Model Railway Express eMagazine (MREMag)

Published on July 27, 2024

The Model Railway Express eMagazine was an online publication produced by a group of model railway enthusiasts in the United Kingdom. Inside the magazine, there are high-quality reports and guidebooks for railway modelling. Pilentum would like to support this great work of volunteers and has received permission to make all issues of this beautiful magazine available for download. Below you will find a lot of .pdf documents, for free.

MRE Magazine № 01

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• Market Havering Station Building
• Modelling Around the World: Paeroa to Waihi
• Hot Wire foam & Polystyrene Cutter
• Tombridge Junction & St Faith’s Branch N Gauge layout
• Railway Refreshments: The Signalbox Inn
• 5 in 1 Butane Gas Soldering Set
• West Kirby Joint Layout
• On30 Hand Car Shack
• The 5.5mm Association
• Memoirs of a Model Railway Widow
• Exhibition Review: Daventry Model Railway Club 2016
• Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society
• On 30 Victorian Railways NQR narrow gauge wagons
• Beko Lights

MRE Magazine № 02

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• Bachmann BR Mk1 Non-Gangwayed Coaches
• Trivia: History of Manchester United F.C. (1878–1945)
• Fleet Lane
• Railway refreshements: The Stalybridge station buffet bar
• Bachmann BR Weathered Bulk Grain Wagons 38-600A and 38-602A
• Memoirs of a model railway widow
• Fitting real coal to a Bachmann pannier tank
• Midland Main Lines: Derby to Stoke on Trent
• The Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway
• Bachmann Class 43 ‘Warship’ Diesels
• Hornby’s Peckett takes the biscuit
• Bachmann in 2017-18
• Hornby’s coke wagon is full of fizz
• Wagon of the month: The GWR Iron Mink
• Bachmann Class 101 DMU 32-289
• Bachmann GWR 64xx Class Pannier Tank 31-638
• A day in the life of a Welsh Highland Railway fireman
• Bachmann LNER/BR Brake Vans
• Out and about international: The Ostra Sodermanlands Järnväg
• Heljan re-issue popular Metropolitan Bo-Bo
• Bachmann Weathered & Repaired Wagons
• Buntingford to Broxfield on a busy day 1959
• Graham Farish TTA Tank Wagons

MRE Magazine № 03

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• A Day In The Life of a photo charter photographer
• Wagon of the month: LBSCR wagons
• Modelling the Ware, Hadham and Buntingford Railway
• Semaphore signals in Australia
• Earlingham – Dorking & District Model Railway Club
• Make it dirty; Hornby’s Peckett, modifying, detailing and making dirty
• Wessex lines - The story of a layout
• The 3mm Challenge
• Rural realism
• Snowy River Railroad: On30 Modular Layout
• Graham Farish New N Gauge Range for 2017-2018
• Trackside & Waterway Kits A Cut Above the Rest!
• Birtley (CC) Model Railway Engineers Annual Exhibition 2017
• Newton Aycliffe Rotary Club
• Model Rail Scotland
• The Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway
• Railway refreshments: the Ludlow Brewing Co.
• Sutton Locomotive Works Class 24
• N Graham Farish Weathered Coke Wagon 377-206A
• 00 Bachmann 5-plank Wagon Carlisle Co-op 37-073
• 00 Bachmann TTA Tank Wagon in Aviation Fuel 37-587
• 00 Bachmann New Thompson Coaches
• Modelling railways in O gauge by John Emerson
• 00 Bachmann 5-plank Wagon Carlisle Co-op 37-073
• N Graham Farish GWR 5-plank wagon 377-061
• 00 Bachmann Network SouthEast Mark 1 BG 39-188
• 00 Bachmann Mk1 Scotrail Coach Pack 39-004
• 00 Bachmann NSE Brake Van Set 38-990
• 00 Bachmann PO 21T Bulk Grain Wagons 38-603 and 38-604
• Dapol 68 is great
• N Graham Farish BR Mk1 Coaches in NSE Livery
• Double delight from Heljan
• 00 Bachmann BR Auto Trailer 39-579
• 00 Bachmann BR(SR) PMV (Parcels & Miscellaneous Van) 39-530
• 00 Bachmann Class 57/6 in GWR livery 32-756
• 00 Bachmann EWS Queen Mary Brake Van 33-832
• N Graham Farish BR Auto-Trailer 374-611
• N Graham Farish BR Mk1 NEA BG Coach 374-044

