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What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• Society News
• What’s new in ‘N’ Trade news and product reviews
• Taking T-TRAK to Bridlington
• The Crooked House
• Minitrix Reprieve
• BR Gunpowder Vans (GPV)
• Trestles for the Bogie Trolley
• Holgate

• Little Points of Light
• Sound and Vision
• TINGS 2025
• Members’ Showcase
• Area Groups News
• Mail Train
• Society Services
• Classifieds and Events
• Competition
• Society Services

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• Society News
• What’s new in ‘N’ Trade news and product reviews
• Thinbridge: my first real layout
• Hoppertunity for Improvement
• Track Colour
• LISWORTH BAY. A seaside terminus in the south-west of England 1956-1966
• Pettleworth Downs

• An On/Delay/Off Module
• Trackin’ with T-TRAK: N-Scale Modular railroading
• Newburgh Halt
• My Passion for Railways reflected in my model railways
• Members’ Showcase
• Area Groups News
• Mail Train
• Classifieds and Events
• Society Services

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• Society News
• What’s new in ‘N’ Trade news and product reviews
• Rail 200
• Enhancing EX-WebThrottle for my needs
• Installing a Next18 DCC Decoder in the Graham Farish 09006 Diesel Shunter
• Accessible wiring for DCC
• Cowans Sheldon Crane Runner (Match) Wagons

• Newshedton
• Finnbrough
• Class 87 Repair
• A Cuban cigar box layout
• DCC-EX: An advanced control system for all
• A Canadian Alter Ego for the
• Many Tricks Mine
• Members’ Showcase
• Area Groups News
• Mail Train
• Competition
• Society Services

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• Society News
• What’s new in ‘N’ Trade news and product reviews
• Adding Lights to a Metcalfe Settle/Carlisle Station Building
• The Drax: A Bio-Massive Train
• Exworthy Stories – Rolling Road
• Inspection Pit
• Coombe Vale: A GWR Branch-line Terminus
• London Bridge Latest
• Another Cowans Sheldon Crane Project

• Lancaster Depot
• Building N Gauge Society Kit 15
• Kato DCC conversion
• Sourcing Location Track Layouts
• Revamped NGS Polybulk Wagon Kits 9a
• (Grainflow) and 9b (Distillers)
• Around the Shows – Model Rail Scotland and Preston Show
• Members’ Showcase
• Area Groups News
• Mail Train
• Classifieds and Events
• Competition
• Society Services

What’s in this issue?

• Welcome
• Society News
• What’s new in ‘N’
• A Home-made Capacitor Discharge Unit
• Iron Flats Sidings
• Constructing an NCB coal train
• Cullercoats
• Colliery Engine Shed
• Richmond – N Gauge Layout with finescale track

• Building NGS Kit 29 PO wagon
• Building a Gem Somerset and Dorset 7F 2-8-0
• Building an N gauge Y1/Y3 Sentinel: Part 2
• The Snowdrop Line
• Different every time
• Members’ Showcase
• Area Groups News
• Mail Train
• Classifieds and Events
• Competition
• Society Services

What’s in this issue?

• Welcome
• Society News
• What’s new in ‘N’
• DIY corridor connections
• Short Trains in the Modern Era
• Easier body removal using guitar plectrums
• London Bridge
• Lots and lots of Track Plans: Part 3
• Astbury Junction extended

• Building an N gauge Y1/Y3 Sentinel: Part 1
• Ohrdorf
• Cromford / Hangman’s Reach
• Charlestown via Blackdog Junction
• D600 Warships
• Members’ Showcase
• Area Groups News
• Mail Train
• Society Services/Classifieds
• Competition

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• Who said Warley was dead?
• Slumbering Bear II: early stages and the logical build order
• Basics of 3D modelling for 3D printing in model railways
• Alston coal drops
• A Christmas themed coffee table train set
• Secret Santa Village
• A Drilling Tale

