The Railway Magazine Guide to Modelling - Issue 7 - June 2017 by Mortons Media Group Ltd

RAILWAYMagazine The

GUIDE TO

Modelling JUNE 2017

REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS, NOSTALGIA, ADVICE

Modelling on a budget MAKE GOOD USE OF HOUSEHOLD ITEMS

SOLDERING TIPS S AND TRIC CKS S

MEET ‘C CARDBOARD JOHN’ FROM CARDBOARD WORKS

LETTERS || LNWR COAL TANK REVIEW || ADD PEOPLE TO YOUR LAYOUT

CONTENTS

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Contents 12 ON THE COVER Stonedale layout by Ken Davis from the Chesterﬁeld Railway Modellers. See page 62 for full feature.

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WHAT’S IN THE SHOPS?

Bachmann’s LNWR coal tank, N gauge digital sound review, dairy vans and a GWR Toad in N gauge, Bachmann’s OO salt wagons.

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STOCKISTS.

Where to get your copy of RMM.

STARTING OUT

Get to grips with track work, points, motors and soldering this month.

BLASTS FROM THE PAST

Tony Stratford brings the Graham Farish story up to date.

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46 LETTERS

June’s RMM mailbag. ASK A DAFT QUESTION

A look at crowdfunding with Revolution Trains. LAYOUTS WE LOVE

RMM reader Adrian Taylor’s Calne layout.

PAST AND PRESENT

Putting people in your high street with Ian Lamb. LETTING OFF STEAM

with Lucian Doyle.

MODELLING ON A BUDGET

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INTERVIEW

with Matt Wickham. with ‘Cardboard John’. USING HOUSEHOLD ITEMS IN YOUR MODELLING

with Phil Parker.

STONEDALE LAYOUT

DIARY DATES

by Ken Davis from the Chesterfield Railway Modellers. What’s on this month where you are. June 2017

Staff

Editor Sarah Palmer RMModellingeditor@Mortons.co.uk Contributors Michael Watts, Bernard Gudgin, Tony Stratford, Simon Kohler, Nigel Burkin, Ian Lamb, Phil Parker, Matt Wickham Production editor Sarah Wilkinson Senior designer Kelvin Clements Designer Libby Fincham Picture desk Paul Fincham, Jonathan Schoﬁeld Advertising manager Sue Keily Publisher Tim Hartley Publishing director Dan Savage Commercial director Nigel Hole Subscription manager Paul Deacon Circulation manager Steve O'Hara Marketing manager Charlotte Park

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From the editor

Sarah Palmer Editor

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ecently I came across the Heritage Crafts Association website, on which was the Radcliffe Red List of Endangered Crafts. It made for quite depressing reading if I’m honest. I’d come across the site after my four-year-old started pointing at household items and asking ‘who built/ made this?’ Mumbling while explaining that I didn’t actually know who had woven the fire basket he was pointing at made me feel a bit disheartened at

the sheer number of things we don’t make ourselves these days. But then I read through Phil Parker’s piece on making things from household items and I recalled my chat with ‘Cardboard John’ at the Lincoln and District Model Railway show who makes beautiful O gauge engines out of white card, and it made me feel a bit more hopeful. The Stonedale layout created with a ‘make do and mend’ approach by the Chesterfield Railway Modellers featured on the front page also shows that

we can successfully upcycle and recycle in this hobby. I did check, and railway modelling isn’t on the Red List, possibly because it’s not considered a craft (why not?) but we do need to think about passing on skills to children and grandchildren to ensure that it doesn’t start becoming an endangered hobby. Thankfully I’ve heard from quite a few grandads since we launched RMM, who are sharing their skills with the next generation, and long may it continue!

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News JUNE 2017

If you have any news please email RMModellingeditor@mortons.co.uk

Mystery 1950s terminus to go on display A 65-year-old wooden model terminal building is to be exhibited this summer at two major train collector shows. The first in Alresford, Hants, and the second in Milton Keynes. Bob Leggett is presenting his Silver Anniversary Alresford Festival of Toy Trains in June. He says he is delighted to be the first to be able to feature this early 1950s OO gauge terminal station in a new operating layout. The station was possibly built by Bertram Otto for London department store AW Gamage, perhaps for use in the store’s annual Christmas model railway display, or for a customer special order. The station, constructed

with balsa wood, has been dated by experts as 1952. The current owner of the station is keen to hear from anyone who can offer any information about the history of this station. The Alresford Festival

of Toy Trains is at Perins School, Alresford on Saturday, June 17, and the TCS All Trains Great and Small Show takes place at Stantonbury Arts & Leisure Centre, Milton Keynes on Saturday, July 15.

Vandals cause miniature train to crash with passengers on board HOOLIGANS who derailed a passenger-carrying train on Southport’s Lakeside Miniature Railway, causing it to crash, are being looked for by police. Wood and a large rock were thrown on to the 15in gauge track at around 5pm on Saturday, May 13, and the train carrying families came off the track by the Marine Lake. In previous years, staff of the railway had reported

incidents whereby teenagers had hurled bricks, stones and bottles on to passing trains, and had also been placing objects on the track. The railway reopened earlier this year after a major investment by new owner Norman Wallis, who also owns Southport’s New Pleasureland. The railway, which was laid along the seaward side of the Marine Lake, ran its first train on May 25, 1911. Former

postman and gramophone dealer, Griffiths Vaughan Llewellyn, had persuaded four local businessmen to stump up funds for the project and the line; built with materials from Bassett-Lowke, it was initially known as Llewellyn’s Miniature Railway. The line has boasted that it is the longest continually open 15in gauge line in the world, having operated every year since it opened, including during both world wars.

4Ground launches new platform canopy models NEW laser-cut kits from 4Ground are available as either a single platform cover or double. The single platform canopy, when assembled measures 170mm x 54mm x 54mm and although

the canopy is designed to fit with 4Ground’s own platform sections they can be used with many other proprietary platforms. The double platform canopy utilises a double-

span construction measuring 170mm x 124mm x 54mm. Each pre-coloured lasercut kit is delicately packed in 4Ground’s eco-friendly packaging and is supplied with full assembly instructions.

Spa Valley brings back steam galas

AFTER an absence of several years, steam galas are back on the Spa Valley Railway. April 22-23 saw the Tunbridge Wells West line host a steambased special event featuring home-based RSH 0-6-0T No. 7673 Ugly and Vulcan Austerity 0-6-0T No. 72, which has been on longterm hire since 2015. Steam engineering assistant Matt Dives said: “After a number of years off the scene, we are using 2017 to reinvigorate steam on the Spa Valley, by bringing back such enthusiast events. The weekend was a great morale booster for the volunteers and we hope it is the start of more things to come.” The July 1/2 summer steam festival, will star summer visitor Hunslet 0-6-0ST No. 1982 Ring Haw from the North Norfolk Railway.

GWR transfer range grows Precision Labels has expanded its range of transfers for the current Great Western Railway green livery to include the Class 153s that are now receiving repaints at Long Marston. Including all the necessary elements, a 2mm pack is priced £15.99 with 4mm at £24.99. www.precisionlabels.com

Highland ‘37’ from Mickleover club

IN a novel piece of fundraising, the Mickleover Model Railway Group has commissioned Bachmann to produce a limitededition Class 37 in OO gauge, the proceeds from which will help to pay for a new clubroom. The group is currently housed in a pre-fabricated building but this is now in poor condition and needs to be replaced. The exclusive model will portray Inverness’ No. 37114 Dunrobin Castle in BR largelogo blue with Highland stag emblems, a livery that has long been overdue for production on the current Class 37/0 tooling. This will be priced £149.99 and is expected to be released in late 2017 or early 2018.

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al tank Bachmann’s LNWR coal The elegant lines of the Webb coal tank are faithfully re-created in OO gauge by Bachmann, writes Nigel Burkin.

total of 300 LNWR Webb coal tanks were constructed at Crewe Works between 1881 and 1898, to a design by Francis William Webb and based on his successful 0-6-0 tender coal engine, a locomotive with a reputation for excellent performance on heavy freight trains in its own right. The Webb coal tank featured two side tanks and a coal bunker to the rear of the cab. Its wheel arrangement of 0-6-2 included a radial axle truck located under the coal bunker. The wheels were of cast iron with a particular shape to the spokes to save money, a particular spotting feature off th he locomotiive. Unfortunately, they did not live up to the performance of their stable mates. They were (or rather became) mixed-traffic engines, in effect, owing to their lamentable braking capability ty, y which precluded their use on heavy vy, y unfitted freight trains. While Wh h the

power range of the class was also considered to be unspectacular, they were flexible and rugged maids of all work; carrying out those workaday duties that make up the bulk of a shed’s allocated toil. Webb coal tanks found their way into LMS ownership with only a handful falling to the wayside. Of the original 300 locomotives, 64 survived into BR ownership to be allocated numbers BR 58880-937, although early withdrawals of such a locomotive were inevitable. One of the once 300-strong class has survived to see preservation: LNWR No. 1054, which is a very popular exhibit on th he Keiigh hley and d Worth h Valley Railway (KW KWV WVR). V It has been painted in a variety tyy of liveries following its restoration, including plain unlined black LNWR livery as represented by one of the three brand-new OO gauge models of the locomotive, released in the spring of 2017 by Bachmann. It is the model of

The review model is ﬁnished in unlined LNWR black with dull silver beading and red numberplates. Etched numberplates are provided in the box to ﬁt over the printed ones.

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LNWR No. 1054 (35-050) that is i the subject of this review. Twoo other models were released at the same time: LMS No. 7841 (35-0 051) and BR No. 58900 (35-052). Model details The review model is finished in unlined LNWR black with dull silver beading and red numberplates in the same manner as the locomotives would have been operated und der LNWR ownership (35-050). Numbered No. 1054, this is the number of the only preserved example, which wass built in 1888. It is detailed with h individual components specifi fic to the locomotive in preservattion incllud ding th he buff ffers; smokkeb ff box wheel (replaced by darts later in their working lives); LNWR pattern lamp irons and ‘Ramsbottom’ safety tyy valves. Body The elegant lines of the locomotive are faithfully captured in what is a lovely

Assembly and ﬁnishing of the model is neat with the various standalone parts securely ﬁtted.

The Webb coal tank is an excellent representation of a pre-Grouping prototype, which may appear to be a very ordinary-looking tank engine, but has a great deal of character and deﬁning features. It makes a great partner, livery permitting, for the Bachmann ‘Lanky Tank’ too.

model of such a workaday locomotive – it has a lot of interesting features, including the long tapered chimney, long boiler, side tanks and the particularly characteristic coal bunker beading along the water tanks and the ends of the inside cylinders being visible at the front of the locomotive, below the smokebox door. Mouldings are sharp and crisp with a sprinkling of parts composed of die-cast metal to add to the model’s weight. The body is secured with two screws, one at either end of the body, located under the NEM coupling pockets, which must be moved to reach them. The body is a clean fit to the chassis, lifting off for decoder installation without any problems. Chassis and mechanism The chassis has a good level of external detail including the firebox extending below the running plate and fully detailed brake hangars, shoes and linkages. The wheels are accurate for the class of locomotive and are beautifully modelled with the correct balance weights. The characteristic gap between the leading and middle axles is

Summary of features: ■ DCC-Ready: Fitted with a Next18 DCC interface. ■ All three models fitted with analogue control blanking plug. ■ Pre-wired for digital sound. ■ NEM coupling boxes. ■ Accurately modelled wheels with correct balance weights. ■ Locomotive-specific details including different buffers, safety valves and lamp irons depending on the locomotive modelled.

■ Fully detailed driving cab. ■ Separate wire hand rails. ■ Carefully painted details including cab window surrounds. ■ Fully detailed cab with controls picked out in the correct colours. ■ Separately etched h numberplates supplied with LNWR No. 1054. ■ Model weighs 189g. ■ Model length 132mm over buffers.

also well represented. Behind the detail is a smooth running mechanism with a five-pole motor driving a single gear tower to the middle axle. The motion is transferred to the remaining powered axles by the coupling rods. A single radial axle is fitted under the bunker, which swivels in the same manner as a full-size radial truck. The locomotive manages second-radius curves very well, with a smooth motion and controllable low speed.

Electronics The electronics fitted to this slim-looking model are advanced including the new Next18 decoder interface sockeet. Intended primarily for N gaugge models, the small size of the Next18 decoder interface allow ws it to be fitted in the confines off small locomotives such as this coal tank. The circuit board is fitted at the front of the chassis where it fits neatly, with room for either a standard Next18 or Next18-S digital sound decoder. Having mentioned digital

A view from the coal bunker end of the model showing how the interesting shape of the fullsize LNWR coal tanks has been faithfully captured.

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There is little room on the inside of the mode el to accommodate a quality y motor and electronics.

Manufacturer:

Bac chmann Europe Plc.

Scale:

4mm (1:76) scale, OO gauge.

« sound, the Next18 interface

allows models to be produced ‘sound-ready’ with circuitry for speakker installlatiion integrall wiith h the model’s circuit board. A small compartment for a speaker is fitted at the bunker end of the model, which will accept a sugar cube speaker. Solder pads for connecting the speaker to the internal electronics are also provided making the fitting of digital sound a simple project. Painting and ﬁnishing The plain black livery applied to the review sample is striking in its simplicity and enhanced by several interesting details: the dull silver beading and hand rails together with the red

Era:

1881 to 1958.

numbberpllate. Th The blackk has an eggshell finish that exhibits a slight sheen, which sits well on the model. Those areas picked out in different colours such as the cab controls, cab window frames, bufferbeams and small details are neatly finished and match the overall model well. Note the fine lining applied to both bufferbeams. Wrapping up Support for the development of ready-to-run models of less-than-glamorous prototypes, particularly those of pre-G Grouping locomotivees

and d stockk, is on th he increase and is resulting in some fascinating models. The LNWR Webb coal tank together with its contemporary, the ‘Lanky Tank’ are two good examples of new models produced in recent years and based on prototypes that would have been considered uneconomical a couple of decades’ ago. The Webb coal tank is a particularly lovely model with some fine proportions demonstrating once again how the unsung everyday prototypes can translate into quite stunning models. ■

Web:

www.bachmann.co.uk

Models:

35-050: LNWR No. 1054 in unlined black (in preserved condition). 35-051: LMS No 7841 in unlined black. 35-052: BR No. 58900 in unlined black with early emblem.

Suggested retail price: £119.95.

The LNWR unlined black model carries the number 1054, representing either an Era 2 model or the single preserved example currently based on the KWVR. KW W

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N gauge digital sound As Graham Farish releases its ďŹ rst N gauge digital sound steam locomotive: GWR Castle Class No. 5029 Nunney Castle (372-033DS). Nigel Burkin takes a look at the digital sound technology concealed in the tender.

t is interesting to see that Graham Farish chose a preserved example of the GWR 4-6-0 Castle Class locomotives as its first digital sound onboard steam locomotive model in N gauge. The locomotive concerned is No. 5029 Nunney Castle (Swindon 1934), which is privately owned, and one of eight surviving locomotives from a class of 171 constructed at Swindon between 1923 and 1950. From a modelling perspective, having models of locomotives such as No. 5029 Nunney Castle in heritage condition opens up steam operations (potentially) to the diesel and electric modeller outside the transition era; the full-size No. 5029 returned to the man line in 1990 and is maintained in mainline condition, currently undergoing further repairs scheduled to be completed for main line running in 2018.

It is quite acceptable to operate steam locomotives on layouts based on an up-to-date theme provided the model has specific features relating to the modern railway, such as electrification warning notices and stock with the required livery markings. Operations would also include a support coach and possibly a diesel locomotive as back-up traction. However, that is not the main point concerning the Graham Farish model of No. 5029 Nunney Castle. The model has some interesting technology concealed in the tender and that is what this review is all about. The technology The Next18 DCC interface installed in the Graham Farish Castle Class model was introduced in Europe to overcome the problem

Traditional analogue layout operators may also enjoy a limited amount of sound function from the model.

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of finding room for bulky connectors in the tight confines of N gauge models. As DCC develops with increased decoder functionality and vastly improved digital sound, there is a corresponding need for an increased number of physical connections between printed circuit boards and the decoder. The Next18 decoder interface solves this problem with a compact plug-fit connector with two rows of nine pins. This is different in appearance to the more common six-pin interface used in N gauge models. No wired versions are available at the time of writing and logically, there is no need for them. Adoption of Next18 has reached a point where there is a MOROP standard (NEM-662) that specifi fiees the number of pins, the type of plug and socket and allocation of the

pins within the interface, which means any manufacturersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Next18 specification decoder will fit. Furthermore, the standard places a maximum length, width and depth on the decoder itself. Standard decoders should not exceed 15mm by 9.5mm while sound decoders (Next18-S) are allowed a little more room at 25.5mm by 10.5mm. The design ensures the decoder sits as flat to the printed circuit board as possible. The Castle Class sound installation is located in the tender. The Zimo MX658N18 (Next18-S) decoder is plugged directly in the printed circuit board with the speaker placed inside a special mounting on the underside of the tender body. The sound reproduction from the sugar cube speaker is excellent and the tender body itself works like a sounding

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The model is ﬁtted with a Zimo MX658N18 (Next18-S) decoder plugged directly in the printed circuit board via a Next18 decoder socket.

box. Matching the automated exhaust ‘chuff’ sound with the motion of the model is not the easiest thing to do, but the model has a good match between the two. The volume of the exhaust changes with the use of the controller, becoming louder as more steam ‘power’ is applied. Whistle notes and ancillary sounds such as both high- and low-pitched whistles, together with a combination of the two, are included in nearly 25 DCC sound functions. There are also random sounds built into what is an extremely sophisticated decoder.

Traditional analogue control The model is not exclusive to DCC-users as a result of the on-board sound decoder. Those working with traditional analogue (DC) control can enjoy a number of important sounds, but without the same level of control of user-operated sounds available to DCC-users and with the lack of constant track power associated with DCC layouts, the functionality is not as broad. Nonetheless, it does work really well: driving to keep

The model was put through its paces on a test track and this allowed the functions to be tried one at a time. There is no doubt that digital sound has improved markedly in recent years as demonstrated by the Castle Class model and the sound reproduction better matches how a locomotive would be driven.

the sound working even when pausing at signals and stations takes a little practice. When power is first applied, the automatic exhaust sound will operate together with the high-pitch whistle when the locomotive starts to move. For sound to be active all the time the decoder needs to have a constant supply of power and that can be achieved on analogue control. When the power is first applied through the DC controller, the model will not move straightaway, which would normally be the case with a standard analogue model. Instead, the sound of steam will first be heard followed by the whistle as the model starts to move, the exhaust sound kicking in and accelerating as the model picks up speed. It is possible to turn the

controller down to a point where the model stops moving, but the steam sound may still be heard. This will help with pauses at signals and at stations – the sound does not have to be interrupted just because the train comes to a stop. Turn the controller off and, unlike a DCCoperated layout, the sound will be turned off too. Some of the random sounds programmed into the decoder also operate on analogue control, bringing a degree of realism to traditional DC layouts not always possible without a special control box. It is worth noting that the performance of the decoder on analogue control will depend on the quality of the DC controller being used. Overall As we reported in the May issue of RMM, there is no doubt that the new tooling of the Castle Class locomotive has resulted in a very fine model with a nicely proportioned body and tender. Inclusion of the Next18 decoder socket together with ease of access to the tender interior makes DCC conversion and sound installation easy for modellers to undertake. The on-board sound steam locomotive (372-033DS) is a first for a Graham Farish and comes with some impressive features, including traditional DC sound operation, coasting and braking features. June 2017

What's in the shops Model details:

GWR 4073 Castle Class 4-6-0 express passenger locomotive equipped with digital sound. Specifically No. 5029 Nunney Castle finished in heritage GWR green and with on-board digital sound.

Catalogue number: 372-033DS

Manufacturer:

Bachmann Europe Plc. Sold under the Graham Farish by Bachmann brand.

Scale:

2mm (1:148) scale, N gauge.

Era:

1923-1965.

Web:

www.bachmann.co.uk

Suggested retail prices: £219.95.

More N gauge models in the Graham Farish range are to be fitted with Next18 decoder sockets. • SE&CR/SR C Class locomotive. • Collett Castle Class locomotive. • Stanier 8F 2-8-0 locomotive, one to be offered with digital sound (372-163DS). • Class 40 diesel locomotive, one also to be offered with digital sound (371-183DS). • Class 319 EMU.

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An impressive number of sound functions are stored in the decoder including authentic whistle tones and function-activated sounds.

Digital sound features: • Model is capable of being used with sound activated on traditional DC as well as DCC layouts. • DC operation includes automatic exhaust and motion sounds. • DCC operation provides a wider range of drivercontrolled sounds making operations more realistic. • Coasting feature with no exhaust sounds until power is applied once again.

• Two whistle tones including high-toned warning whistle (F17) and lower pitched alert whistle (F20) and variations on the theme. • Regulator-controlled sound relating to the layout’s speed controller will reduce or increase the level of exhaust sound. • 25 different sound functions controllable from a DCC throttle.

• Braking function on DCC controller function key F2 to control the coasting feature after the regulator is closed. • Volume control through DCC function key F15. • A comprehensive instruction leaflet with details of the decoder sound functions and how they relate to the operation of a full-size locomotive is supplied with the model.

The sound does not seem to come from the tender during operation of the model, but the whole locomotive. The volume is excellent given the compact size of the installed sugar cube speaker.

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A challenge for the printing process is the Express Dairy eggs lettering applied to the three planked SR ventilated vans, which make up a very attractive private-owner wagon set of three models (377-440).

Dairy vans and a GWR Toad in N gauge

Graham Farish N gauge rolling stock report by Nigel Burkin.

everal attractive N gauge wagons are set for release under the Graham Farish label in the summer. For Southern Railway enthusiasts comes a triple-pack of Southern Railway vans finished in Express Dairies’ egggs liveryy (377-4440)). The vans feature even planking and ventilators. Vacuum-brake equipment is fitted to the underframes, which would allow them to be operated

within fast-fitted freight trains. The private-owner lettering is superbly applied over the uneven surface of the planked sides of the van with no signs of bleed or distortion. All three vans are equally well finished with dark-blue body, solebars and off-white letteringg – no weathering effects have been applied. The vans are numbered 48323, 48359 and 48980. The pack is priced at £48.95 for three wagons.

The second model is of totally different character: a service vehicle in the form of a former GWR 20t ‘Toad’ brake van finished in weathered BR grey (377-376A). The van has particular markings indicating its allocation to Newton Abbot and is numbered W3358994. A brake van marked in this manner would be operated on a restricted basis such as local engineers’ trains or china clay branch traffic. Clearly, local

management wished to keep track of their asset! The weathering applied to the model consists of brake dust and grime to the underframe and body sides while the roof has dirt from the stove and weathering. A brake van such as this would be appropriate for the 1950s and 1960s, although many 20t ‘Toad’ brake vans survived for much longer. The single model is priced at £20.95. Model details:

377-376A 20-ton ‘Toad’ brake van in weathered BR grey livery. 377-440 12-ton Southern ventilated vans in Express Dairies’ livery.

