Modelling The Great Western Branch Lines

by Chris Ford

Overview

Modelling The Great Western Branch Lines is essential reading for all those who wish to build a model railway based on the branch lines of the Great Western Railway. The author guides the modeller through projects which are graded from simple to more advance. Each step is clearly described, explaining the techniques used and how alternative methods and materials could be employed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785005657
Publisher:	Crowood Press, The
Publication date:	06/25/2019
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	7.49(w) x 9.68(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Chris Ford has been a modeller since childhood starting with simple plastic and balsa wood kits. By his teens he had become almost exclusively interested in railway modelling and by adulthood he had developed a particular interest in more 'quirky' railway prototypes, especially the narrow gauge lines. Chris has built many model railway layouts over the years both for private home use and for public exhibition display. Most of these layouts have featured in articles published in the model railway press and for two of them he received the Reiner Hendriksen Award for freelance modelling, which is presented each year at the Expo-Narrow Gauge model railway exhibition.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction 6

Chapter 2 Selected History 18

Chapter 3 Goods Traffic 32

Chapter 4 Coaching Stock 54

Chapter 5 Approaching Absorbed Rolling Stock 72

Chapter 6 Branch-Line Locomotives 82

Chapter 7 Main Branch-Line Buildings 92

Chapter 8 Gwr Signals 128

Chapter 9 Branch Cattle Traffic and an Introduction to Etched Kits 138

Chapter 10 Small Buildings And Ancillary Equipment 154

Chapter 11 Planning Your Layout 174

Chapter 12 Exhibiting Your GWR Branch Layout 184

Chapter 13 Conclusions 188

Index 191