RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
SEHR-AM-ÜZANT
Within a limited space Alan Jockmans has created a scenic masterpiece in HOe, based on his own sketches of an idyllic but completely imaginary remote village only recently connected to the wider world by rail.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
LA GOUDRON-CALANDRE
David Thomas presents his French HO layout, a typical secondaire which has remained open into the 1950s to serve local agricultural interests.

FEATURES
BRICKWORK
Emmanuel Nouaillier demonstrates more of his techniques for intricately detailed structure modelling, showing how to simulate the texture of weathered bricks.

TIRANO – PIAZZA DELLA BASILICA
Paul Jobber describes his new micro layout in N which reproduces a famous feature of the Rhätische Bahn – street running nearing the terminus in Italy.

ARRANSTEIN
From shunting puzzle to full layout – Paul Peeters explains how his compact N gauge shunting game evolved into to a full layout of three linked scenes.

CESKY ZAPAD
On a Czech secondary single track line in the 1990s – Neil Sutton describes his other layout, quite a contrast in subject and style. It is due to be at Model Rail Scotland.

A MALLET TRANSFORMED
Warren Miller shows how he made major modifications to an old brass HO model of American outline to make it more appropriate for a French layout.

FILLING UP 1917
Kevin Harlow explains how he created a novel entry in O-16.5 for the Peco RAIL 200 module competition, inspired by historic photos from the First World War.

The PECO Product & Modelling Guide is out now and bigger than ever!
Updated and expanded to 240 pages (last one was 224 pages) - that's an extra 16 pages-  full of essential information. It is not only a comprehensive guide to a huge range of PECO products and other brands, but also a modelling reference guide, to help with so many modelling techniques.
Covering the PECO, Ratio, Wills, Parkside and Modelscene ranges, as well as the publications and Tracksetta templates. Products from the new TT:120 scale are included, as is the expanding Pecoscene Static Grass range and N gauge wagon range.

 Explanations and helpful hints and tips on scales and gauges, rail codes, frog descriptions, standard and narrow gauge railways, baseboard building, track-laying, wiring using PECO turnout motors and Smartswitch servos, to operate turnouts and semaphore signals, kit building and painting, and scenic work are all included in this inspirational guide.

RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
LOTTENBIRGE Standard meets narrow gauge in the Erzgebirge – Mark Dale presents a German dual gauge HO/HOe layout with an unusual operating feature – transporter wagons.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
MALLECOMBE The result of a holiday in France – Malcolm Pickering explains how he strayed from modelling British subjects and adapted a real location in HO, changing the name.

FEATURES
ALLEGRA A simple idea, impressively executed – Mike Carter has a new theme in a new (for him) scale and gauge, making good use of Kato N Rhätische Bahn stock.
A SHORTER TURNTABLE Antonio Federici shows how he adapted a Peco N gauge turntable for his Italian HO layout, a conversion that might be useful in other settings. With scale drawings.
HALTE ROYALE D’ARDENNES Rudy Altenhoven created an attractive scene in HO, on the line between Dinant and Bertrix in Belgium.
IMPROVED REMOTE CONTROL OF POINTS Andrew Eastabrook reports how The Pas and Northlands HO garden railway was recently updated.
THE POLLO Part of the former Prignitzer Kreisbahnen – Graham Lightfoot visited the preserved section of a once extensive 750mm gauge network in northern Germany.
PRRENJAS Myles Munsey has modelled something different in HO – a small fragment of the little-known Albanian rail system set firmly in the communist era.
BICYCLE RACK Adapting an Artitec HO model – Jacques Poré shows how he enhanced a small scenic feature intended for The Netherlands to make it French.

This issue, we review the new OO gauge Port of Par Bagnall 0-4-0 saddle tank locomotives in OO gauge from Rapido Trains UK – with the cover image of the two models set up especially to re-create the working days of these engines at Par Docks. Other new models reviewed include the GB Railfreight Class 69 diesel from Bachmann in OO; the Hornby TT:120 Branch Line Freight Train Set with the Adams B4 locomotive; the all-new Gresley V2 2-6-2 in N from Graham Farish/Bachmann; and the Class 153 diesel railcar in O gauge from Heljan.
Railway of the Month is an OO gauge model of the famous trans-Pennine Woodhead Route, which was first featured as the Plan of the Month in the December 2017 issue and is now well on the way to completion. Other layouts include Choates Lane, an N gauge model based on the High Speed 1 route just outside London; Rushwick, a compact 1960s BR Western Region branch line terminus in OO; and Jennings' Sidings, an O gauge model that evolved from an industrial shunting layout into a Great Western Railway branch terminus, but can still be operated in either form.
Constructional articles include the building of a large iron arch bridge in N gauge, mainly from card sheet; a scratch-built model based on industrial Beyer Garratt locomotive William Francis in 3mm scale; and some innovative methods by Giles Favell, who has built a 16mm scale layout on which the radio-controlled locomotives even have animated driver figures! 

RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
WIESENBERG A branch terminus in a typical Brandenburg landscape – Jörg Krause introduces his German HO exhibition layout, which was only intended to be an interim project.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
NOIRMOUT-EN-RETZ
Olivier Taniou describes his latest layout, a venture into O – a new scale and gauge for him – capturing the atmosphere of a small coastal port.

FEATURES

BRICKWORK Emmanuel Nouaillier demonstrates more of his techniques for intricately detailed structure modelling, showing how to simulate the texture of weathered bricks.

 PATIALA MONORAIL Peter Dale chartered the Patiala State Monorail Tramway preserved at the Delhi railway museum.

FUSINE – LAGHI A border station in the eastern Alps – Luca Klobas presents a diorama reproducing a now disappeared cross border railway between Italy and Jugoslavia. 

CHEYNE JUNCTION 2 Expanding a successful design – Roddy Mullin describes his new portable Z gauge layout.

CONSOLIDATED NICKEL MINES Mario Alberto Scarati and Bice Luigia Carabelli describe their unusual HO exhibition layout, an automated mine located in the south-west of the USA.

CHÂTEAU LÉMAN Yann Monbaron introduces the HO layout of Alain Manzoni, a freelance setting between Switzerland and France which features standard and metre gauge lines.

 SUGAR BEET LOAD Another consignment for making Swiss chocolate – Peter Marriott enhances a Roco HO type Eas bogie open using techniques that could be applied to other stock.