Manufacturer:

Bachmann Europe Plc.

Scale:

1:148 scale to run on N gauge track.

Web:

www.bachmann.co.uk

Suggested retail prices: Weathering has been applied to the body and underframe, including the wheels and couplings. The model features several standalone details including running boards and brake handle.

377-376A: £20.95. 377-440: £48.95.

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Salt wagons from Bachmann Bachmann OO gauge rolling stock report by Nigel Burkin.

rivate-owner salt wagons are popular with modellers because of their colourful liveries and unusual hipped-roof design. The two models to be reissued by Bachmann in the summer include two attractive liveries: Shaka Salt and ICI salt in weathered and distressed condition, including repaired planking with parts of the original private-owner markings missing or incomplete. The Shaka Salt wagon (33179B) is finished in light-blue livery with black underframe and white lettering with a black border. The wagon is marked ‘Non Pool’ which suggests it could be suitable for the beginning of the BR era too. ICI Salt Works, Stafford is the lettering applied to the second salt wagon (33-186), which carries the number 2528, and is painted in faded red livery with replaced planking and weathering. Both models

are treated with an application of underframe dirt, which is even in appearance and d has been applied equally to the couplings and the split-

spoke metal wheels. Tension lock couplings are fitted to conventionall mountings. The suggested retail price is £16.95 for both models.

Above: Shaka Salt livery is an attractive pale blue with white lettering (33-179B). Both the ICI and Shaka Salt models have been distre essed, faded and weathered to rep present a worn ‘in service’ condition. Left:: The private-owner liveries applie ed to the 2017 release of the Bachmann salt wagon would have surviv ved into the BR period for a shortt time.

Model details:

10-tton covered salt wagons in IC CI and Shaka Salt liveries.

Manufacturer:

Bachmann Europe Plc.

Scale:

4m mm (1:76) scale, OO gauge.

Era:

Era 3: Circa 1923-1947.

Web:

www.bachmann.co.uk

Suggested retail price: £16.95

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Not sure where you can get your great value copy of The Railway Magazine guide to Modelling? Here's the latest in our growing list of stockists... and if there's no model shop near your home, ask your local retailer to call us on 01507 529401 BEDFORDSHIRE Beales (Bedford), 5A Harpur Street, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK40 1PE, 01234 353292 Dunstable Model Centre, 23/25 West Street, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, LU6 1SL, 01582 662566 AGR Model Railway Store LTD, 9 High Street Mews, 28 High Street, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 1EA, 07525 854788 Leighton Buzzard Railway Ltd, Page’s Park Station, Billington Road, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 4TN, 01525 373888 BERKSHIRE JW Toys at Reading Collectors' Centre, Unit 15 Harris Arcade, Station Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 1DN, 0118 9588666 Timemachine, 32 Westborough Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 4AR, 01628 622603 MDR Direct, The Old Bank, High Street, Cookham, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 9SJ, 01628 528459 Model Junction, 916 Yeovil Road, Slough Trading Estate, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 4JG , Berkshire Dolls House and model Company, 9 Wargrave Road, Twyford, Berkshire, Berkshire, RG10 9NY, 0118 934 3700 Bracknell Railway Society, Pinewood Leisure Centre, Old Wokingham Road, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 3AQ, 07543 679256 Loddon Vale Model Railway Club, c/o Grazeley Village Hall, Mereoak Lane, Grazeley, Berkshire, RG7 1JN, Marlow Maidenhead & District Model Railway Club, Cox Green Community Centre, 51 Highfield Lane, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 3AX MJH Models, S’agaro, Goring Road, Woodcote, Reading, Berkshire, RG8 0EQ, 01491 681262 BRISTOL Brunel Model Railways (Richards Railways), 120 High Street, Yatton, Bristol, Bristol, BS49 4DH, 01934 876328 Model Railways Direct, Retail Unit 2, Phoenix Way, Portishead, Bristol, Bristol, BS20 7GP, 01275 774224 Modelmania of Bristol, 13 Clouds Hill Road, St George, Bristol, Bristol, BS5 7LD, 01179 559819 Antics (Bristol), 8 Fairfax Street, Bristol, BS1 3DB, 01179 273744 E Harding Prams and Toys Ltd, 45 East Street, Bedminster, Bristol, BS3 4HB, 0117 9663584 Angel Barracks – K&M TREES, 50 Littleton Court, Blakeney Road, Patchway, Bristol, BS34 5RT, 07922 16037 C and L Finescale Modelling Ltd, Aran Lodge, Severn Road, Hallen, Bristol, BS10 7RZ, 01179 505470 GMW Retail Ltd, 17-19 Cranleigh Court Road, Yate, Bristol, BS37 5DQ, 01454 322121 Nailsea & District Model Railway Club, Yatton, Bristol, BS49 4HP BUCKINGHAMSHIRE SPD UK, Unit 15 Bessmer Crescent, Rabans Lane Ind Est, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP19 8TF, 01296 334677 Garden Railway Specialists, 6 Summerleys Road, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, HP27 9DT, 01844 345158 Modelling Tools.co.uk, Uncle Jacks, Lavendon Road, Olney, Buckinghamshire, MK46 4HH, 01234 711980 Transport Treasures, 2 London Road, Aston Clinton, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP22 5HQ, 01296 631002 Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, Quainton Road Station, Quainton, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP22 4BY, 01296 655720 High Wycombe & District Model Railway Society, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP11 2RH, 07929 905502 Hunts Hardware, 35 Station Road, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, SL7 1NW, 01628 488228 Milton Keyenes Model Railway Society, Buckinghamshire, HP5 3DJ CAMBRIDGESHIRE Nene Valley Railway, Wansford Station, Stibbington, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE8 6LR, 01780 784444 Glendale Junction, 5 New Row, Deeping St James, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE6 8NA, 01778 343183 City Cycle Centre, 7 Market Street, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4PB, 01353 663131

Trains4u, 27 St Davids Square, Fengate, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1 5QA, 01733 895989 Cambridge Toy Shop, 15 Sussex Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB1 1PA, 01223 309010 DB Models Ltd, 28c Europa Way, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, PE13 2TZ, 01945 429252 New Modellers Shop Ltd, 25 Eastern Avenue, Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1 4PH, 01733 704502 Broadway Junction, The Coach House, 9 The Broadway, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE27 5BX, 01480 464684 31a Cambridge Model Railway Club, The Odd Fellows Hall, 131 Newmarket Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB5 8HA Layouts4u, 36 Elwyndene Road, March, Cambridgeshire, PE15 9BL, 01354 652302 March & District Model Railway Group, The Rookswood Club, Rookswood Road, West End, March, Cambridgeshire, PE15 8DP Modelrailways, Glebe Farm, Spaldwick, Cambridgeshire, PE28 0YT, 01480 890317 CHESHIRE Holder Collectables, Culcheth Model Railways, CPS Shopping Centre, Common Lane, Warrington, Cheshire, WA3 4EH, 0800 046 3595 High Lane Model Railways, Unit 3 Stockport Market Hall, Stockport, Cheshire, SK1 1ES, 01663 810 299 The Model Shop, 167 Witton Street, Northwich, Cheshire, CW9 5EA, 01606 47740 Grimy Times Model Railways, 187 Orford Lane, Warrington, Cheshire, WA2 7BA , Haslington Models, 134 Crewe Road, Haslington, Crewe, Cheshire, CW1 5RQ, 01270 589079 Waltons Models, 30 Stamford Street, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 1EY, 0161 928 5940 Widnes Model Centre, 128 Widnes Road, Widnes, Cheshire, WA8 6AX, 0151 424 1196 Chester Model Centre, 71-73 Bridge Street Row (East), Chester, Cheshire, CH1 1NW Crewe Heritage Centre, Vernon Way, Crewe, Cheshire, CW1 2DB, 01270 212130 Alsager Toys & Models, 58 Sandbach Road South, Alsager, Cheshire, ST7 2LP, 01270 882871 G Scale Direct, 39 The Parklands, Congelton, Cheshire, CW12 3DS, 01260 279194 Hazel Grove Model Railway Society, Methodist Church Hall, Wesley Street, Hazel Grove, Stockport, Cheshire, SK7 4JQ Manchester Model Railway Society, Mersey Road, Sale, Cheshire, M33 6HL CLEVELAND Redcar Models & Hobbies, 130 High Street, Redcar, Cleveland, TS10 3DH, 01642 494912 Stockton Modeller, 10 Silver Street, Stockton-onTess, Cleveland, TS18 1SX, 01642 616680 Cleveland Model Railway Club, Unit 2 The BHive Centre, Skelton Ind Est, Skelton, Saltburn-by-theSea, Cleveland, TS12 2LQ, 07864 880242 Middlesborough Model Railway Club, Settlement Community Centre, Union Street, Middlesbrough, Cleveland, TS1 5NQ CO DURHAM Windsock Models, 5-7 Fore Bondgate, Bishop Auckland, Co Durham, DL14 7PF, 01388 603759 Models4Hobby, Unit 13 Avenue 3, Chilton Business Park, Chilton, Durham, Co Durham, DL17 0PB, 01388 417940 Locomotion – The National Railway Museum, Shildon, Co Durham, DL4 1PQ, 01388 777999 North East Model Centre, The Old Chapel, Durham Road, Chester Moor, Durham, Co Durham, DH2 3RJ, 0191 3881128 Head of Steam, Darlington Railway Museum, North Road Station, Darlington, Co Durham, DL3 6ST, 01325 460532 Durham Trains of Stanley, 6 Station Road,, Stanley, Co Durham, DH9 0JL, 01207 232545 Connellys Toy Shop, 9-11 The Bank, Barnard Castle, Co Durham, DL12 8PH, 01833 637 396 Beamish, North of England Open Air Museum, Beamish, Co Durham, DH9 0RG, 0191 3704000 CORNWALL Bodmin & Wenford Railway, General Station, Lostwithiel Road, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL31 1AQ, 01208 73666 Great Western Scale Models, 5 Pentowan Road, Loggans, Hayle, Cornwall, TR27 5AR, 01736 757679

Kernow Model Rail Centre, 98a Trelowarren Street, Camborne, Cornwall, TR14 8AN, 01209 714099 Liskeard Railway Models, Station Road, Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14 4BX, 01579 349950 World of Model Railways, Meadow Street, Mevagissey, Cornwall, PL26 6UL, 01726 842457 Blewetts of Hayle, 19 Penpole Terrace, Hayle, Cornwall, TR27 4BQ, 01736 753012 Falmouth Society of Railway Modellers, The Athenaeum Club, Kimberley Place, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 3QL, 01326 312338 Hidden Valley Adventure Park, Tredidon, St Thomas, Launceston, Cornwall, PL15 8SJ, 01566 86463 Koalaclaire 69, Pengon, Camborne, Cornwall, TR14 7TR Lappa Valley Steam Railway, St Newlyn East, Newquay, Cornwall, TR8 5LX, 01872 510317 Launceston Steam Railway, St Thomas Road, Launceston, Cornwall, PL15 8DA, 01566 775665 Mid Cornwall Model Railways, Unit 12 The Market House, Market Street, St Austell, Cornwall, PL25 5QB, 07807 613039 Model Realm, Unit 3b Highfield Road Ind Est, Camelford, Cornwall, PL32 9RA, 01840 214440 CUMBRIA Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway Co Ltd, Haverthwaite Station, near Ulveston, Cumbria, LA12 8AL, 01539 531594 Stainmore Railway Co, The East Station, South Road, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, CA17 4LA, 01768 371700 C & M Models, 1 Crosby Street, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA1 1DQ, 01228 514689 E Atkinson & Sons Ltd, Promenade Shop, Lake Road, Bowness On Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 3DE, 01539 443047 Crafty Hobbies, 54 Cavendish Street, Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, LA14 1PZ, 01229 820759 Armstrong Ward, 8 Wainwrights Yard, Stricklandgate, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 4DP, 01539 720400 Broughton Rail, The Post Office, 11 Princes Street, Broughton-In-Furness, Cumbria, LA20 6HQ, 01229 716220 Furness Model Railway Club, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, LA14 2RP, 01229 583595 Harpers Toymaster, 1-2 Middlegate, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 7PG, 01768 864475 Hadrians Hobbies, Unit 6 The Old Brewery, Craw Hall, Brompton, Cumbria, CA8 1TR, 07962 177904 Jacksons Models & Railways, 33 New Street, Wigton, Cumbria, CA7 9AL, 016973 42557 DERBYSHIRE NMDRailway Modelers, Chalkers Snooker Club, Redmoor Mill, Buxton Rd, New Mills, SK22 3JT Ecclesbourne Valley Railway Association, Wirksworth Station, Station Road, Coldwell Street, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, DE4 4FB, 01629 823076 Malc's Models, 2-4 Pelham Street, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, DE7 8AR, 07786 896807 Midland Railway Trust, Butterley Station, Ripley, Derbyshire, DE5 3QZ, 01773 747674 Mount Tabor Models, Scarthin, Cromford, Matlock, Derbyshire, DE4 3QF, 01629 822294 TTCDiecast (Derby), 107 Nottingham Road, Derby, Derbyshire, DE1 3QR, 01332 343943 WD Models, 25-27 Chatsworth Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S40 2AH, 01246 208244 Barrow Hill Roundhouse Railway Centre, Campbell Drive, Barrow Hill, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S43 2PR, 01246 472450 Peak Rail PLC, Matlock Station, Matlock, Derbyshire, DE4 3NA, 01629 580381 Chesterfield Railway Modellers, Wingerworth, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S42 6SD, 01246 271099 Galactic models, 4 The Strand Arcade, Derby, Derbyshire, DB1 1BQ, 01332 344033 Historical Model Railway Society, Museum & Study Centre, Midland Railway Centre, Butterley Railway Station, Ripley, Derbyshire, DE5 3QZ, 01773 745959 Belper Model Railway Group, Strutts Community Centre, Derby Road, Belper, Derbyshire, DE56 1UU, Clay Cross Model Railway Society, Clay Cross Central Mehodist Church, High Street, Clay Cross, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S45 9DZ Edinburgh Wool Mill (Matlock), Masson Mills

Shopping Village, Derby Road, Matlock, Derbyshire, DE4 3PY, 01629 760208 Golden Valley Light Railway, Butterley Station, Ripley, Derbyshire, DE5 3QZ, 01773 747674 Loughborough Model Centre, 107 Nottingham Road, Derby, Derbyshire,DE1 3QR, 01332 343943 Wheelbase Models, 42 Market Place, Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S44 6PN, 01246 767876 DEVON The Model Shop Exeter, 4 St David’s Hill, Exeter, Devon, EX4 3RG, 01392 421906 Antics (Plymouth), 30 Royal Parade,, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 1DU, 01752 221851 Exmouth Model Railway, Queens Drive, Exmouth, Devon, EX8 2AY, 01395 278383 Bekra Models, 91 Queen Street, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 2BG, 01626 334884 Buffers Model Railway Ltd, Colston Cross, Axminster, Devon, EX13 7NF, 0129 735557 Peco Model Shop, Underleys, Beer, Seaton, Devon, EX12 3NA, 01297 21542 Shady Lane, 11 Grenville Street, Bideford, Devon, EX39 2EA, 01237 238872 Dartmoor Railway, Okehampton Station, Station Road, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 1EJ, 01837 55164 Antics, 86 Cornwall Street, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 1LR, 01752 221851 Anything Narrow Gauge, Shop 2 Holsworthy Market Parade, Holsworthy Square, Holsworthy, Devon, EX22 6DL, 01409 259009 Austins of Newton Abbot, 6 Courtenay Street, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 2DU, 01626 333444 Collett’s Model Trains, 6B Albion Street, Exmouth, Devon, EX8 1JL, 01395 224608 Dart Valley Railway, Queens Park Station, Torbay Road, Paignton, Devon, TQ4 6AF, 01803 555872 Devon Railway Centre, The Station, Bickleigh, Nr Tiverton, Devon, EX16 8RG, 01884 855671 Ilfracombe Model Railway Society, Forresters Hall (above WM Pearce), 5 Wilder Road, Ilfracombe, Devon, EX34 8BN Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, Woody Bay Station, Martinhoe Cross, Parracombe, Devon, EX31 4RA, 01598 752795 DORSET Platform Models, Unit 1, 10-12 Alder Hills, Poole, Dorset, BH12 4AL, 01202 798068 Swanage Railway, Station House, Swanage, Dorset, BH19 1HB, 01929 475204 Redlands Models, 71 Greenway Road, Redlands, Weymouth, Dorset, DT3 5BD, 01305 812183 Scale Link Ltd, Unit 27 Applins Farm Business Centre, Farrington, Dorset, DT11 8RA, 01747 811817 Bournemouth Model Railway Centre, 329-331 Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH8 8BT, 01202 309872 Howleys Toy Master, 5 Frederick Place, Weymouth, Dorset, DT4 8HQ, 01305 779255 Christchurch Model Railway Club, 8 Belvedere Road, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 1PT, 01202 486802 Dorchester Toymaster, 25 South Street, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1BY, 01305 261152 East Dorset Area ‘N’ Gauge Group, c/o 3 Riggs Garden, Bournmouth, Dorset, BH11 8QZ, 01202 546679 Aspire Gifts & Models, Unit 9 Court Farm Business Park, Buckland Newton, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 7BT, 01300 345355 F Herring & Sons, 27 High West Street, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1UP, 01305 267917 Frank Herring & Sons, 27 High West Street,, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1UP, 01305 264449 Frost & Co Ltd, 34 West Street, Bridport,, Dorset, DT6 3QP, 01308 422271 Beales (Bournemouth), 36 Old Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH1 1LJ, 01202 552022 Beales (Poole), The Dolphine Centre, Poole, Dorset, BH15 1SQ EAST SUSSEX Train Times, 37 Seaside, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN22 7NB, 01323 722026 Bluebell Railway, Sheffield Park Station, Sheffield Park, Uckfield, East Sussex, TN22 3QL, 01825 720803 Classic Rail, 30 High Street, Ticehurst, Wadhurst, East Sussex, TN5 7AS, 01580 200400 Silverhill Models & Toys, 383 London Road, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex, TN37 6PA, 01424 431133 The Hobby Box, 121 High Street, Uckfield, East Sussex, TN22 1RN, 01825 765296

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Finding Findingaa stockist stockist Model Railway Club, London Road « Brighton Station, Shaftsbury Place, Brighton, East Sussex,

BN1 4QS, 01273 771929 Hastings & St Leonards Model Railway Club, Baldslow Memorial Hall, Harrow Lane, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex, TN37 7PR, 01424 753684 Hobby Box Models LTD, 121 High Street, Uckfield, East Sussex, TN22 1RN, 01825 765296 Crawley Model Railway Society, Bluebell Railway, Sheffield Park Station, Uckfield, East Sussex, TN22 3QL, 01403 255712 Gravesend Railway Enthusiasts Society, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 1DR Eastbourne Miniature Steam Railway, Lottbridge Drove, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN23 6QJ

EAST YORKSHIRE 53A Models, 430 Hessle Rd, Hull, East Yorkshire, HU3 3SE, 01482 227777 Bridlington (Area) Railway Modellers & Train Enthusiasts' Society, Barmates, Bridlington Railway Station, Station Approach, Bridlington, East Yorkshire, YO15 3EP, 01262 603309 Croppers Models, 17 Landsdowne Road, Bridlington, East Yorkshire, YO15 2QU, 01262 677231 ESSEX Billericay Model Railway Group, 19 Tylers Avenue, Billericay, Essex, CM12 0RA Clacton Art & Craft Centre, 93 Pier Avenue, Clacton on Sea, Essex, CO15 1QE, 01255 436346 Flair Rail, Unit 7 Springfield, Nursery Estate, Burnham on Crouch, Essex, CM0 8TA, 01621 786198 Plus Daughters, 8 Brittania Court, Burnt Mills Ind Est, Basildon, Essex, SS13 1EU, 01268 726211 John Dutfield Model Railways, Wards Yard, 133 Springfield Park Road, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 6EE, 01245 494455 Mankim Models, 213 Shrub End Road, Colchester, Essex, CO3 4RN, 01206 574929 Marquee Models, Unit 71 The Harvey Centre, Harlow, Essex, CM20 1XS, 01279 423334 Roneo Models, 32 Roneo Corner, Hornchurch, Essex, RM12 4TN, 01708 442836 Colchester A1 Models, 64 London Road, Colchester, Essex, CO3 4DF, 01206 572094 Colchester & District Model Railway Club, The Clubhouse, Armoury Farm, Armoury Road, West Bergholt, Essex, CO6 3JP, 01376 570156 Braintree & Halstead Model Railway Club, East Anglian Railway Museum, Chapple & Wakes Colne Station, Wales Colne, Essex, CO6 2DS, 01787 222920 Chelmsford Model Railway Club & Mangapps Railway, Mangapps Railway Museum, Southminster Road, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, CM0 8QG, 01277 225206 Colne Valley Railway, Castle Hedingham, Essex, CO9 3DZ, 01787 461174 East Anglian Railway Museum, Chappel & Wakes Colne Station, Wakes Colne, Essex, CO6 2DS, 01206 242524 Epping Ongar Railway, Station House, High Street, Ongar, Essex, CM5 9BN, 01277 365200 B & M Cycles, 13 High Street, Brentwood, Essex, CM14 4RG, 01277 214342 Ilford & West Essex Model Railway Club, Romford, Essex, RM2 6BS Mangapps Railway Museum, Southminster Road, Burnham on Crouch, Essex, CM0 8QQ, 01621 784898 Modula Layouts, 19 Tylers Avenue, Billericay, Essex, CM12 0RA, 01277 624741 GLOUCESTERSHIRE Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway, The Railway Station, Toddington, Gloucestershire, GL54 5DT, 01242 621405 Forest of Dean Models, High Street, Bream, Lydney, Gloucestershire, GL15 6JF, 01594 563054 Antics (Gloucester), 81 Northgate Street, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL1 2AG, 01452 410693 Antics (Stroud), 49 High Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 1AN, 01453 764487 Cheltenham Model Centre, 39 High Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 1DY, 01242 234644 Dean Forest Railway, Norchard, Forest Road, Lydney, Gloucestershire, GL15 4ET, 01594 845840 Bourton Model Railway, Box Bush, High Street,, Bourton On The Water, Gloucestershire, GL54 2AN, 01451 820686 Antics (Stonehouse), Unit One Springfield Business Centre, Stroud Water Business Park, Brunel Way, Stonehouse,, Gloucestershire, GL10 3SX, 01453 825645 Derails, Unicorn House, Market Place, 37 Cole Ford, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL16 8AA, 01594 835692 Gloucester Model Railway Club, Elmscroft Community Centre, Barnwood Road, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL2 0RX

