Welcome to another issue ofThe Railway Magazine Guide to Modelling.
With the completion of our N-scale project layout ‘St Ann’s Cove’ now well within sight, we’ve been thinking about what to build next.The initial conclusion was a 2ft wide, late-1930s LMS-based ‘round-the-walls’ OO-scale layout featuring a re-creation of the late Barry H Freeman’s ‘Winter Wayfarers’ painting depicting the Down ‘Coronation Scot’ beside the Oxford Canal. We soon realised, though, that a layout on which a much wider range of models could be photographed in authentic settings would be a much better idea, so the new plan is to give each of the ‘Big Four’ companies a wall of its own in a single continuous circuit.
The ‘Winter Wayfarers’ scene will therefore be followed anticlockwise by an idyllic springtime Great Western setting, a midsummer look at LNER’s East Coast Main Line featuring Gresley’s magnificent racehorses at the zenith of the streamline years, and a Southern Railway boat train during the autumn.
