The Model Railway Manual: A Step-by-step Guide to Building a Layout - Hardcover

Get started in railway modeling today! This comprehensive guide will show you how. Includes all basic techniques, including layout planning, laying track, making tunnels, adding details, constructing buildings, and more. Features all aspects, from baseboards to track laying, electrification to landscapes. Step-by-step illustrations accompany the easy-to-follow text. Written by one of the most highly regarded of model railway authors.

This book shows how to build a complete model railway, starting with the design and construction of a baseboard. It then covers how to plan and construct the layout, including the laying of track, adding the scenery and buildings, as well as the installation of the electrical wiring. The process is taken right through to the finishing touches needed to enhance the realism of the scene being modelled. Today, a comprehensive range of locomotives, coaches and wagons is available that can be used straight from the box, enabling the modeller to concentrate on producing an individualistic operating layout on which they can be run. This comprehensive step-by-step guide takes the reader through all the necessary stages, pointing out potential pitfalls on the way. Chapters include layout planning, laying track, simple electrification, making tunnels, bridges, roads and rivers.