June 2017

Perrygrove Railway, Perrygrove Road, Coleford, Gloucestershire, GL16 8QB HAMPSHIRE Mid Hants Railway, The Watercress Line, The Railway Station, Alresford, Hampshire, SO24 9JG, 01962 733810 The Magic Toy Box, 210 Havant Road, Drayton, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO6 2EH, 02392 221307 Fratton Model Centre, 171-173 Fratton Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 5ET, 023 928 27117 A C Models, 7 High Street, Eastleigh, Hampshire, SO50 5LB, 02380 610100 Alton Model Centre, 7a Normandy Street, Alton, Hampshire, GU34 1DD, 01420 542244 Mainly Planes & Trains, 79 Stoke Road, Gosport, Hampshire, PO12 1LR, 02392 581402 Moors Valley Railway, Moors Valley Country Park, Horton Road, Ashley Heath, Ringwood, Hampshire, BH24 2ET, 01425 471415 Ron Lines, 342 Shirley Road, Shirley, Southampton, Hampshire, SO15 3HJ, 02380 772681 The Model Shop, 117 New Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO2 7QS, 02392 653100 Waterlooville Model Centre, 225 Commercial Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 4BJ, 023 9217 6367 Wicor Models, 7 West Street, Porchester, Hampshire, PO16 9XB, 023 9235 1160 AC Models, 7-9 High Street, Eastleigh, Hampshire, SO50 5LB, 02380 610100 Church Street Models, 10a Church Street, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 7QE, 01256 358060 Andover Toys, 20 Chantry Way, Andover,, Hampshire, SP10 1LX, 01264 352263 B&D (Collectors) Toys, 2 Beaulieu Road, Dibden Purlieu, Hampshire, SO45 4PT, 023 8084 4550 Fleet Toys, 195 Fleet Road, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 3BL, 01252 613949 Garden Rail Outlet, 7 Rosebery Avenue, Hythe, Southampton, Hampshire, SO45 3HA, 023 8084 0834 Alton Model Railway Group, Alton, Hampshire Modelling & Gaming Supplies, 28 Cove Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 0EN, 01252 540894 HEREFORDSHIRE Hereford Model Centre, 4 Commercial Road, Hereford, Herefordshire, HR1 2BB, 01432 352809 Golden Valley Hobbies, Unit 1 Pontrilas Business Park, Pontrilas, Herefordshire, HR2 0AZ, 01981 241237 Martins Models & Crafts, 10 West Street, Leominster, Herefordshire, HR6 8ES, 01568 613782 Tommy’s Trains, The Forge, Hatton Gardens Industrial Estate, KIngton, Herefordshire, HR5 3RB, 01544 230777 HERTFORDSHIRE Hurricane Models, Unit 7 Impresa Park, Pindar Road, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, EN11 0DL, 01992 447346 Garden Railway Ltd ( Martins Models), 3 Plaw Hatch Close, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 5BL, 01279 831641 Junction 20 Models, 51 High Street, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, WD4 9HU, 01923 270247 Cuthberts Toys, 21a Eastcheap, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, SG6 3DA, 01462 486030 Cuthberts Toys, 2 Christopher Place, Upper Dagnell Street, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL3 5DQ, 01727 838753 KS Models, 19 Middle Row, Stevenage (Old Town), Hertfordshire, SG1 3AW, 01438 746616 Hoddesdon Model & Railway Club, Mill Lane, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, EN10 7AX Felicitations, First Floor, 17 High Street, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2RU, 01582 767811 ISLE OF MAN Track Shack, Unit 4 Olive Court, Ramsey Road, Peel, Isle of Man, IM5 1RH, 01624 845977 Model World, 16 St Pauls Square, Ramsey, Isle of Man, IM8 1LH, 01624 816048 ISLE OF WIGHT Isle of Wight Steam Railway, The Railway Station, Havenstreet, Isle of Wight, PO3 4DS, 01983 882204 Reeds Hobbys, 5 Pier Street, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, PO38 1ST, 01938 56189 Upstairs Downstairs, 3 Pier Street, Sandown, Isle of Wight, PO36 8JR, 01983 406 616 Fort Victoria Model Railway, Fort Victoria, Westhill Road, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, PO41 0RR, 01983 761553 KENT Beckenham & West Wickham Model Railway Club, 106 Garthorne Road, Forest Hill, London, Kent, SE23 1EN Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway, New Romney Station, New Romney, Kent, TN28 8PL, 01797 362353 Chalk Garden Rail, 4 Brewhouse Yard, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 2EJ, 01474 351672

Manklows, 44 Seal Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN14 5AR, 01732 454952 Model World, Unit 1 Anchor Business Park, Castle Road, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10 3AE, 01795 410630 Ramsgate Models, 74a Queensgate Street, Ramsgate, Kent, CT11 9ER, 01843 584073 The Model Shop, 8 Front Road, Woodchurch, Kent, TN26 3QE, 01233 860008 Ashford Model Supply Centre, Unit 23, Ellingham Way, Ashford, Kent, TN23 6NF, 01233 635837 Invicta Model Rail, 130 Station Road, Sidcup, Kent, DA15 7AB, 0208 3027774 Kent Garden Railways, 66 High Street, St Mary Cray, Orpington, Kent, BR5 3NH, 01689 891668 Regal Models, The Old School House, The Historic Dockyard, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4TZ, 01634 838808 Rochester Games & Models, 21 Corportaion Street, Rochester, Kent, ME1 1NN, 01634-815699 The Hobby Shop, 122 West Street, Faversham, Kent, ME13 7JB, 01795 531666 Bexley Model Centre, Broughton House, Iris Avenue, Bexley, Kent, DA5 1HH, 0845 22 66 545 Fenwick (Canterbury), St Georges Street, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2TB, 01227 766866 Fenwick (Tunbridge Wells), Royal Victoria Place,, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN1 2SR, 01892 516716 Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway, The Warren, Bredgar, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 8AT, 01622 884254 Dream Steam, Ground Floor Suite, Vanguard House, Mills Road, Aylesford, Kent, ME20 7NA, 0845 0773007 East Kent Railway, Station Road, Shepherdswell, Dover, Kent, CT13 7PD, 01304 832042 Folkestone Hythe & District Model Railway Club, New Broomfield Hall, 29-37 Broomfield Road, Cheriton, Folkestone, Kent, CT19 4DJ, 01303 239889 HLS Models, Unit 5 Manford Ind Est, Manor Road, Erith, Kent, DA8 2AJ, 0747 311 2524 Erith Model Railway Society, 91 Northdown Road, Welling, Kent, DA16 1NU, 0208 306 1768 Beales (Tonbridge), Angel Centre, Angel Lane, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 1SF, 01732 771177 Faversham Model Railway Club, West Faversham Community Centre, Bysing Wood Road, Faversham, Kent, ME13 7RH, 07931 589001 Hoo Peninsula Model Railway Club, The Scout Hut, Stoke Road, Hoo St Werburgh, Rochester, Kent, ME3 9DG, 07527 596630 Hornby Visitor Centre, Westwood Ind Est, Margate, Kent, CT9 4JX, 01843 233524 Kent & East Sussex Railway Company, Tenterden Town Station, Station Road, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6HE, 01580 765155 Minnis Bay Hidden Treasures, 137 Minnis Road, MInnis Bay, Birchington, Kent, CT7 9NS, 07724 626073 Model Baseboards, The Model Shop, 8 Front Road, Woodchurch, Kent, TN26 3QE, 01233 860008 LANCASHIRE Arcadia Models, 67 Rochdale Road, Shaw, Oldham, Lancashire, OL2 7JT, 01706 882900 Bolton Model Mart, 58 Great Moor Street, Bolton, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, BL1 1SN, 01204 382282 Conways (West Houghton), 46-48 Market Street, Westhoughton, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, BL5 3AZ, 01942 812398 East Lancashire Railway, Bury Bolton Street Station, Bolton Street, Bury, Lancashire, BL9 0EY, 0161 7647790 Model & Hobby World, 7 Owen Road, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1 2AW, 01524 843553 Toys 2 Save, 1 Brighton Avenue, Cleveleys, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY5 2AA, 01253 855 905 Trains & Diecast, 138a Wright Street, Horwich, Bolton, Lancashire, BL6 7HU, 01204 669782 Transport Models Ltd, Unit 1 Oyston Mill, Strand Road, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 8UR, 01772 733644 Hobby & Model Centre, 1 Hutton Lane, Bolton, Lancashire, BL3 4JB, 01204 61446 Topslots N Trains, Mariytime Street, Fleetwood, Lancashire, FY7 7PB, 01253 773731 JPL Models, 129 Elliott Street, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, M29 8FL, 01942 896138 MJR Models, Hobbies & Accessories, 11 Hindley Road, Daisy Hill, Westhoughton, Bolton, Lancashire, BL5 2JU, 01942 386790 The Locoshed, 48 Bury Old Road, Whitefield, Manchester, Lancashire, M45 6TL, 0161 772 0103 Tower Models, 44 Cookson Street, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY1 3ED, 01253 623797 / 623799 West End Model Centre, West End Buildings, 113 Albert Road, Colne, Lancashire, BB8 0BT, 01282 867711 Conways (Blackpool), 19-21 Birley Street, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY1 1EG, 01253 626461 E C Toys, 44 Bond Street, South Shore, Blackpool,, Lancashire, FY4 1BQ, 01253 341897 Carnforth Models, Unit 5 Carnforth Station, Warton Road, Carnforth, Lancashire, LA5 9TR, 07986 252205

Collectors Toy Shop, 138a Wright Street, Horwich, Lancashire, Lancashire, BL6 7HU, 01204 669782 Diesel Depot Model Railways, 23 The Crescent, St Annes on Sea, Lancashire, Lancashire, FY8 1SZ, 01253 780015 F & S Scale Models, 227 Droylsden Road, Audenshaw, Manchester, Lancashire, M34 5RT, 0161 370 3235 Chorley & District Model Railway Club, 101 Carr Lane, Chorley, Lancashire, PR7 3JQ, 01257 412710 Bury Steam Locomotive Co Ltd, East Lancashire Railway Co Ltd, Bolton Street Station, Bury, Lancashire, BL9 0EY, 0161 7985821 Lancashire & Yorkshire DCC Model Rail Group, Waterside Road, Haslingden, Lancashire, BB4 5EZ Leigh Models & Hobbies, 527 Bickershaw Lane, Bickershaw, Manchester, Lancashire, WN2 5TU, 07830 839718 Leyland Model Railway Club, Buckshaw Village, Chorley, Lancashire, PR7 7BX MJ Racing (Slotcars) Ltd, 11 Hindley Road, Westhoughton, Bolton, Lancashire, BL5 2JU, 01942 386790 Models and More Ltd, 12 Bridge Street, Darwen, Lancashire, BB3 2HH, 01254 775093 LEICESTERSHIRE Great Central Railway, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 1RW, 01509 632 323 The Signal Box, 1 Albion Street, Anstey, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE7 7DD, 0116 236 2901 Keith’s Model Railways, 2 Holyrood Drive, Countesthrope, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE8 5TR, 0116 2778634 Ace Connections Ltd, 23 Market Street, Lutterworth, Leicestershire, LE17 4EJ, 01455 557052 Scale Model Scenery Ltd, 62 Station Road, Hugglescote, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE67 2GB, 01530 456952 Acme Model Products, The Shops, 48 Highgate Road, Sileby, Leicestershire, LE12 700, 01509 812177 Fords Oakham Ltd, 8 Church Street, Oakham, Leicestershire, LE15 6AA, 01572 722654 Battlefield Line Railway, The Shackerstone Railway Society, Shackerstone Station, Shackerstone, Leicestershire, CV13 6NW, 01827 880754 Little Gem Products, Unit 38D Sowters Lane, Burton on the Wolds, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE12 5AH, 01509 880659 LINCOLNSHIRE Boston Model Railway Society, 18 Medforth Lane, Boston, Lincolnshire, PE21 9HW Mad About Trains of Gainsborough, 106 Trinity Street, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, DN21 1HS, 01427 811040 B & H Models, 7 The Strait, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1JD, 01522 538717 GRA’s Models, 65 Scotgate, Town Centre, Stamford, Lincolnshire, PE9 2YB, 01780 751826 Model Railway Shop Grantham, 46 Watergate, Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG31 6PR, 01476 563472 Models & Computers Plus, 55 West Street, Boston, Lincolnshire, PE21 8QN, 01205 365102 RA Models, 182a Ashby High Street, Ashby, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, DN16 2JR, 07561 400533 Caistor Loco, Ashtree Enterprises, 8 Market Place, Caistor, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, LN7 6TW, 01472 859990 Granary Models, 31 High Street, Swineshead, Boston, Lincolnshire, PE20 3LH, 01205 820115 Masons Models, 20 New Road, Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE11 1DQ, 01775 722456 York Model Railway Ltd, Veck House, Helmswell Cliff Business Centre, Nr Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, DN21 5TJ, 01427 667470 Digitrains, 15 Clifton Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 8LQ, 01522 527731 DB Models Ltd, No 4 Wheatsheaf Court, Deeping St Nicholas, Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE11 3TH, 01775 630479 / 07723 336344 A Part Toys & Models, Room 11 Welland Stationers, Cherryholt Road, Stamford, Lincolnshire, PE9 2EP, 08701 424224 Angel Cottage Supplies – K&M TREES, 4 Brewery Lane, Carlton le Moorland, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN5 9HZ, 07824 335583 Ashtree Enterprises/Caistor Loco, 8 Market Place, Caistor, Lincolnshire, LN7 6TW, 01472 859990 Fraction Models, 10 Roman Bank, Skegness, Lincolnshire, PE25 2RU, 01754 760077 Gainsborough Model Railway Society, Florence Terrace, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, DN21 1BE, 01427 610475 Classic, 138 Grimsby Road, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, DN35 7DN, 01472 291934 Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway, Lakeside Station, Kings Road, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, DN35 0AG, 01472 604657

Cleethorpes Model Railway Society, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, DN34 5TG Lincolnshire Wolds Railway, Ludborough Station, Station Road, Ludborough, Lincolnshire, DN36 5SQ, 01507 363881 LONDON London Transport Museum, Covent Garden Piazza, London, WC2E 7BB, 020 7379 7310 Ian Allan Bookshop & Model Shop, 45-46 Lower Marsh, Waterloo, London, SE1 7RG, 0207 401 2100 E F Russ, 101 Battersea Rise, Battersea, London, SW11 1HW, 020 7228 6319 Northfields Model Shop, 217 Northfield Avenue, Ealing, London, London, W13 9QU, 078 064 711 73 Jane's Trains, 35 London Road, Tooting, London, SW17 9JR, 020 8640 1569 Fenwicks (Brent Cross), Brent Cross Shopping Centre, Brent Cross, London, NW4 3FN , Hannants London, Unit 2 Hurricane Trading Estate, Graeme Park Way, Collindale, London, NW9 5QW, 0208 205 6697 London Model Railway Club, Keen House, 4 Calshot Street, London, N1 9DA Hillingdon Railway Modellers, Yiewsley Church Hall, Fairfield Road/Cobham Avenue, West Drayton, London, UB7 8HF Fagin's Toys, 84 Fortis Griffin Road, Muswell Hill, London, N10 3HN, 020 844 0282 MERSEYSIDE Kitstop Models, 20 Oxton Road, Birkenhead, Merseyside, CH41 2QJ, 0151 647 9067 DKG Hobbies, 14 Princes Street, Southport, Merseyside, PR8 1EZ, 01704 500630 Formby Model & Hobby Scene, 77-79 Gores Lane, Formby, Merseyside, L37 7DE, 01704 870432 Sawyer Models, 27 Bridge Street, Earlestown, Newton-Le-Willows, Merseyside, WA12 9BE, 01925 227 835 Liverpool Model Railway Society, County Methodist Church, Ludlow Street, LIverpool, Merseyside, L4 3RH MIDDLESEX Enfield Town Model Railway Club, St Paul’s Centre, 102 Church Street, Enfield, Middlesex, EN2 6PR, 01992 639361 Jennings Models, 5 Alberta Road, Enfield, Middlesex, EN1 1JA, 0208 882 7679 NORFOLK 32a Model Railway Club, 5 Waxham Court, Waxham Road, Sea Palling, Norfolk, NR12 0UP Train Terrain Models, 199 Plumstead Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 4AB, 01603 304379 Great Eastern Railway Models, 199 Plumbstead Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 4AB, 01603 431457 Hunstanton Models, 36 High Street, Hunstanton, Norfolk, PE36 5AF, 01485 533324 Buoys Toys and Models, 30 Louden Road, Cromer, Norfolk, NR27 9EF, 01263 519652 Dave Bure Valley Models, Aylsham Station, Norwich Road, Aylsham, Norfolk, NR11 6BW, 01263 733858 Mid Norfolk Railway, Dereham Station, Station Road, Dereham, Norfolk, NR19 1DF, 01362 690633 Association of Larger Scale Railway Modellers, 8 Ffolkes Place, Runcton Holme, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, PE33 0AH , Auto-Loco, 10 Station Road, Sheringham, Norfolk, NR26 8RG, 01263 821777 Hobbies, Units 8b-11 The Ravingham Centre, Ravingham, Norwich, Norfolk, NR14 6NU, 01508 549330 JPM Balsa, Unit 2 Archway Shopping Centre, Stalham, Norfolk, NR12 9AZ, 01692 581862 Langleys Toys, 12-14 Royal Arcade, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 1NQ, 01603 621959 NORTH YORKSHIRE Monk Bar Model Shop, 2 Goodramgate, York, North Yorkshire, YO1 7LQ, 01904 659423 P & S Hobbies & Models, 32 Castle Road, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO11 1XE, 01723 377020 Starbeck Models, 16 Devonshire Place, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 4AA, 01423 507089 The Model Centre & Custom Finish Locomotives, Hill Farm, Beckhole, Whitby, North Yorkshire, YO22 5LF, 01947 896040 The Toy & Book Warehouse, Rear of 9 Market Place, Pickering, North Yorkshire, YO18 7AA, 01751 474672 The Train Shop, 41 Eastborough, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO11 1NH, 01723 354019 White Rose Modelworks, Unit 10 Bedale Station, Bedale, North Yorkshire, DL8 1BZ, 01677 422444 Buffers, Backoth Hill Farm, Storiths Boltonabbey, Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 6HU, 01756 710253 North Yorkshire Moors Railway, Pickering Station, Pickering, North Yorkshire, YO18 7AJ, 01751 473799 Ellis Clark Trains, Unit 1 Toller Court, Shortbank Road, Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 2HG, 01756 701451

Monkbar Model Shop, 2 Goodramgate, York, North Yorkshire, YO1 7LQ, 01904 659423 Fenwick (York), Coppergate Centre, York, North Yorkshire, YO1 9WY, 01904 643322 Harrogate Models, 67 Leeds Road, (above the post office), Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2 8BE, 01423 871 364 Craven Model Centre, Unit 3 Mount Pleasant,, High Street,, Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 1JZ, 01756 794919 Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway, Yorkshire Dales Railway Museum Trust, Bolton Abbey Station, Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 6AF, 01756 710614 Embsay Steam Railway Trading Co, Embsay Station, East Lane, Embsay, Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 6QX, 01756 794727 Claridges, 9 Church Street, Helmsley, North Yorkshire, YO62 5AD, 01439 770401 National Railway Museum, Leeman Road, York, North Yorkshire, YO26 4XJ, 01904 686240 Edinburgh Woolen Mill (Settle), Langcliffe Road, Settle, North Yorkshire, BD24 9LR, 01729 825539 Grosmont Book Shop, Front Street, Grosmont, North Yorkshire, YO22 5QE, 01947 895170 Modeltrains4U, 2 Sawyers Crescent, York, North Yorkshire, YO23 3YA, 08000 431174 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE The Model Shop, 230 Wellinborough Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 4EJ, 01604 631223 Wellingborough Trains & Models, 26 Market Street, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN8 1AT, 01933-274069 A & H Models Ltd, 95 High Street, Brackley, Northamptonshire, NN13 7BW, 01280 701410 Daventry Model Railway Club, Unit 10 Austin Way, Royal Park Ind Est, Daventry, Northamptonshire, NN11 8QY, 07773 275428 H & A Models, 19 Keats Way, Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, NN10 8DQ, 01933 355531 Irchester Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, Irchester Country Park, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN8 2EH, 01400 261043 MP Models UK, Unit S6 Moulton Business Centre, Redhouse Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN3 6AQ, 07837 497368 NORTHUMBERLAND Trains & Planes Ltd, Unit 19b Airport Ind Est, Kingston Park, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, NE3 2EF, 0191 286 4175 Collectors' Cellar, 11 Hencotes, Hexham, Northumberland, NE46 2EQ, 01434 601392 J & J Models, 1 Packhorse Buildings, Newgate St, Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 1AW, 07792 925181 Aln Valley Railway Trust, Lionheart Railway Station, Lionheart Enterprise Park, Alnwick, Northumberland, NE66 2EZ , Alnwick Model Railway Club, Old Village Hall, Rock, Alnwick, Northumberland, NE66 3SE Bowes Railway, Springfield Village, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, Northumberland, NE9 7QJ , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Access Models, 43/45 Castlegate, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 1BE, 01636 673116 D, J & F Benham of Edwinstowe, 45 High Street, Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire, NG21 9QR, 01623 822302 Gee Dee Models, 21 Heathcote Street, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG1 3AF, 0115 9412211 Geoffrey Allison Railways, 90 Cheapside, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, S80 2HY, 01909 473255 Sherwood Models, 831 Mansfield Road, near Daybrook, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG5 3GF, 0115 9266290 The Goods Yard, Station Lodge, Lodge Lane Ind Est, Tuxford, Nottinghamshire, NG22 0NL, 07930 557601 MB Models, 32 Conery Gardens, Whatton, Nottinghamshire, NG13 9FD, 01949 850063 Gee Dee Models, 21 Heathcote Street, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG1 3AF,0115 9412211 The Goods Yard, Station Lodge, Lodge Lane Ind Est, Tuxford, Nottinghamshire, NG22 0NL, 07930 557601 OXFORDSHIRE Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway Assoc, Chinnor Station, Station Approach, Station Road, Chinnor, Oxfordshire, OX39 4ER Didcot Railway Centre, Station Road, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 7NJ, 01235 817200 Bicester Toys & Nursery Ltd, 66/68 Sheep Street, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX26 6JW, 01869 323946 Cholsey & Wallingford Railway, Preservation Society, 5 Hithercroft Road, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 9GQ, 01491 835067 Dentons Cycles & Toys, 1 High Street, Whitney, Oxfordshire, OX28 6HW, 01993 704 979 Tinders, 56-59 Broad Street, Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX16 5BL , Banbury & District Model Railway Club, Cherwell Business Park, Southam Road, Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX16 2SP, 01295 252931 / 01295 250463