MRE Magazine № 04

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• Railway refreshments: The York Tap
• Wagon of the month: The LMS Cattle Wagon
• Modelling goods trains
• The three millimetre addiction
• Model Railway Ensurance
• A plethora of bicycles
• Dirty British coaster with salt-caked smoke-stack
• A day in the life of a Duty Traffic Manager
• BR blue — a quick look behind the scenes
• Skytrex Models: 2 sliding wooden doors & runners
• Modelling signal boxes for railway layouts by Terry Booker
• L Cut creative water tower
• Skytrex models: Brick gable end low relief parts
• In the Navy with Hornby’s new Merchant
• Country Railway Routes
• The National Tramway Museum

MRE Magazine № 05

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• Railway refreshments: Centurion Bar, Newcastle Central Station
• A Day in the life of a Guard on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway
• Kohler confidential
• North British Railway Wagons
• Ferroequinology!
• Firing in the shadow of legends: The BR 9Fs and me
• N Graham Farish Mk1 GUV Satlink Western 374-135
• A history of the East Coast Main Line
• N Graham Farish GWR Castle Class 4-6-0 372-032
• 00 Bachmann LNWR Webb Coal Tank 0-6-2T 35-052
• 00 Bachmann Thompson Composite Corridor Coach 34-41
• Hornby re-issue three classic express locos: Castle, Britannia and A4 in 00
• 00 Bachmann E4 Class 0-6-2T 35-079
• Oxford Rail come up with the goods
• 00 Bachmann Jubilee Class 4-6-0 31-190
• Tri-ang collectables
• N Graham Farish JGA Bogie Hopper Wagon 377-103
• Langston Bridge
• Foxbile Brewery: A Pointless Layout
• East Kent Model Railway Society

MRE Magazine № 06

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• Around A Day in the life of the Warley MRC Exhibition Manager
• Railway refreshments: The Old Station, Tintern
• Kohler Confidential Don’t look back in anger (part 2)
• The GWR MICA A/B Vans
• Oxford Rail get ready for war!
• Modelling The Southern Region 1948 to the present
• Heljan go all narrow minded!
• 33rd Uckfield Model Railway Exhibition
• MRC Mini Exhibition
• London Model Engineering Exhibition
• Darlington Model Railway Club exhibition
• GWR Bullion Van
• Trials and Tribulations of Exhibiting
• Creating a realistic farm
• The Famous Trains model railway

MRE Magazine № 07

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• Building ‘Bolton Trinity Road’
• Easy and effective cliff building
• Micro Layout: 1970’s London In A Box File
• Working with resin cast model kits
• Signature Layout: Tinsley TMD & Yard
• BR Blue in the 1970s and 1980s
• Locomotives at BR Workshops
• Barry Scrapyard
• Benelux Railways
• Industrial Locomotives & Railways of The Midlands
• HORNBY’S NEW ‘DUCHESS’ PLUGS A GAP IN THE MARKET
• Modelling heavy industry: A guide for railway modellers
• Modelling tunnels, embankments, walls and fences for model railways
• Stanton Iron Works 7 plank wagon
• Theft of Exquisite Model Railway Wagons
• Friends Of The National Railway Museum Win MRE-MAG Trophy
• A Day In The Life Of Santa On The Great Central Railway

MRE Magazine № 08

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• Bolton Trinity Road – Garden extension
• Rebuilding an N-Gauge Layout for an Elderly Modeller in Spain
• A Prototype For Everything
• The Biggest Little Railway in the World – A Contributor’s View
• An introduction to airbrushes
• 1970’s London In A Box File (Carter Street) – Part 2
• Tennessee Extraction Co Railroad Or the story of two modules
• A Phoenix Rising: The St Bees Light Railway
• Signature Layout: Tinsley TMD & Yard
• BRITISH RAIL IN THE 1980s & 1990s Diesel locomotives and DMUs
• CLASS 70 LOCOMOTIVES
• The Great Railway Stations of Paris
• Grandt Line Review
• H IS FOR HORNBY!
• Slater’s Plastikard - MEK-PAK Holder
• NORTH EAST TO SOUTH WEST BY RAIL IN THE 1980s
• Skytrex Models 3 Oil Drums
• Hornby Announcements 2018
• Railway Refreshments: The Sheffjeld Tap

