Here is a sneak preview of the new L&B clips from KBscale. Rail is Karlgarin 82/7 on a coffee stirrer sleeper.
After discovering one of my locos would not fit under a bridge on my layout I made up a simple height and width jig to test clearances. I cut a profile corresponding to the maximum height and width required from a piece of 9mm ply and fixed this to a piece of wood which fits [...]
The Ashover Light Railway Society have just updated their website which includes news about their first engine. The site contains some useful background information on this classic Colonel Stephens railway.
ww2ft Listing is a site dedicated to listing all 2ft, 1′ 11 1/2″, 600mm & 610mm railways broken down by country. There should be enough prototypes for everybody.
Narrow Gauge Heaven is a website dedicated to narrow gauge railways throughout the world, although currently there is more on UK narrow gauge railways than those in other parts of the world. It has the largest narrow gauge photo gallery on the web, with contributions from over 30 railway photographers.
O14 modeller Martin Field has provided the following link to some useful annotated pictures outlining various scratch building techniques, including lathe work, soft and silver soldering, panel forming etc. Although the examples are road vehicles they are equally applicable to railway vehicles, especially as the scale is the same. There’s no excuse now in tackling [...]
Industrial Narrow Gauge Railways is a useful web site which holds information regarding current prototype industrial and commercial narrow gauge railways operating throughout Europe, including many which are 60cm/2ft railways
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Gilbert Gribi has sent me a drawing of his hopper cars as featured on his La Vernarède layout which is exclusively available here: tremie (PDF). Note you may have to print this out twice full size to get correct 7mm scale.
Narrow Perspectives is an interesting website featuring a collection of photographs of narrow gauge railways in the British Isles. Most of the pictures are from the last twenty years or so but there is a section featuring historic photographs and another with photos from the 1960s of the Ffestiniog Railway’s Deviation Project.
John Clutterbuck wrote a series of three articles about building accurate trackwork which was originally published in Roy C Link’s Narrow Gauge & Industrial Railway Modelling Review issues 63, 64 & 65. As Roy has now sold most of the relevant back issues, John and Roy have collaborated to produce an updated electronic booklet [...]