• Adventures with T-Trak
• Embracing the Joy of Scenicing your T-TRAK Module
• DIY resin casting
• TINGS 2024 Part 1. The adventures of the Wiltshire 5 Towns Area Group
• TINGS 2024 Part 2. Around the layouts
• A simple control panel for Rails Connect surface mount digital point motor decoders
• Members’ Showcase
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• Custom etched brass
• Turning a Graham Farish (Poole) Duchess into a Streamlined Coronation
• Imaginary Hunslets
• St. Jons Town of Fartree
• Aerosol spraying for beginners

• East Dorset Area Group 30th Anniversary
• Dibden Yard
• Lots and lots of track plans Part 2 – Micro layouts & dioramas
• Bricking it – Dipping a toe into laser cutting
• Mullion
• Richmond Station
• Members’ Showcase
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• Lots and lots of track plans
• Giving the LNER V2 a makeover
• Medway Queen N Gauge Wagons
• Preston Arvie
• Space: the final frontier
• West Country Layout
• Fordon Hill

• More LED Lighting, but with fewer resistors
• Introduction to Slumbering Bear
• Magnetic Couplers for N Gauge
• Kato N gauge dioramas
• SECR “Dance Hall” Brake Vans
• Kit Bashed Coal Stage
• Members’ Showcase
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• Modular DCC Programmable Circuit
• Breakers: It’s all about protecting your investment
• Buildings for Richmond
• Salvaging a Basket Case Graham Farish Mere Hall: Part 2
• BR 16-ton Mineral Wagon
• N Gauge at Model Rail Scotland

• BR 12-ton Van ‘Vanfit’
• Block Occupancy Detector
• Eyemouth
• NGS Women Modellers
• Are you a Rivet Counter?
• DIY Tester for DCC Ready Locomotives Revisited
• Scratch Building a Signal Box
• Mucky Coal Wagons
• OAA and OBA Wagons
• Members’ Showcase
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• Wundrop Wells
• LMS ‘SOLE’ Ballast Wagons
• Two micro challenges: Part 2
• Mwynwr Tryciau colliery – the many tricks mine
• Stuttgart Messe 2023: Part 2
• Salvaging a Basket Case Graham Farish Mere Hall: Part 1

• A Review of the RKsc1 Servo Control Unit Starter Kit
• An Approach to Building Construction
• Painting and Lining LNER Teak Carriages
• Iron Ore Tipplers
• Modular layout idea – West-N-BendTrak
• Constructing an NER P7 hopper kit
• Members’ Showcase
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• Moreton Regis, an update
• Glenochil
• Aston Manor
• NER Electrics Are Go!
• Taunton to Barnstaple Railway
• Modelling with XPS
• Repetitive tasks, procrastination and the mental state of modelling

• Imagination extended!
• Two micro challenges: restricted space is no bar to modelling (Part 1)
• A DCC Decoder Tester for Wire Ended Decoders – Part One
• Exhibiting at the I-N-G-A.net show at Stuttgart Messe
• More customised 3D models
• A likeness of Rugby Midland
• Members’ Showcase
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• A taste of TINGS
• Fully programmable layout automation
• Time to get bashing
• Modelling buses and cars
• Teasing ‘Culm’
• The art of compromise — a series of modern image wagon conversions

• Revisiting ‘Alston’
• Mapping the Context
• Polcombe Regis
• How to build anything you want: working semaphores in N gauge
• S&T Department Warwell
• Alderford progress report: the main station
• Some more thoughts on reliability
• The planes of Crossharbour D-4(5)
• Members’ Showcase
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• An interview with Kato
• Making the most of the Peco Starter Pack: Curven Street
• A bridge too far? More on the bridge at ‘Holgate’
• HitherNThither: Shuttle Systems Revisited
• Life and times of the Class 313
• Building the MMR Covered Water Tower

• Converting a Peco KNR-49 Goods Brake Van Kit
• A second class return to Braughing please!
• Modelling the ROD in N
• The Story of Irgendwohn
• Atlantic Road
• Trimstowe
• ‘The Batty’ a (sort of) tribute to The Archers
• New wagons for old?
• Plotting
• Members’ Showcase
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• York 2023
• An easy to build track tester
• Malken
• Culthwaite: an Era 9 tail-chaser
• Silver Springs Locomotive Servicing Terminal
• Bicester King’s End

