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Issue 104
February 2016
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HORNBY
magazine
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FREIGHT
REVIVAL
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WE SHOW YOU HOW
NIGHT SHIFT
After dark in 1970s Hampshire
OAKLEY GREEN
REDEVELOP
YOUR LAYOUT
REVIEWED
DAPOL CLASS 73
Ideas,
tips and
techniques
1920s Great Western in‘OO’
CONTROL
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February 2016
HORNBY
magazine
Editor:
Mike Wild
Assistant Editor:
Mark Chivers
Senior Designer:
Steve Diggle
Sub-editor:
Andrew Roden
Contributors:
Evan Green-Hughes, Brian Stephenson,
Tim Shackleton, Nigel Burkin, Graham Gaches, Paul Chetter,
Julia Scarlett, Trevor Jones, Tom Couling, Jamie Mathlin and
Les James.
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Wharfedale
WE
SHOW YOU
HOW!
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TRACKPLANS
Ever considered improving your
layout? Mild Wild considers ways of
redeveloping existing projects by
incorporating fresh ideas and new
features to create exciting operating
enhancing plans.
p88
Audit Bureau of Circulation 34,022
newsstand and digital sales.
Hornby Magazine
is published on
the second Thursday of each month
preceeding the cover date.
ISSN 1753-2469
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WORKBENCH
Modelling on a budget, Tim
Shackleton builds and details a
rake of ‘OO’ gauge Airfix/Dapol
‘Presflo’ bulk cement wagon kits,
demonstrating how a detailed scale
length train can be developed.
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LOCH DHU
- PART THREE
HORNBY
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February 2016
Nigel Burkin continues construction
of the new ‘OO’ gauge project layout
by laying the track for this double
sided micro.
magazine
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DIGITAL CONTROL
See pages 64-65 for full details.
Live frog crossings can be
complicated track components to
install on a digital layout. Mike Wild
shows you how to keep it simple
using a Hex Frog Juicer.
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to a busy year of model making.
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All the latest model railway news, plus you could
win more than £400 of Hornby Railroad models
and pairs of tickets to the Great Central Railway
Model Event in June in this issue’s exclusive
competitions!
Set in 1950s West Yorkshire, Tom Couling’s
impressive exhibition layout represents a fictitious
location on BR’s North Eastern Region in steam
days, inspired by regular visits to the area.
POOLE-IN-WHARFEDALE
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EQUIPMENT GUIDE
Working signals can make all the difference on
a layout. Mark Chivers examines a selection of
what’s available off-the-shelf for ‘OO’.
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ENQUIRY OFFICE
HORNBY POST
The
Hornby Magazine
team answer your
modelling questions and queries.
NEW
SERIES
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Your comments and railway modelling
observations from the
Hornby Magazine
postbag.
Taking inspiration from his home county of
Hampshire, Jamie Mathlin reveals how he
created this atmospheric BR blue era exhibition
layout, set within a parcels and diesel depot
complex in the 1970s.
OAKLEY GREEN
FIRST
REVIEWS
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Dapol’s ‘OO’ gauge Class 73
Hornby’s Biomass wagons
Minerva ‘O’ gauge Peckett
Hornby’s ‘OO’ gauge ‘J50’
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REALITY CHECK
Evan Green-Hughes recalls the LNER’s distinctive
‘J50’ 0-6-0T, tracing the history of these versatile
engines.
NEWBURN
Built primarily to showcase an extensive roster
of ‘OO’ gauge ready-to-run and kit-built Great
Western Railway locomotives and rolling stock,
Les James reveals how this exhibition layout
evolved.
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RAILWAY REALISM
BR’s Mk 2 carriages revolutionised long distance
rail travel in the 1960s and 1970s offering
improved comfort and safety, as Evan Green-
Hughes explains.
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STAFF PROJECTS
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ALSO REVIEWED...
The latest new releases including Hornby’s Skaledale High Brooms
station buildings for ‘OO’, ‘N’ gauge pipe wagons and a collector’s
club Class 08 diesel shunter in ‘OO’ from Bachmann and more.
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EW
SERIES
!
READER PROJECTS
Hornby Magazine
presents your latest model
building and layout projects.
Mike Wild returns to work on
Barrenthorpe by using a new Deluxe
Materials product to begin the process
of ballasting.
N
SHOW GUIDE
Your comprehensive guide to forthcoming events.
February 2016
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