge NE ‘Toad B’ brake van made its arrival in the studio shortly after the BR version of the NE ‘Toad E’ was reviewed in the…
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Each a glimpse and gone for ever!
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Many years before W H Auden’s ‘Night Mail’, the rhythm of Robert Louis Stevenson’s celebrated 1885 children’s poem ‘From a Railway Carriage’ evoked the thrilling movement of a train. For me, though, it’s the final line that says it all. Since the demise of steam, so many fondly remembered locations along Britain’s railway system have…
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A complete ‘Devon Belle’ model at last!
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Hornby’s re-issued ‘Devon Belle’ observation car allows Ian Lamb to recreate the entire luxury train.
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Model LMS Princess Coronation Pacific to go to auction in March
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The model is described as ‘one of the best railway models ever built’.
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Hornby’s latest streamlined ‘Princess Coronation’ is here
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Hot on the heels of Hornby’s ‘defrocked’ LMS ‘Duchess’ Pacifics come the streamlined versions
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Bachmann Europe unveils Branchline & Graham Farish catalogues
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Last year proved a challenging one for Bachmann Europe Plc.
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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’.
