RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
SEHR-AM-ÜZANT
Within a limited space Alan Jockmans has created a scenic masterpiece in HOe, based on his own sketches of an idyllic but completely imaginary remote village only recently connected to the wider world by rail.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
LA GOUDRON-CALANDRE
David Thomas presents his French HO layout, a typical secondaire which has remained open into the 1950s to serve local agricultural interests.

FEATURES
BRICKWORK
Emmanuel Nouaillier demonstrates more of his techniques for intricately detailed structure modelling, showing how to simulate the texture of weathered bricks.

TIRANO – PIAZZA DELLA BASILICA
Paul Jobber describes his new micro layout in N which reproduces a famous feature of the Rhätische Bahn – street running nearing the terminus in Italy.

ARRANSTEIN
From shunting puzzle to full layout – Paul Peeters explains how his compact N gauge shunting game evolved into to a full layout of three linked scenes.

CESKY ZAPAD
On a Czech secondary single track line in the 1990s – Neil Sutton describes his other layout, quite a contrast in subject and style. It is due to be at Model Rail Scotland.

A MALLET TRANSFORMED
Warren Miller shows how he made major modifications to an old brass HO model of American outline to make it more appropriate for a French layout.

FILLING UP 1917
Kevin Harlow explains how he created a novel entry in O-16.5 for the Peco RAIL 200 module competition, inspired by historic photos from the First World War.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
LOTTENBIRGE Standard meets narrow gauge in the Erzgebirge – Mark Dale presents a German dual gauge HO/HOe layout with an unusual operating feature – transporter wagons.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
MALLECOMBE The result of a holiday in France – Malcolm Pickering explains how he strayed from modelling British subjects and adapted a real location in HO, changing the name.

FEATURES
ALLEGRA A simple idea, impressively executed – Mike Carter has a new theme in a new (for him) scale and gauge, making good use of Kato N Rhätische Bahn stock.
A SHORTER TURNTABLE Antonio Federici shows how he adapted a Peco N gauge turntable for his Italian HO layout, a conversion that might be useful in other settings. With scale drawings.
HALTE ROYALE D’ARDENNES Rudy Altenhoven created an attractive scene in HO, on the line between Dinant and Bertrix in Belgium.
IMPROVED REMOTE CONTROL OF POINTS Andrew Eastabrook reports how The Pas and Northlands HO garden railway was recently updated.
THE POLLO Part of the former Prignitzer Kreisbahnen – Graham Lightfoot visited the preserved section of a once extensive 750mm gauge network in northern Germany.
PRRENJAS Myles Munsey has modelled something different in HO – a small fragment of the little-known Albanian rail system set firmly in the communist era.
BICYCLE RACK Adapting an Artitec HO model – Jacques Poré shows how he enhanced a small scenic feature intended for The Netherlands to make it French.