The Hornby Magazine Yearbook is with us once again, published on 1 November by Iain Allan, just ready for Christmas. Editor Mike Wild has set Hornby Magazine Yearbook No 6 around the Southern Region and a completely new model railway layout…
The Model Railway Planning and Design Handbook brings together advice, hints and ideas from a number of respected model railway authors to help plan and design a model railway layout. Paul A. Lunn; Neil A Ripley; Ken Gibbons; and Jack…
Modelling the British Rail Era: A guide to Modelling the classic Diesel and electric age, covers the period 1964 to 1994. Ian Fleming, Ken Gibbons, Steve Flint, and Jeff Taylor have combined to produce a modellers guide to the rail…
The aspects of modelling book on railway electrics by Ian Morton is designed for those that shy away from this difficult subject that can make grown men gibber and start shaking at the knees, but once said men get their heads…
Modelling trees part one broadleaf trees by Gordon Gravett has to be the most authoritative book published to date on the subject of scale modelling trees. Gordon Gravett leads the modeller through the process for creating the scale model in…
BR First Generation DMUs by Hugh Longworth is likely to be regarded as a definitive work on the subject. The level of statistical detail provided by Hugh Longworth is incredible, providing depot allocations and composition of units, and will satisfy…
Railway Modelling Realism; An Aspirational Guide is by Kevin Cartwright and Nigel Adams and forms part of the Silver Link library of Railway Modelling. Both authors are experienced modellers who have been striving for that look of realism over many…
Signalling by Nigel Digby is aimed at the advanced modeller rather than the beginner, and while the subject of signalling is covered in some depth some initial knowledge is assumed. If all you want is to place some signals on…
British Railways Unfitted and Vacuum Braked Wagons in Colour by Trevor Mann This full colour compendium illustrates the fleet of non-fitted and vacuum-braked freight wagons built by British Railways, for both revenue-earning traffic and departmental use, during the period from…
Although widely deprecated both at the time and subsequently, the Beeching Report was not the wholly negative document of popular legend. Among the more positive aspects was Beeching’s vision of the potential for the railway industry of the container and…