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Railway Modeller 2018 March V69 #809 Dorset Seaside Steam Building a helix
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Railway Modeller 2018 March V69 #809 Dorset Seaside Steam!
Railway Modeller is published monthly. Printed in UK.
174 Dent station
Railway of the Month
This location, the highest main line station in England amidst the scenic wonders of the Yorkshire Dales, marks in model form the completion of phase two of Ian Nuttall's mammoth project to model the Settle & Carlisle in the 1930s in 00.
182 A brush with steam
Eric Bottomley GRA will be recognisable to many as a first class transport artist, but he will not be so well known as a modeller. working in 0 gauge. Craig Tiley visited him to see more of his layout, Chadbury.
188 Building an LSWR H16
Project of the Month
Confident that certain prototypes will rarely if ever trouble the ready-to-run market, Tony Wright set to the construction of a 4mm scale Pacific tank, from an obsolete Millholme Models kit.
192 Denley Moor
Pete Latham was inspired to model this N gauge layout. set in the early years of the 21st century. by the rail activity in and around Peak Forest. in the Derbyshire limestone country.
197 Adapting the Peco 7mm GWR box van kit
Although capable of representing several different types of wagon in itself, the Peco ref.W606 can be given even greater versatility thanks to cast resin ends from Invertrain, as Craig Tiley demonstrates.
200 Crioch
Having already described one of his two small-space 4mm scale layouts which share a common fiddle yard and storage crate (Hudson Street. RM February 2016). Peter Fletcher presents the other, a Highland Railway shed scene inspired by Tam.
205 G&SWR Class 5 0-6-0T
Scale Drawings
The Glasgow & South Western had a trio of these locomotives, designed by Peter Drummond and used for shunting, as John Treays relates.
206 Whithorn
This branch left the Dumfries to Stranraer 'Port Road' and straggled through the Galloway countryside. Closed in 1964, little remains but Alisdair Macdonald has modelled it (with some licence) in 4mm scale.
212 Talking Points
Topical issues from the world of railway modelling. This month, editor Steve Flint quizzes Steve Haynes. Peco Sales Manager, on the future of Parkside kits under the Peco umbrella.
214 Hillbrow
In search of a different modelling challenge. long-time 3mm scale modeller Steve Fackrell took up narrow gauge modelling. creating this terminus of a fictitious system in 009.
218 Marks Tey
Plan of the Month
This Essex station marks the junction between the former Great Eastern Railway main line - which runs north-east from London to Suffolk and Norfolk - and the branch to Sudbury. Ian Stock considers its potential for modelling, both in the present day and the 1960s.
221 Building a helix
Geoff Bell demonstrates how, with careful planning and measurement, a spiral can join two scenic layout levels, or create a link from a fiddle yard to a modelled scene. His article has particular emphasis on N gauge.
224 Hamworthy Junction
Behind Eddie Gibbs' railway room door lies this 00 gauge recreation of the point where the original Southampton & Dorchester Railway was joined by later railway development.
235 Comment
Opinions and observations across the field of railway modelling. This month, Richard Bardsley notes that model railway enthusiasm must be germinated carefully.
236 Readers' Letters
238 Latest Reviews
Included this month are the brand new 0 gauge Gloucester Class 128 single-unit parcels DMU from Heljan: LMS 57' nongangwayed coaches and SR 10T cattle wagons in 00 from Hornby; a Class 150 DMU with DCC Sound and more from Bachmann; all third coaches from Peco for the Lynton & Barnstaple in 009; and much more.
244 Book & DVD Reviews
246 News
Including news of the Bachmann 00 and Graham Farish N programmes for 2018.
253 Societies & Clubs
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