October 2022

British Railway Modelling (BRM)

Providing exceptional coverage of the UK model railway hobby.

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Welcome to October
It’s been a chaotic few weeks at BRM headquarters, with the end of summer looming, and the hobby’s ‘busiest period’ just around the corner. The office has been inundated with new products, there have been announcements galore, plus thoughts have alre
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Kingsfield
Layout name: Kingsfield Scale/Gauge: 1:76 scale / 16.5mm gauge / OO Size: 25ft x 10ft Era/Region: British Railways London Midland/Western from late-’50s to early-’60s Layout type: Continuous loop Back in the late-’70s/early-’80s, Eddie had the opport
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British Railway Modelling
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Inbox
KEEP IN TOUCH I’m living in North Carolina in the USA and started my first and only layout in 2017. I had to learn how to build it by reading BRM and watching your videos as there are no clubs over here. So, thanks for all the help. Modelling is bett
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Oldshaw
Oldshaw’ was built by Andrew Bartlett to represent a small station and nearby factory/sidings on a Western Region branch line in the late 1970s – early 1980s. It later passed through a few owners and was put up for sale in mid-2017. Enter three frien
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Create A ‘Chocolate Box’ Diorama
When you think of a ‘chocolate box’ scene, a quaint thatched cottage in the countryside, with a pond or a babbling brook nearby, would probably come to mind. Despite being a stereotypical view of England, there are still plenty of villages that follo
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Prototype Inspiration: Footbridges
When introducing a railway-themed article, I often open with a reference to a forerunner in transportation by about 90 years, the canal. While walking along the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal towpath, I came across a most unusual structure. Crossing th
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Add Lights To A Hornby Class 66
I can remember a time when the most realistic sound produced by a model locomotive was the rasp of a wheel brushing against a piece of sandpaper to represent a chuff when in motion. This area of the hobby has changed out of all recognition and has ad
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How To… Personalise A Footbridge Kit
Footbridges. Practical, useful, safety-orientated structures for crossing the railway. My walk to high school involved using a footbridge, a wrought-iron, lattice affair with wooden sleepers for the steps and decking. The steps had open backs and I w
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Ewe
Layout name: Ewe Scale/Gauge: 1:76 scale / 16.5mm gauge / OO Size: 5ft 4in x 1ft 3in plus fiddle yard Era/Region: BR (E) 1950s-1960s Layout type: Fiddleyard to sidings I blame my dear old aunty May for this. A parcel arrived in time for my sixth birt
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Alsager Railway Association
BRM: Tell us about the history of the club… John: The Alsager Railway Association (ARA) was founded in 1979. The town of Alsager is located between Stoke-on-Trent and Crewe and draws its membership mainly from north Staffordshire and southern Cheshir
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Motorising A Die-cast Tramcar
Would you like a layout full of colourful and interesting rolling stock? One where each vehicle costs less than a Hornby L&Y ‘Pug’? And, where a realistic, and complex track system can be assembled in a tiny space and there’s no need to worry if you
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News Round-up
Bachmann Europe’s autumn 2022 British Railway Announcements are headlined by new tooling projects in N and OO scales. Less than two weeks since the surprise announcement of the all-new Bachmann Branchline OO scale Class 37 during the DEMU Showcase ev
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Bachmann Class 37
Bachmann has already produced many iterations and developments of a Class 37 in OO gauge over recent decades, but the time has come for it to produce a model from new tooling that caters to the demands and expectations of the modern buyer. Although o
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Bachmann Bulleid Coaches
Bachmann’s original 64ft Bulleid coaching stock started to look dated with its thick bodysides and recessed windows some years ago and hadn’t appeared in its catalogues for some time, so a new model was announced at the beginning of 2018. At last, we
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Peco O Gauge Setrack
O gauge modelling of old was often like a ploughing match. Those with great skill could plough in neat, straight lines to turn out beautifully-detailed and painted models from kits, which would run on equally-wonderful layouts. Meanwhile, those still
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Dapol Gwr 78xx ‘Manor’
The GWR ‘Manor’ was a versatile 4-60 configured locomotive designed with a lighter axle loading than the existing and popular ‘Grange’ class, which enabled it to operate in regions of the GWR where this was not possible with a locomotive of comparabl
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Bachmann 25t Brake Van
For autumn 2022, via its quarterly British Railway Announcements, Bachmann revealed that a ‘Dance Hall’ brake van would join its range, with a South Eastern and Chatham Railway origin. The model portrays one of the first batch of 20 prototype vans bu
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Hornby Track Symbols
What makes a layout ‘great’? The obvious elements – interesting architecture, well-executed scenery, clever features and cameos, or a cunning animation, perhaps? A trackplan that works for entertainment and interest purposes – less obvious. For all t
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This Month In Pictures…
We toured Dapol’s UK factory – coming soon to WOR TV. This classic mould was just one of many interesting items we saw. Andy seems to have spent as much time attaching parts to locomotives as reviewing them this month. Swapping railway tracks for roa
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Buffer Stop
BRM August’s Buffer Stop page asked, “Does good modelling stop at Dover?” BRM readers and RMweb members offered their thoughts. Some said that overseas modelling in BRM would be a “wholly positive step”, and that it’s “rather blinkered of someone to
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Top Destination
Historic York station and all its detail, wonderfully captured in 4mm:1ft scale. • ‘Canada Street’ and ‘Freshwater’ • Better weathering for your models • The BRM guide to DCC controllers • Improve a Wills Farmhouse kit • Modelling station signage: to

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