• Bovington Junction
• New Rapido Trains wagons
• N gauge with flower power
• Weston Gage diaries
• Holgate
• Llyn Neath
• The Logical Railway
• Kato Mini Diorama
• Chub Spoil Wagon
• Members’ Showcase
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• Commissioning a 3D model
• Peco Code-55 vs Kato?
• Hetton Colliery Railway Diorama
• Large LNER Tank Locos
• Adding Lights to a Metcalfe Double Track Engine Shed
• Revisiting Alkali Flats
• Mossdale

• J39 + 4P + B17 = D49
• Great Uncle Jim: a model signalman
• Class 128 Diesel Parcels Units
• Meet Pete — the man behind the Metcalfe diorama!
• Fowey Branch
• Improving an Original Dapol 9F
• Members’ Showcase
• In the beginning
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• The Making of ‘Elmridge’
• A Ramshackle Workshop
• Servo Controller and Mimic Panel
• Rapido SE&CR Wagons
• Dunplannin — my Lockdown layout
• Enhancing and customizing an Arch Laser Bedford TK road sweeper
• A programmable lighthouse control circuit

• Mortimer station
• Ruleoneton: an experiment in social and sociable modelling
• Next18 decoders in Dapol locos
• The Boats of Crossharbour D-4(5)
• British Finescale ‘Easy Build’ Turnout Kits
• Church-Hill Road
• Rolling Stock of Bridge Field
• A big yellow crane!
• Building A NGS Polybulk Wagon Kit
• Members’ Showcase
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• Buildings for ‘Devdale’
• Dalton
• Diorama in a jar or layout in a bottle?
• DIY Tester For DCC-ready Locomotives
• Eyemouth, part 2
• From Dapol Siphon-Gs into Southern Railway coaches
• Heritage day

• Centre spread photo – Here’s something a bit different!
• North Road
• Blackberry Hill
• Eastbourne Revisited
• Poppingham: A Table-Top Railway in British N gauge
• French N Gauge buses
• Realistic long (and short!) JHA hopper operations
• How to incorporate Unitrack into scenic layouts
• Members’ Showcase
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• Inspired by holidays in Cornwall: Sterth to Stives
• Ranoak, the movie!
• A taste of GWR 813
• Building the Ancorton Models NCW1 horse-drawn coal wagon
• Building goods wagons for a 1920s GWR branch line
• Riding school layout

• Centre spread photo – Kato ‘Pocket Line’ loco as an NCB shunter
• Improving the Minitrix 9F Part 1: the chassis
• The Mousepad-Oxford challenge
• MXA Lobster Wagon from a BDA Bogie Bolster Kit and 3D print
• Photographing Alston
• A versatile flasher or timer module: Part 2, uses
• Eyemouth, A ‘Lockdown’ project
• Ishinaka
• Astbury Junction
• Members’ Showcase
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• A mixture of art and modelling
• N Gauge railway automation, Part 3
• 32T-TRAK in Yorkshire
• Bridge Field
• A Versatile Flasher or Timer Module: Part 1, Construction
• An assortment of Arduino fun
• Centre spread photo – ‘Mossdale’

• The Concrete Depot
• My introduction to N gauge in the 1960s
• Pencarrow
• Landsdowne Lane Sidings
• Mason’s Pond
• Fed up with Dapol tender wires breaking?
• Alston, Part 2
• My APT project
• Members’ Showcase
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• Hoods for society China clay wagon kit
• N gauge model making as therapy for military induced trauma
• More on the GWR 57xx pannier tanks
• London Transport 1938 Stock
• It takes all sorts to run a railway!
• An assortment of Arduino fun

