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Edited by Bob Barlow & Gerry Beale

MRJ Issue 23
  • Lambourne - the GWR across the Berkshire Downs

    Ian Harrison

    p.138

    4mm/P4

    Although it was quite a time in gestation, Lambourne is very much a fine essay in 4mm finescale. And while Ian Harrison was particularly choosey in narrowing down a suitable prototype, it was by no means a simple translation. Here's how tenacity made it happen.

    Tags: GWR / Great Western Railway, layouts

  • No. 1 Shop: Up-and-over gearbox for 2mm

    Pete Wright

    p.149

    2mm

    Pete Wright's answer to a drive train problem.

    in an N1

    Tags: drive systems, gearboxes, No. 1 Shop

  • Rubber-Sprung Wagon Buffers

    William Barter

    p.150

    W.A.M. Barter suggests that the less reactive properties of rubber give model buffers more prototypical performance than the coil-sprung variety.

    Tags: components, wagons

  • Developments in 7mm Trackwork

    Bob Essery

    p.151

    7mm

    Bob Essery, in the second and final part of his investigation of trackwork, moves on to modelling it in 7mm.

    Tags: track / trackwork / PW / Permanent Way

  • MRJ Portfolio

    p.162

    4mm/P4

    Bill Richmond's S4 model of the LNWR main line - Tring cutting.

    Tags: LNWR / London & North Western Railway, MRJ Portfolio

  • Nemesis - the S&D 2-8-0

    Iain Rice

    p.163

    4mm/EM

    Iain Rice describes this tale as "The Thrilling Travails of Sir Iain d'Ambroise in combat with the The Mendip Monster, Recounted by Himself at the conclusion of his Triumph!" - but then he would, wouldn't he? The truth, it seems, is that he took years and years to build a loco that very nearly beat him.

    Tags: kits, S&DJR / Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway, steam locomotives

  • Small Suppliers Forum

    p.169

    Ron Cadman - reduction of range. RJH - Cavalier Coaches. George Norton - 'Cauliflower' kit. Compass Models - Stanier 0-4-4 tank kit. Howes of Oxford - windscreen wiper mouldings. Model Bus Co. - LTGL 'TF' single decker. Track construction book. Modellers' lathes. Modern prototype transfers. 7mm figures. Isinglass - LNER drawings. Andy Mullins - rolling stock and components. Eastwell Iron Works - corrugated iron. Caley Coaches - class 498 0-6-0 4mm kit. 7mm scale track.

    Tags: Small Suppliers Forum