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Realistic snow can be a fantastic backdrop for a layout or diorama and it can be achieved fairly easily and cheaply....
Whether you're refining the details of figures or vehicles or adding authenticity to your railway track bed, a...
A scissors crossing is a type of track junction that allows trains to cross over one another without disrupting...
Modelling a tram system in an urban setting can add a unique and realistic touch to a model railway layout. Trams are...
Traction tyres were used on many older model railway locomotives to improve their traction, not surprisingly, when...
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We often use terminology in the world of model railways interchangeably, when people ask about gauge, they are usually referring to the size of model locomotives and carriages. Technically, this would be scale not gauge as gauge refers only to the...
If you have ever wondered into your local model shop to admire, dream about or even treat yourself to a 00 gauge loco, then you might have noticed a few of the engines on display are modelled in H0 gauge, even though they appear to be the same...
OO is definitely easier for handling especially for those of us with larger hands and fingers, but otherwise there is no real difference: they use the same controller, work in the same way and require the same amount of time. If you are starting...
Over the years, signals have been at the mercy of numerous legislative introductions to improve safety on our railways, that together with regional variation means that you would have to pretty much be an actual signalman to get signalling...
Ready to run kits are good if your modelling skills are limited, simply buy and add to your layout. You also know the finish will be good and they will be square and run correctly. But many railway modellers prefer to build them and add their own...
Departmental rolling stock is great for modellers. Often it is an excellent excuse to run much earlier locomotives and carriages alongside more modern examples because most departmental stock is only usually inherited at the end of its useful...
Most modellers will not need to calculate scale speed as our passion for railways would undoubtedly have led us at one time or another to experiment with our trains speed on our layouts until we have found one that looks about right, but for...
Sandite is a solution made up from antifreeze, sand and steel-shot (tiny round steel grains). It is used on the UK rail network to combat that age-old-problem of "leaves on the line".Leaves on railway tracks can cause massive disruption even...
There are figures on the market designed purely for populating coaches. The ones that spring to mind are the Noch passenger figures which are all seated minus their lower legs which helps them to sit nicely on any coach seat. You could obviously...
A double slip is an X shaped crossover with a difference. That difference being that there are point blades attached to it, so the train does not have to just cross straight over the junction in a straight line, now it can turn onto the track that...
It is not possible to run standard OO gauge trains on narrow gauge track as OO gauge needs to run on 16.5 mm track and OO9 narrow gauge runs on 9mm track, which is the same as N gauge track. OO9 stands for, as the name suggests, OO scale and 9mm....
2mm scale (1:152 scale) is an even more accurate version of what we commonly refer to as N gauge. It refers to 2mm of the model being equivalent to 1ft in real-life. 2mm scale is often labelled Finescale N gauge.But why are regular N gauge...