In this months issue...

RAILWAY OF THE MONTH - SAINT-HILAIRE

Steven Deruytter presents his Belgian HO layout, a simple plan for exhibiting based on actual locations and unusually in an autumn setting.

SAINT AGUR

Small but satisfying - Ray O'Neill presents 766 his compact French HO exhibition layout which poses certain challenges for shunting.

PLAN OF THE MONTH - SANTA MARIA

Dan Spalding describes his Rhatische Bahn HOm layout, which depicts a wayside station with typical features on a line that was planned but never actually built.

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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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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH

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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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
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 Rh?§tische Bahn.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Schweizer Kleinstadt
Chris Atkinson has built a new Z gauge exhibition layout, depicting a typical small town in Switzerland.

EXTRA PAGES – SPECIAL REPORT
N?ºrnberg 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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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Neu Birkenfeld
A third life for a narrow gauge layout: the Spijkspoor model railway club from The Netherlands have ‘recycled’ their German HOe layout.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Le Locle to Les Brenets
Metre gauge to the French border – Alan Pike explores a self-contained Swiss local line which might make an interesting model.

EDITOR'S PICK
Free kit with this issue!
A short introduction to the Auhagen HO accessory kits presented free with this issue.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Gila Canyon
Alan Hancock tells how his new portable US N layout involved a change of scene and a change of scale.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
Eu (Le Tr?©port)
Peter Smith tells how his new O scale layout, a French loco d?©p?¥t, built with John Smith, came about as a result of being tempted into an exhibition purchase.

EDITOR'S PICK
MOB Modifications
Goods and service stock adapted from commercial items: Michael Farr used various techniques to model in HOm Montreux Oberland Bernois metre gauge wagons.

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KREIT

Anthony Bilton was inspired by an old album of photos and created a table-top tail chaser in HOe recalling the Stubaitalbahn south of Innsbruck in the 1960s.

STUTTGART

One man's dream in N, regrettably never fully realised - the remarkable private achievement of Wolfgang Frey, preserved for posterity and now open to the public.

VALBRUNA LUSSARI

A halt in the eastern Alps - Luca Klobas presents his new HO diorama, set on the Pontebbana line in Italy.

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AUSSERBERG

Roger Ellis describes his fixed home Swiss HO layout based on the Bern-L??tschberg-Simplon which offers the opportunity to run some long trains.

MOULIN MARGOT

Claude Fandel created a large scale field railway scene in a small space, in collaboration with Marcel Ackle.

LA PLAINE SAINT-DENIS

A micro layout in HO set in the Paris suburbs -Wieger Pasman demonstrates that less can be more.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH

CHEAKAMUS CANYON

On the British Columbia Railway (BCR): Scott Fitzgerald describes the dramatic Canadian HO layout he built with Dave Standen and Roger Cole. 

PLAN OF THE MONTH

K?ñLN BR?úCKENM?úHLE

A small German scene modelled in HOe: Andrew Knights has a new layout. Or is it? An excellent examples of recycling.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
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.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
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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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Cambach v. d. H??he
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.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
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.

SCALE DRAWINGS
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 Wiesm?ºller.

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RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
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.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
S??ller
Chris Hales describes his unusually themed Z layout, which was inspired by a holiday in Mallorca.

EDITOR'S PICK
Bw.D?ºgelskirchen
Doug Tompkins describes his new portable HO layout, a small German diesel depot set in Epoch IV.

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