Model Railway

A 4-6-2 railway locomotive is a steam engine with 4x leading wheels, 6x driving wheels and 2x trailing wheels. Engines with this wheel arrangement are known pretty much worldwide as Pacifics.Steam engines with the wheel arrangement 4-6-2 were...

Bogies are an independent framework that supports the wheelsets on a railway locomotive, coach or some larger wagons. The B4 bogie was a type introduced in 1963 to replace the earlier Commonwealth bogie design. The B4 weighs in at just 5 long tons...

Steam locomotives come in all shapes and sizes, this is because their intended tasks require varying traction ability, speed or hauling capacity. To help accommodate these needs, steam locomotives are designed with different wheel arrangements...

Think Flying Scotsman, and you undoubtedly think of the locomotive, however, the name comes from not just a single engine, but a whole train, a daily service between London and Edinburgh.Trains have been transporting passengers between the English...

The route availability of a real-life locomotive is another way of saying which tracks an engine is permitted to travel along.A lot of the British railway network dates back to the Victorian era. During that time there were many private companies...

Bogies are the metal frames that sit independently beneath a railway locomotive or rolling stock to support its wheelset. The BT10 bogie is one of the most successful designs of bogie to date, it was designed in the 1970s and is still in use...

The Big Four is a collective term used to describe the four main railway companies that operated the railways between 1923 and 1947, these are the LNER (London & North Eastern Railway), the LMS (London Midland and Scottish railway), SR (Southern...

Bogies are a chassis (or framework) that carry a wheelset on a railway locomotive or rollingstock. The Commonwealth bogie was introduced in the 1950s and used on BR Mk1s and Irish CIE Park Royal coaches. The Commonwealth bogie was manufactured...

The TOPS system (Total Operations Processing System) is a computerised system used to keep track of a locomotive/rolling stock's location and servicing requirements. TOPS was developed in America to enable the railways to track their rolling stock...

Hornby Railroad models are a range of locomotives and rolling stock manufactured by Hornby to be a little less delicate than their standard models.Standard Hornby models have a similar specification and durability as those produced by other...

Catch points (sometimes referred to as trap points) are a kind of turnout usually positioned at the end of sidings to prevent rolling stock accidentally venturing onto the mainline without clearance.There are different types of catch points,...

A Beyer-Garratt locomotive is a type of articulated steam engine with three sections. Technically, as two of the sections have their own powered wheels it could be described as two steam engines with a connecting boiler in the middle, however, the...