Garden Rail 315 - November 2020

[Phil Parker]

 

Contents

 

View from the end of the platform

 

Vale of the White Horse Railway by Jon Potter

 

Chippy Joe rides again by Tag Gorton

 

Building an Upper Class observation coach by Dave Skertchy

 

Boxing clever by Ann Knowles

 

My lockdown building by Mark Thatcher

 

Building a Class 03 Diesel by Paul Partridge

 

Building Bench Hall by Philip Young

 

Product News

 

Mailbox

 

Diary Dates/Next Month

 

Modelling the Wuppertal Suspended Railway by Alan Eccles

 

Buy the November 2020 issue of Garden Rail.

[Huw Griffiths]

Another great issue.

 

I particularly like the observation car build article - it looks great (and would probably also have looked great in "varnished wood" finish. I'd also like to add that all the "build in progress" photos are greatly appreciated (and likely to come in very useful with my railbus builds - even if the scale is rather different).

 

To be honest, I've only got one "complaint" here. I always thought railway modelling was supposed to be about motive power and little else.

 

Joking aside, I'm sure that lots of us could reasonably be accused of concentrating on motive power, pretty much to the exclusion of everything else. Meanwhile, I suspect that the balance between locomotives and rolling stock might have been rather different on real railways.

 

Anyway, I'm enjoying the magazines - even though I'm not planning on building my own garden line any time soon.

 

 

Huw.