Continental Modeller Magazine August 2025 Zurück Ausgabe

RAILWAY OF THE MONTH
SAINT-BERNARD
Thomas Bossonet presents his popular French HO exhibition layout, a rural terminus in the steam era which includes many distinctive local features.

PLAN OF THE MONTH
MEGSDORF
Southern Germany in the snow – Norman Raven describes his family’s latest HO exhibition layout, named and presented in memory of his late wife.

SCALE DRAWINGS
JIANGHE
A Chinese coal line represented on a table top in HOe – Bob Whetham was inspired by visiting a narrow gauge railway with unusual motive power.


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GREIFENBACHTALBRÜCKE
The late Jochen Klinger and Jens Petermann created an impressive HOe display showing what was once the highest narrow gauge railway bridge in Saxony.

ARCADIA PENNSYLVANIA TERMINAL
A fictitious short line freight yard modelled in O: David George eventually created an exhibition layout that he had promised never to build …

MALANSAC
Olivier Taniou reports on a French club N layout which depicts a local prototype in southern Brittany.

KLAPPSTADT
An ingenious fold-away design – Friedel Helmich presents his portable German HO loco depot layout.

BOUDOIS
A little bit of the Ardennes – Patrick Raes describes his sweeping Belgian HO exhibition layout.

RETURN TO THE MONTRÉAL MÉTRO
Nigel Hurst has developed his interest in modelling an unusual system in HO.

ZECHENBACHER FELDBAHN
A small rural idyll in HOf – Norman Timpe proves that a satisfying layout can be created in a small space.

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