Time flies and it barely seems like five minutes ago that we were packing up after the Great Electric Train Show in 2017 with Twelve Trees Junction after a marathon build. But, here we are, 12 months later and the…
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I’ve been making an effort to stop by the line side on my regular photography trips for the magazine lately. On August 15 I headed across country to Crewe for a photo shoot with the team from 45C (HM125) to…
Its not often I get the opportunity to stand by the line side these days, but earlier this week after visiting Pendon Museum for the official opening of the Bristol Line (you can read all about that in HM134, on…
Last Friday, May 11, we were headed north for the opening of Rails of Sheffield’s new Emporium which forms part of its retail premises on Chesterfield Road in Sheffield. Rails has been part of the model railway world since the…
Posted in Blogs, Mike Wild Tagged with: 2018, Bachmann, Dapol, Emporium, Gaugemaster, Heljan, Hornby, launch, Oxford Rail, Peco, Rails of Sheffield
The Hornby Magazine ‘O’ gauge test track has taken a back seat from the limelight lately, but that doesn’t mean it hasnt’ been worked on – its just that Topley Dale has been taking centre stage. Alongside the regeneration of…
Over the weekend of March 10/11 we took Twelve Trees Junction to its native home land – the Southern Region of British Railways – when it was exhibited at the Basingstoke Model Railway Exhibition. Held at Aldworth Science College close…
Posted in Blogs, Mike Wild Tagged with: 2018, Basingstoke, diesel, digital, electric, Hornby Magazine, OO gauge, Southern Region, steam, VIdeo
The Nuremberg International Toy Fair is a highlight on the annual Toy Fair circuit and is hailed as the biggest of its kind in the world. This year was the first time that I had attended the event which took…
Posted in Blogs, Mike Wild Tagged with: Blog, Busch, Germany, new products, Noch, Nuremberg 2018, VIdeo
Regular readers of Hornby Magazine will have seen in the latest Staff Projects section that I have been working restoring a trio of kit built Electric Multiple Units (EMUs) to enter service on Twelve Trees Junction. All were originally built…
Posted in Blogs, Mike Wild Tagged with: 4-SUB, Basingstoke, DCC, digital, HM128, Hornby Magazine, Southern Region
Twelve Trees Junction has occupied our layout construction focus fully over the past few months and following on from its first appearance in its new format at the Great Electric Train Show on October 7/8 we’ve been busily working away…
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Its been an extremely busy couple of months in the Hornby Magazine office and workshop as we build up to the autumn period, but one by one projects are coming together. One of our big challenges outside of the daily…
Posted in Blogs, Mike Wild Tagged with: 2017, diesel, electric, Great Electric Train Show, OO gauge, Southern Region, steam, Twelve Trees Junction, VIdeo
August 2019The latest digital issue of Hornby Magazine features 156 pages of modelling content plus three videos to watch within the app. We also have an exclusive competition to win a Heljan Class 33/1 and a Kernow 4-TC combination, stunning layouts, reviews of the Hornby ‘OO’ gauge ‘A1’ 0-6-0T and Bulleid 59ft carriages plus Heljan’s new Class 37/4 for ‘O’ gauge and one of the latest Lynton and Barnstaple 2-6-2Ts for ‘OO9’ narrow gauge. Features include a step-by-step guide to weathering Accurascale Cemflo wagons, modelling inset track, York train formations from the BR blue era as well as a guide to installing sound in the Hornby GWR 2-8-2T. Feature layouts include the outstanding 4mm scale model of Bournemouth West set in the BR era, Murton - a light railway which never leaves home modelled in ‘OO’ gauge, a compact steelworks micro layout and a first behind-the-scenes look at the magazine’s new ‘O’ gauge garden railway project. Don’t miss it!
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