Kernow Model Rail Centre’s decorated and sound fitted sample of its ‘OO’ gauge Bulleid 1-Co-Co-1 10203 entered traffic on Hornby Magazine’s Grosvenor Square layout during the Great Central Railway Model Event in June. Read more in HM122, August 2017, and…
Hornby Hobbies revealed the first running sample of its new ‘OO’ gauge Class 87 at the Great Central Railway Model Event and we took it for a test run on Grosvenor Square. Read the full story in HM122, August 2017,…
The latest issue of Hornby Magazine – HM122, August 2017 – is one sale now marking the 50th anniversary of the end of steam on British Railway’s Southern Region with special features and an exclusive Hornby competition. This feature packed…
Hatton’s has commissioned a pair of limited edition ‘O’ gauge disc headcode Class 20s from Heljan to mark 60 years since the English Electric Type 1s entered traffic with British Railways in 1957. The two models will be based on…
Hatton’s has received the first decorated samples of its new ‘OO’ gauge ICI bogie limestone hoppers for evaluation. The wagon is being produced by Oxford Rail exclusively for Hatton’s and the tooling caters for different bogie and axle box designs…
DJ Models new crowd funded Class 71 Bo-Bo electric for ‘OO’ gauge is reviewed in full in the latest issue of Hornby Magazine – HM121, July 2017, on sale now. Watch the model in action here and read the full…
Barry Platt’s Ashdan Junction is one of three feature layouts in the latest issue of Hornby Magazine – HM121, July 2017, on sale from June 8. Watch a selection of his ‘OO’ gauge digital sound fitted locomotives in action here…
Dapol has shown decorated samples of its long awaited ‘N’ gauge model of the Class 142 ‘Pacer’ DMU. The ‘142’ is now expected to arrive during the summer priced at £135.50 for the two car unit. It is being released…
The highly anticipated Great Central Railway (GCR) Model Event takes place this weekend, June 16-18, at the Loughborough-Leicester preserved railway. The three-day event promises more than 70 layouts and 50 traders as well as an intensive timetable on the preserved…
Kernow Model Rail Centre has revealed a new decorated sample of its soon to be delivered ‘OO’ gauge Bulleid 1-Co-Co-1 diesels – this time modelling the second locomotive 10202. Kernow has advised that the positioning of the BR crests and…
August 2020Welcome to the August 2020 issue of Hornby Magazine - our Summer Special which features our pick of the best model railway layouts featured in the magazine over the past 158 issues, an exclusive competition to win a new Hornby ‘OO’ gauge ‘Prairie’ and much more. Highlights include full reviews of the new Bachmann Class 117, Hornby ‘61XX’ and Sutton’s Locomotive Works Class 24 for ‘OO’ gauge as well as Graham Farish’s new Thompson carriages for ’N’ gauge. We also join the Scunthorpe Modern Image Group for a tour of its ’N’ gauge exhibition layout Neely and visit Orpington and District MRS’ multi-gauge 7mm scale layout Theobald’s Yard. Modelling guides cover weathering with washes, making streams, building a laser cut signal box kit and installing sound and digital lighting into the London Transport Museum S Stock. All this and more awaits in the latest issue of Hornby Magazine. Don’t miss it!
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