A common hindrance to modern infrastructure programmes is the need to preserve historic remains uncovered during excavation works. Peter Marriott imagines a surprise find that may add further delays to the building of HS2!

Buys for the great outdoors – and a course to take

Model Rail magazine’s editor rounds up the latest modelling news

Grounded van bodies can still be seen across the UK. Steve Nall created a handful of vans, in varying states of dereliction, trying out different weathering techniques in the process.

Winter mud is something all British horse owners must endure. Thankfully there are plenty of practical ways to keep our paddocks from becoming a mud bath, discovers Catherine Waterfall

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