Rolling back the years

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

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

he British Transport Commission’s Modernisation of the Railway report was released on January 25, 1955, by its chairman, Sir Brian Robertson, and suggested a £1.24 billion spend on the railways to upd