Howes Models Ltd, Unit 2c/d Station Field Ind Est, Rowles Way, Kidlington, Oxfordshire, OX5 1LA, 01865 848000 SCOTLAND Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group, 38 Ashgrove Streeet, Ayr, Ayrshire, KA7 3BG Alva Motor Factors Ltd, 31 Mill Street, Alloa, Scotland, FK10 1DT, 01259 723033 Sports & Model Shop, 66 High Street, Dingwall, Scotland, IV15 9RY, 01349 862346 Strathspey Railway Company, Aviemore Station, Dalfaber Road, Aviemore, Scotland, PH22 1PY, 01479 810725 The Hamilton Toy Collection, 111 Main Street, Callander, Scotland, FK17 8BQ, 01877 330004 Wildcat Models, 251 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow, Scotland, G11 6AB, 0141 3345599 Inverness Model Shop, 16 Victorian Market, Queensgate Arcade, Inverness, Scotland, IV1 1PJ, 01463 712448 Mackenzie Models, Quarryside, Duncansby Head Road, John O’Groats, Scotland, KW1 4YS, 01955 611210 Mac’s Model Railroading, 4-8 Reform Street, Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland, DD8 4BS, 01575 572397 Waddell’s Models, 56 Bell Street, Merchant City, Glasgow, Scotland, G1 1LQ, 0141 5528044 Wickness Models, 6 Greenlea Crescent, Collin, Dunfries & Galloway, Scotland, DG1 4PR, 07920 407724 Wonderland Models, 97-101-103 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 9AN, 0131 229 6428 Harburn Hobbies, 67 Elm Row, Leith Walk, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH7 4AQ, 0131 556 3233 Invergowrie Model Centre, 118 Main Street, Invergowrie, Dundee, Scotland, DD2 5BE, 01382 561064 McLaren Models, 155 Grahams Road, Falkirk, Scotland, FK2 7BQ, 01324 624102 Models Unlimited, 2 North Street, Inverurie, Scotland, AB51 4QR, 01467 672277 Modelzone at WH Smith, 177 Sauchiehall Street, Sauchiehall, Glasgow, Scotland, G2 2ER, 0141 331 2833 Pastimes (Glasgow), 126 Maryhill Road, St Georges Cross, Glasgow, Scotland, G20 7QS, 0141 3311008 Uddingston Model Centre, 161 Main Street, Uddingston, Glasgow, Scotland, G71 7BP, 01698 813194 Dumfries & District Model Railway Club, Lockerbie Railway Station, Station House, Lockerbie, Scotland, DG11 2HA , Dundee Model Railway Club, 2-4 Huntly Square, Craigie, Dundee, Scotland, DD4 7SX, 01382 644342 / 07776 011601 Edinburgh & Lothians Model Railway Club, 47 Long Crook, South Queensferry, Scotland, EH30 9XR, Durrans, 2 St Johns Square, Thurso, Caithness, Scotland, KW14 7AN, 01847 893169 Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway, The Scottish Railway Preservation Society, Bo’ness Station, Union Street, Bo’ness, West Lothian, Scotland, EH51 9AQ Falkirk Model Railway Club, Unit 5 Redding Ind Est, Falkirk, Scotland, FK2 9TT , H&I Supplies t/a Model Warehouse, 5 Badentoy Place, Portlethen, Aberdeen, Scotland, AB12 4YF, 01224 784799 Elgin Model Railway Club, Elgin, Moray, Scotland, IV30 4JT , WH & MR Model Railways, Elgin Mart (Saturdays), New Elgiin Road, Elgin, Moray, Scotland, IV30 6BE, 01343 543243 Scoonie Hobbies, 87 St Clair Street, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, KY1 2NW, 01592 6517 Country Toys, 66 High Street, Annan, Scotland, DG12 6DL, 01461 207890 Cupar & District Model Railway Club, The Old Theatre Block, Castle Hill Centre, Cupar, Scotland, KY15 4HA Keith & Dufftown Railway, Dufftown Station, Banffshire, Scotland, AB55 4BA, 01542 831295 Kilmarnock & District Model Railway Club, 14 Pine Road, Kilmarnock, Scotland, KA1 2EZ Leadhills & Wanlockhead Railway, The Station, Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland, ML12 6XP SHROPSHIRE Severn Valley Railway, The Railway Station, Hollybush Road, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, WV16 5DT, 01746 765801 Classic Railway Models, 62 Whitburn Street, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, WV16 4QP, 01746 769009 Antenociti’s Workshop Ltd, 5 Hebron Close, Clive, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY4 5QT, 01939 220498 Cambrian Heritage Railways, Old Station Buildings, Oswald Road, Oswestry, Shropshire, SY11 1RE, 01691 671749 Ellesmere Model Railway Club, Criftins Village Hall, Dudleston Heath, Ellesmere, Shropshire, SY12 9LQ

Modelscape, Unit 8b-8c Rodenhurst Business Park, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY4 4QU, 01952 771115 SOMERSET East Somerset Models, The Railway Station, Cranmore, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4QP Frome Model Centre, 1-2 Catherine Street, Frome, Somerset, BA11 1DA, 01373 465295 Model Masters, International House, 50a Clifton Road, Weston Super Mare, Somerset, BS23 1BW, 01934 629717 Signals Model Shop, 8 Holly Court, High Street, Midsomer Norton, Somerset, BA3 2BD, 01761 402484 West Somerset Railway, The Buffer Stop, The Railway Station, Minehead, Somerset, TA24 5BG, 01643 700387 Denners, 23-25 High Street, Yeovil,, Somerset, BA20 1RU, 01935 444444 Eric Snook Ltd, 22-24 Union Passage, Bath, Somerset, BA1 1RD, (01225) 464914 Bridgwater Model Railways, Bridgwater Railway Station, St. John Street, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 5HB, 01278 427646 DCC Train Automation, Unit 4, The Court Yard, Bowdens Farm, Hambridge, Taunton, Somerset, TA10 0BP, 01823 429309 East Somerset Railway, Cranmore Railway Station, Cranmore, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4QP, 01749 880417 Bath Railway Society, St Mary’s Church Hall, Darlington Street, Bathwick, Bath, Somerset, BA2 4EB Burnham & District Model Railway Club, Community Centre, Berrow Road, Burnham on Sea, Somerset, TA8 2ET Hollylovestoys Ltd, 27 Mayﬂower Court, Highbridge, Somerset, TA9 3BQ, 01278 785925 Jadlam Racing Models, The Firs Underwood Business Park, Wells, Somerset, BA5 1AF, 01749 671809 Loco Notion Models, 88 Meadow Street, Weston Super Mare, Somerset, BS23 1QW, 07710 215566 Mainly Trains, Williams & Cleal, Willet Farm Workshops, Taunton, Somerset, TA4 3QB, 01278 741333 Station Shop West Somerset Railway Association, Bishops Lydeard Station, Station Road, Bishops Lydeard, Taunton, TA4 3BX Taunton Controls Ltd, 12 The Octagon, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 1RT, 01823 327155 SOUTH YORKSHIRE Marcway Models & Hobbies, 598-600 Attercliffe Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S9 3QS, 0114 244 9170 Rails of Sheffield, 27-29 Chesterfield Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S8 0RL, 0114 2551436 Sheffield Transport Models (Puffer Willies), 206 London Road, Highfields, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S2 4LW, 0114 234 7792 Tag’s Model Shop Ltd, 4 East Laith Gate, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN1 1HZ, 01302 320732 Atkinsons, Conways, 78-82 The Moor, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S1 3LT, 0114 2781960 Baccus 6mm Ltd – K&M TREES, Unit C Graham House, Bardwell Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S3 8AS, 0114 272 4491 Barnsley Models and Games, 37 The Arcade, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S70 2QP, 01226 206005 Barsnley Model Railway Club, 53 Cypress Road, Kendray, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S70 3LY, 07774 806487 Elsecar Heritage Railway, Preservation Group, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Wath Road, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S74 8HJ, 01226 746746 Olivia’s Trains & Models, 25a Mansfield Road, Intake, Sheffield, South Yotkshire, S12 2AE, 0114 2647 449 Manor Model Railways, 48a Spring Lane, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN5 7QG, 01302 311683 STAFFORDSHIRE The Model Shop, First Floor The Octagon Centre, New Street, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire, DE14 3TN, 07939 544527 Chasewater Railway Museum, Chasewater Country Park, Brownhills West Station, Pool Lane, Burntwood, Staffordshire, WS8 7NL, 01543 452623 The Hobby Goblin, 54 Hamil Road, Burslem, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, ST6 1AU, 01782 818 433 The Tutbury Jinny, Unit 9 Tutbury Mill Mews, Lower High Street, Tutbury, Nr Burton Upon Trent, Staffordshire, DE13 9LU, 01283 814777 Topp Trains, 28 Marston Road, Stafford, Staffordshire, ST16 3BS, 01785 247883 Amerton Railway, Stowe-by-Chartley, Nr Weston, Staffordshire, ST18 0LA, 01785 850965 Foxfield Railway, Caverswall Road, Blythe Bridge, Staffordshire, ST11 9BG, 01782 396210 Hobby Goblin, 13 Queen Street, Burslem, Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire, ST6 3EL, 01782 823818 Alsager Railway Association, 10 Cornhill Close, Waterhayes, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs, ST5 7TA

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Finding a stockist Railway Society, c/o Marston’s Social Club, « Burton Shobnal Road, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, DE14 2BG

Mech Models, Unit 9 Lancaster Park, Newborough Road, Needwood, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, DE13 9PD, 01283 575444 SUFFOLK Diss & District Model Railway Society, c/o 22 The Chase, Stanton, Suffolk, IP31 2XA, 01359 250739 Perfect Miniatures, 86-88 Friars Street, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 2AJ, 01787 375884 Model Junction, 10 Whiting Street, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 1NX, 01284 753456 Coastal DCC Ltd, Unit 2, 48-52 Tomline Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP3 8DB, 01473 710946 Ipswich Railway Modellers Association, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4 2HB Mid Suffolk Light Railway, Wetheringsett, near Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 5PW SURREY Dorking Models, 12/13 West Street, Dorking, Surrey, RH4 1BL, 01306 881747 Models of Distinction, 23 The Woolmead, East Street, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7TT, 01252 716981 Addlestone Model Centre, 130 Station Road, Addlestone, Surrey, KT15 2BE, 01932 845440 Roxley Models, 4 Beckley Parade, Great Bookham, Leatherhead, Surrey, KT23 4RQ, 01372 452976 Allders Ltd, 2 Northend, Croydon,, Surrey, CR9 1SB, 0208 6037400 Hampton Court Model Railway Society, 38 Arnold Drive, Chessington, Surrey, KT9 2GD, 020 8949 3431 Roxey Mouldings, 58 Dudley Road, Walton on Thames, Surrey, KT12 2JU, 01932 245439 Guildford Model Engineering Society, 61 Beech Grove, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7UZ, 01483 536937 / 07970 034498 Scale Rail Model Centre, 117 Victoria Road, Horley, Surrey, GU7 3LH, 01293 783558 East Surrey ‘N’ Gauge, Eastwood Baptist Church, St John’s Road, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 6DZ Farnham & District Model Railway Club, Wrecclesham Community Centre, Greenfield Road, Wrecclesham, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 8TJ, 0207 760582 Horley Book & Model Shop Ltd, 117 Victoria Road, Horley, Surrey, RH6 7QS, 01293 783558 Modesco, 43 Farncombe Street, Farncombe, Godalming, Surrey, GU7 3LH, 01483 424666 TYNE & WEAR Pooley’s Puffers, 382A Jedburgh Court, Team Valley Trading Est, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, NE11 0BQ, 0191 4910202 Stephenson Railway Museum, Middle Engine Lane, North Shields, Tyne & Wear, NE29 8DX, 0191 2007146 A19 Model Railway Club, c/o Room 13, Groundwork South Tyneside & Newcastle, The Eco Centre, Windmaill Way, Hebburn, Tyne & Wear, NE31 1SR, 0191 455526 Fenwick (Newcastle Upon Tyne), Northumberland Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE99 1AR, 0191 2325100

Our Place, 3 Swan Street, Alcester, Warwickshire, B49 5DP, 01789 766755

Featherstone, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF7 5BE, 01977 706730

Dapol Ltd, Gledrid Industrial Park, Chirk, Wrexham,, Wales, LL14 5DG, 01691 774455

FTD Models, 189B Cheveral Avenue, Radford, Coventry, Warwickshire, CV6 3EN, 02476 599988

Talylynn Railway Shop, Wharfe Station, Tywyn, Wales, LL36 9EY, 01654 710012

Barby Model Rail, Studio 3, The Locks, Hillmorton, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 4PP, 01788 543442

Frizinghall Models and Railway, Unit 3c Hillam Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD2 1QN, 01274 747447

The Conwy Valley Railway Museum, The Old Goods Yard, Betws y Coed, Conwy, Wales, LL24 0AL, 01690 710568

Barney’s Toy Store, 1a Park Street, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, CV32 4QN, 01926 889411

The Railway Shop, 33 Broad Street, Blaenavon, Wales, NP4 9NF, 01495 792263 Trainstop, 10 High Street, Knighton, Wales, LD7 1EY, 01547 520673 Voyle’s, Unit 33 Llanelli Workshops, Trostre Business Park, Llanelli, Wales, SA14 9UU, 01554 770041 / 749200 Welsh Highland Railway (Porthmadog), (Bookshop), Tremadog Road, Porthmadog, Gwynedd, Wales, LL49 9DY, 01766 513402 Western Valley Models, 1 Crescent Road, Risca, Newport, Wales, NP11 6GJ, 01633 615445 Abergavenny Model Shop, 1 Brecon Road, Abergavenny, Monmouth, Wales, NP7 5UH, 01873 852566 Hippo Toys & Models, 5 Diamond Units, Blackmarsh Road, Mochdre, Colwyn Bay, Wales, LL28 5HA, 01492 534169 Holt Model Railways, 100 Bishopston Road, Bishopston, Swansea, Wales, SA3 3EW, 01792 232264 Lendons of Cardiff, 192-194 Fidlas Road, Llanishen, Cardiff, Wales, CF14 5LZ, 029 2075 2563 Lord & Butler Model Railways, The Old Warehouse, Next to Pumping Station, Penarth Road, Cardiff, Wales, CF11 8TT, 02920 667 225 MIB Models, 1 Lewis Buildings, Newton Nottage Road, Newton, Porthcawl, Wales, CF36 5PE, 01656 771121 Model Railways Rhyl, 44 Wellington Road, Rhyll, Wales, LL18 1BN, 01745 798460 Old Barn Hobbies, Unit 18 Aberaeron Craft Centre, Closs Pencarreg, Aberaeron, Wales, SY46 0DX, 01545 571634 Photoworld Model Railways, 26 Queens Road, Craig-Y-Don, Llandudno, Wales, LL30 1AZ, 01492 871818 R & R Hobbies, 3 Shoppers Walk, Swansea, Wales, SA1 3AY, 01792 468749 Railways Unlimited, Unit 3, Y Barics, Nantle, Caernarfon, Wales, LL54 6BD, 01286-882332 Rhuddlan Models, Bryn Awel, High Street, Rhuddlan, Wales, LL18 2TU, 01745 590048 Brite Ideas Toymaster, Unit 1 Gwersyllt Shopping Centre, Gwerstllt, Wrexham, Wales, LL11 4NT, 01978 758451 Albatross, 29 Pier Street, Aberystwyth, Wales, SY23 2LN, 01970 617836 Antics (Cardiff) ff), ) 14 St Davids House, Wood Street, Cardiff, Wales, CF10 1ER, 02920 229065 Austins Models, 65 High Street, Bangor, Wales (North), Wales, LL57 1NR, 01248 209662 Bala Lake Railway, The Station, Llanuwychllyn, Gwynedd, Wales, LL23 7DD, 01678 540666 Clwyd Hobbies and Models, 447 Abergele Road, Old Colwyn, Conwy, Wales, LL29 9PR, 01492 518709

Gladston (North Sheilds Model Centre), 99 Bedford Street, North Shields, Tyne & Wear, Tyne & Wear, NE29 6QJ, 0191 252 9591

Colwyn Model Railway Club, co. Unit 1 & 2, ChapelStreet, Abergele, Wales, LL22 7AW, 01690 750004

Blyth & Tyne MRS, First Floor Offices, 40 Saville Street, North Shields, Tyne & Wear, NE30 1NT

Fairbourne Railway, Beach Road, Fairbourne, Gwynedd, Wales, LL38 2EX, 01341 250362

Monkwearmouth Station Museum, North Bridge Street, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear, SR5 1AP

George Lewis (Toys) Ltd, Market Hall, Llanelli, Wales (South), Wales, SA15 1YF, 01554 757358

WALES

Clarice Toys, 4 Upper Frog Street, Tenby, Wales, SA70 7JD, 01834 843493

Bridgend Model Railway Club, 16 The Burrows, Porthcawl, Wales, CF36 5AJ Barry & Penarth Model Railway Club, 32 Vere Street, Barry, Wales, CF63 2HU Star Inn, Talybont-On-Usk, Brecon, Powys, LD3 7YX Conwy Valley Railway Museum, The Old Goods Yard, Betws-Y-Coed, Wales, LL24 0AL, 01690 710568 Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways, Harbour Station, Porthmadog, Gwynedd, Wales, LL49 9NF, 01766 516000 Gwili Railway Co, Bronwydd Arms Station, Carmarthen, Wales, SA33 6HT, 01267 238213 Llangollen Railway Station, The Station, Abbey Road, Llangollen, Clwyd, Wales, LL20 8SN, 01978 860979 North Wales Models, Southwold, Old Mill Road, Penmaenmawr, Wales, LL34 6TG, 01492 622298 Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway Co, The Railway

Shop, 33 Broad Street, Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales, NP4 9ND, 01495 792263

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Leamington & Warwick MRS, Whatcoat Road, Oxhill, Warwick, Warwickshire, CV35 0RA

Millennium Models, 67 Queen Street, Morley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS27 8EB, 0113 2189286

Hobbyrail, Unit 38 Market Village, South Parade, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B72 1QU, 07981 757023

Milnsbridge Models, 90 Market Street, Milnsbridge, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD3 4HT, 01484 640007

Ian Allan Bookshop, 12 Ethel Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B2 4BG, 0121 6432496

Conways (Keighley), 53 Cavendish Street,, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD21 3RB, 01535 604045

Springhill Models, 4 Springhill Lane, Penn, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV4 4SH, 01902 341302

Conways (Otley), 23A Westgate, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 3AT, 01943 462065

Wonderful World of Trains & Planes, 3 Mary Ann Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B3 1BG, 0121 227 4000 A Oakes Ltd, Oakend House, 174/180 Vicarage Road, Oldbury, West Midlands, B68 8JB, 0121 552 1684 Tennents Trains, Shop 1, 130 Hagley Road, Haleygreen, Halesowen, West Midlands, B63 1DY, 0121 550 1266 Antics (Coventry), 1a City Arcade, Coventry, West Midlands, CV1 3HX, 02476 551155 Arcade Toy Shop, 30-34 Fountain Arcade, Dudley,, West Midlands, DY1 1PG, 01384 252 608 Graingers Models & Crafts, 5 Appledore Terrace, Walsall, West Midlands, WS5 3DU, 01922 623382 Handbourn Cabinets Ltd, 17 Willow Court, Sandwell Business Park, Warley, West Midlands, B66 1RD, 0121 544 4946 West Midlands Collectors Centre, 4 Salop Street, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV3 0RX, 01902 772570 Bournville Model Railway Club, Selly Oak, Birmingham, West Midlands, B29 4DN Mike's Models, 3-5 Brockwell Road, Kingstanding, Birmingham, West Midlands, B44 9PF, 0121 3604521 WEST SUSSEX Martells Department Store, Martells, Queens Road, East Grinstead, West Sussex, RH19 1BB, 01342 321303 Gaugemaster, Gaugemaster House, Ford Road, Arundel, West Sussex, BN18 0BN, 01903 884321 Morris Models, 80 Manor Road, North Lancing, West Sussex, BN15 0HD, 01903 754850 East Grinstead Model Railway Club, Basement – East Court Mansion, College Lane, East Grinstead, West Sussex, RH19 3LT, 01342 314228 Chichester Toys, 53 South Street, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1DS, 01243 788 055 Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre, Amberley, near Arundel, West Sussex, BN18 9LT, 01798 831370 Bognor Models, 52 Aldwick Road, Bognor Regis, West Sussex, PO21 2PN, 01243 867079 Bognor Regis Model Railway Club, 12 Dukes Meadow, Pagham, Bognor Regis, West Sussex, PO21 3PJ, 01243 555065 Beales (Worthing), South Street, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 3AN, 01903 231801 Burgess Hill Model Railway Club, Selamat, Hurstwood Lane, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH17 7SH Chichester & District Society of Model Engineers Ltd, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 7FS Horsham Model Railway Club, St Leonards Church Hall, Cambridge Road, Horsham, West Sussex, RH13 5ED

Corris Railway, Station Yard, Corris, Machynlleth, Wales, SY20 9SH

WEST YORKSHIRE

Filco Supermarket, 19 Boverton Road, Llantwit Major, Wales, CF61 1LZ, 01446 794118 Llanberis Lake Railway, Rheilffordd Lyn Padarn, Gilfach Ddu, Llanberis, Caernarfon, Wales, LL55 4TY, 01286 870549 Magical Miniatures, 6 Chester Street, Wrexham, Wales, LL13 8BD WARWICKSHIRE Classic Train & Motor Bus, 21b George Street, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, CV31 1HA, 01926 887499

Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, The Railway Station, Haworth, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD22 8NJ, 01535 646838

WEST MIDLANDS

Cmyru County Store, Madog Harbor, Porthmadog, Wales, LL49 9LP, 01766 513834

Crossgates Post Office, Cross Gates Wells, Llandrindod Wells, Wales, LD1 6RD, 01597 851206

Going Loco, 38 Potovens Lane, Lofthouse Gate, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF3 3JF, 01924 824748

Kirklees Light Railway, Park Mill Way, Clayton West, Nr Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD8 9XJ, 01484 865727 Nick Tozer Railway Books, 159 Church Road, Paddock, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD1 4UJ, 01484 518159 Pennine Models, 33-35 Mill Hey, Haworth, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD22 8NE, 01535 642367 Pennine Wagons, 34 Leith Court, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, WF12 0QP, 01924 459104 Something Wicked Models, 1 Woodstreet, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD1 1BT, 01484 537191 The Model Railway Shop, 30 Station Lane,

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Starting out

Track work, point motors and soldering Track work is the foundation of all railways, be they prototy ype or model, writes Bernard Gudgin and Michael Watts.

HELP!

No. 4472 Flying Scotsman departs from York in 1977 on tour. BRIAN SHARPE

I NEED SOMEBODY

HELP! NOT JUST ANYBODY

HELP!

