Railway Modelling

Iain Rice is one of Britain's best-known model railway authors with 17 books to his credit. He is a regular contributor to British and American model railway magazines, for which he produces his own diagrams and illustrations. He is a highly respected railway modeller with more than 40 years' experience, and lives in Devon.

All aspects of building a model railway layout: planning, building a baseboard, laying track, installing wiring. Adding the detail: signalling, scenery, stations and other railway structures. Scales, gauges and standards explained. Locomotives: availability of ready-to-run models, building from kits, adding detail and realism. Rolling stock: carriages and wagons, ready-to-run or kits, coupling systems, choosing the right stock for the era and locality being modelled. Control and operation: using computers, the pros and cons of Digital Command Control (DCC), point control and switching, working with timetables, shunting. Pre-Grouping railways, the 'Big Four' railways, the British Rail era, the present-day - plus steam, diesel and electric traction. Glossary of technical terms.