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Photo of the Week No. 780
Roundhouse Silver Lady, Darjeeling B class, Taliesin and a Darjeeling ‘D’ Class Garratt, with a scratch built Danish engine shed by Øystein Sunde.
Photo: Tor Andresen
Photo of the Week No. 778
A John Campbell model of County Donegal railcar 10 (ex-Clogher Valley Railway)
Photo: David Taylor
Photo of the Week No. 777
Roundhouse “Katie” passes the first signs of spring, the snowdrops by the church.
Photo: Glen Austin
Photo of the Week No. 776
A freelance Garratt, seen in the January sunshine on the New Herrington Light Railway. Incorporating mainly Roundhouse running gear, it was built in 2002 by David Johnson.
Photo: Michael Leckenby
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 […]