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

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

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GARY ESSEX looks at the railways that have successfully diversified their income streams, from contract work for main line operators to reinventing themselves as invaluable training sites.

Chris Leigh ponders whether a bus on a bridge is a railway modelling cliché, or a useful scenic device to fix the location and period of the layout.