Railways Illustrated occasionally if an article or two appeals but probably at least once every three months. Train Tronics - working 4mm turntable. Brassmasters - 2mm etched LNWR G1/G2 'Super D' 0-8-0T locomotive kit. Cunningham Woodcrafts - American-style milled stripwood sections. Meridian Models - Ruston & Hornsby etched 4mm narrow-gauge diesel locomotive kit. Garth Allan - 4mm narrow boat kits. John Boyle - 4mm figures. Chris Leigh - detailing components. Adrian Gray - etched 4mm slate wagon kit. W.A.M. Barter suggests that the less reactive properties of rubber give model buffers more prototypical performance than the coil-sprung variety.

Amongst these was Iain Rice who in 1993 along with Andy Farquarson (who introduced himself very wittily "from the armchair" in MRJ 25) left to set up "Model Railways Illustrated" for Irwell Press. This was a good magazine, but after various machinations it eventually expired towards the end of 1997. Iain Rice had shortly before left to try his own hand at publishing with his ill fated Rail Model Digest and spin offs.

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Peter Totman looks at BR-built 16-ton mineral wagons and ways of representing them in 4mm scale, using inexpensive, good-quality plastic kits. LBSCR crane set by Charles Trace, winner of Scaleforum wagon trophy 1987. Produced from the D&S etched brass and whitemetal kit with added detail.

Gordon Gravett describes his stunning 7mm diorama depicting a little slice of life on the Talyllyn Railway, now on permanent display at the TR's museum at Towyn. Bob How describes a simple manual system for areas of the layout where point motors are not necessary A very good searchable index to MRJ is available here, created by Matt Otts it will open in a new window. SR/LSWR S15 4-6-0 & 0415 Adams Radial 4-4-2T in 3mm. 7mm Cambrian 'Small Goods' 0-6-0. Oford Maltings from the East Suffolk Light Railway.

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Iain Rice's little bit of Suffolk in Devon is finished at last. It's taken a while, but, to be fair, he did have to do it all by pushbike! 'The Mills' is an ideal P4 starter - or a useful sharpener for the more experienced. Peter Totman continues his exploration of the 16-ton mineral wagon's complex family history and looks at ways of representing examples in 4mm scale. While Bob Hetherington was getting on with constructing his P4 layout, he decided to make himself a small coal depot, but ended up with something a little larger. buildings, engine sheds / motive power depots / MPDs, GWR / Great Western Railway, layouts, LMS / London Midland & Scottish Railway, scratchbuilding Based on a photograph in GWRJ No. 50, John Darch has incorporated the bridge and canal over the Worcester & Biringham canal, just to the west of Rainbow Hill Jct., on his P4 'Worseter' layout which is based on the railways of Worcester and Gloucester.

Martin McDermott concludes the story of his impressive 7mm scale fully spring Class 37 with details of the electrics. The editorship of Model Railway Journal was at first a double act, with Bob Barlow and Gerry Beale manning the helm. In the third part of his widely acclaimed series, Chris Crofts, having discussed the anatomy of common private owner wagons at length, gets down to modelling them in 4mm. Here he describes his own perfectionist methods for building and painting bodywork. The near-universal adoption of computers and CAD technology has opened up exciting possibilities for model-makers seeking an easier, more accurate way of producing items as diverse as locomotive valve gear and lineside fencing. Gordon Gravett - creator of the award-winning Pempoul - gives some valuable pointers on preparing DIY artwork for photo-etching, a technique that's now available to everyone, home builders included. First however, he describes how it's done the traditional way... Guy Williams builds a 4mm GWR footbridge from an etched kit and finds it to be a work of art - the definitive model of a distinctive lineside feature.Photographs of advertisements on and beside an overbridge on the A1058 at Wallsend, Newcastle c1951. In his second article in this series, Martin Goodall builds two of the numerous 5-plank standard opens of the LMS, plus a three-planker and its container. Returning to MRJ, John Dornom had found a new way to add real "atmosphere" to his models using a disco fog producing machine and after a brief introduction in MRJ 92 he provided a full article on his extraordinary experiments in Issue 97 as illustrated on its cover.

biography, layouts, LB&SCR / LBSCR / London Brighton & South Coast Railway, LNWR / London & North Western Railway, MR / Midland Railway Someone somewhere may have drawn up rules about the siting and operation of coal pens but evidence suggests that local arrangements prevailed. You can find a 'prototype for everything', as this small selection from Paul Karau suggests. All magazines sent by 1st Class Mail UK & by Airmail worldwide (bar UK over 750g which may go 2nd Class). Andy Wiles of IKB Models describes his simple but ingenious means of keeping six-wheeled vehicles on the rails using leaf springs. I was going to answer "Nothing that comes in a plastic bag!" but reading some other answers has gotten me thinking. I do tend to avoid anything in a plastic wrapper, unless I know in advance that there's a particular article I want to read. I tend to Buy Rail Express frequently, and Rail and the Railway Magazine regularly depending if there's anything of interest. Often, I find I'll buy one or the other of similar subjects have been covered, but it depends what's in it. I no longer buy any religiously, I'd rather read what I find interesting, and like the difference in style between RM and Rail.Photo taken at Huddersfield in the mid-1950s showing former L&Y Aspinall 2-4-2T No. 50757 shunting vans in the goods yard Extracts of letters from W. S. Norris to Gerry Mann which provide a rare and privileged insight to the abandonment of Norris's 3-rail O gauge GWR layout in favour of the new 2-rail timescale set in the pre-grouping era A step-by-step guide to constructing a beam-compensated GWR 48xx/14xx 0-4-2T in 4mm finescale, using the Dapol body, Perseverance etched chassis and various detailing components. Includes prototype drawings and photos. Spurred on by MRJ, Gordon Gravett set out to recall his Sussex childhood in 7mm scale. The resulting layout is already a firm exhibition favourite, for obvious reasons. Bob How tries a new leaf-spring system on his 4mm wagons - and accepted wisdom goes out of the window.