HELP! YOU KNOW I NEED SOMEONE

JOHN LENNON

HELP! We all need help. It’s true for all of us, however knowledgeable, skilled, and experienced we think we are. We are all learning, all of the time. Just admit it … Here is an opportunity for us to learn together, and from each other.

et’s take stock. So far we’ve offered you help and advice on how to plan your layout, look at what type of layout you really want to build, told you how to build the baseboard(s) and how to choose the right track. We now need to tackle some of the more difficult areas such as laying the track, and working the points. This is all a bit ‘chicken and egg’ but please bear with us as we take you through the first of these two critical topics, as well as soldering.

Preparing to lay the track Before you start laying the track you need to draw out your track plan full-size on the baseboard so that you know exactly where every point and every piece of track will go. This is particularly important for points as, depending on how you plan to operate them (see later) you may need a hole in the baseboard. With your track plan drawn exactly full size you are ready to start laying the track. If you are using ready-formed straight and curved track, such as Peco Setrack or Hornby

Set Track, the pieces simply join together. If, however, you are using flexible track, such as Peco Streamline or Hornby Flexible Track, you will find that when you bend it one rail is longer than the other. This is simply because the rail going round the outside of the curve has to be longer and so you will need to cut the inner rail so that both finish together. The best way to do this is to use a special Track Cutter made by Xuron (Ref 2175B) pronounced Zuron, and available from Squires for example. When you look at this you will see that it has two blades, one side of which are flat while the other concave. Always use the flat side towards the rail where you need a neat finish and the concave side on the ‘waste side’ – the bits of rail you are cutting away. A word of warning – never, ever use your Xuron Track Cutter to cut anything else – it will damage the blades! Laying the track It may seem very obvious – nail it down. Please don’t! There are two main ways to lay track; the first is to use ballast foam

Inlay. This is sold by many of the track manufacturers and Peco’s in particular is realistic (available for 16.5mm and 9mm gauge track), ballasts the track at the same time, and it is quick to use. So why not use it? The answer is that all foam inlay ballast degrades under sunlight and Peco quotes a useful life of around 10 years. As this is your first layout you may not be particularly worried by this; on the other hand you may want to try laying your track and then ballasting it yourself, as you will almost certainly do this on your next layout. We have heard a lot of people, particularly beginners, say that, if they are not using foam ballast inlay, it is necessary to lay cork on the baseboard before laying the track. The reason they often give is to ‘reduce the noise’. Well, a model railway makes very little noise anyway and any ‘clickety clack’ only adds to the effect. The other reason often given is that some packing material under the sleepers helps to create a shoulder for the ballast. We will look at ballasting later but you do not have to use cork; if you want to June 2017 |

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for example, work equally well. Or you may decide not to raise the track and just ballast it directly on the baseboard. We said earlier not to pin it down, so how do we fix it? The answer is glue! We recommend white wood glue branded as Evo-Stik or the newer Titebond. If you are using foam inlay, put a small amount (by which me mean smear a thin layer over the base of the sleepers) and then place the track in the foam inlay and let it dry. Then proceed as follows: (also do this if you intend to ballast your own track). Put a pencil mark along the outside of the sleepers, exactly where the track will go. Then put a zig-zag of glue between these lines – see the diagram. Then put the track down on the baseboard. White wood glue adheres very well to MDF or plywood, particularly if you have sized (given a light coating of 1:1 diluted glue) the baseboards as we recommended in our earlier article. Having carefully positioned the track you need to weight it down while the glue sets. There’s no need to go to the gym to borrow their weights, gold bullion bars work just as well. But if yours are in the safe, an easy alternative is cans: cans of beans, soup, etc. If you are using 16.5mm or 9mm track, most tins are the right diameter to rest nicely on the rails. Before you leave the track to set ensure it is correctly aligned. People often find this difficult, particularly with curves. But there is no need to buy the widely available templates that are sold, supposedly to make track laying easy. The best piece of equipment for this job is – your eye! Close one eye and get the other as close to the surface of the track as possible. The eye is the best possible judge of how well the track is laid and how smooth the curves are; this is particularly true of the transitions between curved and straight track. If it looks right, it is right. If it doesn’t look right, it probably isn’t. With everything aligned and the weights in place, walk away. Please do not be tempted to keep fettling it – you will only make it worse! Leave everything for 24 hours and then lift the weights off – and there is your perfectly laid track. Do not worry that it is not wired or ballasted, that comes later.

Point motors Now to the thorny issue of point motors. There are several ways to operate your points. The most inexpensive and reliable point motor ever invented is your finger. However, some people feel it is not that realistic – but remember it will only be there for a second. If you want something that is less intrusive but almost as inexpensive, a stiff wire that runs from the point to the edge of the baseboard works very well. By stiff wire we mean the sort of wire that often comes 26 |

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Xuron Track Cutter in use for cutting rail. This excellent tool can be used for non-ferrous rail across a wide range of scales, and certainly up to at least 32mm track-gauge Code 143 rail. Small green squares are 10mm, larger squares are 50mm – as for all photographs here.

Some Peco foam Inlay for 16.5mm (also available for 9mm) standard gauge Setrack and Streamline flexible track. Bespoke moulded Inlay units are available for points of both gauges. Some modellers tailor regular Inlay with a scalpel to fit around their points. Top to bottom: Inlay for 9mm standard track gauge; 9mm gauge track; same track in Inlay; Inlay for 16.5mm standard track gauge; 16.5mm gauge track; same track in Inlay; Curved 16.5mm Setrack with Inlay fitted.

A section across some model track showing some underlay packing material under the sleepers. This is sometimes used to raise the level slightly and emphasise the shoulder of ballast either side of the sleepers. This effect is most pronounced along a main line, but much less so in a station or goods area where it is often negligible.

back from dry cleaners in the form of a coat hanger. If your baseboard is a foot wide you will be able to cut a length very easily; for a wider baseboard you will need to straighten a length, but this is easy to do with two pairs of pliers. The wire goes under the baseboard and, with the end bent at right angles, fixes into the hole in the point tie-bar that is there for exactly this purpose. The other end of the wire protrudes from the baseboard through a small hole you will need to drill in the edge of the baseboard. You will find it helps with operation and is safer if you put a small knob on the end of the wire. This method of operation is often referred to as the wire-intube method. Don’t worry that you do not have a tube – that’s an earlier version! A lot of people think that points have to be operated electrically; they don’t but they can be. There are two main ways of operating them electrically; with a solenoid point

motor (Peco and Seep are the two main brands) or with a slow-action point motor. A solenoid is the name given to a small electric motor that uses magnetism to move a short metal rod that can be connected to the point tie-bar. When electricity flows to the solenoid it creates a magnet and this magnet pulls the metal rod. To pull it back there is always a second solenoid that attracts the rod in the opposite direction. The electricity must only flow for a brief second or the solenoid will burn out. This is usually achieved using what is called a passingcontact switch. As its name implies, this only makes an electrical contact for a brief moment. When the switch is moved back another passing contact energises the other solenoid to pull the bar back. Connected to the metal rod there is a pin that fits into the point tie-bar, just as it did with our stiff wire. Most manufacturers, such as Hornby and

Left: One of the brands of white wood glue we use – this one branded Evo-Stik, from Bostik Ltd. Right: Gluing track down – A zig-zag of white wood glue between the black lines marking the sleeper edges. The track centre-line is red. In this case the track is glued direct to the baseboard material with no raising it on a cork strip.

A piece of Hornby Set Track placed on the glue zig-zag and weighted down with tinned food while the glue sets. Usually dry in less than an hour, but better to leave for several to be sure it is set hard.

Peco, provide slots in their point sleepers that the point motor can clip to. These have the advantage that the solenoid is firmly attached to the point but the disadvantage is that, before you glue the point down, you need to cut a hole, usually quite a large hole, in the baseboard. There is an alternative! If you cut a small slot in the baseboard the pin attached to the metal rod can move from side to side but you will have to fix the point motor to the underneath of the baseboard yourself. This may sound difficult but all suppliers of these solenoids provide templates that show how to fix them. It usually involves two or four small screws that go into the underside of the top of the baseboard. An alternative is small double-sided sticky pads and although they may look fragile they are usually strong enough for the job. These solenoid point motors pull the points, strictly speaking the point blades,

backwards and forwards very quickly. They are a bit like the ‘tick tock’ sound of a clock. More recently slow-action point motors have been produced. These are more realistic as they pull the point blades over slowly, just as on the prototype. These are marketed under several trade names such as Tortoise, Cobalt, etc. The way they work is also different. Instead of a solenoid suddenly pulling a metal rod across, a small rotary motor, like that found in most locomotives, turns gears that engage with and move a toothed rack. The effect is that the movement is slow. Most slow-action point motors (and some solenoid types) incorporate auxiliary switches, which can be used to drive signals or other goodies – but we are getting ahead of ourselves. These slow-action point motors need to be fixed to the underside of the baseboard as we have described for the solenoid driven motors. They too have a protruding

Close one eye and use the other one to look along your track laying from just above track height. Do this for each and every line of track and from both directions. Any misalignment will be obvious immediately. Make any necessary adjustments by hand quickly and before the glue sets, check by eye again, and then weight the track down with tins of baked beans, etc. This is 32mm gauge track but the principle is the same.

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Bernard Gudgin and Michael Watts are experienced teachers and trainers. They have several decades of modelling and exhibition experience across the gauges from T (scale 1:480) to 16mm live-steam (scale 1:19), as well as narrow gauge. They are often seen at exhibitions where they provide free advice to newcomers and returnees under the brand name of Oxford TRAINing.

Your index ﬁnger is a most practical, quick and low-cost means to change your points. Especially appropriate for your ﬁrst small model railway – it allows you to get trains running all the sooner. However, the points must be within easy reach – all the more reason to keep it small!

Modellers’ technical terms for the components of a point. Note especially the tie-bar that connects the ends of the point blades. If you use a stiff wire or a point motor for point operation, the wire or point motor pin passes through a hole in the tie-bar.

« wire that engages with a hole in the point

tie-bar. Because it can be quite difficult to align them exactly, most can be adjusted slightly to account for any misalignment in mounting them. There is one very important difference between using solenoid and slow-action type point motors. As a solenoid motor is only live for a brief moment when the power is applied, there is nothing to keep the point blades in place. For this reason the major manufacturers put a spring inside the point mechanism against the tie-bar, and this spring holds the point blades firmly in place against the stock rail when the solenoid is not energised. But slow-action point motors can’t work against the force of this spring and so you will need to remove it if you are using them. This is relatively easy to do before you lay the points with, for example, Hornby and Peco points, see the photo. Yes, it is possible to put the springs back if you need to but it’s more difficult. If you have decided to use a form of electric point motor, we shall look at how to

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Under-baseboard stiff wire operation of points. A straightened coat hanger or similar will do. Bend one end through 90° so that it passes through a slot in the baseboard right under the hole in the point tie-bar – careful planning and marking out are required here. Support the wire in a wood bracket or cable tie. The outer end passes through a hole in the side of the baseboard, with a tactile, protective knob on the end.

wire both the track and point motors in a later article. Soldering So you have laid the track but how do you connect the power to the track? With most train sets there will be a special clip that fits under the two rails of the track and has two wires, one red and one black, coming from it. You connect these to the low-voltage output from your power unit, turn the knob and a locomotive will start to move. Success! This will work in the short term but these rail clips are unreliable and to make a long-lasting connection we need to solder wires to the rails – these wires are often called dropper wires. If you have never soldered before we will explain the basics; it is a skill well worth learning as you will certainly need it if you build a bigger layout or indeed do other things with metal. For a model railway you need a small mains-powered soldering iron, typically one of 25W is ideal. Don’t worry what watts are – they are nothing to do with one of the authors! There are several

manufacturers of soldering irons but the best known and most widely used is Antex. A 25W soldering iron will cost you about £30 and properly cared for will last a lifetime. It will come with a bit on the end (more on this in the next paragraph) that can be changed for differently shaped bits. As well as the iron itself you must have some solder (resin flux cored – single core or multicore), some flux and ideally a stand for the iron. It will get very hot – don’t put it down anywhere it will do damage. Solder, or more correctly, soft solder is best bought in 500g reels and we recommend getting a reel each of 18swg and 22swg (1.2mm and 0.7mm diameter). You will see both lead-free and tin/lead solder on sale. If you are building a layout purely for yourself you can use either but anything made commercially must use lead-free solder. You will also need a small tin of flux paste – Fluxite is the best known and a 100g small tin will last and last – I am still using a tin my father bought! When you first get your new soldering iron the temptation is to plug it in and make

Peco and Seep point motors typical of the solenoid type. The short rod moves left and right through the two solenoids. The long end of the pin passes through a slot in the baseboard and hole in the point tie-bar, then is cut to length. These point motors can be mounted above the baseboard, alongside the track, but this is not visually realistic. This solenoid type requires an electrical power supply, and a passing-contact switch to operate. For greater sophistication modellers use a Capacitive Discharge Unit (CDU) with a 16V AC transformer.

A selection of some slow-action point motors. Left to right: Cobalt; Hoffmann; Conrad; MTB; Tortoise. Depending on the make, they require their own particular electrical power supply and switching. Generally, they do not require passing-contact switches, and regular change-over switches are suitable. We will discuss electrical power supplies, switching and wiring aspects at a later stage.

Regular Peco 16.5mm gauge Code 100 points straight from the box but with dabs of white paint to show the two metal tabs that will give access to the tie-bar spring. Bottom – With the two tabs bent up (with a small screwdriver), the rectangular springcover with its T moulded shape is removed, and the tiny V-shaped spring removed and by its side. This spring must be removed if you intend to use slow-action point motors, but must remain if you use solenoid point motors. Better do this before you lay your track, and essential with 9mm gauge track where the metal tabs are on the underside! Also replace the rectangular cover and bend the securing tabs back.

a cup of tea. Don’t! You must watch it like a hawk because if you heat the bit without tinning it, it will get damaged. Tinning is the process of putting a thin coating of solder on the bit and is very easy to do. As the iron is warming up, keep touching it with the end of your reel of solder. When it is at the correct temperature the solder will suddenly flow all over the bit and form a protective cover. This is called tinning and your iron is now ready for use. If you have never soldered before we strongly recommend you get some scrap wire and rail and practise soldering. It is not difficult but there is a knack to it. Before you try to solder anything it must be clean and free of deposits of oxide (corrosion). The easiest way to clean rail particularly is to scrape it with a small file, usually called a Swiss file. If you don’t have a file, the point of a penknife works equally well. Wire is usually clean as it has a plastic covering that we normally cut away when we need to solder it. Where you have cleaned the rail, put on a small amount of flux, a cocktail

Regular Hornby 16.5mm gauge Code 100 points straight from the box. The square plastic spring-cover has been removed with a small screwdriver. The tiny V-shaped spring has been painted white together with the hole surround in the tie-bar for the point motor pin. In both Peco and Hornby points used with solenoid point motors the spring is essential to ensure good electrical continuity from point blades to stock rails.

stick is ideal for this. Then place the tip of the already hot soldering iron to the other side of the rail. Heat will transfer from the soldering iron to the rail and the flux will begin to bubble. With your other hand hold the wire against the rail and then, with your third hand (haven’t you?) bring the solder up to where you want to make the joint. When everything is at the right temperature there will be a ‘flash of silver’ and the joint will be made. Immediately take the iron away and let the joint cool down. When it is cold, but not before, gently pull the wire and, if it holds, you almost certainly have a good joint. A firm joint is normally good mechanically and electrically. Two tips. If it isn’t a good joint, don’t worry, just clean it up and try again. Don’t try to add more solder – solder is not like glue. And always solder wires to the outside of the rail; if you solder to the inside it will derail your rolling stock! Enjoy laying your track and points, and soldering!

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Examples of two Antex soldering irons and a stand. These irons are rated at 15W and 25W. The stand is also by Antex – it is weighted for stability and has a yellow bit-cleaning sponge in the tray. The sponge must be kept wet with water – not just damp nor ﬂooded! You should frequently wipe the hot bit quickly across the wet sponge, to keep it clear of burnt paste ﬂux and excess solder.

A 25W Antex iron, together with a list of the whole range of the alternative sized and shaped bits available, and three sample bits. The 25W iron is a good general-purpose tool, but you may ﬁnd that the 15W iron is more suitable for ﬁner work. Note that there is a separate range of alternative bits for each size of iron, and that they are not interchangeable.

Two useful sizes of lead-tin-alloy coredsolder – 18swg and 22swg (1.2mm and 0.7mm diameter). Note that the standard wire gauge (swg) number increases as the diameter decreases just to confuse us all! Use the smaller size for the smaller jobs, and to prevent large blobs (a technical term) of solder accumulating. Often termed cored or multicored solder, these solders have a small quantity of paste ﬂux within the wire like the name throughout Brighton Rock (another technical term). This is a great aid to easy soldering, but you will still need some additional paste ﬂux.

References

ATTWOOD AGGREGATES

attwood.aggregates@yahoo.com 07581 119781 based in south Devon. Retail stockists: Anything Narrow Gauge; Model Shop Exeter; Osborn’s Models; East Somerset Models.

EVO-STIK WEATHERPROOF WOOD ADHESIVE Bostik Ltd, Ulverscroft Road, Leicester, LE4 6BW. 01785 272727 www.bostik.co.uk

JAVIS MANUFACTURING LTD

A small and very well-used small tin of Fry’s Fluxite paste flux. Cocktail sticks are ideal for applying small quantities of flux to both metal pieces about to be joined, but they should be scraped clean thoroughly with a Swiss file or sharp tool. Don’t use cocktail sticks in your gin and tonic after they have been used here!

Two sizes of PVC-insulated stranded wire for your layout. The 100m reel of red coloured PVC wire is termed 7 x 0.2, and the 10m hank of black PVC wire is termed 16 x 0.2. The ﬁrst number is the quantity of strands and the second number the diameter of each strand in mm. Always use stranded wire, never solid wire – there are many reasons for this! Providing your layout is no longer than about 10ft (3m) the smaller wire almost certainly will be sufficient for all the low-voltage wiring tasks. The blue tool is a low-cost stripper (another technical term) to remove the PVC insulation, and combined with a wire cutter. PVC insulated wires come in a wide range of colours for coding different applications – most useful.

JBB House, 6 Hammond Avenue, Whitehill Industrial Estate, Reddish, Stockport SK4 1PQ. 0161 480 2002 p-bridge@btconnect.com javis.co.uk/

PRITCHARD PATENT PRODUCTS CO LTD Underleys, Beer, Seaton, EX12 3NA. 01297 21542 www.peco-uk.com

SEEP POINT MOTORS

Gaugemaster Controls Ltd, Gaugemaster House, Ford Road, Arundel, BN18 0BN. 01903 884488 www.gaugemaster.com

SQUIRES MODEL & CRAFT TOOLS

100 London Road, Bognor Regis, PO21 1DD. 01243 842424 sales@squirestools.com www.squirestools.com

Left: A 7 x 0.2 stranded wire that has been neatly soldered to the outer bottom of the rail’s web. These wires are about 4in long and are the means of getting electrical power to the track and hence to the locomotive wheels and subsequently its motor. They are commonly termed dropper wires and are soldered to a tag-strip immediately under the baseboard at that point – more of this anon. The other end of the wire has here been fed though a 1.5 to 2mm diameter hole and will be pulled taught so as to become almost invisible. The small screwdriver helps the wire not to become twisted as it is pulled though – you will ﬁnd out for yourself how critical this is!

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Graham

Farish Tony Stratford takes a look at the important contribution N gauge specialist Graham Farish has made to the world of railway modelling.

raham Farish has been associated with British N gauge for almost 50 years. Farish entered the fledgling N gauge market in 1970 and since then has developed as the leading company in the field. In 2000, the family-owned company was sold to Bachmann Europe which initially released former models with improved chassis, but in recent years has replaced every model with new-generation production from the company’s Chinese factory.

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Radio suppliers The Graham Farish company was started 30 years before it moved into the model railway market. After the end of the First Wold War a young entrepreneurial amateur radio enthusiast, Thomas Graham Farish, known as ‘Mr Graham’ by his employees, opened a factory in Bromley, Kent to supply components to like-minded people. His customers included radio pioneer Marconi. Graham, as he was known in the family, gave the first public demonstration of a

radio in the foyer of the Royal Exchange in 1921; working in conjunction with Marconi to ensure the demonstration could pick up Marconi’s broadcast. He was soon producing 35,000 components a day from his factory. It was another four years before the BBC became the world’s first broadcasting company, and it was not until November 14, 1922, that the first transmission was broadcast. The BBC between 1922 and 1927 was a privately owned company, after which

Right: Virgin Trains Class 47 locomotive No. 47747 was named Graham Farish in a ceremony at Poole station on August 23, 2000. From left: Chris Green (then CEO Virgin Trains), Graham Hubbard (then MD of Bachmann Europe) and Peter Graham Farish (former MD of Graham Farish). Left: Peter Graham Farish pictured in 2010.

it went into public ownership. Expertise in producing electronic components was to play a significant role in the development of British railway modelling many years later. Supply of electricity to homes was expanding rapidly by the mid-1920s and many homes were being fitted with electrical supplies for the first time. The new power source created a demand for domestic appliances, one of the most popular being the electric fire. Manufacturers such as Graham Farish used cast metal ends to ensure stability of the new heating form and purchased Americanbuilt Kippcaster die-casting machines, again a decision which was to impact on the model railway industry some years later. In addition, the die-casting machines produced casings for the floodlights, fountains and underwater pumps also made by the company. At that time, Graham Farish was a major supplier of

domestic appliances and had employed Donal Morphy as production manager and Charles Richards as sales manager. They went on to successfully form their own company, Morphy Richards, in nearby Sidcup in 1936.

War work Like many factories during the Second World War Graham Farish carried out important war work for the government. The die-casting machines were used to make grenade and land-mine casings with output Âť

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Blasts from the past « reaching some 20,000 a week. Snap vacuum closures were lids invented by ‘Mr Graham’ to seal jam jars to preserve fruit during rationing. By the end of the war more than one billion had been produced and more than nine million tons of food was preserved; all in an age without domestic freezers. During the war the company expanded considerably and employed more than 400 people.

The move into model railways At the end of hostilities work had to be found to keep the factory working in more peaceful times and the company looked for new business opportunities. Resumption of the production of electric fires was not possible owing to the twin shortages of steel for the reflectors and chrome from Rhodesia, and so other products had to be developed for the die-casting machines and the 14 tool makers employed by the company. Postwar recovery was slow. There was a major shortage of raw materials and the supply of model railway items was concentrated on the export market, with demand far exceeding supply. Graham Farish looked for an outlet to use its combined electronic and die-casting

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skills. Model railways were in demand and provided such an opportunity. The two major players, Meccano and Trix, were concentrating on OO, which operated using their three-rail and Trix Twin systems, neither of which were compatible. The more realistic-looking two-rail systems had, up until that time, been the preserve of amateur enthusiasts or smalltime specialist suppliers. Graham Farish opted for two-rail and became the first company to make mass-produced two-rail models on a commercial basis. The new system was announced in 1948 at the British Industries Fair, but it was not until 1949 that the first items appeared and the name Graham Farish was introduced to railway modellers. It was not long after that the first Rovex sets became available (these were covered in the March issue of RMM). The OO years Graham Farish produced an LMS ‘Black Five’ locomotive with a die-cast body for both locomotive and tender. It was launched alongside some die-cast four-wheel coaches and wagons, all of which formed, with Formo track, the basis of the initial train sets. Graham Farish was the pioneer of flexible track, some 60 miles of it being sold every year.

