Model Railway Journal Index

Issue 218 2012      « Previous issue  |  Next issue »

Edited by Paul Karau

• Small Suppliers Forum

  p.242

  C&L purchases Exactoscale with Len Newman providing technical advice and Andrew Jukes providing advice and financial support for the development of some additions to the track range; Wizard Models MR Bain 54ft carriage kits (D469 composite, D473 third, D559 brake and D561 brake third) are available again; Brassmasters releases an Easichas kit for the Bachmann MR/LMS 3F 0-6-0, etched coupling hooks and pockets, two new bogie compensation units (6'4" and 10'6" wbs) and etched windows for the Scalescenes 2mm engine shed; Lochgom Kits releases 7mm kits for the HR Double Deck Barred Sheep Van (in both David Jones and Peter Drummond versions)

  Tags: Small Suppliers Forum

• The Way Ahead - Radio Control Arrives

  Don Rowland

  p.243

  4mm/P4

  Don Rowland is so confident with the current radio-control equipment that, believe it or not, he has sold his exceptional Alpraham Sidings layout and at 82 years old he is building a new P4 layout without any wiring

  Tags: radio-control

• Real Atmosphere

  p.248

  M7 class 0-4-4T No. 30107 at Corfe Castle on the Swanage branch viewed from a vegetable plot in July 1962.

  Tags: BR / British Railways / British Rail, lineside details, Real Atmosphere, steam locomotives

• Break-Time at Hornsey

  Kier Hardy

  p.249

  4mm/EM

  Continuing on from the introduction to Hornsey Broadway in MRJ 203, Kier Hardy describes development to date.

  Tags: BR / British Railways / British Rail, layouts

• The Schull and Skibbereen Railway

  Roger Bird

  p.259

  6mm

  Roger Bird details the construction of locomotives and rolling stock for his Irish narrow gauge byway.

  Tags: Irish railways, narrow gauge, rolling stock, scratchbuilding

• LNWR Two-arm Ground Signal

  Steve Hewitt

  p.263

  4mm

  Steve Hewitt has built all the signals for John Holden's EM Gauge model of Liverpool Lime Street. Here he describes how he built one of the smallest and most challenging

  Tags: LNWR / London & North Western Railway, scratchbuilding, signals / signalling

• MRJ Portfolio

  p.266

  4mm

  Rambling market garden landscape in 4mm

  Modelled by Robert Dudley-Cooke

  Tags: landscape, MRJ Portfolio, scratchbuilding

• Brent Plus

  Peter Cross

  p.268

  4mm/EM

  Constructing his EM gauge model of Brent station for over thirty years has given Peter Cross lots of enjoyment. He has even overcome the limitations of the prototype by imaginative expansion

  Tags: GWR / Great Western Railway, layouts

• Bradfield Gloucester Square Part Three

  John Elliott

  p.274

  4mm/00

  John Elliott concludes his account from MRJs 216 & 217

  Tags: BR / British Railways / British Rail, layouts, operation