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The Best Of ModelRailwayEngineer – Winter 2015/16
Here are my favourite posts and resources of Winter 2015/16 in case you missed them. [...]
7 Ways To Get Track Cheap in 2024
You don't need to buy brand new and expensive Peco and Hornby track for your model railway. Use these 7 techniques and save your money. [...]
Model railway minimum curve conundrum – what’s the smallest radius?
What's the minimum curve radius for model railways? The numbers you need to know for Z, N, OO and HO track from Peco, Hornby, Märklin. [...]
How my money-saving-Nija wife is helping helping me make a model railway baseboard for free
How my money-saving-Ninja wife is helping helping me make a model railway baseboard for free. [...]
How they do it: Sunday Scribbles on baseboard inclines, track, modelling tips and more for your mental toolkit
Want to build a better railway? Whatever your level of model railway building this week's Sunday Scribbles has something for you with five quick tips from [...]
The definitive beginners guide to setting up Hornby model railway
So you got a Hornby train set for Christmas or perhaps taken the plunge and bought your first model railway, probably a Hornby starter set.
You've [...]
How To Use Animated Action To Make Your Railway Come Alive
Looking for a way to bring your railway to life and add interest? Animated scenes are the answer. [...]
Eight Ways To Join In and Stay Up To Date
Don't miss out - here's how you can catch up with the latest tips, advice, information, community chatter and offers from ModelRailwayEngineer. [...]
Short and Sweet Sunday Scribblings: Free Brick Paper
Looking for quick, free, way to create brick and stone walls surfaces for your buildings? [...]
Making Statues for Town and City scenes
This tip, sent in by Bill Hughes, is possibly the easiest I've heard but it's great for making statues.
For OO scale railways, take a soft drink bottom top [...]
How NOT to clean track, part 2
Cleaning track is a fundamental maintenance task on a model railway but it's surprising how badly wrong it can go.
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Little England or how to model a large area in a small space
If you've been following this blog you'll know I'm working on a big new layout. But creating England, from Margate to Penzance, in miniature is anything but [...]
Great South Railway – Go Go Go
This is most exciting, important and frankly insane moments in the four years I've been writing ModelRailwayEngineer.
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The Ultimate Glossary Of Model Railway Terms
You probably know or can work out what railway points do and what gauge means? But what about loading gauge? A CDU? Or a flange?
Don't be put [...]
How NOT to clean track, Part 1
This gem of track cleaning advice was overheard in a model railway shop the other day. And it's wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. [...]
Creating capitvating caves
While trains are the centre of attention on my railways it's small scenery surrounding the track action that I most enjoy making. They lend legitimacy to a [...]
DCC Trains: Why You’ll Be Thrilled, 5 Exciting Advantages
I've gone on record before as saying that I prefer analogue / DC trains over digital but there are six reasons I get envious. [...]
What George Stephenson Taught Me About Building Model Railways
George Stephenson (1781-1848) was one of the all time great engineers. But you already knew that. What you probably don’t know are all the wonderful things [...]
How To Build Inclines Your Trains Can Climb – Maximum and Recommended Gradients UPDATED
If you want a fun and interesting model railway then you'll want your trains hauling up hills and hurtling down. Here's how to work out the space and gradient [...]
Weekly Reading List – 18th Jan 2016
The best model train stories, sites and books I liked this week, including big news from Hornby, some inspiring layouts and the smallest Google Street View [...]