No sooner had the new range been launched than the Korean War began in 1950. Part of the factory returned to war work but the promised boom in model railways was soon stymied by metal restrictions. The company then began producing coaches in a form of plastic known as acetate. Unfortunately, time has not been kind to coaches from this period, which suffered from extensive bowing and distortion. Plastic in the 1950s was very much in its infancy and companies could only work with the materials available to them. Model railway products were often generic and most ready-to-run systems were aimed clearly at the toy market. New items were also few and far between and Graham Farish aimed specifically at the adult modellers' market rather than the more traditional toy one. George Wrenn, who would later form model railway company G&R Wrenn with his brother Richard, was employed by ‘Mr Graham’ as a designer and played a big part in the development of the Formoway trackwork and point systems. A Southern Region Bulleid Merchant Navy Pacific was released in 1950, a Great Western King, and 81xx Prairie 2-6-2T in 1951, all three later to be replicated in N gauge along with the ‘Black Five’. Not

forgetting its most popular OO locomotive the 94xx pannier tank, which appeared in 1961. In 1952, with the export market very much in mind, Graham Farish introduced an HO scale New York Central Hudson (4-6-4) locomotive and a stainless-steel coach. Although the recognised HO scale was used elsewhere in the world, these items were not as popular as envisaged and were only produced from 1952-53. The Hudson commands the highest price of any collectable Graham Farish product that comes to light. In 1953 the company produced its oneand-only three-rail locomotive in the form of Southern Region Q Class locomotive. This was clearly aimed at the vast majority of model railway enthusiasts who remained loyal to three-rail and to Hornby Dublo (Meccano) products in particular. To distinguish this model from the now established Graham Farish name, the threerail locomotive was branded Formo. The track system continued to develop under the name Formoway, finally including 2ft and 3ft radius left- and right-hand points, 12.5º and 15º diamond crossovers, single slips, double slips, left- and right-hand 3ft radius points on the curve, flexible track and even three-way points – possibly the largest range

of track and pointwork then available. Some Farish locomotives during the 1960s were modified or rebuilt by railway modellers, the King for example, often being married to the Hornby Dublo Castle chassis to give improved running, and the Merchant Navy to a Tri-ang Battle of Britain chassis. Graham Farish owned 45 ironmongers shops in London and Kent operating under the name Hutchinson Roe, which in 1958 in Bromley, was disposing of remaining stock, advertising it in the model railway press. Most of these models would not be reintroduced.

pannier tank was released as well as an upgraded prairie tank. The Pullman cars returned using the more durable polystyrene type of plastic, and these are highly sought-after vehicles today. A small range of wagons, the first with plastic bodies, as also released on to the market. At the same time, Gordon Graham Farish, the younger son, had trained as a naval architect with Thorneycroft, set up a boat-building company at Bromley, Gordon Payne Ltd, with his business partner Frank Payne to produce a range of 17ft, 27ft, 30ft and 45ft boats, called Romany Boats, which had gone into production in 1959.

Second-generation models That was not the end of the story, however. In 1961 the second-generation of Graham Farish OO models emerged. ‘Mr Graham’s’ oldest son Peter (known to employees as ‘Mr Peter’) left the advertising industry, where he was an account executive with J Walter Thompson in 1961. He joined the company as sales director assuming the responsibility for all sales and marketing activity before becoming managing director in 1973, on the retirement of his father. Also, joining at that time was Dudley Dimmock Bassett-Lowke, who had previously worked at Peco as sales manager. A new 94xx

The move to Dorset The entire Graham Farish organisation transferred from Bromley to Holton Heath near Poole in Dorset during 1963. The factory site in Masons Hill, Bromley had been compulsory purchased and the company looked for alternative sites. It found a former Second World War Army depot on the edge of Poole harbour, ideal for the boat-building business, which became Romany Works. Following the move a new range of Romany Boats was developed, this time to Gordon’s own designs and they became » a significant player in the boat world. In June 2017 |

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« 1968, on its first visit to the New York Boat Show orders were secured for more than $750,000. Romany Boats was sold in the early 1970s and Gordon (in keeping with tradition he became ‘Mr Gordon’) joined the model railway division where he was responsible for production and developing new models.

run down OO production in favour of N scale, which at that time was a small market with continental manufacturers Lima and Minitrix producing limited ranges and Farish and Peco flying the domestic flag. The very last OO item to leave the production line was a special commission van for model retailer Beatties in 1980.

Third-generation OO models The third-generation of OO models found favour with the market in the early 1970s, Graham Farish being at the time a major player along with Hornby and G&R Wrenn. In 1970 the company entered the N gauge market, which at the time was still very much in its infancy. The Farish OO range, in addition to the two locomotives, saw the release of a range of new suburban coaches, the Pullmans and a new range of plastic wagons. All major components except for the diecast locomotive bodies for the 94xx and the prairie were now made of plastic. These products are regarded as by far the best of the Graham Farish OO models to be produced. The mid-1970s saw the emergence of new companies such as Airfix and Mainline along with several European manufacturers entering a now-crowded OO market place. The company decided to

Farish, pioneers and innovators Although it has so far barely been recognised, Graham Farish has made a significant contribution to British model railway history and was responsible for much of the innovation that we all take for granted today. Under the leadership of ‘Mr Graham’ the company was not afraid to diversify and enter new markets. The Graham Farish brand’s entry into model railways gave us the first commercial mass-produced two-rail model railway system and saw the introduction of flexible track, albeit with a fibre sleeper base. The introduction of N scale was a major turning point, as the company quickly produced a complete system including track, accessories and even complete layouts. ‘Mr Graham’ died on October 10, 1981 aged 80. Having established his name in the supply of radio components and other electrical equipment, he continued to have

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an interest in the model railway business after his retirement in 1973. Gordon retired to South Africa in the mid-1990s and Peter continued to run GRAFAR Ltd until it was sold to Bachmann in 2000. During the transition period Peter Graham Farish and Graham Hubbard MD of new owner Bachmann Europe, named Virgin Trains Class 47 locomotive No. 47747 Graham Farish in a ceremony at Poole station on August 23, 2000. The loco was a regular performer on Cross Country train services from Poole and Bournemouth until replaced by Voyager units in 2002. Today, Graham Farish is the leading supplier of British N gauge models. The former factory site in Holton Heath remains in the ownership of the Farish family and is now an industrial estate that is home to a diverse range of local businesses. ■ In the next issue we shall take a look at the products of Trix. The author would like to thank Dennis Lovett, public relations manager of Bachmann Europe, for assistance in compiling this article and for the use of archive photographs.

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Letters

Modelling books I have enjoyed Dear RMM

Congratulations on another edition of your splendid magazine. Reading your piece about the book Railway Modelling in Miniature by E Beal in May’s issue prompts me to list the books that influenced me as I started railway modelling. At the time I purchased Beal’s book I found it dated although I have enjoyed it more in recent years when looking back at the history of the hobby. I found John Ahern’s books, Miniature Landscape Modelling, Miniature Locomotive Construction and Miniature Building Construction, much more useful and inspiring as they encouraged me to make buildings and scenery rather than have my train running on an essentially bare board with only a station and footbridge to suggest a town. The books entitled Narrow Gauge Adventure by PD Hancock and Buckingham Great Central by Peter Denny

enthralled me as reading these showed that a model railway could be developed with years of construction and operating pleasure. They also encouraged me to think about how I wanted my railway modelling to go and I decided that a dedicated railway room was not for me. In the 1970s I was privileged to see Nigel McMillan’s layout of the Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway running at the Scotrail Show at the McLellan Galleries in Glasgow, and having bought a copy of the book I enjoyed a holiday in Campbeltown walking the line. It took little imagination to see the “wee trains” running again and cemented my enjoyment of visiting locations to soak up the atmosphere. I had similar enjoyment in reading and exploring the Royal Deeside Line using AD Farr’s book to prompt thoughts of a model of one of the stations. Finally, two books by Peter Jones had a huge influence

on my railway modelling enjoyment. Over many years he developed an amazingly atmospheric garden railway, The Compton Down Railway, and the books entitled Practical Garden Railways and Making Model Buildings for Garden Railways encouraged me to attempt to always build ‘atmosphere’ into my models.

Ian Holloway, via email

In praise of hobbies Dear RMM

While some may sneer at modelling or hobbies in general, I recall the miserable time my father had in retirement. He was a highly intelligent industrial chemist who failed to cope with 25 years of not working, and spent much of it miserably fretting or just watching TV. Yet he was very practical and could have benefited from restoring furniture or perhaps modelling. Of course, railway modelling is in some ways an indulgence but it is constructive and requires various skills. George Bernard Shaw put it nicely: “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” I’ll be heading to my rather basic modelling efforts in the garage later but keep up the good work. Iain Climie, via email.

Inspired to create a garden railway Dear RMM

I was fascinated by the article ‘Getting out into the garden’ by Phil Parker in the April edition of RMM, which has inspired me to plan a layout for my garden. I would like to work in G scale with a track that is laid permanently. I shall be working to a tight budget (I aim to recycle as much as I can from material that I have to hand) and LGB’s Otto set illustrated on p53 and the battery-powered loco shown on p55 very much appeal as my start point. I have searched on the internet but have been unable to locate a supplier of these models and I wonder if you 38 |

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could advise me. As I plan to keep the permanent way out all year round, I wonder if you could kindly advise as to what type of track I should buy. I presume that the track supplied with the sets may not be sufficiently robust. John Paton, via email. Reply from Phil Parker: First,

track: The track supplied in LGB train sets, even the starter ones, is from the standard range. As such, it’s pretty bombproof and will live happily outdoors for many years. LGB track is brass and so won’t rust. If you run trains regularly, it probably won’t need cleaning either. Suppliers: I suggest starting

with a copy of Garden Rail magazine. The adverts in there are from the main garden railway suppliers. There are too many to list here. Then look at joining the 16mm Scale association and/ or G scale society. Both produce excellent magazines and also encourage people to visit other members’ lines. The chances are there are other people in your area doing the same thing so you’ll be able to share ideas and sometimes even equipment. My battery-powered loco was found on eBay. It’s a bit of a gimmick if I’m honest. A starter set with Otto would be far more use as it’s a good, well-engineered loco.

I’d also check the Fratton Model Centre as your nearest model railway supplier. I know they are very helpful and may also see some second-hand equipment from time to time.

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Members of the Brine Leas School Model Railway Club sent a big thanks to RMM for their copies of the magazine and to their hosts the Wrenbury and District Model Railway club after an official school trip. This allowed the Wrenbury club to leave their layouts down in the village hall where they meet every Wednesday evening to await their young visitors. Brine Leas School Model Railway Club in Nantwich, Cheshire started their club last year and they meet every

Tuesday lunchtime. Following a visit by school staff in December last year it was hoped that a visit to a local club would encourage the boys to show what can be achieved in just over three years of weekly meetings. The Wrenbury club members set up their 00 and N gauge layouts, provided refreshments and passed on some surplus items of track to add to the school layout. The pupils were enthusiastic as they operated both layouts

and fired dozens of questions at their hosts. The school staff reluctantly had to call a halt to their visit to enable the pupils to return to school in time for lunch. Following this very successful visit, Wrenbury members are hoping to visit the school individually to pass on their knowledge during the school club meetings and look forward to the visit being repeated next year for a new intake of pupils. WDMRC secretary, David Houghton, via email

May I add my enthusiasm for your wonderful new magazine on British railway modelling. I was recently given one of the first issues and I immediately thought it an excellent basic magazine. As one who has been away from the hobby for 30+ years I’m definitely in the ‘returning’ demographic. But as one who has recently fallen in love with British railways both model and prototype, I’m pretty much one in the ‘new’ category too. Your historical articles on Bassett-Lowke and Hornby were most informative and the historical facts of each locomotive in your reviews is also much appreciated. It’s a top-notch magazine. I hope to read more. Robert Hennie, St Clairsville, Ohio, USA

A third way into the modelling hobby Dear RMM

The University of the Third Age (U3A) is a voluntary organisation for those over 55 approaching retirement or retired. Despite its title there are no formal qualifications involved. Most towns have a branch and the key element is self-help in pursuing activities or expanding current interests. My local U3A in Liphook, Hampshire, has currently around 600 members and has more than 50 special-interest groups. Some years ago I led a Building a Model Railway Group, which consisted of 12 weekly sessions of two hours each, covering everything from planning a layout right through to completion. It was really

along the lines of a traditional evening class. It attracted 11 members and I was assisted in this by members of the Liphook & District MRC. At least three of the group went on to build layouts and one joined the club. This was repeated over several years but never attracted the numbers of the first course; club members were no longer involved and I abandoned the idea, until this year when I decided to reactivate the Building A Model Railway Group. This time it would have an entirely different format and no club involvement. Twelve two-hour sessions, but this time monthly, afternoons and spread over about 18 months (with gaps for the holiday period and Christmas).

The group has seven members and the other members of the group will follow my progress on building two small layouts, one in N scale and one in OO scale. The first session was held in April when we talked about baseboard construction where examples of various types of construction were available for inspection. At the next session I will bring along one or more sections of built baseboard for the chosen layout and we will talk about types of track, track laying and preparation for wiring. Other members of the group are being encouraged to start their own projects and bring them along for a ‘see and tell’ session as well. I hope to take progress photographs and post them on

the Building A Model Railway Group Facebook page I have set up. The whole exercise is to spread involvement in the hobby outside of the conventional model railway club route. My experience of clubs over many years suggests that they can be quite intimidating to beginners and I am willing to try something different to sustain or expand the hobby locally. I am interested if any of your readers have been involved in similar activities with local U3As or other similar groups. Please email model.railways!@ liphooku3a.org.uk or visit the Liphook U3A website at www. liphooku3a.org.uk Tony Bettger, via email.

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GREAT Dear RMM

Having read a write-up on this new magazine when it was launched in November last year, I have been trying to locate a copy. Finally I've managed to get my hands on an April issue and may l say what a great magazine it is and how much l enjoyed reading the articles. My husband is in the process of building his own OO gauge layout (third attempt) and we visited Model Railways Direct in Portishead where we found the magazine. Once again, congratulations on a fabulous magazine. I hope it continues to go from strength to strength.

Sue Chard, via email.

Dear RMM Congratulations on such an outstanding, interesting and informative magazine. I have been a modeller in some form or other over the years, since my Hornby O Gauge Goods Set arrived at Christmas 1947. I now know and understand things about the hobby I did not previously appreciate, just from these four issues.

Malcolm Taylor, via email.

Dear RMM I have to say that the magazine has maintained the standard of the ﬁrst issues. All have had interesting articles on some of the nuts and bolts of building and operating layouts, and also the organisation and development of new models for the market.

Ken McKee, Elgin, via email.

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A 4F on the Butterley branch, photographed in the 1980s by Brian Sharpe e.

Dear RMM

Nigel Burkin’s recent review of a J11 model caused me to recall locos like the J11 being used on passenger trains. Can anyone else remember when BR ran extra trains on bank holidays rather than shutting parts of the network down? One wonders how they managed to do repairs and keep trains running. On Easter Monday 1963, I went on an excursion train from Nottingham to the Peak District. My cheap day return to Darley Dale cost 6s-6d, 321/2 pence for younger readers. It

was a Midland 4F 0-6-0 an approximate equivalent of the J11 with about half a dozen non-corridor coaches. We went via the Butterley line to Ambergate, the western part of which was cut when the A38 was built, rather than bridging it, and keeping it intact as a useful diversionary route. We could then have had Butterley as a Ripley & Alfreton Parkway, which would have preceded the reopening of Alfreton & Mansfield Parkway in the 1970s. It would have restored passenger trains to

Rev Edward Beal Dear RMM

It was good to read in May’s issue of the magazine about the work of Rev Edward Beal. The book you mention, Railway Modelling in Miniature, first came out in 1935, and you can see an advert for the book here in this advert from 1938’s Model Railway News. Beal produced numerous books on railway modelling, including the one featuring his famous layout the ‘West Midland’, and A Railway In Miniature Came Out in 1952. I believe there were at least three and possibly a fourth version of the West Midland layouts. Ian Dack, Norfolk.

Ripley, which became the fi firrst significant town to lose them as early as circa 1926, and has never got them back. Wesley Paxton, via email.

Ask a daft question

This photo shows a worker removing the tinted glazing from a sprue. Each sprue contains two main glazing units, four door windows and three tiny table lamp mouldings, which are only ﬁtted in the ﬁrst-class cars. Even allowing just two seconds per part, and no breaks, it will have taken her 10 solid eight-hour days to do all them all!

How does crowdfunding work? This month we look into how Revolution Trains used a new funding method to bring the N gauge Pendolino to N gauge life, writes Sarah Palmer.

evolution Trains was set up by Ben Ando and Mike Hale in a meeting of minds by two enthusiastic modellers of the West Coast Main Line. A few years ago Ben was involved in the Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire area group of the N Gauge Society with an exhibition layout that needed Pendolinos. “Around 2006-07 Dapol had announced it was going to do a Pendolino and we all thought, great, fantastic, and then it was cancelled,” says Ben. “I am honorary vice-president and also wagon project officer for the N Gauge Society and have quite good links with manufacturers so I spoke to Graham Farish, and asked if there was any chance of doing the Pendolino. They didn’t think that the sales would justify the production costs of such a model.” But despite this, Ben and Mike felt that

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such an iconic train should be available to N gauge modellers. Inspiration came in 2014 when Ben signed up for a small crowdfunded campaign to produce a set of engineers’ wagons, he was just one of many crowdfunders and the set was successfully produced. “That was my first experience of crowdfunding,” says Ben. “We started talking about using the process to produce the Pendolino and at the international N gauge show that year off our own bat we just started asking people about the idea of a such a project and the initial interest seemed to be quite good. “We were quite concerned about the idea of taking lots of money from people and so our first thought was about due diligence and making sure that everything was completely above board. “At that stage we needed to start talking

to manufacturers and so we spoke to DJModels, Dapol and Graham Farish and also, because they had just done an APT we spoke to Rapido Trains in Canada who were really keen. Work on the Pendolino project started properly in November 2014 when a crowdfunding campaign began, which ended in January 2015. “It came up just a bit short, we aimed to raise £210,000 and got around 196,000. About two days before the campaign was due to end Jason from Rapido got in touch saying that the shortfall didn’t matter and that he was still happy to go ahead with the project. The result was ‘Plan B’, which was going forward with not quite enough people and Jason making up the shortfall,” says Ben. In 2015 a Pendolino was laser-scanned with the “fantastic support” of Virgin Trains and since then Revolution Trains (Ben and Mike) with Rapido has

A CAD image of the Class 92 electric, this model is in the tooling stage. This screenshot shows how close the crowdfunding campaign came to meeting its target.

Ben’s advice for crowdfunding projects: If anyone was thinking of doing something like this, I’d say ‘go for it’ but you do need to be realistic. You really need to be ready to accept that maybe it won’t ﬂy. You also need to get a working, functional website up and running, so people can commit to it. You need to be in touch with people who have contacts in China, in our case, Rapido Trains. Although you don’t have to travel to China, we do everything via email and CAD modelling technology. You need to be realistic about the possible costs involved and make sure that the numbers add up. You also need to be able to engage with people online. All our CAD drawings are put on the website so people can comment and spot mistakes. We are very receptive to comments people to make regarding accuracy.

manufactured around a thousand units. “We’re only manufacturing units that have been ordered. We know some people ordered extra ones that went straight on eBay, but good luck to them – at the end of the day their money helped create the thing in the first place,” says Ben. With modern manufacture each stage of the process from factory to retailer entails a mark-up in order that companies can make a profit, however, where this system falls down is with volumes and quantities explains Ben. “What we’re doing effectively is going to China and placing orders for 1000 units, but what happens is that the tooling costs are spread over far fewer orders, so we are getting a model that is much, much more expensive than it should be, and that was why Graham Farish walked away from the project because they couldn’t make it pay with their business model.

How does crowdfunding work? The Pendolino model in action.

