‘oo’ gauge diorama west meon viaduct

Andrew Whittle dived headfirst into the building of his first model railway, taking inspiration from Buxton and using his imagination to create something truly unique.

An envelope of old pictures has turned Chris Leigh ’s thoughts to narrow gauge and how times have changed where ready-to-run narrow gauge is concerned.

Klaas Jansma has created a mesmerising layout, which employs the timehonoured oval track plan to great effect.

Mobile industry

While it is relatively simple to re-purpose former stations, sheds and signal boxes into something else, other legacy structures are a bit more complicated. Just what do you do with a redundant railway bridge, for example? Steam Railway takes a look at a few notable examples to find out.

This month’s 10 pictures comes from well-known and renowned West Country photographer Bernard Mills, who has been taking pictures for several decades now. Railways were in his blood from infancy, and