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Photo of the Week No. 831
A 7/8″ scale Hunslet in the Quarry on James Gilchrist’s Port Dinorwic Branch. Photo: Paul Howard.
Photo of the Week No. 830
Darjeeling A class on a garden railway at Skarnes, Norway. Photo: Tor Andresen
Photo of the Week No. 829
A 7/8″ scale ‘Jack’ (Wilson Locomotives) running on Port Dinorwic. Photo: Paul Howard
Photo of the Week No. 828
During these hot days, the cooler evenings can be a good opportunity to run one’s railway and see it in a different light. Here (seen in July 2024) the Earl & a Pickering coach are about to depart Chilswell Halt on the Buscot Light Railway. Photo: Trevor Garnham
Photo of the Week No. 827
A Timpdon Railbus operating on the Butterley Garden Railway pauses by the purple thyme which is in flower in late June. With the destination set for Ashover, and former Ais Gill signalbox in the background, it captures elements of the Midland Railway routes and colours. Photo: Glen Austin.
May 2023 – Warnham Brickworks Tipper
Manchester or Ship wagon
By Peter Dawes
This model is based on a September 1965 article in The Industrial Railway Record No.7. The drawing is small and […]
March 2023 – Scratch-built tram carriages to match Regner “Paul”
By Alan Hodgson
Tram engines in their many forms have fascinated me for a long time and when Regner released their model “Paul”, I had to […]
June 2022 – Building the “Arthur Koppel” Railcar in 7/8ths
By Gerd Neumann
While browsing some narrow gauge photo-sites came across a very neat electric loco/railcar running on 2ft/60cm track. Most electric railcars need an overhead […]
February 2022 – Twll Mwg: A Dinorwic Slab Wagon
By Simon Fletcher
Hi again folks. It’s been a while since I last wrote something for Model of the Month. Where Covid lockdowns gave us additional […]
November 2021 – Building a pair of IP Engineering Tal-y-llyn Railway 2-Bar Slate Wagons
By Mike Barton
Above: “Dolgoch” shunting slate wagons on a damp November afternoon. Compare to this 1941 photo by W.A. Camwell.
I recently built […]