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Ffestiniog Action in a Small Place GARDENJANUARY 2018 ISSUEMARCH 281 2016 ISSUE 105 A cavalcade of steam at the Midland Rail Railway Centre CROWD PLEASING! Ffestiniog action in a small place MAKE PLASTIC SHEET LOOK LIKE WOOD www.garden-rail.co.uk 01 9 770969 952085 > JANUARY 2018 | £4.75 ALL THE LATEST NEWS FOR THE GARDEN RAILWAY ENTHUSIAST GardenRail 281 cover.indd 1 05/12/2017 12:40 2 Garden Rail 281 | January 2018 p002_GRJan18.indd 2 05/12/2017 11:20 GARDENJANUARY 2018 ISSUEMARCH 281 2016 ISSUE 105 A cavalcade of steam at Contents the Midland IN SHOP • DIGITAL • MOBILE • APP GARDEN Rail Railway Centre 4 VIEw frOM THE END Of CROWD PLEASING! the PLATfOrM Ffestiniog action in a small place 6 ffuGLEN STATION Chris MacKenzie Rail 15 VIcTIOrIAN SPLENDOr fOr Incorporating GARDEN RAILWAY WORLD gArDEN rAILS MAKE PLASTIC Issue 281 • January 2018 SHEET LOOK LIKE WOOD John Bell Publisher: Steve Cole www.garden-rail.co.uk 01 9 770969 952085 > [email protected] 24 AuTuMN GOLD JANUARY 2018 | £4.75 Editor: Phil Parker ALL THE LATEST NEWS FOR THE GARDEN RAILWAY ENTHUSIAST [email protected] Douglas Roberts GardenRail 281 cover.indd 1 05/12/2017 12:40 T: 07879 664 383 Design: Neil Sayer 26 SEEN at THE MIDLANDS MODEL Garden rail: Published monthly Advertising: Bev Machin by warners Group Publications [email protected] T: 01778 392055 engineerING ExHIBITION Allison Mould Next Issue: 282 [email protected] T: 01778 395002 31 TwO MOrE THOrOuGHBrEDS On sale: 18 January 2018 Production: Pat Price Mark Thatcher Email [email protected] T: 01778 391115 Advertising Designer: Amie Carter Email [email protected] 36 wELSH HIGHLAND toastrAck Marketing Manager: Carly Dadge cOAcHES Email [email protected] David Rhodes Columnists: John Bell, Si Harris, Adrian Foster, Chris MacKenzie, David Rhodes, Douglas Roberts, John Rogers, Mark Thatcher 39 PIPE BrIDGE 15 John Rogers www.warnersgroup.co.uk 42 LArGEr ScALE SHOw PrEVIEw ©Warners Group Publications plc 2018 46 AN INTrODucTION to wOrkING All rights reserved. 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People are enjoying the this month, but normally, GR prefers to generally, if they are taken outside you magazine in ever greater numbers be found outdoors. can’t go wrong. Working under lights 2and readers are saying nice things about Which brings me around to the can be trickier but we can do wonders us. Even our publisher has broken into traditional editor’s request – how about with photo software nowadays. Sadly, a smile. writing something yourself? if the thing we need to see if out of The people responsible for this are of I might have a reasonable stash focus, it’s harder to rescue the picture course those who have taken the time of articles to hand, but a few more but since photography is pretty much to put finger to keyboard and share wouldn’t go amiss. Surprisingly, we seem free nowadays and you see the results their models with us. When I sit down to be low on articles describing people’s instantly, play around with it. Again, to compile each issue of the magazine, layouts. I know there will be people advice and encouragement are available the old adage that “an editor can only reading this thinking that their efforts from my e-mail address. publish what they have been sent” wouldn’t be of interest to the wider So, as we enter the new year, how comes in to play. world but I can assure you that they are. about making a resolution to become To date, I’ve been very lucky. Garden If you have built a line and taken a few rich and famous* through writing for Rail contributors have been getting photos, then let us know. Garden Rail? in touch with a variety of articles, If you made lots of mistakes along from single pages to those of epic the way, we’ll be even more interested. *Please note, you will only become proportions. Each is carefully read and Model making isn’t the art of getting slightly famous and not at all rich, but then filed so I can come back to it later everything right first time, it’s the art at least it’s something to show off with when trying to produce a balanced of bodging your way out of trouble in front of your friends and family. n magazine for you to read. when things go wrong. How many My intention has always been to projects stall because of an unexpected showcase the full variety and vibrancy problem? If you found a way around of our hobby. Unlike society magazines, this, let me know. Chris MacKenzie bought himself a retirement present to run on Ffuglen Station. Prince is a Seeing your name in print isn’t manual controlled geared live steam production difficult. Simply drop me a line to the from Peter Angus. It might be pride of the line, contact details on page 3 with an idea but can be hard work on an end-to-end layout, and I’ll provide encouragement. 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Chris MacKenzie lays on 14 feet of action The complete layout with the fiddle yard at the far end.
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