Y Turnout, Large Radius

Y Turnout, Small Radius

Turnout, Medium Radius, Left Hand

Turnout, Medium Radius, Right Hand

Crossing, Long

Crossing, Short

Turnout, Small Radius, Left Hand

A statue of this famous engineer will make a nice feature for a town square or station forecourt.
Size approx (mm) 30 x 30 x 80. The Harburn Hamlet range of painted resin accessories provide interesting scenic details to go around the station and streets of your layout.

Turnout, Small Radius, Right Hand

Crossing, Double Slip

Turnout, Large Radius, Left Hand

Turnout, Large Radius, Right Hand

Curved Turnout, Large Radius, Left Hand

The first railway opened in Germany in 1835, between Nurnberg and Furth. From this small beginning railways quickly spread, assisting economic development. Originally built by private enterprise, then separate state concerns, the railways were nationalised in the mid-1920s. The variety was considerable from local light railways to heavy duty main lines, and eventually a dedicated high speed network with the now iconic ICE trains.

German toy manufacturers soon recognised the appeal of railways and now German companies are world leaders, offering a wide range of models in scales from Z to G; those modelling German railways arguably enjoy the most support of any national scene. This book explores the current state of modelling German railways, with examples of high quality layouts in different scales to illustrate the variety, and ideas for modelling and construction techniques. 111 pages fully illustrated.

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Curved Turnout, Large Radius, Right Hand

Catch Turnout, Left Hand

RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Bertsdorf
The well-known junction on the Zittau network: Mark Dale decided to model in HOe a station with the potential for interesting operation.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Angustein
Angus Wallace relates how he came to construct an extensive Epoch II HO layout, an imaginary location on the German/Austrian border.

EDITORS'S PICK
Trambaantje
Marc de Bruin chose to model a rural tramway in HO as a practical project which could be completed with reasonable resources in a sensible time.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Oeversijde
Evan Daes describes his new Belgian HO layout, serving an industrial area alongside a major canal, set some time between the 1980s and the present.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Gusswerk
On the electrified narrow gauge Mariazellerbahn - a small HOe exhibition layout built by Paul Sutherland, a self-confessed 'less than average' modeller.

EDITORS'S PICK
Wurzbach Station Building
Peter Smith relates how he scratchbuilt a structure for a proposed German O gauge layout.

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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
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 Cité du Train, Jacques Poré assembles a recent kit by Est Modéles for a French historic locomotive.

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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
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
Glen Nevis
Chris Thorp built this dual-level O gauge layout in his loft to remind him of diesel days on the West Highland Line in the 1980s.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Norcombe Head
Phil Martin presents his two-level scheme for a branch terminus à la Minehead, with a subsidiary branch up a valley and extension to a quarry.

SCALE DRAWINGS
LTSR 4-4-2T
These Atlantic tanks were so good on the London, Tilbury & Southend that the LMS built more. This abridged article by Ian Beattie has Brian Meredith plans.

EDITORS'S PICK
Building the Parkside Models SR 25T Brake Van
Martin Wicks gets to grips with the O gauge model of the SR 'pill box' type, making a few modifications en route to add extra detail.

RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Aberdeen Kirkhill - The Sequel
Glenn Daniel updates us on this significantly enlarged OO gauge representation of a 1980s BR Traction & Rolling Stock Depot, set in Eastern Scotland.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Gimbalton
Peter Osborne devised an ingenious sector plate for his latest OO project, one which can move in three dimensions to service a low level fiddle yard.

SCALE DRAWINGS
G&SWR 119 Class 4-4-0
This class of 24 4-4-0s, built in the Glasgow & South Western Railway works at Kilmarnock, were famed for their work on the hilly route to Greenock in particular. Drawings by W D Stewart, with accompanying text by Tim Rayner.

EDITORS'S PICK
Clifton & Lowther
Childhood memories of watching the West Coast Main Line action at this location led Eric Farragher to recreate them in N gauge.

RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Dent Station
This location, the highest main line station in England amidst the scenic wonders of the Yorkshire Dales, marks in model form the completion of phase two of Ian Nuttall's mammoth project to model the Settle & Carlisle in the 1930s in OO.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Marks Tey
This Essex station marks the junction between the former Great Eastern Railway main line - which runs north-east from London to Suffolk and Norfolk - and the branch to Sudbury. Ian Stock considers its potential for modelling, both in the present day and the 1960s.

SCALE DRAWINGS
G&SWR Class 5 0-6-0T
The Glasgow & South Western had a trio of these locomotives, designed by Peter Drummond and used for shunting, as John Treays relates.

EDITORS'S PICK
Crioch
Having already described one of his two small-space-4mm scale layouts which share a common fiddle yard and storage crate (Hudson Street, RM February 2016), Peter Fletcher presents the other, a Highland Railway shed scene inspired by Tain.

RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Langdon Beck
Three Cumbrian/North Yorkshire branches could have been linked to create another trans-Pennine route, as Peter Osborne shows with this OO layout.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
A City Terminus in OO
Steve Flint demonstrates how an extensive facility, with goods yard, engine servicing and carriage sidings, can be fitted handsomely in a 20' x 9' area.

SCALE DRAWINGS
LBSC Atlantics
With the Bachmann 4-4-2s in OO on the horizon, the home-built class of six H2s and the close relatives the five Kitson H1s are described by W G Ascough.

EDITORS'S PICK
Customising R-T-R Locomotives in OO
Your FREE Shows You How booklet explores how to add extra realism to R-T-R locomotives, including renaming and renumbering, upgrading moulded details, adding crew figures, plus detail painting and weathering techniques.

RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Wenfleet
Tom Kirtley ventures back to pre-war times with this salute to the LNER in OO gauge. Wenfleet station represents a busy junction in South Yorkshire.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Largs
The station serving this Ayrshire coastal resort is much rationalised and served by electric trains; its steam-age heyday, excursion trains and all, is studied by Stewart Clinton as a basis for a new layout project.

SCALE DRAWINGS
Cuckoo Junction Signal Box
This quaintly-named Midland & Great Northern Joint structure guarded a road crossing and one end of the company's Spalding avoiding line. Historical notes by Tim Rayner; drawings by Steve Croucher, from originals produced by Christopher Pamer.

EDITORS'S PICK
GWR 16xx 0-6-0PT
Great Western pannier tanks provide an ideal project for the determined beginner; Tony Wright shows how with this construction of a former Nu-Cast whitemetal kit in 4mm scale, now revamped by South Eastern Finecast.

RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
St Martins Wharf
Inspired by Colonel Stephens' lines in East Anglia, this exhibition layout - set in the 1930s.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Castle Hill
Occupying just 11' x 10', this OO layout scheme demonstrates how main line operations can be achieved in a modest spare room-sized space.

SCALE DRAWINGS
Bridgnorth Station
Jim Smith describes this neo-Jacobean style station building, which now serves as part of the northern terminus on the Severn Valley Railway, with drawings by Steve Croucher.

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On The Rail 2018
Your FREE comprehensive pocket guide, covering the whole of the UK, contains all the information you need to plan a day out with a railway theme.

RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Hemyock
Latterly kept alive by milk traffic, the terminus of the Culm Valley Light Railway in mid-Devon has been modelled in 4mm scale by Chris Lamacraft.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Coalville Crossing
A freight-orientated Midlands scheme employing two decks, recreating the heavy coal traffic which flowed through this unprepossessing Leicestershire town. It was designed by Ian Stock in his preferred N gauge.

SCALE DRAWINGS
An NER-style elevated signal box
The North Eastern Railway built distinctive over-track signal boxes along the Newcastle to Carlisle line, and elements of several (chiefly Wylam) were used to create a 1:148 scale replica, as Peter Brown explains.

