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FROM TRAIN SET TO MODEL RAILWAY	16.99	15.49	3.25
This new book is aimed at all those who have started the hobby by buying a basic model railway kit and want to move from just laying a few pieces of track on the lounge floor to starting to build a model railway themselves or through joining a model railway club. Little has been written to help people wanting to construct a model railway by collecting components together rather than creating a detailed representation of a particular prototype. As the ready-to-run market is now producing such high quality models there is little reason to spend hours crafting items such as coaches when all the proprietary models are so good, and more time can be spent planning and developing the layout. This helpful practical guide is perfect for progressing novice modellers on to the next stage of starting to build their own uniquely designed model railway layouts. The chapters about track, signalling, and buildings look at a prototype layout to explain the stages of construction, explaining how best to transfer this to a model railway to ensure authenticity. The author explains how proprietary items such as Peco track and Hornby buildings and platforms can be used and how their believability can be improved with repainting. Written by a skilled modeller with many years experience, and packed with helpful, how-to-do photographs, diagrams, hints and tips on every aspect of building a new layout, this useful guide is exactly what the hobby has been waiting for!
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ASPECTS OF MODELLING – MODEL RAILWAY ELECTRICS	12.99	11.69	3.25
This new guide introduces the concepts and practice of wiring model railway layouts in an easy and accessible way. Beginning with the basics, it works through powering the track, common return and cab control to wiring points, point motors, colour light signals, light bulbs, LEDs and the use of diodes. Packed with easy to follow diagrams, plus photographs, as well as a glossary of terms and a list of suppliers, this is an essential reference source for all who embark on building a model railway. 67 colour photos. 80 pages. Softback
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ASPECTS OF MODELLING - DIGITAL COMMAND CONTROL	12.99	11.69	3.25
First in an Ian Allan series tackling a range of topics useful for railway modellers regardless of scale or subject. With the arrival of Digital Command Control operation of a model railway layout can be much more akin to the real thing. This book explores both theory and practice of DCC, explaining in understandable terms how it works and how it can be used - whether from scratch on a new layout or by upgrading older models. Over 30 coloured diagrams. 64 colour and 2 b/w photos. 80 pages. Softback
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ASPECTS OF MODELLING - BASEBOARDS FOR MODEL RAILWAYS	12.99	11.69	3.25
Second in an Ian Allan series tackling a range of topics useful for railway modellers regardless of scale or subject. Baseboards are the foundation of every model railway but their construction is often skimped or rushed in the eagerness to get on with the more interesting parts of the layout. This book explores a wide variety of methods and materials that can be used to build baseboards of many different types. 89 colour and 2 b/w photos. 80 pages. Softback
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ASPECTS OF MODELLING - ROAD VEHICLES FOR MODEL RAILWAYS	12.99	11.69	3.25
Today's model railways layouts often involve recreating the whole townscape or countryside through which the railway operated. An essential ingredient is the correct range of road vehicles, from trams and trolleybuses in the urban environment through to tractors and other farm vehicles in the countryside. This publication takes the beginner and more experienced modeller through this fascinating subject with valuable information about scale, period, type and quantity, roads, signs and registrations plates as well as building road vehicles and making them move, and much more. 109 colour and 5 b/w photos. 80 pages. Softback
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RAILWAY SIGNALLING AND TRACK PLANS	14.99	13.49	3.25
This is an essential guide to all modellers wishing to represent accurately track formations and the appropriate signalling arrangements. The author draws upon his considerable experience of railway modelling, as well as his own first-hand knowledge of railway operations, to give a detailed analysis of the subject. Using a wide range of examples from the prototype, many areas are covered including: the historical development of permanent way, track formations and signalling; operating the railway; signalboxes and other signal stations; the modeller's viewpoint. With over 80 line drawings/ diagrams. 153 b/w photos. 112 pages. Softback
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BASIC MODEL RAILROAD TRACK PLANS	12.95	11.69	3.25
A valuable addition to the successful 'Aspects of Modelling' series, this new book covers perhaps the most basic but most important aspect of the railway modeller's hobby after the construction of the baseboards, the layout itself. Included in the book are an examination of a number of simple layouts and detailed explanations on how more complex plans can be developed. The book also shows the sort of compromises that have to be made when creating a layout in limited space, and gives useful tips and guidance on avoiding common pitfalls. Fully illustrated, this is a practical guide to getting track layouts correct and gives the very best technical advice for anyone starting out in railway modelling; it also provides much helpful guidance for the experienced modeller.
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Railway Modelling Iain Rice Format: Hardback Title - Subtitle of Text: Railway Modelling – The Complete Guide Product Dimensions: 233(height) x 28(width) x 169mm(spine) Product Weight: 976 grams 1.2 kg when packed for postage. Edition Statement (Long Form): New title Pages: 352 Contents Contents All aspects of building a model railway layout: planning, building a baseboard, laying track, installing wiring. Adding the detail: signalling, scenery, stations and other railway structures. Scales, gauges and standards explained. Locomotives: availability of ready-to-run models, building from kits, adding detail and realism. Rolling stock: carriages and wagons, ready-to-run or kits, coupling systems, choosing the right stock for the era and locality being modelled. Control and operation: using computers, the pros and cons of Digital Command Control (DCC), point control and switching, working with timetables, shunting. Pre-Grouping railways, the 'Big Four' railways, the British Rail era, the present-day - plus steam, diesel and electric traction. Glossary of technical terms.	£19.99	£18.50	4.50
Hornby is one of the leading manufacturers of model railways in Britain with a history that goes back over 80 years and with models now produced to a high degree of realism. This publication covers the basics of model railways for beginners, but also includes numerous tips and projects for more advanced modellers. First published in 2005, this is the 2009 updated and revised edition that includes the recent technological advances that have brought the hobby into the digital age. With a forward by television presenter James May. 54 line drawings. 221 colour and 12 b/w photos. 176 pages. Smaller sized landscape softback Bottom of Form	14.99	13.50	3.25

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