Railway of the Month:

Crumley & Little Wickhill - Latest OO9 narrow gauge layout from Hull MRS viewed from the end of the modelled Yorkshire Dale

Plan of the Month:

Maun Valley - Main line running enabling long trains to be operated in a semi-rural setting o this continuous run layout. Now taking the design as a basis we show how with the addition of some extra track even more operating variety can be squeezed into this modest sized layout.

Scale Drawings:

GWR 'King' class 4-6-0 - C.B. Collett's masterpieces are here drawn and described

Features:

The Stanier Black 5 - Professional model maker here describes the construction, painting and lining of the Tower Models O gauge kit for this most famous and prolific of the 4-6-0s

Retrospective of 60 years - Short retrospective look to mark the start of the Diamond Jubilee year of Railway Modeller

Buckingham Great Central - Tour of Peter Denny's classic 4mm scale layout with a short biography of Peter. Describes and illustrates the 'automatic Crispin' - the highly ingenious electro-mechanical computer which runs the fiddle yard which is of a type also developed by Peter.

Kemble Junction - The potential of this one-time double junction (to Tetbury and Cirencester) on the GWR Swindon to Gloucester lines is assessed as a possible layout which can encompass everything from express passenger 4-6-0s to tiny four-wheeled railbuses. The Tetbury branch itself was home to Trouble House Halt of Flanders & Swann 'Slow Train' fame

The Western Beyond Swindon - Compact OO layout to capture the atmosphere of BR Western Region in the days of diesel hydraulics, semaphore signals and (still) milk trains

Soot, ash & lime stains, weathering - Giving a Bachmann BR class 2MT Mogul a workaday neglected look which so typifies the last decade of BR steam. The techniques described here can be adapted to suit steam locos in other scales

Calstock (Cothele) - A new narrow gauge O-16.5 industrial layout based on a mining light railway set deep in the west country

Bounderby - Station set on a fictitious ex-LMS/LNER joint line in the Pennine hills is highly scenic and DCC controlled

Structures for Tawcombe - Part 2 - Completing the description of the construction of the buildings on this layout (refer RM June 2008). Here continuing from last month with a look as roofs, painting and weathering

Castlehill - Railway Modelling explored - 1 - New name for our beginners section which kicks of with the 1059 Group's OO gauge layout set on a 6' x 4' baseboard

An introduction to narrow gauge - Part 1 - Railway Modelling explored - 2 - Short overview intended to inform and inspire for narrow gauge modelling in OO9

Reviews:

Hornby HST Power cars (OO), Victors large-scale IoM Viking diesel, Skytrex diesel locos and bogie tank wagons, Latest PO wagon commissions, ViTrains class 37, Bachmann modern bogie bolsters and vans, Kightwing scenic accessories (OO), Pocketbond 1950s/60s road vehicles (4mm) Metcalfe shop and pub and kits (N), Three new double action air brushes, Hollar Signs van signs, Peco Setrack level crossings News: Report from the 2008 Warley Show, Heljan progress for Clayton diesels, Hornby T9 update (OO)