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Some night time shots:

That's the beauty of running vintage equipment. You can work on it yourself and get it running with a minimum of equipment. Most of...

Which is what I like about Hornby Dublo (the original company, 1938-1964) coaches, other than their Pullmans. Nothing looks more like...

I should add that my layout is vintage 3 rail. If it was two rail, I wouldn't have used a reverse loop.

If you're prepared to put up with small radius curves, you can do a double track layout. Mine's on 8'x4' and here's the plan I came up...

This is the plan of the layout - very old school in concept. The board is 8'x4' and can be separated into three sections if it needs to...

It's Hornby Dublo, manufactured in Liverpool, England by Meccano Ltd, from 1938 to 1964. The track is very much like Marklin track from...

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As this seems to be the section of the forum where we share photographs of our models and layouts, here's some of mine:

I agree it is a beautiful model, and far superior it seems (I say it like that because I have only seen the photographs to judge it...

I don't have a problem with the restored locomotive being finished in BR green, as it is arguably more appropriate than having it in...

An LNER green version would probably also find customers in Australia. As 4472, she visited and ran in Australia in 1988. And...

Can oval layouts bring enough satisfaction? Yes and no. It depends on what your interests are. If you are into prototypical...