MRE Magazine № 09

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• Irish Broad Gauge in 7mm - Arigna Town
• Getting A Drivers Eye View - Building A Camera Wagon
• Model railways as theatre
• Maintenance and performance
• Boghampton
• The British Railway Stories Great Western Glory: Lone Star
• A quick start guide to using your airbrush
• 3d Modeling in Solidworks and use of Rapid Prototypes
• Signature Layout: Tinsley TMD & Yard
• Railway Refreshments: Platform Ale House, Albrighton station, Shropshire
• The end of midland steam in the north west
• Chinese steam - the last years
• East German steam in the 1970s
• South African steam in the 1970s
• 30pc Deluxe Craft Tool Set in case
• Revolving Head Pin Vice with Reversible Collets
• British Coaching Stock
• Class 156 DMU’s
• Italian traction
• Swiss traction
• Armoured Trains An Illustrated Encyclopedia 1825-2016
• The Merthyr, Tredegar & Abergavenny railway
• Signalling and signal boxes along the NER routes VOL. 1 - Yorkshire
• Signalling and signal boxes along the North British Railway, Great North of Scotland Railway and the CLC routes
• London Midland - Ten years of service
• Invicta Model Rail 38-125Y RTC Trib Van Arrives
• Invicta Model Rail to release OO Fisons Weedkilling Coach Pack
• Invicta Model Rail’s First 009 Release
• New model railway show

MRE Magazine № 10

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• THE BIRTH OF ANGELL CREEK
• Friends of the National Railway Museum
• Merry-go-round trains - an NCB MICRO in 2mm N gauge
• Micro Layouts in 16mm – How it All Started
• My South African Model Railway - Part 1
• Hamilton to Claudelands NZR 9mm/P34 Layout
• What Future for The Model Railway Hobby?
• Why Plastic and why In 9mill!
• NARROW GAUGE LOCOMOTIVES
• THE NORTH BRITISH LOCOMOTIVE COMPANY INDUSTRIAL LOCOMOTIVES & RAILWAYS OF THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND
• The Great Northern
• Smart Models Magnetic Right Angle Clamps (2 Pairs Small, Medium and Large)
• Rio Grande – The Early Years
• SIGNALLING AND SIGNAL BOXES ALONG THE NER ROUTES VOL. 2 DURHAM, NORTHUMBERLAND AND CUMBRIA
• BRITISH RAIL IN THE 1980s AND 1990s - ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES, COACHES, DEMUs AND EMUs
• Freight Car Handbook
• The Old Station Inn & carriage restaurant, Hallatrow, Somerset

MRE Magazine № 11

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• Flagg Fluorspar – Part the Second
• The Slim Gauge Circle North American Narrow-Gauge Modeling in the UK
• When it reaches the end of the line – layout dismantling and recycling
• Brine Leas School project nears completion
• Dockside Delight from Dapol & Heljan
• My South African Model Railway - Part 2
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel: The Life of an Engineering Genius
• Freight Car Handbook
• On30 Annual 2018
• Southern Region Through The 1960s Year By Year
• Southern Region Through The 1970s Year By Year
• 1960s Southern Region Steam In Colour
• Cliff Railways, Lifts and Funiculars
• 125 – The Enduring Icon
• A Collective Review Of Books On Scottish Railways
• Bulleid Pacifics
• GT3 Gas Turbine – OO Gauge project
• Railway Refreshments: Oswestry & Welshpool
• 125 Group and HST Preservation
• Milton Keynes Model Railway Society Golden Jubilee exhibition

MRE Magazine № 12

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• Flagg Fluorspar – Part the Third
• Additive manufacturing – What’s it all about?
• Construction of a models of a SAR/Spoornet Class 34 and 35 diesel locomotives
• The Call of the Great Eastern Railway
• MOUNTAINS OF MONKEY DUNG
• An Unusual Prototype we can all model without realising
• Blairgowrie Forrest Railway
• Rising to the Challenge!
• The Rainhill Trials
• British Railway Accidents In Maps And Pictures
• TYNESIDE ROAD AND RAIL SERVICES
• MERSEYSIDE TRACTION
• MINIATURE RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES AND ROLLING STOCK
• Class 90 locomotives
• The Fifties Railway
• RAIL ROVER: WEST MIDLANDS RANGER
• Fifty Years Since The End Of Steam Britain’s Railways 1968–2018
• Class 91 locomotives
• DB Cargo Locomotives and Stock in the UK
• GT3 Gas Turbine – OO Gauge project
• Electric locomotives on Scottish railways
• A Family Day out at the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway

