RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Oberwei?übacher Bergbahn
At the top of an incline from valley to plateau: the Rudolstadt model railway club in Th?ºringia model an unusual and distinctive local prototype in HO.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Ammobaux
A First World War scene modelled in OO9: Richard Pike built a diorama to fit in a suitable box.

EDITOR'S PICK
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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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH - POTTENDORF

You cannot better a good idea: Tim Hale has revisited a favourite theme - a Bavarian branch in the Deutsche Bundesbahn period, modelled in HO.

LOCK 11

Jan van Munster presents his French HO exhibition layout, which has an unusual working feature inspired by the Vallee des Eclusiers in the Vosges.

PLAN OF THE MONTH - ILLIUM

On the Colorado 3' gauge: Mick Savage describes his fixed room-filling American Sn3 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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WINTER WONDERLAND

A traditional Christmas scene, with a twist - Huib Maaskant shows how he created a setting for a television advertisement.

KERETAPI MINYAK SAWIT

Jan van Mourik and Henk Wust had the idea of creating a layout in HOe based on a Malaysian palm oil factory and its associated narrow gauge railway.

EASTON - PLAN OF THE MONTH

Ken Wearing was drawn to North American in N after modelling British 00.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH

WIEK HARBOUR

Helge Scholz describes his new German Oe layout project, representing a small part of the narrow gauge system which formerly served much of the Baltic island of R?ºgen.

PLAN OF THE MONTH

A REALISTIC FANTASY

Peter Cousins explains how he came to create a large Z gauge layout which is now on display at Walpole Water Gardens near Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. 

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SIGNEN

Iain Baxter designed his German N layout to achieve maximum operation in a reasonable space.

DIE KLEINE ROTE – 3

‚ÄòThe Little Red One‚Äô ‚Äì Henk Scherpenzeel rounds off (for now) his report on a large Swiss metre gauge layout which recreates scenes on the Rh?§tische Bahn in HOm. This time: Serneus and Wiesen stations, plus the impressive bridges at Bromb?§nz and B?§rentritt.

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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.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Nordhafen
Roger Nicholls returns to European HO modelling with a compact quayside scene set in northern Germany.

EDITOR'S PICK
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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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
K??szeg ?ìvar??s
Peter Phillips describes his new Hungarian layout, K??szeg Old Town, which features both standard and narrow gauge lines (HO and HOe).

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Chica, Illinois
Peter North returns to a favourite compact layout theme: a small wayside station on the Rock Island lines, modelled in HO with a high level of authentic detail.

EDITOR'S PICK
On the P‚ÄìO Corr?®ze
Following the suggestion of Tulle as a possible layout (CM March 2018), we look at some of the stock used on the metre gauge Corr?®ze lines of the Paris ‚Äì Orl?©ans with photographs from the late W.J.K.Davies.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH - 21 RUE DES HAIES

Vincent Cleren depicts an industrial suburb in HO in which family connections inform certain structures. Built as a home layout, it has been successful at shows.

MITTELSTADT

A stop-over on a route through the mountains - Chris Bart describes his extensive digitally-controlled permanent home HO layout set in central Germany.

PLAN OF THE MONTH - BROKEN CREEK

Lee Wenham with a carefully detailed switching scene, expanded from a home layout to be portable for shows. It will be at the Uckfield exhibition this month.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH - WYSOKA GORZOWSKA

Tomasz Florczak describes a rural passing station in western Poland which he has modelled in HO as a tribute to his grandfather, the former stationmaster.

WEATHERING WAGONS

Peter Marriott shows how he makes modern HO stock look that bit more realistic.

PLAN OF THE MONTH - CHIRM

Stephen Foster has constructed an American HO layout in his garage, set on the rarely modelled Monon Railroad.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH

Inspired by a well-known painting, J.Cameron Millar presents an impression of an event in 1970s US railroading when Chicago hosted a famous visitor.

ALTE RINKAM

Doug Coombes, James Davies, and John Edge collaborated to create a generic German N layout which can host stock from different periods.

PLAN OF THE MONTH

A New York harbourside scene in P87 - Neil Kinison presents a layout which provides satisfying switching.

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SEEBRUCK AND ZINDELSTEIN

Nostalgia in model form: John Hills replays fifty years of railway memories gathered in Germany by building an HO/HOe layout in his spare room during lockdown. 

PLAN OF THE MONTH

LIMOUX 

Bill Johnston explores a secondary line in the Aude region in southern France and finds a station worth modelling. 

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