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Layout of the Year 2009
It's time for Hornby Magazine's annual layout competition - with details of all the layouts featured and instructions on how to vote for your favourite layout featured in the past year.
Scenes From Life
The humble allotment can add welcome colour to most layouts. James Lavery shows how to build one.
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Layout of the Year 2009For the third year running the Hornby Magazine is proud to present its annual readers’ vote to find the best model railway featured in this ...
Starting a new project is always the hardest part, particularly when faced with a multitude of choices. PAUL APPLETON discusses the choices that lie ahead on the road to creating a world in minature. Illustrations: ...
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For the third year running the Hornby Magazine is proud to present its annual readers’ vote to find the best model railway featured in this magazine. This year it’s bigger and better and there are two categories to pick your favourites from.
We’ve named three layouts of the year so and the annual readers’ vote is [...]
This weekend is the Leamington and Warwick Model Railway Exhibition at Stoneleigh Park Exhibition Centre. The show opens at 10am on Saturday and Sunday January 16/17 and features 25 layouts in the Leamington and Warwick Model Railway Society’s biggest exhibition to date.
The show takes place in Hall 1 of Stoneleigh Park and offers a 30,000sq [...]
On December 4 Bachmann launched a previously unannounced model of Churchward ‘City’ 3440 City of Truro at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway. The model has been produced exclusively for the National Railway Museum by Bachmann and follows in the footsteps of the prototype Deltic model launched in January 2008.
The new model will be available in [...]
In this feature-packed first volume of the Hornby Magazine DVD, we concentrate on the basic information you need to start building a model railway. We also show you some of the
best layouts on the scene, to inspire and capture your imagination.
Programme highlights include:
Layout Focus
Bay Street
Dalby wood
Back to Basics
Mike Wild talks about the key decisions [...]
Due to a mechanical breakdown at the printers we have been advised that copies of the December issue of Hornby Magazine, due on sale on November 13, will be delivered late to the news trade. It is hoped that in some areas the magazine will be with retailers by Saturday November 14, but regrettably in some [...]
This coming weekend Hornby Magazine will be taking part in the annual Spalding Model Railway Exhibition at Springfields Event Centre on November 14/15. Our layout, Bay Street Mk II, will be making its fifth outing of the year at Spalding where readers will be able to see the latest progress and new additions to the [...]
Hornby Magazine’s Stove R project has been popular since it launched in HM October 2009, but we are still someway short of the number of registrations that we need to make the model a reality. Dapol will be producing the Stove R for Hornby Magazine, but it will only be available directly from the magazine’s [...]
Features
So you want to build a model railway?Starting a new project is always the hardest part, particularly when faced with a multitude of choices. PAUL APPLETON discusses the choices that lie ahead on the road to creating a world in minature. Illustrations: John Wiffen.
Model railways are a wonderful pastime. They can take us back to a time of fond memories or allow [...]
Just what do you actually need in your tool box? Hornby Magazine shows what basic tools you will need to get started in railway modelling, without filling your house with excessive numbers of files, saws and pliers.
There are an awesome number of different tools that are available to assist in railway modelling projects, but with [...]
The East Coast Main Line is one of the most loved in Britain, with its mix of glamorous express trains, heavy freight, and pottering local trains. ANTHONY NEW offers some suggestions for how to create authentic East Coast atmosphere at home.
With its history of Great Northern ‘Atlantics’, ‘A1’, ‘A3’ and ‘A4’ steam locomotives, Deltic diesels, [...]
Hornby Magazine – showing you how… Coaling upFollowing the introduction of Hornby’s locomotive coaling stage to the Skaledale range, MIKE WILD shows how it can be simply included in a locomotive shed scene to grace any model railway.
Hornby’s range of Skaledale buildings have revolutionised railway modelling, particularly for new starters. The range continues to expand unabated and includes housing, railway structures such [...]
Editor's Reviews
BR’s Standard steam locomotives are well represented in model form and the arrival of Hornby’s BR ‘Clan’ 4-6-2 has ticked off another big gap in the range of locomotives designed by Robert Riddles.
The ‘Clan’ was announced by Hornby in January this year and has been a little delayed in its arrival. However, on first glance [...]
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32-525DS Class 55 D9007 Pinza, BR two-tone green £176.80
Scale: ‘OO’
Era: 5
DCC: DCC sound fitted
Couplings: NEM pockets with small tension locks
The latest locomotive to receive a sound upgrade is Bachmann’s production ‘Deltic’. This new release is Finsbury Park’s D9007 Pinza in the attractive two-tone green colour scheme with small yellow warning panels and white cab window [...]
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ND082A Class 156 156418, Regional Railways (powered) £102.72
ND082B Class 156 156448, Regional Railway (unpowered) £39.10
ND083A Class 156 156506, SPT (powered) £102.72
ND083B Class 156 156435, SPT (unpowered) £39.10
ND081A Class 156 156440, First/Northern Rail (powered) £104.95
ND081B Class 156 156492, First/Northern Rail (unpowered) £39.10
Scale: ‘N’
Era: 8/9
DCC: 6-pin socket
Couplings: Working BSI couplings on outer ends
Dapol’s factory has been busy [...]
Staff Projects
Bay Street Mk II makes its debutventured out for the first time at the Bristol exhibition on May 1-3. Here he reviews its debut and reveals what’s next for the layout.
It seemed like an impossible task a few days before Bay Street Mk II’s debut, but a succession of late nights meant that we made it to the show on-time and [...]
April’s scenic transformationScenery, buildings, backscenes, rolling stock and painting have all been part of the activity on Bay Street Mk II in the final month before its first exhibition outing. MIKE WILD updates progress just days before the layout was packed-up for its debut in Bristol.
Progress has been rapid during April. I started the month with two [...]
Bristol calling – the deadline approachesAs this issue closed for print, there were just four weeks to go until the Bristol Model Railway Exhibition and Bay Street Mk II’s debut. MIKE WILD reveals all the latest progress with the new project layout in the final update before its debut.
In September I set myself what some would call an impossible [...]
Keeping up the pressureBay Street Mk II is rapidly moving forward ready to make its debut at the Bristol Model Railway Exhibition in May. MIKE WILD updates the situation and reveals what has been happening on this new project layout.
Its been another busy month in my shed as I’ve been working long and hard on the new layout. [...]