MRE Magazine № 13

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• Wagons; that’s enough to make some readers turn the page. But why?
• Grove Street Yard - Modelling Scrap
• THE PERMANENT WAY MY METHOD OF TRACK LAYING
• Britain’s Steam Reserve: Myth, Defunct, or Extant?
• Sandwich Haven Publicises Chaucer University
• Guardians of Social History
• Is DCC really all that modern?
• Rising to the challenge! part 2
• country railway routes Mansfield to Doncaster via Shirebrook and Shireoaks
• Deltic in 4mm, By Accurascale
• CLASS 56 LOCOMOTIVES
• Plasser General Purpose Crane in OO The first modern image RTR crane in OO
• INDUSTRIAL LOCOMOTIVES & RAILWAYS OF YORKSHIRE
• THE STEPHENSON RAILWAY LEGACY
• LOCOMOTIVES OF WESTERN CANADA
• LMS Beyer Garratt in N From Hattons
• The Pacer
• TYPE 4 LOCOMOTIVES OF BRITISH RAIL
• GERMAN TRACTION
• THE LATER YEARS OF BRITISH RAIL 1980-1995 VOLUME THREE - WEST MIDLANDS, WALES AND SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND
• Intercity 225 class 91 locomotives and Mark 4 coaches
• London Terminal Stations In The 1960s

MRE Magazine № 14

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• Skill what skill?
• Hornby 2019 Range Highlights
• Erith Model Railway Society Model Railway Exhibition 26 th and 27 th January 2019
• Scalextric News & There’s Something for All Ages
• Corgi 2019 Range looks to the past for the future
• Getting Value For Your Money
• Adding Skytrex Detail to Snow River Railroad
• My Granddaughter’s Little Layout
• Rising to the Challenge! – Part 3
• Great Britain’s Railways: a New History
• LOCOMOTIVES OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES
• The Railways of Wales in the 1960’s
• A day in the life of an engine driver
• Arriva Trains Wales
• AVELING & PORTER
• Cornish Traction
• Steam Across the Pennines
• The Great Way West – London to Cornwall by Rail
• Pre–war steam
• The Kyle of Lochalsh and far north lines
• Cloughton Station tea room

MRE Magazine № 15

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• Great Model Railway Challenge & the Track Laying Ninjas!
• Building a LEGO railway station - Buxton
• The building of RE-UNITED BISCUITS Ltd. A broken biscuit repair factory
• A starter in O gauge: part 1 – ideas and plans
• Happisburgh (Heysborough) Goods Retires From The Model Railway Club
• London Traction
• Wiltshire Traction
• Railways of the South East since the 1970s
• War of the Terriers: A review of the Hornby and Dapol/Rails of Sheffield offerings
• Nameplates The Story Behind The Names
• Midland Railway Stations
• Local clubs to demonstrate at Model Mania exhibition

MRE Magazine № 16

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• TT3 For Ever (Scale 3 mm to the foot, gauge 12 mms)
• Building a new identity for an old layout (Or upgrading Happisburgh Goods for the future part 1)
• Beyer, Peacock & Company of Manchester
• Europe by Sleeping Car
• Britain’s Heritage: Holiday Trains
• THE LAST DAYS OF STEAM IN NORTH EAST ENGLAND
• London Rail Freight since 1985
• The Scottish Railway Scene
• Railways around Hereford
• Rail Rover; Wessex Ranger
• Out and about – Estacio de Franca, Barcelona
• Step back to the 40s at The SVR!
• Theft at the GCR Model Event 2019
• Accurascale Class 92 In Tooling

