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Contents of the magazine
Editorial
Mike Wild considers the trends of model railway building and discusses how railway modellers can contribute towards future new locomotive models.
East Ranford
This superb 31ft long layout is based on a fictional four-track section of the East Coast Main Line. Hornby Magazine visited the Cleethorpes Model Railway Society to find out the story behind this impressive Eastern Region layout.
Update
Bachmann reveals its new ‘OO’ gauge Scenecraft building range, Dart Castings releases 30 new figures, Hornby gains NMRA approval for the Elite controller and all the latest news.
Exhibition Round-up
A look back at the Warley National Model Railway Exhibition and other recent events in pictures.
Behind the scenes at Hornby
Hornby Magazine reveals how Hornby produces new models in this exclusive behind the scenes feature.
First steps: layout from a box
Mike Wild shows how a train set can be set up and discusses some important considerations for any new model railway.
Scratch building billboards
Scratch building doesn’t have to be complicated, as Mike Wild shows by building a simple billboard hoarding using plastic.
Multi-level layouts
Anthony New continues his series on main line track plans with six ideas for multi-level and spiral layouts.
Bachmann goes underground with Ernie
Underground Ernie is the latest children’s television phenomenon. Mike Wild talks to Dennis Lovett about the range and discovers the background to this new range of toy trains.
Hornby Post
Readers views on future model releases, Southern Railway ‘E2’ 0-6-0Ts, the prototype Deltic and more.
Where are you going?
In the BR steam era every locomotive carried a lamp code when running on main and branch lines. Evan Green-Hughes explains how these lamps were used with illustrations of all the BR lamp codes.
FEATURES
So you want to build a model railway?
Model railways are a wonderful pastime. They can take us back to a time of fond memories or allow us to follow our imagination. For the new modeller, with a blank canvas and the simple desire to build a working model railway it can be a minefield of choice. Should you start afresh with digital control, should you build a branch line or a main line and, perhaps most importantly, where will the layout be housed?...
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