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DIE KLEINE ROTE
‘The Little Red One’ – Henk Scherpenzeel reports on an ambitious Swiss metre gauge layout which recreates scenes on the Rhätische Bahn in HOm.
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HUA HIN
Bill Johnston visited a country station in Thailand with an unusual feature – a royal waiting room.
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PONTEMPEYRAT
Michel Gachet describes his French HO exhibition layout set on a cross-country line high in the Haute-Loire – beautifully simple, and simply beautiful.
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ST.PANKRAZ IM STEIERMARK
Michael Kelleher was able to create his dream HO layout, a multi-level alpine setting with many personal touches. After building a large exhibition layout, Michael Upton wanted his new Austrian HO project to be more portable.
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SANKT JOSEPH
An idealised scene with standard and narrow gauge lines depicting Austrian rural railways in the 1960s reproduced in a compact HO/HOe layout by Davide Raseni.
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HIMMELREICH
Michael Kelleher was able to create his dream HO layout, a multi-level alpine setting with many personal touches.
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MARINA LIGURE
A layout with a long history, still going strong: Denis V.Reidy describes an Italian HO exhibition layout, now retired, set in the Cinque Terre region of Liguria.
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THE ALBULA LINE
A classic section of the metre gauge Rhätische Bahn: Yann Monbaron reports on an extensive HOm layout built for Pierre Denis. Part 2 – the current layout.
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The Albula Line
A classic section of the metre gauge Rhätische Bahn: Yann Monbaron reports on an extensive HOm layout built for Pierre Denis. Part 1 – the background.
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's Gravenhage
The atmosphere of Dutch railways in the 1950s in HO: when a 5m x 2m room became available at home, Pim de Moed took the opportunity to create a new layout.
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Tasmanian Garratt K1 steams again
Graham Lightfoot reports on a remarkably fast overhaul of this historic locomotive currently at Statfold Barn.
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Langental
Paul Peeters started his fictional German N layout at a modest size but always intended to expand it – and eventually did so.
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Norge
Inspired by visits to the spectacular scenic Flåmsbana in Norway, Mike Carter was inspired to try and capture the essence in HO.
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Nürnberg 2020
The second part of our comprehensive coverage of the extensive model railway section of this international toy and hobby fair deals with N, Z, TT, O, 1, narrow gauge, and G, plus structures and scenics.
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Vals
Roger Epps and Nathan Bridge chose to model in HOm a station in the upper reaches of the Valser valley on a line proposed but never built by the Rhätische Bahn.
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Schweizer Kleinstadt
Chris Atkinson has built a new Z gauge exhibition layout, depicting a typical small town in Switzerland.
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Nürnberg 2020
The first part of our comprehensive coverage of the extensive model railway section of this international toy and hobby fair deals with HO. Next month – N, Z, TT, O, 1, narrow gauge, and G, plus structures and scenics.
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Le Vicinal à Vresse
An evocation of SNCV/NMVB line 553 – Jan Martens has created a convincing HOm impression of a typical Belgian local metre gauge tramway.
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Cap Sacré
More Tramways de la Corrèze than Vivarais – Peter Dale has modelled in HOm a small town station on a French intérêt 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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Cambach v. d. Höhe
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.
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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 Wiesmüller.
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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.
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Zweifelsfall
A rural narrow gauge branch terminus – Lucien Eijdems has created an attractive HOe layout that is easy to transport and interesting to operate.
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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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Oberweißbacher Bergbahn
At the top of an incline from valley to plateau: the Rudolstadt model railway club in Thüringia model an unusual and distinctive local prototype in HO.
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Ammobaux
A First World War scene modelled in OO9: Richard Pike built a diorama to fit in a suitable box.
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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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Süd Harz Eisenbahn
Modern metre gauge might-have-been: Paul Steedman has created a modular HOm layout, imagining that a former part of the Harz network has been re-opened.
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Ulvaryd Strand
A Swedish odyssey: Charles Insley has created a layout in HOe that is easy to transport and a pleasure to exhibit. It will be at Expo Narrow Gauge on 26th October.
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Gare de Brindille
Chris Hopper has built a small layout in a large scale, depicting the War Department Light Railways in SM32 with an impressive level of carefully observed fine detail.
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