MRE Magazine № 17

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• A Day In The Life Of – Volunteer Station Staff at Kidderminster station
• Railway Refreshments: The Sidings Hotel and Restaurant
• TCS universal wifi throttle release
• Henry Greenly: The true father of railway modelling
• Model Locomotive Database – An appeal for help
• EDM Models new website launched
• The Architecture and Infrastructure of Britain’s Railways: West Midlands, Wales and the West
• The LCut J 00-00 Industrial Weighbidge With Lorry Scale
• Skytrex O Gauge SMR38K Lowmac Wagon Kit-B.R.25ton Dia g.2/242
• Accurascale Announces the PTA/JTA/JUA Tippler Wagon in OO Gauge
• Railway and Tramway Bodies Another Life
• Skytrex 7/06 GWR Corrugated pagoda building
• Thinking out of the box - how to model in a (very) small space
• Steam in the British coalfields
• Chew Magna
• Britain’s Railways in the 1970s
• Railways around Worcestershire
• The Midland & South Western Junction Railway through time
• Young Modeller - The LCut 00 Gauge Weighbridge
• A Very British Summer at the SVR!
• Survivors of Beeching
• Great Eastern Models and the Brexit layout
• The Chester & Holyhead Railway – the modern scene
• Saltley deport from the 1960s to closure
• Trains around Peterborough
• Accurascale Class 92 In Tooling
• Union Pacific Railroad
• Big Steam, Narrow Steam and Shiny Nails
• Turkish Steam Railways
• Modelling South African Railways Two Foot Gauge in 1/43 or 7mm Scale
• Iberian Railways
• Hungarian Railways
• 5.5mm Scale Modular Group

MRE Magazine № 18

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• Railway Refreshments - The Harrogate Tap
• A Day In The Life Of – A SVR Signalman
• Class 26, 27 and 33 Locomotives
• Cummins open day 2019
• Norwich station
• Eastern Region in the 1970’s and 1980’s
• Emsay & Bolton Steam Railway
• Britain’s Railways in Transition 1976-1990
• Santa Specials return to Bridgnorth for first time in 40 years!
• Class 67 and 68 Locomotives
• Chew Magna Part 2 - Progress
• Shed Bashing in the 1970s and 1980s
• Bristol Traction
• Ghost, ghouls, wands and wizards at the SVR this October half-term
• Class 87 Locomotives
• Railways of the Western region in the 1970s and 1980s
• 7/127A GWR standard water tank with conical top and fire devil-O Gauge
• Locomotives of the Victorian Railway
• The Early Days of Steam
• London Model Engineering Exhibition 2020
• Bankside vegetation
• Great Eastern Goes Digital!
• Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition
• Valve gear upgrade for Backwoods 0-16.5 NGG16 Garratt
• Modelling South African Railways Two Foot Gauge in 1/43 or 7mm Scale (aka the Hopefield Branch) - Part Two-Rolling stock
• Modelling 3 Ft Gauge Railways in 5.5mm Scale
• On30 on the cheap!
• Big Steam, Narrow Steam and Shiny Nails - Part 2
• Ugandan Railways - Kampala Station
• Big Steam, Narrow Steam and Shiny Nails - part 2 (continued)
• BNSF Railway

MRE Magazine № 19

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• Railway Refreshments: The Final Whistle, Southwell
• Railway Refreshments: Franschhoek Station Pub & Craft Bar
• A Day in the life of Santa!
• Soundtraxx announces new 21 pin mobile decoder
• Thoughts on Great Central Railway’s Exhibition
• Lightweight Scenery
• Big Steam, Narrow Steam and Shiny Nails - Part 3
• Winelands Light Railway - One Man’s Railway
• The Midland Region in the 1970s and 1980s
• Chew Magna - Part 3
• Freight in the Peak District
• Second Generation DMUs
• Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition 2019
• London Model Engineering Exhibition 2020
• The 1896 Light Railways Act
• The Station Master’s Apartment, Strathcarron
• Railways at Night, From dusk til dawn
• Midlands Garden Rail Show
• Large Scale Tram Models to Operate at Crich
• Hopefield Branch - part 3
• Hill’s Tramroad - Blaenavon World Heritage Site
• Railcars

MRE Magazine № 20

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• Railway Refreshments: Hassop station café
• Narrow gauge: Carters’ Bridge
• Narrow gauge: Paul’s Page - On30 - weathering
• Narrow gauge: 2020 0n30 Annual & Port Wynnstay
• Renewing Britain’s Railways: Scotland
• Something Different: The Steampunk World of Bassett-Lowke
• Hornby Celebrates 100th Anniversary!
• Midlands Garden Rail Show
• GWR Foot Bridge for Chew Magna
• The Extraordinary Daddy-Long-Legs Railway of Brighton
• SVR achieves record locomotive availability levels
• Lady of Legend heads to SVR Spring Gala
• Erith Model Railway Society-Exhibition
• Chew Magna - A workshop day
• First generation Scottish DMUs
• Figure Painting Vice – product review
• Measuring Loco Stall Current
• Simple Lighting Stay-Alive Circuit
• Train Control Systems Opens UK Office

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