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

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

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