“Our business model sees us getting the model into the UK and to the customer direct who is paying trade price.” You could argue that there is an element of speculation in current business models, as manufacturers produce a certain number of units based on what they think will be popular. The Revolution Trains’ route was able to produce the exact number of units for a pre-determined number of customers. “This method creates a coterie of modellers who are serious and are willing to put money into a project to make it happen. Trust is obviously a key issue. Both Mike and I are known and respected professionally, and both of us are members of the N Gauge Society, so that helps. It’s a lot of work, but it’s enjoyable and so far it’s going well.” This all sounds very good, but could ventures like this really compete with the big names in railway modelling? “The important point to make is that we are not manufacturers, and we are not trying to compete with them. They are the ones providing the real ranges of models that modellers all need. What we’re doing is finding and filling the niches where there aren’t enough sales to justify going to full production but where there are enough potential sales for us to go down the crowdfunded route. We operate in a sort of modelling hinterland. “Even after all the publicity we’ve done and two years of campaigning we’ve only actually shifted a thousand Pendolinos, so what the exercise has shown is that Graham Farish taking the commercial decision not to do the Pendolino, was the right one in the end. “The company would have lost money if they’d done the Pendolino, we’ve only

Crowdfunding is a way of raising money for a project or venture by engaging the interest of a big group of people. There are basically three sets of collaborators with crowdfunding: the person who proposes the idea or project in need of funding to get off the ground, individuals or groups who want to express their support for the idea, and a mediating platform that brings these two sets of people together.

been able to make it pay because we’re paring the costs right down. Mike and I work on the project on a voluntary basis, and everything we do is at a minimal cost. The crowdfunding is just another avenue to explore.” Having successfully got 1000 Pendolino units to satisfied crowdfunders, Revolution Trains has since turned its attention to other models, the current ones being the Class 92 locomotive, Class 321 EMU and wagons including the Class B tanker and HOA hopper. “As we’ve gone along, the only potential problem we’ve come across is that the Chinese don’t really know what our trains look like, so you need to give them all the information possible. “We have noticed that colour is a tricky area, to get the colours right you absolutely need to make sure that you see painted samples. You can specify ‘maroon’ or ‘grey’ but there are lots of different shades of these colours. “You need to be very sure about the standards you want, but I can see this being something Mike and I will continue to do,” adds Ben. For more information visit www.revolutiontrains.com ■ June 2017 | 43

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alne was inspired, like many model railway layouts, by what was close to home, writes Adrian Taylor. By this I mean railway lines, yards or industries using the railways that were close by the builder as part of their childhood or at some point in their life. This was very true of Calne as it was modelled, under the usual ‘licence’ that applies to mod delllers abbout siize and d space

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etc, on the Great Western Railway (GWR) Chippenham too Calne Branch line in Wiltshire.. This line was closed in 1965 as part of Mr Beeching’s cuts, having been at times a very busy branch line serving RAF bases att Yatesbury and Compton Bassettt and the very well-known Harriss Bacon Factory in Calne. This made it an interesting line to model in that it carried not only passenger traffic but freeight in the form of military traains (planes and tanks) as weell as the shipment of bacon, haam and pork products from Caalne to Bristol, Newcastle, Soouthampton and beyond. This solo project took the beest part of four years to coomplete. To give the layout creedit much research of the line waas undertaken via a visit to the site (now part of the National Cyycle Netw twork) w to measure the brridge at the entrance to Calne,

take pictures of the scenery and, of course, much reading of books published about the line as well as researching what is available online. Calne is built in OO gauge using hand-built track and points. The layout is 16ft long by 2.55ft wide and is DCC operated. The layout is 'end to end’ with a small fiddle yard at

one end operated by the use of cassettes to turn engines and stock. The baseboards were made out of 20mm ply to give rigidity and longevity as there were no plans to exhibit other than to visiting members from the Bognor Regis Model Railway Club, of which I am the chairman. The layout was built to show

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the line when the Harris bacon factory was at its busiest and when the line was heavily used by the RAF for the movement of personnel and logistics during the Second World War. This allows for greater operation of engines and stock and so typically covers the 1940s to 1950s period, though firstgeneration DMUs and a Class 3 have been known to appear as Calne replicates the ‘end of an era’ when the line closed in 1965. The passenger station was used during the Second World War to transport both servicemen and equipment to the Royal Air Force bases at Compton Bassett and Yatesbury and the goods station also saw increased trade with more coal traffic, fuel for the RAF stations and animal feeds and grain for the local millers. The line had two near misses during German bombing raids, when bombs fell close to the station and the tracks. It also figured in the First World War – apparently there was a war cabinet meeting in carriages parked in the siding, guarded by a platoon of soldiers. I’m pleased to say that the layout shows no sign of bomb damage and that there are no plans for any cabinet meetings or polling stations to appear! All buildings on the layout are hand-built and replicate the

sttattion buiildings, siignallbox, water tower and goods shed as it was at the time, with good use of books such as that written by Colin Maggs being very useful reference material. The layout is run as prototypically as possible and a varied mix of 14XX (0-4-2) with autocoaches; 64XX (Pannier 0-6-0) with autocoaches or a B Set and 45XX (Prairie 2-6-2) operate the line with a variety of freight wagons from plank wagons to Syphons to box wagons. All are typically ready to run from Hornby and Bachmann, though there are a few kit wagons built to fill the void. All have chain link coupling to give a sense of ‘realness’... albeit a little tricky for one with big fingers!

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Populate your high street Ian Lamb gives some advice on adding people to your layout.

here is no doubt that adding people to your layout helps considerably to bring the model scene to life. However, it is so easy to overdo the setting, not least of all because the miniature people are placed at random. It will indeed pay dividends to give time and thought to the setting before contemplating whether or not you will simply buy ready painted ‘off-the-shelf’ or purchase basic mouldings in bulk to paint as required. Within the town of ‘Superquickton’, examples of all available ‘people’ sources have been used. It is also very important (if you intend to paint your own) that having determined what period is to be modelled, you ensure any human life does complement the relevant scene. As a place to live in or visit, a town had to be created in order that the people could ‘feel at home’. The overall model was constructed to show how effective card kits could be, but primarily to encourage potential modellers to construct their own buildings rather than simply ‘plant’ off-the-shelf items. As most of the buildings on this layout originated from Superquick kits, it seemed logical to call the town SUPERQUICKTON! As with people, choose your high street kits wisely and appropriately. For instance, the bank kit chosen was that of Barclays because – being still in business today – it gave a much wider time period than had I used Williams & Glyn’s. Likewise, when choosing the facade for the Post Office it narrowed the A typical high street scene in any provincial town.

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The tall cramped buildings overlooking the scene give the impression that the road continues beyond the backboard.

model to around 1945-1965. The focal point of the layout is the relatively substantial Superquick terminal station kit, so all other buildings had to fit in with that prominent structure. In general terms these kits are generic so it is left to the modeller to decide the location. In this instance the North East of England was chosen, with the town being very loosely based on Alnwick in Northumberland. Appreciating that there were still some ‘road furnishing’ items to fit (lampposts and Belisha lights), and having read up on Alnwick and Northumbria to ensure that I was creating the right atmosphere, it was now time to consider what people would

be created, plus the cameos in which they could be set. As with any venture of this kind, inevitably you will end up with more than you can use, but in many ways that is how it should be to be certain that overall the ideal balance will be achieved. The Scalescenes road markings really set the chosen buildings off well. There is the feel of normal life and business in this midmorning scene, typical of any similar town. For this part of my high street model I chose three specific cameos. Cameo one depicts a day visitor not long off the earlymorning train from Newcastle, viewing the hotel menu board as a possible venue for lunch once he has explored the castle. The mother and child in cameo two is timeless, like any parent or relative going through the ritual of training their offspring to cross the road safely. The ‘gossip’ group (three) outside the grocer’s shop could be any village or city scene, never mind a town! When constructing the main terminus, I had in mind the country hotel kit being located next to the station, but it did not look right for such a large building. Having played around with various buildings, a corner block of houses seemed to fit in well, especially when partly converting the station end and yard as a taxi office. It was a very basic kit, but once various signs and posters were added, this corner of the high street was really brought to life. It is a moment in time that is being created so – as it is not feasible (or practical) to move the model people around – at least these cameo time capsules can be constructed. At the other side of the high street, an opportunity arose to create a

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Take a walk up your local high street and carefully observe all the human behaviour that would be commonplace in any such setting. No doubt from such an exercise you will have ended up with all sorts of cameos in mind. Then – and don’t just wait for a ‘rainy day’ – ruthlessly go through your selection, eliminating any that might not be practical to create.

1: Completed front end of the high street; with the people being complemented with lampposts and Belisha beacons. 2: Three separate cameos in one small setting; yet more than enough without crowding the scene. 3: Note the green outdoor country shop – and ﬁshing enthusiast – near the far end of the high street. 4: Rush-hour traffic.

 scene that no doubt most of us are familiar with – a late-running train resulting in missed onward bus connections. Passengers try to make their way home in whatever way is possible. Waiting at the entrance to the station is a middle-aged lady who has already phoned her husband to be picked up so now she patiently looks for his car. The bus stop group is very interesting. A businessman back from the city chats to a mother and child (with their dog) who are returning home from a day out shopping in Newcastle. A gentleman in a dark brown coat simply wishes that the bus would hurry up and come, while the elderly lady looks at the timetable to see what time the bus is due (no doubt two buses will come along at the same time). A holiday is over for one

 lady as a station porter carries her luggage to the waiting taxi. Most of the people were deliberately located near to the front of the layout (with the exception of a sole person viewing the outdoor and country shop at the other end

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of the high street, trying to decide what fishing rod to buy) in order not to infringe the depth-of-field illusion that I very carefully was trying to seek in the distance. This high street layout is only 21in (54cm) long by 6in (15cm) wide. ■

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Letting off

steam Hobby need not cost a fortune I have been interested in trains ever since I can remember. When I was growing up we lived quite close to a railway line, which although to me seemed quite busy, it was far from being a main line. At a very young age my father and later my elder brother would take me down to the local crossing gates to watch the trains go by and if I was lucky the engine driver would respond to my frantic waving with a blast of his whistle, creating even more frenzied waving from me. I could not have been more than eight or nine when I remember standing on one of the platforms at King’s Cross waiting for a train to take my mother and me to see an aged relation in Yorkshire. I clearly remember how very busy the station was, and even now when standing next to a steam engine and I breathe in the heady mix of smoke and steam the vivid memories of that King’s Cross visit come flooding back to me. It was

on this occasion that I first saw Gresley’s finest, an A4. Of course, I did not know it was an A4 let alone who designed it but what I did know was that it looked like nothing else I had ever seeen and dI was mesmeriised. Ever since th hat occasion I have always had a soft spot for the A4 and like many others of our fraternity, Mallard features high h on my top loocos list, so much h so that I have several examples. I have made mention in the past that I owe no particular allegiance to any era or region but I have to admit there is something appealing about the LNER especially as it was that company which was able to achieve the world speed record for steam using its flagship

locomotive Mallard. Being fascinated with history I have tried several times to try to recreate the record-breaking train as a model but I have always been stumped by the lack of a d dynamomete er car. I did attempt m making one oncee using an old d Hornby LLNER clerestory coach as a donor but I was not too successful. IIn a dim ligght and from m a six-feet distan nce it wasn’t a bad job j b but even though I spent several hours making the conversion I knew it was not right. However, it seems that I will soon be able to buy an exact OO replica before too long; I say ‘buy’ but at what price? Recently I received a notification from Rails of Sheffield which informed

me that it will be producing a dynamometer car for the princely sum of £125. I am not too surprised at the price, although for all intents and purposes it is basically a coach with a detailed interior and therefore the price to me did seem a little steep. However, if you consider that with the best will in the world such a vehicle is not a mainstream item then really the only reason to run one on your layout is to couple it behind Mallard. If you consider this simple fact what Rails will be producing is a model that arguably has limited or at best restricted appeal and therefore the cost of tooling such a vehicle will have to be spread over an initial production run, hence I assume the £125 price tag. All of this brings up the question if modelling railways is becoming a rich man’s hobby. I feel that it is a myth to think that it was ever cheap but just recently with prices dramatically rising, coupled with the fact that before too

Mallard is pictured here in August 1988 passing Ais Gill on the Settle and Carlisle; the very last train the engine pulled. BRIAN SHARPE.

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LNER dynamometer car in the NRM. PAUL BICKERDYKE

long large steam locomotives without sound will breech the £200 price barrier, it seems that more and more of us are thinking twice or even three times before spending our money. If there is any indication of this then just look how over the years the quantity of individual limited-edition locos has reduced in volume. Twenty or 30 years ago limited editions were at a level of 5000, they then dropped to 2000 and later 1000. This year has seen Hornby reduce its ‘Final Day’ selection to just 500 and from what I understand it will be producing later this year several special commissions of just 250. What these quantities tell me is that either the number of enthusiasts is diminishing or modellers are not as free with their cash as they once were. I suspect there it is a little of both, however, my main concern is for those youngsters who are entering the hobby but find the cost of modelling quite prohibitive. For those young railway enthusiasts the gift of a train set is the start of a lifetime hobby as it was for many of us before them. Without new blood entering the hobby I had foreseen that once my generation had been confined to history such things as railway modellers would soon become a thing of the past. However, I recently had a conversation with a close friend who chastised me for being so negative. True, he told me that the cost of

modelling was increasing but he also said there were plenty of opportunities to pick up the odd bargain, especially via the internet. He continued by saying that there was always the second-hand stalls at model railway exhibitions where locos, coaches and even track could be purchased at very favourable prices. As for buildings and scenery, what was wrong with the Superquick range of card kits and as for fences, hedges, trees etc? There were plenty of hints and tips available on the internet to help the youngsters model such items for pennies rather than pounds. Besides, he added, that is how they learn about modelling. Then he continued by reminding me that there were plenty of new and exciting things that would appeal to the younger enthusiast that was happening on the railways and were being replicated in model form such as the new Virgin/ Hitachi Azuma trains or the Class 68 with models of this particular loco now available in several liveries. Of course, my friend made some very valid points, railway modelling need not cost a fortune but it seems that we all need reminding of that fact from time to time. In many respects the key word is ‘modelling’ and that can start from building one’s first fence and ending up later in life with a model railway one can be justifiably proud of. Lucian Doyle ■

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Modelling on a budget

Modelling on a budget With costs rising on ready-to-run models, is it still possible to model on a budget? asks Matt Wickham.

hen I built my layout 12 years ago, modelling on a budget was always on my mind. Looking back at the bills and the money I spent for a simple DC-powered layout the total was around £300-400, which includes track wood for baseboards and some of the electronics. I was unemployed at the time so spent money from savings on new track and getting a good base to work from, but it meant that the rest of the modelling was going to be on a strict budget.

There is now a lot more aid and help for the modeller, including keeping layouts small and making shunting puzzles in a 2ft x 3ft box using a small amount of track and only a few buildings. Quite a few buildings on my layout have been modified in some way or totally scratch-built from free items. Take this, for example; modelling the Bluebell Railway’s station of Horsted Keynes. I wanted to recreate the WHSmith stand on the platform, it’s a timber structure with Hanging basket liners are a cheap way to help with landscap ping.

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a brick base, which you can see on the photographs. I just wasn’t sure what to build it out of. I personally like to build things out of wood and plastic, so I had decided to build this structure out of matchsticks and wooden coffee-stirring sticks. Having drawn out a plan and size and looking at the structure from the pictures I took, I assembled the long straight sections using the stirrers and the panelling was made with the matchsticks. I stuck all this together with superglue and PVA wood glue. The model was detailed up with windows made from brass rod, painted, and then decorated using the advertisements printed from the computer using the images I had taken.

The booth on the platform station at Horsted Keynes and the one I scratch-built.

Card kits If you’re not a scratch builder, do not panic, there are other options out there for those who are modelling on a budget. Card kits are not just affordable but they look great too. There are various railway structures, buildings and many other structures available, I have experience of two main card kit providers. Metcalfe is the most well known, and having built a few kits I can recommend them as being straightforward and well thought out with clear instructions. A4 Superquick is another provider with slightly different railway structures, they do the job well, but the instructions are not that clear and you certainly do have to think about how you put it together and use your modelling instincts, even I find their kits challenging to put together.

The card kits are great to fill a town, a space, a loco yard, a station, anything and they do look great on any layout so they are certainly worth looking at. You won’t need many tools to put the card kits together nothing more than a good craft knife, a steel rule, a pair of scissors, some glue, either PVA, or Bostik/all-purpose glue, and a cutting mat. The Metcalfe range is available in OO and N gauge. If you are on a really, really tight budget you can always make your own card kits. There are a few websites around where you can download and print out a building and glue the print on to card, one that pops up on an internet forum (new railway modellers) is Wordsworth Model Railway, which supplies free downloads of builds. The results look quite good and if you’re on a budget then this could be answer for you. You can find the free range on the website wordsworthmodelrailway.co.uk Plastic kits There are also plastic kits available for various railway structures, and even some rolling stock. Ratio Kits provides a good range of kits but they do reequire a bit more work in terms of detailing as well as finishing ass they do need painting. They are a good starting point to gain skills and improve as a modeller as they are a step up from card kits. Tools are simple again; a good craft knife,

cutting mat, some needle files, and some plastic glue. With rolling stock and general ready-to-run products becoming more expensive because of labour costs and the weak pound at the moment, kits can save you money on rolling stock. There are quite a number of small plastic kits for wagons and vans, and also luggage vans. Cambrian Models provides a good, simple-to-put-together kit, which requires painting and transfers, wheels and couplings, but it’s a good starting point if you’re new to kit building. Each kit is about half the price of a ready-to-run alternative, and comes with a transfer sheet from the Historical Model Railway Society big enough to do a number of wagons. Parkside Dundas also provides rolling stock plastic kits. Scenery Once you’ve got your buildings sorted, then scenery on a layout can get rather expensive when it comes to adding various pieces of vegetation and other small details. Having modelled on a budget I have used various materials to create scenery while keeping costs down. Grass can get quite pricey, especially if you have large areas to cover. One option is to use hanging basket liners for fields and embankments; these are available from garden centres or maybe even a pound shop. It’s reasonably good value for money and covers quite a big surface area. You can spray paint it, glue it in position and also trim it to the June 2017 |

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correct length. Trees can be costly, especially ready-to-plant ones, but if you put the time in you can make your own. I would recommend a product called Seafoam, which is basically a forest in a box, you can also buy it as a kit to make your trees. You can spray the Seafoam with glue and apply scatter material to give your trees volume and colour. This is more cost effective in terms of covering an area and getting the trees to look how you want. You can expect this method to cost £25-30 for quite a few trees including scatter material, compared with just three or four of the ready-to-plant trees. There are quite a few videos and articles online on how to make Seafoam trees, which are well worth a look. Locomotives, rolling stock With RTR prices getting higher we do have to start shopping clever, there are bargains out there so shop around, don’t go for the obvious retailers first. Hornby introduced

Details from my Bluebell Railway layout.

the RailRoad range aimed at the younger generation, but prices on those have started to increase and have gone way beyond the pocket money of the younger generation.

The various sttages of modeling the WHSmith stand, starting with research photographs on the Bluebell Railway.

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It’s worth looking on a well-known auction site for items, although prices have been increasing in recent months there is still the occasional bargain, and if you’re not afraid of doing a bit of repairing and clearing and possibly giving a loco a good service then you may get a good deal. Model railway exhibitions, swap meets, and toy train collectors' fairs are again good places to try to find some better deals. I have heard from fellow modellers who go to various shows that they can certainly find some deals, one or two of the manufacturers occasionally have a stand selling repaired or returned models, some of which nearly have 50% off, so if you want to save money this is certainly a good option. Collectors' fairs are great as you can usually find something you have been after for some time at a good price, and also you can negotiate with the seller face to face. At small model exhibitions you can certainly find some decent things hidden under the tables of the trade stands and it is always worth digging through the boxes as you never know what you might find. ■

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Get back to basics If you want to develop your modelling skill and cut down on costs then why not try scratch building from cardboard? Sarah Palmer speaks to John Fownes, aka ‘Cardboard John’ to ﬁnd out more.

t this year’s Lincoln and District Model Railway show I came across the Cardboard Works stand hosted by Woodthorpe Model Railway Club, which was demonstrating scratchbuilt locos from cardboard. Intrigued, I started talking to John who was sitting modelling with cardboard with all the skill of a wood whittler, surrounded by the very basic tools of the trade as well as a display of very impressive engines, all made from cardboard. “It was a way of getting into O gauge cheaply, as apart from the motor and wheels it’s relatively inexpensive,” says John. “I started with coaches then built up to engines. “I like doing O gauge. You can get OO quite easily but O is a bit more difficult. Hence it makes it worth your while in making it from cardboard. “It’s a bit of a learning curve. But cardboard is a quick and easy material to work with, and easier than metal to model with obviously. I also find it easier than plasticard to work with. “If someone has a specific engine they want to build then they need to get the plan for it – once you’ve found your plan you need to decide what scale you want it and just trace off the bits you want, it’s just like being back at school. I get the plans out of old magazines or old books such as the Ian Beattie ones, I just generally keep an eye out for drawings. As long as you’ve got a good side elevation you can normally get everything you need from that. You then have to scale the drawing up to the size you need. I start off with an OO gauge plan which I then enlarge up to O gauge,”

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Above: A selection of cardboard engines. Left: John says cardboard modellers are a dying breed.

he says. As we’re chatting, John is creating a curve in the cardboard with regular and rhythmic movements to ensure that the curve bends and doesn’t break the fibres in the cardboard. “I use good quality white card – I won’t use any other colour – all card has a grain in it, any time you want to create a curve just bend the card to the curve going with the grain of the cardboard. It bends much easier one way than the other – that’s the grain.

So go with the grain and just bend it gently with your finger and thumb. It’s knowing the tricks of the trade really when working in card. None of it is rocket science.” All the black engines are sealed with black spray paint from Wilko as John doesn’t like shellac. “I know a lot of people swear by it but I don’t. It dries hard and crispy and then you have to get rid of that crispiness,” he says. After just two to three coats of paint the models are quite solid – you can pick them up and handle them. John also makes the

If you can do a cardboard building then you should be able to do an engine, says John.

What you need:

John recommends using 600 micron card from Rymans. To get the patterns use old magazines and Ian Beattie books – enlarge your pattern up off the plans and trace any bits you need. You don’t need many tools – a hole punch for the axle holes, a cutting mat, pliers, a steel rule, and a craft knife. You just need to buy in wheels, motor and axle bushes. John also buys chimneys, domes, handrails and buffers.

John demonstrates a model in working progress.

chassis out of cardboard, which most people don’t, “but you get the flexibility with it. The chassis is only there to hold the wheels in the right place.” The main thing he does buy in are wheels and axle bushes, which he buys from the O gauge shows second-hand to keep down the cost. “The model costs about the same as an OO model, after you’ve bought a motor, gearbox and axles. Handrail wiring etc isn’t expensive, but you can make your own, I don’t I buy it. It used to take 40-50 hours

All you need are some working drawings to get you on your way.

depending on the engine, but you do get quicker,” he adds. “I do everything including scenery and buildings, coaches, wagons etc in cardboard. There’s nothing you can’t do in this material really. “There’s no real great skill involved, if you make a mistake you just get another piece of cardboard. I don’t tend to make things for other people, just myself. “I like it as it’s a bit more special, but it is something that people can pick up with a bit of practice.”

When the Cardboard Works group started out 20 years ago next year, ‘Do O gauge cheaply’ was their mantra. “Everything we make is in card, just cobbled together with a craft knife and we do shows to promote that you can do O gauge cheaply. To date we have made around 60 engines. Despite the extensive range of cardboard models the group has produced, John says that cardboard modellers are a ‘dying breed’. “But I like it, modelling in cardboard helps me to switch off from a confused world.” ■ June 2017 | 57

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Modelling with household items A quick look around the house will provide a surprising number of useful items that have proper domestic uses and so needn’t always come out of the modelling g budg get say ys Phil Parker

e will spend hours browsing the stands at shows buying ‘useful things’ but can ignore those that are under our noses, especially

when h we d do the h washing hi up. A quick i k rummage around under the sink or in the shed reveals all sorts of stuff that can be employed for purposes that their makers didn’t intend.

Polystyrene For building up hills on a model, nothing quite beats sheets of insulation material. Light and simple to carve, 5cm thick polystyrene can be bought from builders merchants in 8x4ft sheets for less than £20. You’ll probably need to break it up to get the sheet in the back of your vehicle but you can do that by hand in the car park. Real cheapskates will keep an eye on local

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skips. Builders are only too happy to give away scrap insulation (do ask first) to passing railway modellers. Free modelling material has the added bonus that you’ve stopped something going to landfill. Making a hill is simple, build up the layers sticking them together with PVA glue. Once the glue is dry, carve the hill to shape with an old bread knife, but have the vacuum cleaner handy to deal with the mess.

