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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
ailway of the Month: The Parkside & Hale Railway - A beautiful garden railway, in a sizeable setting. Dick Allan is our guide around his system, which combines battery electric and live steam locomotives. Plan of the Month Settle & Carlisle Salute - Our season of articles on this magnificent Midland trunk route continues with this article by Alan Pike, on how to capture the essence of the northern section of the line, in the Eden Valley, into a room-sized 00 layout Scale Drawings: A Victorian crossing keeper's cabin - Mike Garforth took a former Furness Railway example as a basis for this structure for his garden railway. The real thing is preserved in a park in Barrow-in-Furness. Railway Modelling Explored: Goods yard detail in 00 - David Malton models a typical steam era goods yard with cattle dock using products from Ratio. Features: Monkchester - The N gauge layout Echoes of a Northern Town by Peter M Brown was featured in RM June 2009; it has since been extended and modified, as Peter explains. GWR Sepent C - Having constructed his GWR Small Mex cattle wagon (RM April 2011), David Tisdale was left with an encouraging number of spare parts from the kits he converted. The Serpent C flat wagon in 4mm scale is the result The Llanmynach & Tawel-Llety Railway - Stalwart 009 modeller David Burleigh describes his long-term project, which has developed over many years and been inspired by some great narrow gauge railways. Alder Carr - A semi-automated mine layout in 09, built by Jim Owers, which has a trick up its sleeve - now you see the load, now you don't! Automating signals - Geoff Green shows you how to make colour light signals change aspect automatically as trains pass them. His examples are in N gauge, but the circuitry and electronics involved are not scale-specific. A modern breakdown crane in 4mm - Scratchbuilding the Cowans Shekkm 75T diesel hydraulics of 1977, by Pad Spencer. Killagan - Colm Flanagan describes this 4mm scale layout, based on a wayside station in County Antrim and set in the 1950s / 60s days of the Ulster Transport Authority Rockingham relocated - Ian Clark recently moved house, and reveals how his P4 layout fits its new attic room and the plans he has for it's expansion Glen Roy - Follow Andy Peters through his railway room door for a look at this Scottish-based 00 layout, set in 'blue diesel' times. Regulars: Readers' Letters Latest Reviews - The items reviewed this month include the Hornby Railroad A1 Tornado in 00; the Heljan Class 26 in 0; the Dapol 'Hall' in N; the Bachmann Windhoff MPV in 00; Cyber Clean dirt removal compound; latest coach and wagon commissions; transfers from TroutyHelen; Hollar Models van stickers; steel sleeper track in 00 from Peco; Metcalfe low-relief buildings in 00; track spacers and laser-cut cork segments from Proses; the new KFA container flats from Hornby; and more Base-Toys commercials in 1:76. Book & DVD Reviews News - Including a commemoration of 20 years of Metcalfe kits, extra time to visit the Warley show, a Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0ST in 0 from Ixion Models, new announcements from TMC, and a celebration of 100 years of the Rhyl Miniature Railway. Societies & Clubs - The biggest and best guide to the exhibita€scene up and down the land.
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