Northern engineering endeavour, tinged with 1980s teenage memories, inspired Alistair Stripp to model a Scottish Highland railway, ‘Beachdale’.

Ben Ando is the founder of Revolution Trains and a regular contributor to Model Rail .

All of the layouts featured in Model Rail ...

George Dent pays a visit to Merseyside Model Railway Society’s Birkenhead clubrooms, discovers some great layouts, enjoys a convivial atmosphere… and parks himself on some very special seats!

The popular image of model railway enthusiasts may be granddads and grandsons building a layout in the loft. But one of the country’s most popular train shops is run by two sisters, Anne Martin and He

Having once worked for British Rail with Kensington Olympia as part of his patch, Andy Gibbs set out to recreate the station and its Motorail terminal in 2mm scale.