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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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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.
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Sóller
Chris Hales describes his unusually themed Z layout, which was inspired by a holiday in Mallorca.
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Bw.Dügelskirchen
Doug Tompkins describes his new portable HO layout, a small German diesel depot set in Epoch IV.
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Marx Engels Platz
Bill Roberts describes his German N exhibition layout, a close interpretation of a real location in Berlin.
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Clearwater Harbor
Steve Waterfield describes his American On30 layout, which features a working quayside ore tippler, as having evolved rather than being designed.
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Ga Long Bien
Thomas Schmid introduces his latest animated diorama, an urban tramway scene in Thailand modelled in 1:35.
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Rusinowo
Experienced modeller Sebastian Marszał has built a new HOe layout that is easier to exhibit, representing a narrow gauge branch terminus in rural Poland.
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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
Günter Völler 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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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.
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Nordhafen
Roger Nicholls returns to European HO modelling with a compact quayside scene set in northern Germany.
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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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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.
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Turtle Field
Jean-François 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.
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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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Unteres Preßnitztalbahn
Steffen Spittler describes his authentic Sachsen HOe layout, depicting two stations on lower section of the Preßniztalbahn, the upper part of which is now a successful museum line.
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Salsdorf
Norman Raven reveals how acquisitions of attractive stock eventually prompted an easily portable German TT layout.
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Unteres Preßnitztalbahn
Steffen Spittler describes his authentic Sachsen HOe layout, depicting two stations on lower section of the Preßniztalbahn, 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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Höllentalbahn
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.
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Atmafer
A French railway wagon maintenance workshop: Gaëlle and Olivier Taniou describe a compact HO layout which they first displayed at Trainsmania in Lille in 2017.
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Birkenstock
Janhein Ruigrok was inspired by some classic photos from East Germany to model the upper terminus of a steeply-graded line in HO, but had to modify his plans.
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Kaley Yard
Trevor Smith introduces his current home HO layout, set somewhere in the California desert, being developed on two levels connected by a helix.
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Tramstraat 1930
Gérard Hendriks introduces the research for his project to model in HOm part of the former local tramway in the Eindhoven area of The Netherlands.
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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.
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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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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!
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ÖBB Reihe 2095 diesel
A universal diesel for the 760mm gauge: Dr Markus Strässle 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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