Hornby has released the first images of its under development Maunsell RK restaurant car in colour. The model was announced with the 2018 catalogue launch and adds to the manufacturer’s extensive range of Maunsell Southern Railway/Southern Region passenger stock. Two…
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…
The Basingstoke and North Hants Model Railway Society (BNHMRS) is preparing for its annual model railway exhibition on the weekend of March 10/11 2018. 20 layouts including Hornby Magazine’s Twelve Trees Junction will be at the event together with 23…
Landing just in time to make it into the latest issue was a production model of Hatton’s South Eastern and Chatham Railway ‘P’ 0-6-0T for ‘OO’ gauge. Produced exclusively by Hatton’s and being offered in 12 liveries, we put one…
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…
Following on from our exclusive review of Hornby’s new SECR ‘H’ 0-4-4T for ‘OO’ gauge in HM126, in the January 2018 issue (HM127) we take it apart and install a Zimo MX648 decoder and ‘sugar cube’ speaker. Read the full…
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…
In the latest issue of Hornby Magazine we show how to install a new pair of DCC sound decoders from DC Kits/Legomanbiffo into Kernow Model Rail Centre’s 4-TC four-car unit and a Heljan Class 33/1 to recreate an authentic Southern…
Hornby delivered the first of its new Wainwright ‘H’ 0-4-4Ts to the Hornby Magazine team for review in time for our December issue. We put this highly anticipated Southern Region tank engine through its paces on our office test track…
New in at Kernow Model Rail Centre are the first of its London South Western Railway ‘Gate stock’ push-pull sets for ‘OO’ gauge. Watch our sample at work on our test track here and read the full review in HM125…
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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