PECO Setrack N Gauge Code 80 - Unit trackage System
The high quality rigid unit trackage system suitable for all popular brands of N gauge model trains.
Being fully compatible with both Code 80 and Code 55 PECO Streamline, it need never be discarded as your layout develops.
The solid nickel silver rails are integrally moulded into the sleeper bases for maximum realism and strength. Turnouts are fitted with an over-centre spring for immediate use, no extra levers necessary.

83 Line items are realistic models of North American railroad track, with Code 83 nickel silver rail. Scaled from A.R.E.A. drawings and NMRA compliant, Code 83 features authentic tie sizes and spacing, the standard American number system for frog geometry, plus a very fine representation of traditional rail spike fixings.

Peco Streamline Bullhead 0 Gauge track has set unsurpassed standards for 7mm scale realism. Superbly detailed, its 'wood grain' sleepers are the correct scale width and have integrally moulded scale chairs with square headed fixing bolts and wooden keys.

This range is compatible with the 0 Setrack range; and if, as on the real network, you wish to use a combination of Bullhead and Flat Bottom track the SL-713 Transition Track provides an ideal way to connect the two types.

Peco Streamline Bullhead 0 Gauge track has set unsurpassed standards for 7mm scale realism. Superbly detailed, its 'wood grain' sleepers are the correct scale width and have integrally moulded scale chairs with square headed fixing bolts and wooden keys.

This range is compatible with the 0 Setrack range; and if, as on the real network, you wish to use a combination of Bullhead and Flat Bottom track the SL-713 Transition Track provides an ideal way to connect the two types.

This unit can be used with small, medium, or large radius turnouts to form a double junction.

Peco Streamline Bullhead 0 Gauge track has set unsurpassed standards for 7mm scale realism. Superbly detailed, its 'wood grain' sleepers are the correct scale width and have integrally moulded scale chairs with square headed fixing bolts and wooden keys.

This range is compatible with the 0 Setrack range; and if, as on the real network, you wish to use a combination of Bullhead and Flat Bottom track the SL-713 Transition Track provides an ideal way to connect the two types.

Peco Streamline Bullhead 0 Gauge track has set unsurpassed standards for 7mm scale realism. Superbly detailed, its 'wood grain' sleepers are the correct scale width and have integrally moulded scale chairs with square headed fixing bolts and wooden keys.

This range is compatible with the 0 Setrack range; and if, as on the real network, you wish to use a combination of Bullhead and Flat Bottom track the SL-713 Transition Track provides an ideal way to connect the two types.

Peco Streamline Bullhead 0 Gauge track has set unsurpassed standards for 7mm scale realism. Superbly detailed, its 'wood grain' sleepers are the correct scale width and have integrally moulded scale chairs with square headed fixing bolts and wooden keys.

This range is compatible with the 0 Setrack range; and if, as on the real network, you wish to use a combination of Bullhead and Flat Bottom track the SL-713 Transition Track provides an ideal way to connect the two types.

Double slips can save valuable space at station approaches, junctions etc.

Peco Streamline Bullhead 0 Gauge track has set unsurpassed standards for 7mm scale realism. Superbly detailed, its 'wood grain' sleepers are the correct scale width and have integrally moulded scale chairs with square headed fixing bolts and wooden keys.

This range is compatible with the 0 Setrack range; and if, as on the real network, you wish to use a combination of Bullhead and Flat Bottom track the SL-713 Transition Track provides an ideal way to connect the two types.

Peco Streamline Bullhead 0 Gauge track has set unsurpassed standards for 7mm scale realism. Superbly detailed, its 'wood grain' sleepers are the correct scale width and have integrally moulded scale chairs with square headed fixing bolts and wooden keys.

This range is compatible with the 0 Setrack range; and if, as on the real network, you wish to use a combination of Bullhead and Flat Bottom track the SL-713 Transition Track provides an ideal way to connect the two types.

The purpose of a Catch Turnout is to derail a vehicle before it rolls out of a siding or branch line on to a main line.

Peco Streamline Bullhead 0 Gauge track has set unsurpassed standards for 7mm scale realism. Superbly detailed, its 'wood grain' sleepers are the correct scale width and have integrally moulded scale chairs with square headed fixing bolts and wooden keys.

