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

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When Alex Rockey decided he wanted to revamp his layout to show standards, bricks gave way to cement for his industrial-themed ‘Whittlesmarch’ creation.

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

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.

Quintessentially English, creating the country cottage idyll for your layout is easier than you might think, as Chris Nevard discovered…