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In issue 72 we visit Neil Rushby’s “Shell Island”, muse about layout planning, get some ideas for painting backscenes, look at British freight yards and three narrow gauge features. And, of course, more.

Armchair modelling

Layout development by David J Rooke

More British freight yards

Internet forum findings

Operating Shell Island

Neil Rushby’s fine small layout

Farlow VT

Neat N scale layout by Mog Hogg

Turner Point Yard

New layout by Petar Kanuritch

Yeobridge

OO9 layout built by Giles Barnabe

Scenic fiddle sidings

Ideas from Bob Mason

Overhead yard crane

Conversion by John Flann

Painting your backscene

Suggestions from Giles Barnabe

Wickingham

East Anglian branch line idea by Ian Bareham

More narrow potential

Working in 1n20 or 1n22

Short line idyll

Looking like a small layout

We also have our regular hobby news and comment, product news and reviews, club news, shows and events, book reviews and readers’ letters. Bachmann and Hornby models are on this issue’s test track.