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

All of the layouts featured in Model Rail ...

In the final instalment of this series, Peter Marriott adds details to his Cornish china clay-themed layout and explains how he created the realistic stream.

Chris Leigh ponders whether a bus on a bridge is a railway modelling cliché, or a useful scenic device to fix the location and period of the layout.

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

Staff Show & Tell