This book explores ideas for developing a model railway layout with the emphasis on realistic operation. This has been an aspect that has long fascinated the authors Stephen Rabone and Trevor Ridley, both well known for their work in the model press. This book contains 20 schemes with half exploring British themes plus ideas for a variety of settings in Europe and North America – in other words, something for all tastes and motivations. Then there’s a more or less even balance between OO (or HO) and N. Apart from a couple of big 00 steam-age loft-busters, most are room-sized plans, suitable for fitting in to the sort of space modelers are likely to have available. All are either based on real-life locations, or plausible ‘might have beens’. Just about all of the N gauge ones focus on int.
