Real railway track is laid in small stones called ballast. Train set track of around 1960 traditionally gave an impression of ballast by...

Having a 2’ 6” x 2’ solid baseboard to play with, I’ve been thinking about what kind of layout I should like. The first requirement is...

I have set myself a challenge to build a minimum-size layout in ‘N’ gauge that will be both visually and operationally interesting. I...

In 1883, aged 76 and after 29 years in the post of Locomotive Superintendent of the North Eastern Railway (NER), Edward Fletcher retired....