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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Railway of the Month: Halston Junction - The Friday Night Group of the Warley MRC has taken this extensive continuous-run 00 layout to Holland, but will be showing it closer to home, at the NEC, on 19 & 20 November. Your guide around this busy exhibition model is Derek Lane. Plan of the Month: Suburban loop - A classic out-and-back two-level Cyril Freezer design, updated and adapted for today's track and rolling stock. Tim Rayner has the full story. Scale Drawings: Maxwell Park - A typical island platform structure on the Cathcart Circle, in the Glasgow suburbs. Craig Tiley takes a closer look at this ex-Caledonian station. Polpendra - Simon Addelsee created this Western Region branch terminus in just 6' x 18", with a compact, yet very interesting, track plan based on an lain Rice original. Pines for Rowlands Castle - If you go down to the woods with Pete Goss today, you'll find out how he made these 4mm scale evergreens for his award-winning wartime-era layout, set on the Portsmouth Direct line. Horsebox detailing - Robin Pope provides a guide to completing 0 gauge horseboxes; he has built several, from a variety of suppliers. Ancoats - The favourite vantage point in Robert Murdey's trainspotting days was opposite the old LNWR warehouse at Heaton Norris, near Stockport: he put these memories to good use in the construction of the minimum-space 00 layout. Buckingham relocated - Tony Gee relates how this landmark EM gauge layout, built over many years by the late Revd Peter Denny, came to have a new purpose-built home. Gatcombe - The essence of the broad gauge South Wales Railway in 7mm scale, constructed by Ruth & Graham Powell. Semaphore signal construction - Having determined the sizes and parts required for a 4mm scale signal - see last month - Mike Hayward nowtaddesthe construction of an L&Y galows-type signal. Lancey Brook - Robin Winter created this slice of the Lynton & Barnstaple in 009 on a 24" deep-pan pizza base. Peak upgrade in N - Robert Peters enhanced the appearance of the Graham Farish N gauge Class 45 by narrowing the gap between the bogie sideframes. East Linden - Follow Ken Reed through his railway room door to take a look at his 00 gauge layout, set in the northeast and representing the steam/diesel crossover period. Railway Modelling Explored - 1: Creating a permanent way - 3 - In the third instalment of this guide, Craig Tiley discusses lineside details. Railway Modelling Explored - 2: Planting out the Allotment - Denyse Insley shows you the results of her 4mm scale plant construction methods. Comment - Observations and opinions across the spectrum of railway modelling. This month: Dennis Lovett, of Bachmann Europe plc, Readers' Letters Latest Reviews - The items reviewed this month include the new Bachmann LMS 3F 0-6-0 in 00; the Bachmann-produced 00 limited-edition Midland Compound for the NRM; the Hornby Trout ballast hoppers in 00; the GrahamParish A1 Tornado in N; more loco, coach and wagon commissions; weathered HAA hoppers in N from Peco, two more train packs/prints in the Barry Freeman Collection from Hornby, a couple of BR-era Beattie 2-4-OWTs from Kernow Model Rail Centre, and more Base-Toys lorries. Book & DVD Reviews News - Including four exciting new Pacific plans an more in N from Dapol; a preview of a 16mm scale L&B Lyn from Accucraft; Christmas cards and calendars for 2012; a Peppercon A2 in 0 from DJH; an A3 detailing kit in 4m scale from Brassmasters; and much more. Societies & Clubs - The biggest and best guide to the exhibitior scene up and down the land.
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