Australian Model Railway Magazine

In August 1827, as he was sailing along the Victorian coast, Lt Charles Twigg chanced upon a small bay. He named this Leafy Bay after his good friend, George Leaf, recently elected to the House of Commons as the member for Little Chipping. The VR bra

Every model railway needs an industry or two. Running passenger trains is fun, but it’s shunting the sidings that makes it even more enjoyable. On a tiny model railway like Billabong Marina you may think that there would not be room for many industri

This is the third in a series of articles on the use of a computer to assist in designing, simulating and automating your model train layout. Although some readers may wish to follow this sequence, the use of a computer to design or even simulate a l

The MU wagon code was ‘unearthed’ by Peter J Vincent in 1992 during one of his forays into the VR Rolling Stock Register. Fifty of these wagons were built in the early 1930s by converting M class cattle wagons to louvred vans. The reason for the work

Before I could build a model I was in a dilemma regarding the detail of the van ends as, unfortunately, the only photograph of this van that I had seen was the one below from PJV’s web site [Photo 1]. Some years ago I was lucky enough to be talking t

Around 2003 I built a small, portable layout (more a diorama than a layout) to test the feasibility of working in a new scale. I’d switched from HO to O (1:43.5) about two years prior to starting the layout, but up to that point I’d only built some r

The SAR 3'6" (1067mm) narrow gauge network was once quite extensive, serving the less populated areas of the state in the far south-east, north, the western section of the Yorke Peninsula and the isolated network on the Eyre Peninsula. The architectu

As mentioned in my review of the Austrains 30 class tank locomotives in AMRM Issue 330 (June 2018), the model is close to perfect, but there is always something that can be done to make a good locomotive even better. As per the review of the Austrain

SAR/ANR/AN 830/NSWGR 48 Class Locomotives, r-t-r in HO scale by Auscision Models, PO Box 1791, Castle Hill 1765.Website: www.auscisionmodels.com.au . Price: $335.00. If Sir Topham Hatt (Thomas the Tank Engine’s Fat Controller) had seen the plucky

Casula Hobbies have received the first in their range of HO scale r-t-r NSWGR HG four-wheel brake vans, a special run of vans in turn of the 20th century purple brown, as some were painted when used in passenger service in the first decades of that

After eight years of quiet, unsung, but extremely effective assistance to AMRM, volunteer proofreader, Bob Comerford, has put his red pencil in the drawer and taken a well-deserved ‘retirement’. From late 2009 until last issue, Bob checked every arti

I read with interest Graham Watson’s Beyond the Fence article, [‘Advertisements on Brick Walls’, AMRM Issue 331, August 2018– Editor] on evocative, faded advertisements that can still be found on brick walls of old shops, pubs and other buildings, pa