Model Railway Forum

The minimum radius recommended for most Hornby / Bachmann trains so that you can have a continuous run is second radius (438mm) which will require a minimum board width of 900 mm or greater. This will not be possible in a pasting table. Even First radius 371 mm needs 700 mm width. A back and forth s...

Watched this last night. Some of it was repeating what has been said in other similar shows, but by a few different presenters, and there was a lot of 'archive' footage quite a lot that seems to have come out of old feature films, notably 'The General' starring Buster Keaton, and old Wild West films...

I watched episode 2 last night and also Rob Bell's walk from Penrith to Cockermouth which followed and was entertained by both. I thought the Walford layout looked excellent but was disappointed that they made a lash up of the track-laying, especially as they called themselves that. I would have lik...

Thanks Brian, works plates and name plates now ordered.

I bought a second hand Ixion gauge O Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0ST industrial loco, but the etched works plates etc. were not included. Does anyone know where I can buy some please?

I have tried Google with no success. I don't think Ixion trades on the UK any more.

I finally watched episode 1 last night (Wednesday 10th) on Channel 5 repeat and was mildly interested in the show. It was what I would have expected from a TV competition loosely based on a Great British Bake-off / Scrapheap Challenge formula. I think I preferred it to the previous Biggest Little Ra...

In 4mm / ft scale I like the Dapol, ex Airfix figures which were introduced way back in the 1960s. You do have to paint them but I find that is part of the fun of model railways. The block of plastic they stand on is unsightly but easily removed with a craft knife. It can then be replaced by a dress...

Yes, top most applies to the first turn off reading left to right, so if all turn-offs are to the right of the main route the topmost applies to the first turn off. Conversely if all the turn offs are left of the main line then the top one applies to the route on the left .

It was not uncommon where there were multiple possible routes for small (miniature) semaphore shunt signals (which preceded the use of discs) to be 'stacked', and would apply top = left, bottom = right. The miniature arm signal remained in use on lines of the former LMS quite extensively long after ...

I attend a club affiliated to the O Gauge Guild and they are building a test track and hold running days from time to time. I have already taken some fine-scale Gauge O standard gauge models along, but they are now considering laying On-30 tracks to complement it. I am sorely tempted to add some 7mm...