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This section is designed to give you information and links to all sort of useful stuff to help you model your railways as close to the prototype as you choose. Information is grouped into five sections - general, layout and design, lineside construction, scenery, locomotives and rolling stock.

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Magazines for British Railway Modellers - Available at your newsagent or by subscribing through the Railfan Shop - Phone/Fax: 03 9621 2238 or www.railfanshop.com.au
AMR is actually for Aussie rail modellers, but has all the hobby shop info you could want if you live here in Australia etc.
TCH is the quarterly journal of the BRMA. you can get more info on the BRMA by clicking on the Clubs/Societies tab above.

Check out these manufacturers online cataolgues for details of what's available in engines and rolling stock for N, OO and O gauge.

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General
Layout & Design
A History of Double O Gauge (Link)

A History of Railway Modelling

Basic Electrics for the Railway Modeller
Building a Model Railway - Where do I Start?
Computerised Model Railway Magazine Index (Link)
51L - The finely detailed model railway (Link)
Wiring the Midsomer Norton Railway
Gradients - Getting it Right
Modelling Gauges - What do I Choose?
Joining Track Across Module Interfaces
Armstrong Point Levers
Individual or Group Layouts and Pages
Middlesborough LNER - An English north-eastern layout situated in Australia. (Link)
 
Lineside Construction
Scenery
An Elegant Solution - Modelling Pit Head Winding Gear Wheels
Building a LMS Cenotaph Coaling Plant
Adding Scenery to a Model Railway
Making Station Platforms the Easy Way
Locomotives & Rolling Stock
Allan Tidmarsh's Pages (Link) - This one is an absolute bonus for GWR Modellers. Alan has full surveys of all GWR ready to run models plus kits catalogued and photographed. Links are as follows...

GWR Locos (Link)

GWR Coaches (Link)

GWR Brown Stock (Link)

GWR Wagons (Link)

Departmental Stock (Link)

Cambrian Models 4mm Scale Kits (Link)
C R Phillips Model Railway Construction (Link)
GWR Modelling (Link) - An absloutely awsome GWR modelling site - liveries, history, layouts, projects, webring, its all there.
Lima Trains Site (Link) - A private site advertising hard to get Lima stock - mostly diesel.
Modelling GWR Locomotives
Modelling LMS Locomotives

Modelling Somerset & Dorset Locomotives

Modelling WW II Ambulance Trains