RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Cambach v. d. H??he
As the Spur O Freunde Worms, Klaus Fischer and Sascha Fliegner got together to build a sectional layout for exhibitions depicting a branch line in Hessen.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
The Bridge at Remagen
Al Turner was inspired to create an accurate 1:160 scale model of the Ludendorff Bridge across the Rhine, with an impressive collection of authentic train consists. The layout is due to be at Model Rail Scotland at the SEC Glasgow from Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd February.

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BR52 Kriegslok
Uwe Lacina looks briefly at the origins of the Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft BR52 2-10-0, an austerity measure for wartime mass production. With scale drawings by Benno Wiesm?ºller.

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De Graafstroom
An authentic South Holland scene, set in 1947, with a 1,067mm (3'6") gauge tramway modelled in P87n3.5 by noted fine scale modeller Vincent de Bode.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
S??ller
Chris Hales describes his unusually themed Z layout, which was inspired by a holiday in Mallorca.

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Bw.D?ºgelskirchen
Doug Tompkins describes his new portable HO layout, a small German diesel depot set in Epoch IV.

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Rusinowo
Experienced modeller Sebastian Marsza?Ç has built a new HOe layout that is easier to exhibit, representing a narrow gauge branch terminus in rural Poland.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Clear Creek & Denver RR
Martin Philpott guides us around his extensive scenic American On30 layout, which fills a sizeable shed.

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Brohltalbahn diesel D5
G?ºnter V??ller shows how he modelled a large German metre gauge diesel hydraulic in G by adapting a popular proprietary model. With scale drawings by Ing. Horst-Dieter Hettler.

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Dietrichsdorf
Stephen Davies changed from his customary N to HO in order to experiment with DCC and learned a lot modelling a commuter station in northern Germany.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Turtle Field
Jean-Fran?ßois Perrissoud welcomes us to a small town in the Rocky Mountains which he has modelled in N and now forms the first part of a larger project.

EDITOR'S PICK
Broadford extended
Iain Hunter explains how construction challenges were met to make his Australian HO layout even longer giving a significant increase in storage yard capacity while still being transportable in the same vehicle.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Unteres Pre?ünitztalbahn
Steffen Spittler describes his authentic Sachsen HOe layout, depicting two stations on lower section of the Pre?üniztalbahn, the upper part of which is now a successful museum line.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Salsdorf
Norman Raven reveals how acquisitions of attractive stock eventually prompted an easily portable German TT layout.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Zeltweg
As a first foray into railway modelling, Peter Herzl-Smith has modelled in HO the station serving the Austrian town which was home to his maternal grandparents.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Columbia & Western
Mike Dobson continues the account of the extensive O scale layout set on the Canadian Pacific.

EDITORS'S PICK
Thurnsfeld Hauptbahnhof
Large scale fun in the garden: Doug and Jenny Thompson took time to plan before eventually starting work on their garden layout.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH - NORDLANDSBANEN

A Norwegian layout featuring Hell station and the Arctic Circle monument authentically modelled in HO by Hans Peters.

HOHE BERGAHORNE

Stephen Cranford introduces his permanent home layout, an alpine scene which may be the longest Z in the UK..

PLAN OF THE MONTH - BANGOR AND PORTLAND

Ian Wilson tells the story of his extensive HO layout, depicting a rural branch of the Erie Lackawanna Railroad.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH - STRABBERG

On the metre gauge Selketal line in the Harz - Franz Rittig introduces the new exhibition layout in HOm by prolific builder Sebastian Schmidt.

ROTTERDAM CENTRAAL

The station and surroundings with trams in c.1965 - Thom Raven presents the result of several years research and modelling in HO by the Hollandse Tram Maatjes team which has produced another impressive exhibition display.

PLAN OF THE MONTH - KLEINE ALBULA

A layout at last - Nick Warren describes 4a his portable Rhatische Bahn HOm layout, set in winter and constructed with the help of Mervyn Kendall.

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CENTRAL ALONZO

Sugar and passengers on the Hershey Railroad in Cuba - Andy Gautrey continues his fascination with electrified interurban lines with a new HO layout.

KEANE'S COVE

Debbie McMillan introduces her latest project, a 5-3-3 'Inglenook' switching puzzle in HO.

VERNIERS-MEYRIN

A childhood dream come true - Yann Mon baron describes a large French-Swiss HO layout created by Claude Court.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Barchbergbahn
From the valley to the summit: Diger Rossell presents his new award-winning scenic layout which represents a narrow gauge rack railway somewhere in the Alps.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Stellenbosch
A single track branch off a double track main line – John Cornell reveals his South African HO loft layout.

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New SBB shunters
Peter Marriott introduces two new Swiss shunters, the compact but powerful Ee 922 and Eem 923, the subject of recent new HO models from HAG. (See the review of these models on p133.)

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Berlin to Ghentwerp
Music legend Jools Holland unveils his large HO layout which features scenes in Europe as well as in Britain, with an emphasis on scenery, architecture, and details.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Oostendse Valiezen Fabriek
Members of the ModelSpoorKlub van der Kust (MSKK) in Ostend built a model of a suitcase factory in HO as an entry for a competition to build a layout in a suitcase!

EDITOR'S PICK
?ñBB Reihe 2095 diesel
A universal diesel for the 760mm gauge: Dr Markus Str?§ssle outlines the history of a design which is now sixty years old, still very much in use, and the subject of a brand new HOe model from Roco. Drawings to HO scale by Steve Croucher.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Bw Meinecke
A typical corner of DB territory – Manfred Haaker describes a German HO layout that has been developed in various clubrooms over the years.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Capdenac
A French junction with modelling potential: Ian Stock explores an interesting location in the south of France.

