RAILWAY MODELLER May 2024 Vol.75 No.883
RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
Ropley
Chris Cleveland explains how he overcame a number of challenges to create a model based on the locomotive headquarters of the Watercress Line in Hampshire. The layout captures faithfully many of the smaller details that can be observed at heritage railway sites across the UK.
PLAN OF THE MONTH
Carterton
Limitations on available space can often prevent the modelling of a real location, but Chris Chewter found a way to create an evocative 00 gauge cameo of this former Oxfordshire station in a scenic footprint measuring just 6' x 2', using PECO bullhead track.
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Railway Of The Month - Ropley
Chris Cleveland explains how he overcame a number of challenges to create a model based on the locomotive headquarters of the Watercress Line in Hampshire. The layout captures faithfully many of the smaller details that can be observed at heritage railway sites across the UK.
Micro Marvel - Cropper Street
An urban cameo in 4mm scale, based on the railways of Liverpool and built by Chris Hopper.
Plan Of The Month - Carterton
Limitations on available space can often prevent the modelling of a real location, but Chris Chewter found a way to create an evocative 00 gauge cameo of this former Oxfordshire station in a scenic footprint measuring just 6' x 2', using PECO bullhead track.
Invermire
Sean Hutchinson recounts how members of the Hessle Model Railway Group set about constructing their first 7mm scale layout, which takes its inspiration from the Far North line and is set in the 1980s.
Newport High Street
Captivated by Western Region steam in South Wales as a child, Chris Forrest set out to recreate one of its principal stations in 00 gauge.
Barnwood
An N gauge layout by Andrew Fardell, set in a fictional location in the North West in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with the emphasis on freight and aimed at entertaining the viewer at exhibitions.
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