RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Meadowlands Light Railway
By tradition, the Railway of the Month for August is an outdoor line: this month, John & Sue Cooke share with us their SM-32 system, the Meadowlands Light Railway, which runs around the garden at their home.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Parkend
The current northern terminus of the Dean Forest Railway is Parkend which James Hilton suggests would make a good layout for OO gauge, as he depicts with his own illustrations.

SCALE DRAWINGS
Hull & Barnsley coaches
This month the focus is on the four-wheel coaching stock of the Hull & Barnsley Railway, with drawings to 4mm scale of the five-compartment all third and three-compartment brake third, both representing stock built in the 1880s.

RAILWAY OF THE MONTH

WEIDENSTEIN

A Bavarian terminus in Detsche Bundesbahn days: David Cox describes his rural branch line layout, carefully observed and meticulously modelled in HO. 

PLAN OF THE MONTH

VICTORVILLE

Des Browne describes his large American HO loft layout, set in California in c.1953, which enables him to run long trains behind large locos, both steam and diesel.

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Bridgwater
The Somerset & Dorset in the glorious Prussian Blue days, as modelled by Trevor Gibson. The 7mm scale layout features carefully co-ordinated digital operation and sound effects. This definitive description is continued in next month’s Railway Modeller.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Recycle by rail
A modern rail-served recycling facility in the north-west of England is suggested as an alternative focal point for a contemporary-period layout.

SCALE DRAWINGS
A guide to etched loco kit construction – 1
John Cockcroft presents a three-part guide to getting the best out of locomotive kits, using the Connoisseur Models product for the Adams Class O2 0-4-4T in O gauge as an example. The scale drawings are from our Ian Beattie archive, adapted by Steve Croucher.

RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
London Road
The essence of the ‘premier line’ – the London & North Western – distilled by Jolyon Wilkinson in 4mm scale in the shape of this main line station.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Chard Town Goods
Demoted passenger stations doing service as freight yards were not uncommon in steam days. The potential of a Somerset location is gauged by Tim Rayner.

SCALE DRAWINGS
Hull & Barnsley 50ft bogie coaches
This celebrated Yorkshire railway ordered its first bogie stock in 1905 from R Y Pickering for its Sheffield services, as Steve Flint explains.

RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Marx Engels Platz
Bill Roberts describes his German N exhibition layout, a close interpretation of a real location in Berlin.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Clearwater Harbor
Steve Waterfield describes his American On30 layout, which features a working quayside ore tippler, as having evolved rather than being designed.

EDITOR'S PICK
Ga Long Bien
Thomas Schmid introduces his latest animated diorama, an urban tramway scene in Thailand modelled in 1:35.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Newton Bishop
The glory days of the Great Western, modelled in OO by Roger Bradford in a railway room that has gradually filled with extensions and additions to the layout.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
On from Bridport
Modellers have used the planned but never-built main line which would have run west of Dorchester along the English Channel coast towards Exeter since the 1950s, when John Charman built his Mk.I version of Charford.Alec Fry fell under the spell, and began construction of an OO gauge system, presented here as an ingenious plan suitable for any railway location that appeals.

SCALE DRAWINGS
LNER V2 2-6-2
One of Gresley’s finest designs, these highly capable Prairies are described by W G Ascough; drawings from our Ian Beattie archive, updated by Steve Croucher.

RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Reckingen
A passing station on the metre gauge Furka Oberalp: Jean-Pierre Muratore replaced his previous Swiss layout with a new scene, designed for easier exhibiting.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Zweifelsfall
A rural narrow gauge branch terminus – Lucien Eijdems has created an attractive HOe layout that is easy to transport and interesting to operate.

EDITOR'S PICK
Grand Street and Three Rivers City
Sir Rod Stewart has taken a long time to create an extensive and impressive American city scene in HO. We get a rare glimpse of this amazing achievement.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Oberwei?übacher Bergbahn
At the top of an incline from valley to plateau: the Rudolstadt model railway club in Th?ºringia model an unusual and distinctive local prototype in HO.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Ammobaux
A First World War scene modelled in OO9: Richard Pike built a diorama to fit in a suitable box.

EDITOR'S PICK
Renon Construction
Alessandro Rusin recreated in 1:35 an evocative scene from the construction of the rack-fitted Rittnerbahn with a loco loaned from Trieste – Opicina tramway.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH

WIEK HARBOUR

Helge Scholz describes his new German Oe layout project, representing a small part of the narrow gauge system which formerly served much of the Baltic island of R?ºgen.

PLAN OF THE MONTH

A REALISTIC FANTASY

Peter Cousins explains how he came to create a large Z gauge layout which is now on display at Walpole Water Gardens near Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. 

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
SIGNEN

Iain Baxter designed his German N layout to achieve maximum operation in a reasonable space.

DIE KLEINE ROTE – 3

‚ÄòThe Little Red One‚Äô ‚Äì Henk Scherpenzeel rounds off (for now) his report on a large Swiss metre gauge layout which recreates scenes on the Rh?§tische Bahn in HOm. This time: Serneus and Wiesen stations, plus the impressive bridges at Bromb?§nz and B?§rentritt.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Four Feather Falls
Ernie Melville relates how he persuaded other members of the Cupar & District MRC to build an American narrow gauge layout prompted by the Bachmann Spectrum On30 range.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Nordhafen
Roger Nicholls returns to European HO modelling with a compact quayside scene set in northern Germany.

EDITOR'S PICK
Erzbergbahn
Ore, rack, steam, and snow – an unforgettable experience: Guy Tyteca recalls a January 1976 visit to the famous mountain line in Austria while it was still steam worked.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
K??szeg ?ìvar??s
Peter Phillips describes his new Hungarian layout, K??szeg Old Town, which features both standard and narrow gauge lines (HO and HOe).

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Chica, Illinois
Peter North returns to a favourite compact layout theme: a small wayside station on the Rock Island lines, modelled in HO with a high level of authentic detail.

EDITOR'S PICK
On the P‚ÄìO Corr?®ze
Following the suggestion of Tulle as a possible layout (CM March 2018), we look at some of the stock used on the metre gauge Corr?®ze lines of the Paris ‚Äì Orl?©ans with photographs from the late W.J.K.Davies.

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