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Stripping enamel paint from a model can seem like a delicate process, but with the right tools and techniques, it's...
Servicing your model railway locomotive is an essential part of maintaining its performance and longevity. Regular...
Fixing warped plastic parts on a model can be a bit tricky, but it's a manageable task with some patience and the...
The UK railway scale is called 00 gauge (pronounced "double-O") due to its origins as a smaller alternative to the...
For decades, British Rail (BR) was a symbol of national unity in transport, linking cities, towns and villages across...
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In line with MOROP's NEM standards, Graham Farish track is completely compatible with Peco's, however, most modellers don't like to mix different manufacturers track.It is not just Graham Farish's and Peco's N gauge track that modellers don't like...
Sometimes, us mere mortals completely forget what values we have set to our decoders, other times our decoders just start to misbehave for no reason whatsoever. When the latter happens it's easy for panic to set in as it can appear that your...
Bo-Bo is a common wheel arrangement for many medium sized diesel and most electric locomotives. It indicates that a locomotive has two bogies (one at each end), each bogie has two axles and each axle has 2 wheels giving the locomotive eight wheels...
Soldering irons are a little bit like the children's story "Goldilocks and the three bears": some are too hot, some are too cold and some are just right, but which is which when it comes to modelling and why?An entry-level soldering iron will be...
When railway modellers refer to a baseboard, they are talking about the large flat board on which their railway tracks are permanently attached to.The purpose of a baseboard is to provide a solid and permanent foundation on which a model railway...
7/0.2 wire is what railway modellers most commonly use for wiring auxiliary features to their layouts and to carry power to and from a controller and the tracks. The code simply relates to the number of individual metal strands inside a wire (in...
You can use reed switches on your model railway when you want an action to be triggered by a train passing over a particular section of track. Reed switches work in a very basic way, they have two fine strips of metal placed slightly apart acting...
There are times when you may want to operate more than one set of points using just one switch, examples of locations where this could be an advantage include, crossovers, catch points and when a dedicated route is required, this is not a problem...
We have all been there, with that wagon or coach that derails all of the time, and we suspect that the reason for this mischievous item of rolling stock constantly making a break for freedom is a lack of weight. The solution is easy though: simply...
Modern image is a phrase that railway modellers use to describe a layout that reflects modern times. Interestingly, modern image doesn't feature as a category in a lot of manufacturer's era systems which describe specific and significant periods...
The EM1s (Class 76 under the TOPS system) were a British design of Bo-Bo electric locomotive with a maximum speed of 65mph and built to a design by Sir Nigel Gresley. EM1 stands for Electric Mixed-traffic 1 and the prototype was designed as early...
Trees are a big feature on most model railway layouts. There are some great ready to go trees from various manufacturers, depicting many different types and sizes of trees that work across all gauges. But did you know that you can also easily make...