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A chance buy inspired Chris Nevard to create a little-modelled cameo that you can re-create with some simple weathering and scratchbuilding.

How much of your layout is make-believe? CHRIS LEIGH isn't a slave to prototype fidelity, as he explains.

After a chance encounter with a laser-cut depot kit, Paul Gosden set about building a fictional contemporary engineering facility, where green technology is embraced.

The past few years have seen Accurascale’s ‘Powering Britain’ range of OO gauge wagons expand exponentially, beginning with the 24½-ton coal hoppers and going on to encompass both the 16-ton and 21-to

ABOVE: The 1990s were a colourful time with the last of the Trainload liveries, the shadow freight colour schemes and the new privatised company liveries. On January 23, 1996, Loadhaul 37517 leads Tra