• London Underground in N Gauge
• Alston (Part 1)
• Time for T-TRAK?
• Building a B H Enterprises NER brake van kit
• A Push-pull fitted G5
• Process for Selecting Subjects for Kits and RTR Models
• Greenley Hedge
• Salverton, a layout on a tray
• Members’ Showcase
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• Scrap loads
• Dockside cranes: another angle
• Dapol Class 67 Lighting
• Locomotives for a Scottish layout
• Aroundafoot
• Automating signals
• Aylesford

• Soundscapes
• Modifying a Kato chassis for an NER ES-1 electric loco
• ‘Neath Pines’ and ‘Druids’ Ferry’
• A NGS Journal archive (Part 3)
• First attempts at scratchbuilding in N gauge
• Modular model railways
• Celebrating the Centenary
• Members’ Showcase
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• Alkali Flats: Part 2, Santa Fe
• Locos for the Alston Branch
• Building an industrial loco
• Hartley Poole
• Missenden Junction
• A beginner’s guide to personalising the Kato ES-1

• Building the Great Western Replica Kit of the GWR Siphon C
• A NGS Journal archive (Part 2)
• Building an LSWR 20-ton brake van
• Pay-as-You-Go 3D Printing
• Crossharbour D-4 (5)
• Members’ Showcase
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• Cheap and easy corrugated iron
• Dapol 14XX to 517 class
• Evoking a sense of place and time
• Laser cutting
• Running Hobbytrain pantographs under the wires
• Building Ratio bracket signals
• ‘Seen Better Days’

• Track Cleaning
• Vanwide
• Virtual scratch-building: designing your own 3D printed models
• A NGS Journal archive (Part 1)
• Building the NGS ‘Shark’ Plough Brake Van Kit (with a little bit of cheating)
• A ‘Networker’ in N
• Members’ Showcase
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• What happened at TINGS?
• Alkali Flats, Nevada
• Consett Ore Wagons
• DCC, Z21 app and the iPad
• Fossilburgh — Jurassic Park
• Weathering Kato Unitrack

• Mill Bay
• A flight of fancy
• The Middlewich Dodger
• Down to the wire – a cautionary tale
• Home-Made Fencing
• Train speed indicator
• Losing Track
• Members’ Showcase
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• Eastbourne Station
• BR Ferry vans
• Building GWR Brown Vehicles
• The Joys of Shredded Wheat Part 2: The locomotive
• Hassell Castle – A scratch-building extravaganza
• RMC JGAs gone south sample consists

• DIY signals
• I need to cut three arches — Scratchbuilding with a computer cutter
• Starting Dorcross Bay
• Building a J50 in N
• Members’ Showcase
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• Johannes Modules
• From ‘Loch Down Scrapyard’ to the ‘River Dart’
• Carohay: A dual gauge layout
• Achilles Tendon? Or, how to power smaller steam locomotives
• Daleside Yard: A Shunting Diorama

• Helix Building
• Hillsden: a long time in the making
• LED Signals
• Making your own transfers
• Members’ Showcase
• Falahill
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• What is a SPROG and why should I have one?
• What’s in a name? Or how the S&C Railway came about
• Sea Eagle to Silver Link
• A bridge too close!
• In search of some ‘clutter’
• Crockington
• Kinlochvarlich: a long story with no ending

• The Peco 15′ Tank wagon Kit
• The Joys of Shredded Wheat Part 1: The Coaches
• Installing a DC Shuttle Module
• Lockdown Showcase 6
• A scratchbuilt bus garage
• The Career Train
• Return to Trinity Road
• Not Sonning Cutting but foamboard cutting
• My journey to N Gauge railway automation: Part 2, DCC and sound
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• Shredded Wheat coach and loco conversions
• Grandad’s made a train set — Portsea Harbour
• Building and amending an N gauge J6 kit
• A whopper of a hopper — the LMS 40 ton bogie hopper wagon

