Ian Lamb

  • ‘Loco spotting’ at Forres West MPD

    ‘Loco spotting’ at Forres West MPD

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    It takes only a strong sense of railway history and a little imagination to bring any layout to life, writes Ian Lamb as he gets inside the well-travelled ‘Dava’ that started life as a millennium project.   Surely the purpose of modelling railways is to bring to life the experiences of our past in a…

  • They just wave flags and blow whistles, don’t they?

    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…

  • Walking in a Warley Wonderland

    Walking in a Warley Wonderland

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    Ian Lamb, who lent a hand on RMM’s much-visited stand at this year’s Warley Model Railway Club Exhibition at the NEC, brings his impressions of an event to remember. 


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