Pete Kelly
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Stanier’s super smoothie – the Turbomotive
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Hornby’s decision to recreate in OO scale some of Britain’s most famous one-off locomotives, including Gresley’s W1 4-6-4 and now Stanier’s geared turbine Pacific No. 6202, leads Pete Kelly to chart the history of the Turbomotive, with the help of some interesting archive photographs.
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Layouts to Love: Where railway modelling dreams begin
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RMM visited two recent exhibitions, at Altrincham and Leamington Spa, and was delighted by what was in store at both.
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Lights signal a new dimension to rail modelling
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Pete Kelly heads off to Rotherham to visit the busy but welcoming premises of CR Signals. As with many successful firms producing the fast-developing miniaturised gadgetry that many of today’s railway modellers crave, CR Signals of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, started off as a hobby well over a decade ago when keen railway modeller Paul Foulds…
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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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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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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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New-build ‘Patriot’ will put right a huge wrong
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With fond memories of the unrebuilt parallel-boiler ‘Patriot’ 4-6-0s from 60 years ago, Pete Kelly looks forward to both the completion of The LMS-Patriot Project’s new-build main line locomotive No. 5551 The Unknown Warrior and the forthcoming Bachmann Branchline model of the same national memorial engine. Dressed in LMS crimson lake livery, Bachmann Branchline’s forthcoming…
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Have you thought about 009?
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Imagine modelling a narrow-gauge Welsh slate quarry, or perhaps the Welsh Highland or Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, past or present. Such projects are becoming possible for many more modellers with the recent resurgence of ready-to-run 009-scale locomotives and rolling stock, writes Pete Kelly. Now and again, it’s inevitable that some modellers will grow tired…
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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…