This range is compatible with the 0 Setrack range; and if, as on the real network, you wish to use a combination of Bullhead and Flat Bottom track the SL-713 Transition Track provides an ideal way to connect the two types.

The purpose of a Catch Turnout is to derail a vehicle before it rolls out of a siding or branch line on to a main line.

Peco Streamline Bullhead 0 Gauge track has set unsurpassed standards for 7mm scale realism. Superbly detailed, its 'wood grain' sleepers are the correct scale width and have integrally moulded scale chairs with square headed fixing bolts and wooden keys.

This range is compatible with the 0 Setrack range; and if, as on the real network, you wish to use a combination of Bullhead and Flat Bottom track the SL-713 Transition Track provides an ideal way to connect the two types.

Concrete Type Joiner sleepers - For use under the rail joints on Code 55 track

Wooden Type Joiner sleepers - For use under the rail joints on Code 55 track

Peco Streamline Bullhead 0 Gauge track has set unsurpassed standards for 7mm scale realism. Superbly detailed, its 'wood grain' sleepers are the correct scale width and have integrally moulded scale chairs with square headed fixing bolts and wooden keys. This range is compatible with the 0 Setrack range; and if, as on the real network, you wish to use a combination of Bullhead and Flat Bottom track the SL-713 Transition Track provides an ideal way to connect the two types.

PECO Setrack N Gauge Code 80 - Unit trackage System
The high quality rigid unit trackage system suitable for all popular brands of N gauge model trains.
Being fully compatible with both Code 80 and Code 55 PECO Streamline, it need never be discarded as your layout develops.
The solid nickel silver rails are integrally moulded into the sleeper bases for maximum realism and strength. Turnouts are fitted with an over-centre spring for immediate use, no extra levers necessary.

PECO Streamline N Gauge Code 80 - Universal trackage system
This ever-popular trackage system for N offers a choice of either wooden or concrete type sleeper flexible track and a wide range of turnouts and crossings in both Insulfrog and Electrofrog types.
Suitable for all makes of N Gauge trains and fully compatible with PECO Setrack. Two of these Y turnouts and an SL-394 Long Crossing will form a double junction.

Single slips were often used on double track lines to incorporate a trailing crossover into the access for a siding, goods yard etc. The clever geometry of this range enables the modeller to easily create convenient, complex and aesthetically satisfying track formations using combinations of small, medium and large radius turnouts and crossings.
Despite a low visible rail height of just 1.4mm, all brands of N Gauge model locomotives will run on this track.
The ingenious rail section of PECO 55 combines strength and durability with a highly realistic appearance and uses the same universal rail joiners as Code 80; the geometry of this range has been cleverly designed to make it easy to build convenient, complex and aesthetically pleasing formations. For more details on Electrofrog turnouts, see our Wiring the Layout publications Nos 4 and 21.

This track models the most common form of concrete sleepering in use in Britain today, with flat bottom rail. PECO Streamline N Gauge Code 55 - Universal Fine trackage system
Despite a low visible rail height of just 1.4mm, all brands of N Gauge model locomotives will run on this track.
The ingenious rail section of PECO 55 combines strength and durability with a highly realistic appearance and uses the same universal rail joiners as Code 80. This track models the most common form of concrete sleepering in use in Britain today, with flat bottom rail. The geometry of this range has been cleverly designed to make it easy to build convenient, complex and aesthetically pleasing formations. For more details on Electrofrog turnouts, see our Wiring the Layout publications Nos 4 and 21.

PECO Streamline N Gauge Code 55 - Universal Fine trackage system
Despite a low visible rail height of just 1.4mm, all brands of N Gauge model locomotives will run on this track.
The ingenious rail section of PECO 55 combines strength and durability with a highly realistic appearance and uses the same universal rail joiners as Code 80; the geometry of this range has been cleverly designed to make it easy to build convenient, complex and aesthetically pleasing formations. For more details on Electrofrog turnouts, see our Wiring the Layout publications Nos 4 and 21.