EDITOR'S PICK
Rue de la Glaci?®re ‚Äì 2
Emmanuel Nouaillier shares more of his techniques for highly detailed and realistic scenic modelling, creating an authentic structure in the French urban scene.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH - HOUYET

Jean Herckens chose to model one of his local lines in TT - a relatively unusual scale for Belgian railways - with the assistance of his friend Hubert Billiet.

ANSCHLUSS WOLF

A siding serving a rural water mill - Helge Scholz introduces the latest layout by Jens Petermann and Jochen Klinger, reproducing in HOe a real location on the PreBnitztalbahn.

PLAN OF THE MONTH - PIET'S PIECKPLEIN

A fictional Dutch tramway in Oe - Len de Vries introduces a remarkable layout conceived by Piet van Oorschot and completed with the help of several friends.

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KANINCHENBAU

Ian Morrison introduces his computer-controlled Alpine HOe exhibition layout, the portable part of a larger permanent home project.

PLAN OF THE MONTH

SEIKETSU 

The (rail) way to a Japanese layout: Mike Keeble explains how the search for better N gauge mechanisms eventually took him to Japan.

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Steinbruch
Roger Nicholls has set his new HO layout, a line serving a quarry, somewhere in south-west Germany in the 1970s.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
San Maria Gandia
Ian Milroy and Robin Marie have a new HO/HOe layout, inspired by the narrow gauge in north-eastern Spain.

EDITOR'S PICK
Praha Veleslavin
John Kabesh was pleasantly surprised to find a small station worth modelling in the suburbs of Prague.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Waldburg - and more
Mike Mackay has created a satisfying German HO layout - a small network of three stations with optional continuous run which offers interesting operation within a reasonable space.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
St. Combs
A small section of the Canadian National in N - Norman Raven was motivated to build a new exhibition layout set in Canada following a 'request' from his wife...

EDITORS'S PICK
Creating a Crampton
Inspired by the example preserved at the Cit?© du Train, Jacques Por?© assembles a recent kit by Est Mod?©les for a French historic locomotive.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH - DOCKS CEINTURE

Guy Van Meroye reports on a finescale HO layout created by a group of talented French modellers depicting industrial areas around the Paris belt line.d van Waes introduces his new German HOm layout, the terminus of the metre gauge Selketal line in the Harz.

GARRATTS IN THE GARDEN

John Morrison describes the impressive articulated locos he has modelled for his 1 :24 scale garden railway.

PLAN OF THE MONTH - WIESMÜHL

An imaginary location on the German/Austrian border - Roger Sant explains how an initial simple layout in N grew into a more satisfying system.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Le Vicinal ?† Vresse
An evocation of SNCV/NMVB line 553 – Jan Martens has created a convincing HOm impression of a typical Belgian local metre gauge tramway.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Cap Sacr?©
More Tramways de la Corr?®ze than Vivarais ‚Äì Peter Dale has modelled in HOm a small town station on a French int?©r?™t local metre gauge line.

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SNCF CC72000
To augment his feature in the recent CM French Special, Gordon Wiseman offers more illustrations of a widely used high power mixed traffic diesel

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
H??llentalbahn
Gerard Tombroek introduces the HO layout built for Roco depicting the famous line through the Black Forest to display the new model of the BR85 2-10-2T.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Atmafer
A French railway wagon maintenance workshop: Ga?´lle and Olivier Taniou describe a compact HO layout which they first displayed at Trainsmania in Lille in 2017.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Neuburg
Back in the DDR! Nick Palette has built a new HO layout, once again set in East Germany.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Ulle
Great minds think alike! Peter Smith and Ian Stock independently alighted upon the potential of a French station that is a shadow of its former self but which would make an interesting layout.

EDITORS'S PICK
Outeniqua Museum
Johan Leflang reports on some recent additions to the HO layout at a well-known transport museum in Cape province, South Africa.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Vif
Mark Booker has created an attractive N gauge layout based on a real French location, which can represent several periods with a change of stock and road vehicles.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Varenna
A scenic location near the shore of Lake Como - Peter Marriott sees the modelling potential in a simple Italian passing station.

EDITORS'S PICK
Franklin Goes to the USA
A tale of two transatlantic expeditions: Bob Harper relates how he took his American 0n2 layout to an exhibition - in America!

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH - FRIEDRICHSTRABE

Inspired by the station in Berlin - the expansive East German HO layout of the Liphook & District MRC captures the atmosphere of the city centre location.

BLUMENFELD

A small portable layout in N - Jim Trotman captures the charm of a country branch in southern Germany.

PLAN OF THE MONTH - BOIDON-CUNCOU

Narrow gauge serving a wire factory - the Escadrille Saint Michel have a new O-14 layout.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH - HASSELFELD

Arnold van Waes introduces his new German HOm layout, the terminus of the metre gauge Selketal line in the Harz.

REDDERTHUN

Thies Lahann introduces his German HO exhibition layout with a novel working feature - a sugar beet tippler.

PLAN OF THE MONTH - LO DEPOT DO LIMOUZI

The Association des Modelistes Cheminots de Limoges have a new French HO exhibition layout, an amalgam of three motive power facilities in their local area.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Unteres Pre?ünitztalbahn
Steffen Spittler describes his authentic Sachsen HOe layout, depicting two stations on lower section of the Pre?üniztalbahn, the upper part of which is now a successful museum line.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Salsdorf
Norman Raven reveals how acquisitions of attractive stock eventually prompted an easily portable German TT layout.

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