Railway companies all had a stock of their own vehicles for carrying goods and merchandise around their network, and also onto other companies' routes as and when required. These were integrated into British Railways at Nationalisation; some of them to be once more re liveried under sectorisation as the network was prepared to be returned to private ownership. All Peco wagons feature free running wheels in pin point axles. The ELC coupling, whilst compatible with the standard N gauge couplings, keeps a realistic distance between the vehicles and enables the PL-25 electro magnetic decoupler to be used for remote uncoupling.

 

MAKING TRACKS III - MILTON KEYNES CENTRAL

Pete Waterman and his forthcoming event
Pete Waterman details how he and the Railnuts team have recreated the present-day Milton Keynes Central station for the the forthcoming Making Tracks III event at Chester Cathedral.

RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
The North Bucks Narrow Gauge Railway
Alan Rega takes us on a journey around his live steam, 16mm narrrow gauge garden railway, which has been nearly 30 years in the making.

The next new livery for the L&B Goods Brake Van is this plain grey unlettered models, aimed at the freelance modeller.

Removing all references to the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway but leaving behind the useful detail such as tare weight and builder plate will please those OO-9 modellers who want to create their own unique and individual railway in miniature.

 

ASHBURTON

What happened to the classic 4mm layout?
Chris Lamacraft's EM gauge model of this classic Great Western branch line terminus was retired from the exhibition circuit 25 years ago - but it has now found a home on the former Ashburton branch itself. 

RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Bournemouth Central
After 50 years away from railway modelling, David Pinch revived his childhood interest in the hobby and set out to create this impressive 00 gauge reinterpretation of a classic seaside town station. 

Our NEW Ffestiniog Railway "Bug Box" coaches, wearing the plain red livery from the preservation era of the 1970s & 1980s. Plain they may be, but when you look closely, you will notice that actually there is plenty of very fine detail, including the FR emblem, door handles and running numbers.

Our NEW Ffestiniog Railway "Bug Box" coaches, wearing the plain red livery from the preservation era of the 1970s & 1980s. Plain they may be, but when you look closely, you will notice that actually there is plenty of very fine detail, including the FR emblem, door handles and running numbers.

Our NEW Ffestiniog Railway "Bug Box" coaches, wearing the plain red livery from the preservation era of the 1970s & 1980s. Plain they may be, but when you look closely, you will notice that actually there is plenty of very fine detail, including the FR emblem, door handles and running numbers.

Our NEW Ffestiniog Railway "Bug Box" coaches, wearing the plain red livery from the preservation era of the 1970s & 1980s. Plain they may be, but when you look closely, you will notice that actually there is plenty of very fine detail, including the FR emblem, door handles and running numbers.

This 5-Plank Teign Valley granite wagon of Bovey Tracey is produced from our all-new tooling, featuring a red body with white lettering, shaded black, and black ironwork. Running on our new metal-tyred wheels these wagons, like the others, are very free-wheeling and a colourful addition to the expanding range. 

The NEW PECO Product & Modelling Guide is out now and bigger than ever! 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. The guide features all the products currently available from PECO, Ratio, Wills, Modelscene, Parkside & Tracksetta and is now bigger than ever! 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.

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Monkton Combe, once an intermediate station on the long-closed Camerton branch near Bath, was thrust into the limelight in 1952 when it was chosen to be the location for the filming of the famous Ealing Comedy "The TitfieldThunderbolt".