• Minitrix coreless motor conversion
• Centre Spread Photo
• 47145 ‘Merddin (Myrddin) Emrys’ — part 2
• Crash repaired Class 56 conversion
• Lockdown Showcase 5
• A ‘Yankee Mogul’ in N
• Scrapyard conversion
• My Journey to N Gauge Railway Automation
• A radio-controlled lorry in N
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• 47145 ‘Merddin (Myrddin) Emrys’ — or how not to re-paint a loco
• Open All Hours: A cameo for my layout
• Building an Etched Buffer Stop Kit
• Mantle Mine
• Improving the tarpaulins on the Kernow/Farish china clay wagons
• China Clay Wagons: The Vacuum-braked Era

• Scratchbuilding a grain terminal
• Bearing reamers
• Mountain gondola system using an Arduino Uno
• The missing link: WR D600
• Completing the Circle
• The GWR 5700 Class pannier tanks — a modeller’s perspective
• Lockdown Showcase 4
• Scaling N
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• Bethvale: joy in a toolbox
• A quick ‘how-to’ guide to Shredded Wheat coaches
• Controlling locomotives by radio
• Normaltea Halt: a micro layout and test track
• DC Sounds

• Scratchbuilding Coffey’s Café
• My adventures with SCARM
• ‘6A’ Chester Midland Engine Shed: the COVID-19 upgrade
• Mathieson Models: a review for modellers and collectors
• Hand operated semaphore signals
• Southwark Bridge
• Lockdown Showcase 3
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• Building Ramps
• HOBC5 (High Output Ballast Cleaner)
• The Works — A micro industrial layout
• Lockdown Showcase 2
• Burnham-on-Sea — an introduction to focus stacking software

• Take Inspiration — or what to do with a brace of Borails and Weltrols
• Four Feather Falls
• London Ludgate
• How do Osborn’s Models make their kits?
• Workers Cottages: modifying a Petite Properties kit
• Zimbabwean Garratts
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• Yn y Coed twinned with Unter den Baumen
• A personal appreciation of the Dapol HST in GWR green
• Lockdown Showcase
• St Mary Mead Heritage Railway — A Quart in a Pint Pot
• A Tale of Two Dioramas

• A simple way to run a lower voltage accessory from a higher voltage DC power supply
• Filton TMD
• Four Wheelers from California
• A Quick Look at Petite Properties
• Up-cycling Lima wagons
• Two generations of Southern Push Pull
• Alderford Progress Report: Wanborough Docks
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• Bus scenarios using RTR models
• Stanburn: Time Travel on the Cheap
• Mobile Solder Station
• Era 1, 2 & 3 Wagons
• NGS Kit 72: PTA/JTA/JUA Iron Ore Tipplers

• Exhibiting realism: the locomotives of James Street
• ‘Par Road’: A Western Region layout set in the ‘70s and ‘80s
• Witches Hollow – A solo effort
• Controller Powered DC Power Supply
• Toy Shop: A Christmas micro-layout
• Mail Train
• A Stroll Around Wrenton

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• Commemorating the PECO ‘Jubilee’
• Alderford progress report – the treacle mine
• The Tay Bridge Part 2: The Station
• Animated scenery on Ranoak
• Simple but effective scratchbuilt fencing

• Kankakee Belt
• Kato, gesso, modello prospettico: an experiment in an A3 box-file
• Updating a little GEM: building an old whitemetal kit to modern standards
• A Network SouthEast layout
• Eheim trolleybus system
• Kato’s KOKUDEN units: starter sets with history
• Scratchbuilding a farmhouse
• Mail Train

What’s in this issue?

• Editorial
• What’s new in ‘N’
• Orton, or an addict’s tale
• BR Hawksworth Full Brake in BR Blue
• Scratchbuilding a retaining wall using card, plasticard, resin and brass
• BR generator van from an NGS Mk1 horsebox
• The British Outline
• N Gauge Models Produced by Minitrix Part 2: 1980-1988
• Shirebrook: a journey along the former Midland Railway line

• Modelling Rothley: a quest for
• authenticity
• Southdown open-top bus
• Doing battle with the NGS Warwell kit
• Broad Gauge South Wales Railway ‘Rob Roy’ class locomotive
• Using stripboard on model railways
• Building the N Gauge Mill Lane Sidings
• VIX Ferry Van
• Watlingford
• Mail Train