Tonight is a special night for railway modelling as Channel 5s new Great Model Railway Challenge is set to air at 8pm this evening. It pits teams of modellers against each other to build working model railways for this brand…
Mike Wild
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…
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…
Posted in Blogs, Mike Wild Tagged with: 2017, Blog, OO gauge, Southern Region, Twelve Trees Junction, Warley 2017
October 2019The latest digital issue of Hornby Magazine is available now and features an exclusive competition to win a Bachmann Western Pullman Digital Sound Train Set, the latest product reviews and news, 20 minutes of embedded video content and much more. Highlights include a full feature on Hillingdon Railway Modellers’ stunning 7mm scale layout Grindley Brook, Colin Lockyer’s fabulous Exton Quay in 4mm scale, the latest developments and feature images of Hornby Magazine’s West Coast Cement and a full preview to the 2019 Great Electric Train Show on October 12/13 at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes. We also have detailed reviews of the new Hornby Peckett ‘B2’ 0-6-0ST, Bachmann’s Western Pullman with twin DCC sound decoders, the latest rolling stock for ‘OO’ and ‘O’ gauge plus a detailed step-by-step guide to installing the latest brand of sound decoders to receive British outline sounds. All this and much more awaits in this 173-page digital issue. Don’t miss it!
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