Railway Modeller - October 2022 - N gauge content

[woodbury22uk]

Railway of the month is N gauge - Barton Road, Benn Pollard's West Country T shaped layout set in the pre-TOPS period with diesel traction. 8 pages

Followed by the first of a series "Making a start in N" written by Chris Ford. 4 pages

[SD35]

It's all good but the best bit is the guy who has managed to make a duck that swims around a pond. That's quality modelling.

[Newportnobby]

It's all good but the best bit is the guy who has managed to make a duck that swims around a pond. That's quality modelling.

Kevin @Phoenix of this parish has had skaters going round on a frozen pond so maybe the mechanics are the same

[Gordon]

I presume it works on the principle 'something moves along under the base' with the duck, skaters etc attracted by magnetism or some other guidance  - actually a technology that has been around for many years, but not necessarily in as small a scale as N

[woodbury22uk]

The swan on a pond is on a 1/43 scale layout, rather than N. There is a powered moving belt below the "water" with magnetism working its magic to link the swan to the subaquatic belt.

[Bealman]

Yeah, Kevin's Christmas layout was 009, so the skaters were OO scale.

[Chris Morris]

The RM has always been supportive of N. The October edition is especially so.