CONTINENTAL MODELLER  OCTOBER 2026

RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
KEINDORF
Tim Tincknell returns to a favourite subject – a small narrow gauge junction in rural Austria, modelled in HOe with great attention to authentic detail.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
AUSWISS
David and Susan George have created an interesting dual-gauge European layout in HO – an alpine location in north-east Switzerland.

FEATURES

ALTENBURGER
Alan Wardman and Maciej Kurkowiak present their latest HO exhibition layout – a German branch line terminus in Epoch V-VI.

PORT KEMBLA
Craig Watson describes his HO exhibition layout, a modern loco maintenance facility in New South Wales which was prompted by visits to relatives. 

BUFFER STOP
Olivier Taniou shows how he made a simple but substantial buffer stop for an industrial siding in HO.

BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI
The modern tourist operation as a memorial – James Spence made a novel choice of subject and an unusual format for his HOm layout. 

AIX-EN-PAINS
John Davies introduces a French metre gauge fantasy realised as compact diorama in HOm.

MONTLOUIS
A small French loco shed modelled in O – David Cuthbert    created a detailed diorama as a competition entry.

CREATING AN IMPRESSION IN O
Philip Morgan, co-ordinator of the annual European and American O Gauge meeting in Winchester each October, adopts an impressionistic approach to railway modelling.

CANEFIELD DIORAMA
Jamie Patterson made a small canefield diorama in OO9 to display export versions of the Rapido ‘Sirdar’ models.

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