Emulsion paint

I buy quite a lot of match pots for scenic work. Mainly brown (‘Nutmeg spice’ is my current favourite) but sometimes grey and beige too. All the ground cover gets a coat before any scenic work starts. It’s a good idea to smarten up baseboard edges as well as painting the inside of tunnels black. Thinned with water, emulsion can be used as a wash to add weathering to track work and even plastic and resin buildings. You’ll need to experiment with this as the correct thinning varies with the materials.

Dettol

Some modellers claim that Dettol antiseptic will strip paint from plastic models. Pour the liquid into a bowl and d iimmerse th the model d l ffor h hours ffor th the paint to start to lift. Not something to be tried out straight away on your most expensive loco, but if you pick up some second-hand wagons that have been badly painted, it could be worth a go. Mr Muscle oven cleaner is reputed to be good for stripping paint from old Tri-ang models. As it cleans the inside of ovens I’m sure that the sort of mild muck we need to shift ought to be a simple job. Again, experiment on a small area first.

Cillit Ban ng

Wall ﬁ ller

Real ground is never ﬂat and if you just lay scatter or grass straight on the baseboard, it looks wrong. DIY wall filler applied to provide lumps, bumps and even small embankments cures this problem. I prefer the readymix stuff for small jobs but if you mix your own, keep it on the dry side and add a bit of brown emulsion to give some colour.

Finding my yself with some second-hand LGB track that was very cheap but filthy, I tried cleaning it up with em mery paper and a fibre pen. It quickly became ap pparent that this was too much like hard work and anyway didn’t get to the areas around the e chairs. The shou uty man in the Cillit Bang advert manages to clean a penny with the product so I wondered if it would work on other metals as well. With the track spread out on the patio it was sprayed with Cillit Bang, then, following the instructions as I always do, left it for a couple of minutes before spraying with water from a hose. Result – track that was nearly as good as new. It’s possible that this trick could be applied to existing garden railways although I’d rinse off with plenty of water and try to miss delicate plants. I’m no gardener but doubt that they appreciate being cleaned in this way.

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Talcum powder

When experimenting with weathering powders, sometimes the results look too dark. Try brushing a bit of that talcum powder your granny gave you for Christmas over the model and you’ll find the colours lighten. Talc is also useful for road making. Paint the surface with emulsion and then sprinkle the powder into the wet paint. It adds just a little texture. For more worn roads, just add more talc.

Yacht varnish

If you look at canals or docksides, the water is basically ﬂat and brown. Modelling this is easy. Paint the area with a mix of brown and grey emulsion. Let it dry thoroughly. Give it six to eight thin coats of yacht varnish. The result looks wet. I always have to polish fingermarks away at shows from visitors trying to check if it really is water! The key is to use Ronseal varnish as it’s slightly yellow and this gives the ‘water’ the appearance of depth even though it’s only a couple of millimetres thick. Experiments with pound shop versions haven’t been successful as they smell horrible and never seem to dry. However, as this is the perfect varnish for outdoor wood, you might just have some left over in a can. With a bit of luck, just enough for the layout.

Brasso

Ideally you want to get hold of the e version that comes in wadding next time you build a kit with white metal parts. If you u polish up domes and chimneys they take on the appearance of cleaned pewter witth a lovely smooth finish. I find putting the stalk of the ite em to be cleaned in a powered screwd driver and setting it turning while holding the wadding against the part works a treat. The screwdriver is a great tool for this as it turns slowly – use a drill and you’ll probably set light to your fingers. Obviously y this is a finishing task, as wonderful as Bra asso is, it won’t remove a mould line or serious lumps and bumps.

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Shiny Sinks

Another cleaning product that is popular with serious kit builders. When you are soldering a model together, any excess ﬂux needs to be cleaned from the joint. Failure to do so leaves a greasy, acidic film. While you can often get paint to cover this if you aren’t too worried about the finish, after a few months the joint will go green and possibly furry. After every soldering session, where ﬂux gets sloshed around like champagne at the end of a motor race, I like to finish by scrubbing the metal with Shiny Sinks applied with an old toothbrush. This is a useful tool also to be found under your nose a couple of times a day. Dentists recommend changing your brush every six weeks or so – an excellent idea as leaving it too long ruins the bristles for model scrubbing.

Hair spray

Hair lacquer is basically just a weak spray glue. This makes it perfect for sticking flock powder to trees and bushes. Buy the cheapest and strongest (extra hold) version you can find. Spray over your tree and then sprinkle the flock to add leaves. They will stick in place for many years, and if there is a bit of loss, just spray and sprinkle some more. On static grass, a spray of lacquer followed by a sprinkle of flock makes the grass into a good-looking weedy undergrowth.

Washing-up liquid

An essential ingredient when ballasting. Thin PVA glue 50/50 with water then add a couple of drops of washing-up liquid. When you drop the glue on your ballast, the washing-up liquid dramatically reduces the surface tension and should stop the stones balling up when you wet them. I suppose that I ought to finish by saying you must read the instructions on the side of the bottle before you start. Some chemicals are very nasty and need

Chinchilla sand

Okay, you might not have this to hand but it’s available from pet shops. A really fine sand that gives a little texture to any country road surface or areas where you have gravel. It’s beig ge but a wash of emulsion will give it colour. Mix with neat emulsion for a useful textured paint that is great for earthworks. An alternative to chinchilla sand is fine sawdust. Find someone who has recently been sanding a ﬂoor and they will have mountains of the stuff that you can take off their hands. For sidings that would have been ballasted with ash in real life, or for run-down industrial track work, it’s perfect in place of crushed granite.

to be treated with respect. Rubber gloves and possibly even eye protection aren’t a bad idea. Obviously the manufacturers test these things very thoroughly but I can confidently predict that none of these tests will involve model railways. Finally, for the sake of domestic harmony, don’t forget to actually do the washing up before nicking the cleaning materials under the sink.

Do you have any top tips for household items that are useful for railway modelling? Email rmmodellingeditor@mortons.co.uk

Club focus

Updating an older layout Within the Chesterﬁeld Railway Modellers’ Club are members who were brought up in the times of ‘waste not want not’ – an attitude that would inﬂuence the remodelling of the club’s Stonedale layout, says Ken Davis.

ased at an imaginary location within the Peak District, the original Stonedale layout had running lines that passed a large limestone quarry and then ran to a rear fiddle yard under a number of bridges, creating a circularshaped layout some 24ft long and about 10ft wide. The dominant part of the layout was a limestone quarry, which, while an interesting feature, limited the operating potential somewhat, so we decided to make Stonedale an L-shaped terminus station-to-fiddle-yard layout occupying the remaining space available. The work was carried out in stages and for a while the layout was exhibited with the station complete but with the quarry remaining. Our members have a mix of stock from all the railway companies plus some foreign items dating from throughout the 20th century up to today, so we had the 

challenge of running this wide selection in a realistic way. When reworking the layout we wanted to run the mainlines into the terminal station with a part given over to supporting a preservation centre, giving us a raison d’etre to run just about anything. This needed considerable track changes and scenic transformation to make the layout fit the fictional prototype and provide operational interest. Planning is important, a few of the features in the magazine this month are about modelling on a budget and one of the ways to keep costs down is to plan carefully before building. It’s cheaper to redraw a plan than re-lay track or have to throw away baseboards. The major jobs we had to do were: ■ Reuse the existing baseboards to remodel the layout.

■ Use the existing station but improve the station approaches and town scene. ■ Remove the quarry and build the preservation centre facilities. ■ Remove a number of bridges. ■ Replace the rather basic back scenes with a modern one relative to the area. ■ Reconfigure, rewire and re-lay the track and make a comprehensive and simpleto-operate control section by removing a fiddle yard control unit that was operated by a second person. ■ Allow for DC and DCC operation. Install a 70in turntable (too big for the old BR operation but ‘purloined’ from other sources) to enable the centre to operate large pacific locomotives. Starting on the rebuild After the demolition teams had finished (and had found out just how wellconstructed some of the scenery was)

1. The preserved ‘Black Fives’, 45401 and 44871, bringing a special to the station, while in the preservation centre yard you will see a number of other preserved locos being prepared for an open day.

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2. This image shows the length of the layout from station roofs to the bridges, which hide the entry to the ﬁddle yard.

we started the rebuilding. The layout was reconfigured to allow engines access to the preservation centre from Platform 1. From here they could enter the shed to be refuelled, turned, stored or sent back into traffic. The centre can also be accessed from the ‘rest of the world’ fiddle yards over the level crossing. The resulting layout is 23ft long and is 3ft wide at its maximum with a 10ft-long fiddle yard with 11 roads. Peco Code 100 had been used on the original layout so this was used again on the reconfigurations. We also reused track from other layouts that was in good shape. If you’re modelling on a budget then

3: This image shows the station and the mainline approaches past the preservation centre.

find the dates and locations of your local swap meets as you might find used items at these places. A total rewire was undertaken as the new configuration made so many changes. Our clever electricians wired the turnouts so when you select a specific road, all the points change together. The icing on the cake of the rewired layout was a single control centre with the panels split between mainline running and operating the preservation centre, so two operators can work closely together for smooth operation. The panels are also configured to allow us to run either DC or DCC and this can be done over the running lines

and in the centre separately. This allows us to ‘mix and migrate’ and so reduce the costs of investing in DCC all at once. When running DC we use all the isolating switches so only one locomotive moves at once. We used a Peco LK55 turntable, which we detailed and powered with a Locomotech motor and gearbox. There is no automatic indexing so a good eye is required when lining up the deck. If you’re on a budget you can always turn the turntable by hand! Scenery We definitely needed new back scenes. Having searched the market we decided on

CHANGING YOUR LAYOUT

If you’re fed up with your layout think about what you want out of it and then plan to see if you can alter it to meet your needs.

DON’T THROW ANYTHING AWAY!

Visit your local model railway club, you will probably find that the hints you get and the chances to buy used rolling stock and track makes it worthwhile joining! We have reconfigured the layout and made major scenic changes to provide members with an interesting operational layout.

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 5. The level crossing adds another scenic break. It shows the railway crossing Batten Lane, this was named after a member of the club who died during the time we were creating this layout. The crossing is another Peco kit; it is not operational despite the suggestions of some!

a set now called ‘id back scenes’ from the New Modellers Shop. We used the Into the Town sets A, B & C and we used the 15in high self-adhesive versions. If you’re on a budget then there are 9in versions of these scenes. These are very realistic but if you use them you will need to place them so that the perspective from the layout to the backscene looks convincing. Also make sure your backscene boards are flat. We reinforced 4mm plywood with battens and filled all screw holes and much of the grain in the wood. There are, of course, a number of joins in the backscene boards, so one of our more artistic members was sent out to paint some deciduous trees. When these were pinned to the backscene they looked very large but in scale terms these are not as big as they could be! We kept features such as the fence between the Network Rail mainlines and

the preservation centre, which was an effective piece of modelling. We also kept the station and some of the surrounding buildings but the station approach area needed improving. So we replaced some of the less-effective features with Model Railway Scenery downloads of low-relief factories and walls. Using Model Railway Scenery, Scalescenes, Wordsworth Model Railway and other companies gives you a cheap source of buildings but you do need a reasonable printer and some matt photo paper for the best results. The Model Railway Scenery buildings have realistic weathered brick and we were happy with the painted windows but you can replace these if you wish. The carriage shed and other small buildings were made from these kits. One of us intends using the factories on his own layout as having paid for them once, you can print them as many times as you like.

Adding people You will see that there are a lot of figures on the layout. There was a philosophical discussion – one member says that populating the layout with people who don’t move because they have paving stones attached to their feet is daft. Everyone else ignored him on the basis of his layouts are like the Marie Celeste! Actually it worked out well using careful grouping and disguising the bases. The figures came in their hundreds from eBay and while they are a bit basic you can paint them and overcome their limitations. Lighting is important. We added station and platform lighting and tower lights in

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The markings on the roads and lanes were cut out of painted pieces of A4 that had been ‘weathered’ to show some wear. Signs were created using the wonders of Adobe Photoshop.

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7. Adding people to the scene adds life. A local constable is requesting some high-spirited visitors who have just left the pub to have a little more decorum!

 8. Standard Class 5 No. 73129 has backed on to the train ready for the off. In the background you’ll see West Coast Railways Class 37 No. 248 Loch Arkaig backing on to the shed with the entrance to the preservation centre behind but having to wait until the rail bus has been refuelled. 11 & 12: These images show the refuelling facilities for the diesel and steam engines. Diesels are quite well served but the facilities for the steam engines are a bit basic. These have to access the coaling and watering road via the turntable as No. 92220 Evening Star has done (see below left).

 the preservation centre. This all looks very effective when the clubroom main lights are dimmed. Operation The layout as shown in this article is set up for a special weekend for visiting locomotives running trains into the Peak District through to Barrow Hill engine shed. Many locomotives have already arrived and can be seen ‘on shed’. DMUs of today’s operators are thin on the ground on the layout so, while we keep searching, the BR Super Sprinter at Platform 5 is representing its successors and has just arrived with visitors who are walking to the preservation centre’s entrance from the station. Platforms 1-4 are used for the ‘specials’

 9. Tornado is seen here in 1947 transitional apple green.

 10. It’s not worth rushing anywhere even if you are excited by the thought of all those steam engines!

 and a rake of LMS Stanier coaches stands at Platform 4. Great Central’s No. 506 Butler Henderson brought the train in and having run round the train has now reached the headshunt on Platform 1 so that it can reverse on to the shed and be serviced and turned. Given the number of the engines in the yard assembled for the special open day, the JCB driver will be busy and will be on his mobile asking for more coal! All of the locos you can see in the photographs are models of preserved engines. Tornado is constantly changing its livery and in our layout we see the transitional 1947 livery of British Railways’ apple green. Owing to the difficulty of moving the baseboards of a relatively old layout it has been erected permanently in the clubroom

and, like our other layout, Hasland Loco Shed, is kept for our enjoyment. We hope this article gives you the feeling of this rejuvenated layout. If you would like to see the new Stonedale alongside Hasland Loco Shed we are always willing to entertain visitors, cups of tea and biscuits are always available! If you’d like to come for a visit please contact Darrell Clark on 01246273488 or email enquiries@ chesterfieldrailwaymodellers.co.uk otherwise please visit our website: www. chesterfieldrailwaymodellers.co.uk ■ ■ If you would like your club layout to be featured in RMModelling then please email rmmodellingeditor@mortons. co.uk June 2017 |

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8 Market Place Caistor Lincolnshire LN7 6TW

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Datesfor your diary RM MODELLING LISTINGS MAY-JUNE 2017

Compiled by Jon Longman. Send details of your events to RMModellingeditor@mortons.co.uk MUSEUMS

Open Tuesday to Sunday Brighton Toy and Model Museum. 52/55 Trafalgar Street, Brighton, West Sussex BN1 4EB. www. brightontoymuseum.co.uk 10am5pm (Saturday 11am-5pm). See website for admission prices. Open daily until October 1 World of Model Railways. Meadow Street, Mevagissey, St Austell, Cornwall. www.model-railway.co.uk 10am-5pm. Adult £4.50, concessions £4, child (5-17) £3.50, family £14. Disabled access.

EXHIBITIONS MAY 26/27

First Bangor Model Railway and Hobbies Exhibition. First Bangor Presbyterian Church Hall, Upper Main Street, Bangor, Co Down BT20 4AG. www.firstbangormrc.co.uk Friday 7pm-9.30pm; Saturday 10am4.30pm. Adult £5, concessions £3, child £2, family (2+2) £10. Disabled access. 20 layouts.

MAY 27

Bridlington Model Railway Show. Christ Church Hall, Quay Road, Bridlington YO15 2AP. 10am-4pm, Adult £3, concessions £2.50, child £2. Ten layouts.

MAY 27

Northolt Model Railway Exhibition. Northolt Village Community Centre, Ealing Road, Northolt, Middx UB5 6AD. 10.30am5pm. Adult £3, concessions and child £2, family (2+2) £5. Disabled access. Eight layouts and live steam rides.

MAY 27

St Osyth N Gauge Show. The Village Hall, Clacton Road, St Osyth, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex CO16 8PE. stosythngaugeshow.co.uk 11am4.30pm. Adults £4, concessions (National Bus Pass holders) £3, child aged 5-16 £2 (under 5s free), family (2+2) £8. Disabled access, 11 N gauge layouts, new and secondhand traders, society stands

MAY 27/28

Bala Model Railway Show. Ysgol Y Berwyn Secondary School, Bala, Gwynedd LL23 7RL. www.bala-lakerailway.co.uk Saturday 10.30am5pm, Sunday 10.30am-4.30pm. Adult £4, concession £3.50, accompanied child (maximum two) free. Disabled access. 15 layouts. Free heritage

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bus between school and Bala Lake Railway.

MAY 27/28

New Forest Model Railway Society Exhibition. Village Hall, Highwood Road, Brockenhurst, Hants SO42 7RY. www.nfmrs.org Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am4.30pm. Adult £4.50, child £3, family (2+2) £12. Disabled access. Layouts.

BB1 2AF. Saturday 10am-4pm; Sunday 10am-4pm. Adult £5, concessions £3, child £3, family £12. 15 layouts. Shildon Model Railway Club Exhibition. Locomotion, the National Railway Museum at Shildon DL4 2RE. Saturday and Sunday 10am-5pm. Free. 20 layouts.

JUNE 10

Rother Valley Railway Supporters’ Association Model Railway Exhibition. Robertsbridge Village Hall, Station Road, Robertsbridge, East Sussex TN32 5DA. 10am-5pm.

7mm Narrow Gauge Association Show. Burton upon Trent Town Hall DE14 2EB. 10.30am-4.30pm. Adult £5, members £0, child free. Layouts. Heywood Model Railway Group Open Day. Unit 3, Park Works, River Street, Heywood OL10 4AB. www.hmrg.co.uk 10am-4pm. Admission by donation. Club layouts. Hillingdon Railway Modellers’ Test Track Open Day. Yiewsley Baptist Church Hall, 74 Colham Avenue, Yiewsley, Hillingdon, Middlesex UB7 8HF. www. hillingdonrailwaymodellers.co.uk 10am-4pm. Admission £4. O, OO and N test tracks.

JUNE 3

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MAY 27/28

Railex 2017 Model Railway Exhibition. Stoke Mandeville Stadium, Stadium Approach, Aylesbury, Bucks, HP21 9PP Saturday 10.30am-5.30pm, Sunday 10am-5pm www.railex. org.uk Adults £9, child £5, family (2+3) £20. Sunday only: up to two children admitted free with an accompanying adult.

MAY 27-29

Gauge O Guild Summer Show. Dome Leisure Centre, Doncaster Lakeside DN 4 7PD. Full details at www.gaugeOguild.com Hull Model Railway Society Summer Show. Walton Street Leisure Centre, Kingston upon Hull HU3 6JB. 10.30am-4.30pm. Adult £2, child £1. Ten layouts. Sleaford Model Railway Club Show. St George’s Academy, Westgate, Sleaford NG34 7PP. 10am4pm. Adult £4, child £3, family £10. 12 layouts. West Camel Model Railway Society open day. Davis Hall, West Camel, Yeovil BA22 7QX. 10am-3.30pm. Adult £3, child £1. Ten layouts.

JUNE 3/4

Chatham Model Railway Society Exhibition. Victory Academy ME4 5JB. Saturday 10am-5pm; Sunday 10am-4pm. Adult £6, accompanied child free. 15 layouts. Diesel and Electric Modellers’ Showcase. Burton upon Trent Town Hall DE14 2EB. Saturday 10am-5pm; Sunday 10am-4pm. Adult £8, child £5, concessions £5, family £20. Layouts. East Lancashire Model Railway Summer Exhibition. Accrington Road Community Centre, Blackburn

Chesterfield Railway Modellers’ Peak Model Railway Exhibition. The Agricultural Centre, Bakewell DE45 1AH. 10am-5pm. Adult £5, concessions £4, family £12. 15 working layouts, trade support. Peak Model Railway Exhibition. The Agricultural, Centre, Bakewell, Derbyshire DE45 1AH. Saturday 10am-5pm; Sunday 10am-5pm. Adult £5, child £4, family £12. 15 layouts. Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway Model Rail Weekend. Railway Station, Furnace Sidings, Blaenavon NP4 9SF. 11am-4pm both days. Adult £3, concessions £2, child £2. Layouts. Mendip 2017 — Annual exhibition of the Shepton & District Model Railway Society. Doulting Village Hall, Shepton Mallet, Somerset BA4 4PL. Saturday:10.30am4.30pm; Sunday 10am-4pm. Adults £4, child 12-16 £2,under 12 (accompanied) free. Eight layouts, traders, preservation societies, demonstrations. Disabled access, parking, refreshments. The clubroom will be open at the East Somerset Railway, BA4 4QP. Contact: John Perrett e-mail jp. perrett@btinternet.com

JUNE 11

Corby & District Model Railway Society. Wilbarston Exhibition. Wilbarston Village Hall, Carlton Road, Wilbarston, Market Harborough, Leicestershire LE16 8QD 10am-4pm. Adults £4, concessions £3, children £2, family £10.

JUNE 16-18

Great Central Railway Model Show. Quorn and Woodhouse station, Quorn LE12 8AG. www.gcrailway.co.uk Friday and Saturday: 10am-5pm; Sunday: 10am-4pm. Adult £20, child £12, family (1+3) £32, (2+3) £50. Allinclusive ticket covers all-day travel on the heritage railway. More than 70 layouts.

JUNE 17

Alresford Festival of Toy Trains. Perins Community School, Pound Hill, Alresford, Hants SO24 9BS. 10.30am-4.30pm. Adult £6, child £2, family £14. Layouts.

JUNE 17/18

Gainsborough Model Railway Society. Florence Terrace, Gainsborough, Lincs DN21 IBE. www. gainsboroughmodelrailway.co.uk 1.30-6pm. Adult £4, concession and child £3, family £10. (O) The East Coast Main Line from King's Cross to Leeds Central. Fifth Mere Model Railway Exhibition. Mere & District Railway Modellers. Mere Lecture Halls, Salisbury Street, Mere BA12 6HA. 10am-4pm. Adult £4, children under 12 enter free if accompanied by an adult. Disabled access, free car parking, refreshments. 12 layouts. Model Boat Building, quality secondhand locomotives and rolling stock, books and garden railways. Middleton Railway Model Railway Exhibition. The Station, Moor Road, Hunslet, Leeds LS10 2JQ. Saturday 10am-5pm; Sunday 10am-5pm. Adult £7, child £3, family £18 (price includes rides on the heritage railway). 15 layouts.

JUNE 24

Braintree and Halstead Model Railway Club Exhibition. Bocking Arts Theatre, Bocking End, Braintree CM7 9AE. 10am-4pm. Adult £4, child £2, family £10. 18 layouts. Plymouth Model Railway Exhibition. Abbey Hall, Catherine Street, Plymouth PL1 2AD. 10am4pm. Adult £3, child £1.50, family £8. Layouts and disabled access.