Category Archives: The trade
London Festival of Railway Modelling – 2018 #3
We’ll start today with some thoughts on layout design. It is noticeable how the classic branch line layout has been supplemented at shows by the ’roundy-roundy’ with few points. It was interesting to compare a few of those layouts on … Continue reading
London Festival of Railway Modelling – 2018 #2
Durham Road TMD followed the standard loco shed conventions that are quite common now we all have too many locomotives. But this is an excellent example of the genre, especially due to the size, being in ‘O’ gauge, and with … Continue reading
London Festival of Railway Modelling – 2018 #1
Late March and it’s time for a visit to Alexandra Palace, and the London Festival of Railway Modelling. Once again I visited with my old work colleagues, Peter and Malcolm (otherwise known as the Old G*ts Day Out). We all … Continue reading
New facets to the hobby?
All self-respecting forums have a thread called ‘Ebay madness’. Well, here’s my contribution. Perhaps it’s a new, slightly cheaper, approach to model railways? Collect the empty boxes, and put them on the shelf end on as if you owned the … Continue reading
Book review – Creating cameo layouts’
We all get older. Even Iain Rice gets older. That young whipper-snapper with radical ideas on P4 modelling and on layout design is now an elder statesman of the hobby. Fortunately he writes in just the same style as he ever … Continue reading
Book review – Model Railroad Planning 2017′
The new year has come around again and it’s time for this year’s ‘Model Railroad Planning’ from Kalmbach. I get this annual publication every year, and it is almost always worth a read. There are usually too many (for me) … Continue reading
Shopping list 2017
Bachmann announced their 2017 (and probably well beyond) release at the weekend, and also the unfortunately much smaller number of Farish N gauge releases. I have put a few pre-orders in, for if and when they arrive. I just hope … Continue reading
