Garden Rail

The UK’s only magazine that’s 100% dedicated to outdoor railway modelling. Expect to see stunning garden railways from the UK and abroad, expert advice to help you create one of your own, show reports plus product news and reviews.

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Garden Rail

The Silverdale Light Railway (North) Comes of Age • 18 years after his line was first born, Ian Midgley takes us for a journey.

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On the Wagon – Again! • Mark Thatcher builds a 16mm Steam Lorry from Modeltown.

Weighted-randomised freight handling • There’s no random running on Rik Bennett’s line. He shows us how to generate a timetable.

DIARY DATES

Modifying an LGB Logging Loco • Ned Williams makes some pragmatic changes to produce a British outline G scale locomotive.

Making a silk purse? • Laurence Sampson tinkers with Regner ‘Easyline’ steam locomotives.

Ceramic buildings for the garden • Amy Bucki is fired up to build some earthenware buildings.

Simple, remote point control • A tricky point inspires Ken Walsh to adapt a well-known control method for the garden.

Something a bit agricultural • Continuing his study of wagon loads, Dave Skertchly gets into his usual mess scratch-building a sheep wagon from coffee stirrers, cocktail sticks and plywood.

Making a Sheep

Building a living van • The Editor builds Bole Laser Craft’s latest kit.

From the works

Seen at the Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition • Model engineering isn’t all five-inch gauge locomotives that take a team to lift them out of the car. Plenty of 16mm scale models were on show this year too.

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