Model of the Month

By Bob Bath In April 2009 I bought a copy of Garden Rail while on holiday and found an article on a 7/8" scale Spence Guinness Loco built by Peter Angus Locomotives. I just fell in love with it. There was no way I could, (1) afford it and (2) I wanted one in sixteen [...]

By David Pinniger Jack Wheldon’s “Charles Pooter” is one of the iconic 16mm loco designs from the early 1980’s. It was a generic industrial 2 foot gauge 0-4-0T designed to be a controllable and docile pot boiler which did not burn your fingers off like some of the Archangel engines. To this end, Jack designed [...]

By Nigel Town This one was built by John Brittain and is coal fired. It took me a while to get the knack of raising steam. At the time I ordered the engine I went for the safety option and ordered it with both coal and gas firing configurations. The engine came with a coal [...]

By Harvey Watkins I was already running an Archangel “Snowdon Ranger” and was so impressed by the performance and running qualities of the articulated engine that I dearly wanted one based upon “Taliesin”, in my view the best looking Fairlie. I couldn't afford a special build so there was nothing for it but to knuckle [...]

By Brian Dominic When I modelled the MDLR in 4mm scale, I operated a few sheep wagons, because the fictional MDLR operates in the White Peak area of Derbyshire. Anyway, I fancied building a pair in 16mm scale, so got the bits together. Wheels and axles, axleboxes and couplings came from Imp Models (because I [...]

By Keith Skillicorn Stewart Browne produced Sgt Murphy as an entry level meths fired pot boiler locomotive which could give good performance in all weathers. Though not in any way a scale model & only bearing a slight resemblance to the prototype, the loco was none the less a very good performer. The water capacity [...]

By Steve Pickthall The origin of Mrs Ps Teas was seeing a review of Rob Bennett’s tea van kit in one of the garden railway magazines. I like to build small scenes into the railway to provide focal points, and the 12 inch to the foot Mrs P liked the idea of being in charge [...]

By Keith Skillicorn Steamcraft’s Linda was conceived by David Taylor to expand his range of live steam locomotives in 16mm scale. The first was Mountaineer from the Ffestiniog, an ugly but powerful machine. Though it was quite popular with the G scale fraternity at the time. Linda was a little different however. Quite near scale, [...]

By Alan Regan Our Web Master, Tim Gregson, invited me to describe the evolution of my Merlin W&LLR #14 (SLR #85), which appeared on the web site as Weekly Photo Number 24 some weeks ago.  I bought the loco at least 18 years ago, when Wendy Davies was running Merlin Locos.  I knew it was [...]

By John Wenlock Whilst Roundhouse Engineering started their production life with the Victoria tram engine, they quickly introduced a more mainstream generic range in the shape of Lady Anne and Dylan.  These were both twin cylinder, meths fired 0-4-0 models, with slip eccentric valve gear, Lady Anne being side tank and Dylan saddle.  You could [...]