Building a 6-inch foden c type wagon

Paul Bambrick reveals how he employs made-to-measure sheets of thin alloy sheet to form curved backdrops to his layout projects.

In a quiet corner of rural East Sussex, a railway is rising like a phoenix. What had once seemed like a pipe dream is rapidly becoming reality, with the link from Bodiam on the Kent & East Sussex Railway to the main line at Robertsbridge – one of the biggest projects happening in preservation right now – scheduled to open in 2028. THOMAS BRIGHT finds out more.