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Photo of the Week No. 823
No. 7 pauses to take on water at Little Monkton. Photo: Simon Reeves
Photo of the Week No. 822
A beautiful David Hick built Hunslet 0-4-0ST ‘No.1’, on Rob Golding’s Bayfields Light Railway. Photo: Rob Golding
Photo of the Week No. 821
Coal fired Fowler (Roundhouse / Riverdale) running on James Gilchrist’s Port Dinorwic line. Photo: Paul Howard
Photo of the Week No. 820
A Southern L&B Manning Wardle, built by DJB Engineering in 1993, seen in 1996 hauling a rake of Tenmille Southern Coaches. Everything in the photo is still in use today. Photo: Trevor Garnham.
Photo of the Week No. 819
Darjeeling B class and Silver Lady are seen together. In the background is a 3D printed footbridge, printed in the colour you see.
Photo: Tor Andresen
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 […]