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Garden Rail, 7 Oct 2026

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ArticleView from the end of the Plat­form

Iwon­der if the Märklin broth­ers ever thought that when they first showed a toy train sys­tem in 1891, how the scale they had inven­ted would develop? At the time, Gauge One was the smal­lest sys­tem on offer; even the tiny O gauge didn’t appear until...

View from the end of the Plat­form

ArticleHar­vey Watkins Dar­jeel­ing B class

This art­icle was promp­ted by a visit from Gra­ham Tutt with ‘Zanis­kari’, his newly-acquired Dar­jeel­ing B Class loco built by Har­vey Watkins. Read­ers will be very famil­iar with the well- known Round­house ver­sion of the B intro­duced in 2002,...

Har­vey Watkins Dar­jeel­ing B class

ArticleTin Turtle

Some time ago, a friend of mine asked if I’d be inter­ested in a couple of boxes he was about to throw away. They were full of odds and ends, includ­ing vari­ous 16mm scale and garden rail­way com­pon­ents that he no longer had any use for. It didn’t...

Tin Turtle

ArticleDIARY DATES

York­shire Garden Rail­way Show Date: Sat­urday, Octo­ber 10th, 2026 Venue: Else­car Her­it­age Centre, Wath Rd, Else­car, Barns­ley, S74 8HJ Times: 10am to 4pm Web: www.york­shire.16mm.org.uk The Mid­lands Model Engin­eer­ing Exhib­i­tion Date:...

DIARY DATES

ArticleBack to the Future

Ifirst came across Time­less Mod­els in 2021, when I was asked to review its Dar­jeel­ing and Him­alayan Rail­way (DHR) lug­gage van. This review appeared in April 2022’s Garden Rail, and was soon fol­lowed by a DHR 3rd Class coach, a couple of...

Back to the Future

ArticleTHE BUILD: STEP-BY-STEP

1| The theme of work­ing win­dows is con­sist­ent across this range of coaches. Each win­dow com­prises an inner and outer frame, a small piece of plastic glaz­ing and a thin­ner frame that this drops into. It is a nice dis­place­ment activ­ity to...

THE BUILD: STEP-BY-STEP