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Heljan Update - Summer 2022
Heljan has updated its existing release schedule for 2022/2023 with a status report for each of its outstanding projects - including all-new models and re-issues of previously tooled models with new identities.
Trains on Film
Hornby has cancelled plans for its forthcoming ‘OO’ gauge Trains on Film train packs.
Great Electric Train Show line up grows
The layout list for the 2022 Great Electric Train Show is growing with announcement of five more of the 30 strong line up for the October 8/9 event in Milton Keynes.
Heljan adds more 86s
Heljan has confirmed details of a new batch of its popular ‘OO’ gauge Class 86 electrics.
Guildford exclusive for KMRC
Kernow Model Rail Centre (KMRC) has revealed its latest exclusive ‘O’ gauge wagon commission from Dapol, a 1902 RCH seven-plank open wagon finished in Thomas Mitchell and Sons of Guildford livery (Cat No. K7072).
Kernow commissions Combe Junction Signalbox
Kernow Model Rail Centre (KMRC) has commissioned an exclusive ‘OO’ gauge model of the Great Western Railway's (GWR) Combe Junction signalbox (Cat No. 44-187Z) from Bachmann Scenecraft
Accurascale and Rails of Sheffield Class 89 goes ahead
Accurascale and Rails of Sheffield have confirmed that the proposed 'OO’ gauge Class 89 is going to be produced for release in 2023.
Eastern Inspiration highlights gallery
The BR Eastern Region has been the subject of many layouts large and small. Hornby Magazine highlights a handful of the best in this gallery of inspirational scenes.
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Heljan’s 'O' gauge ‘Western’
2013 will go down as the year of the ‘Western’ with new offerings in ‘N’, ‘OO’ and ‘O’ gauge. Mike Wild reveals the latest version of these highly popular diesel-hydraulics from Heljan in ‘O’ gauge.
Dapol's ‘N’ gauge ‘Western’
Not that long ago British ‘N’ gauge was on its knees. At best we got crude detail and at worst we had crude detail and poor performance. All of that is now history and the standard of detail, finess and performance in today’s British ‘N’ gauge models are rivaling that of their larger ‘OO’ cousins.
Dapol 'OO' gauge ‘Western’
Few locomotives from the diesel and electric era provoke as much comment, debate and passion as the Western Region’s Swindon/Crewe built Class 52 ‘Westerns’. Dapol set out to produce ‘the’ definitive model of the class for ‘OO’ gauge - this is what we think.
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