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2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 183 On the cover … Andrew Breese with his 5 inch gauge B1 locomotive Worthing club president drives around the track (photo: John Arrowsmith)
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 203 Workshop ML7 Modifications Mike Joseph Demonstrates how he improved his Myford ML7 lathe
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 206 Electronic An Electronic Control System for a Traverser Peter Russel Describes how he improved the control of the Sunderland club's traverser. R... more
Describes how he improved the control of the Sunderland club's traverser. Roker Park, specifying the new system, final system specification, conclusion
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 208 Postbag Cherry Hill Mitch Barnes
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 208 Postbag Cherry Hill Ashley Best
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 209 Postbag Farewell Ed.
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 209 Postbag Farewell Steve Goodbody Tribute to Martin Evans
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 209 Postbag Rob Roy Graham Piercy
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 209 Postbag Sutton Oak Shed Colin Standish
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 209 Postbag LBSC Tim Coles
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 209 Postbag Milling Slots John Coleman
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 209 Postbag William Smith Mike Joseph
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 212 Obituary Philip Bellamy 1934 - 2024 Martin Goddard Remembers his uncle Philip
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 213 Locomotive 12 A BR Standard Class 4 Tender Engine Doug Hewson Describes a 5 inch gauge version of the BR Standard 2-6-0 tender engine. Co... more
Describes a 5 inch gauge version of the BR Standard 2-6-0 tender engine. Coupling rods - front, coupling rods - rear, connecting rods, correction
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 217 Book Review The Wantage Tramway: a bucolic road side Tramway Richard Marks Review by Roger Backhouse
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 218 Exhibition Kempton Steam Museum Robert Hobbs Admires the great engine at Kempton. The author operates the barring engine... more
Admires the great engine at Kempton. The author operates the barring engine, indicator diagram, references
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 223 Stationary Engine Stuart Turner Sirius Piston Valve. A Tale of Two Twins Graeme Quayle Improves the valve timing of the Sirius engine. The original Sirius drawing... more
Improves the valve timing of the Sirius engine. The original Sirius drawing, the original piston valve, the blue Sirius engine, the green Sirius engine, the original piston valve, the new piston valve, the revised piston valve
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 226 Locomotive 10 A GWR Pannier Tank in 3 1/2 Inch Gauge Gerald Martyn Steam Chest. Covers and the Rest. Decides to build a locomotive that he can... more
Steam Chest. Covers and the Rest. Decides to build a locomotive that he can lift. Steam chest, cover and gland cover, valve and spindle, piston, rod and covers, slidebars and crossheads
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 232 Workshop 3 Working on the lathe: drilling and boring Neil Raine Explains how to create holes using drilling and boring in the lathe. Cuttin... more
Explains how to create holes using drilling and boring in the lathe. Cutting speed and metal machinability, drilling speed, relation between drilling speed and cutting speed for small twist drill, drilling speeds, references
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 234 Diary Club Diary
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 236 Club News Tyneside SMEE
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 236 Club News St Albans MES A 'stretched' Deltic Pinza
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 236 Club News Richmond Hill LS (Can)
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 236 Club News Pickering EEMS
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 236 Club News Bradford MES
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 236 Club News Geoff Theasby's comments Cherry Hill, atomic batteries, parcel arrivals, CD's
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 237 Club News Guildford ME
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 237 Club News Gauge 3 Society NLR loco, Sentinel, a long bit of signwriting by Bagnall, Nick Baines and b... more
NLR loco, Sentinel, a long bit of signwriting by Bagnall, Nick Baines and battery electric T3 at MEX (photos courtesy of Ted Sadler)
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 237 Club News Halesworth DMES
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 238 Club News And finally The late software engineer, grep, fgrep
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 238 Club News Geoff Theasby's comments Black Screen of Fear, computer problems
2025 24-Jan 234 4,761 238 Club News Bristol ME Davinder and his Little Samson (photo courtesy of Davinder Singh Matmaru)
2025 10-Jan 234 4,760 123 On the cover … Mr Harding's Perkins 'hit and miss' engine Seen at the Lowestoft Model Engineering Exhibition (photo: Julie Williams)
2025 10-Jan 234 4,760 124 Smoke Rings Bradford Cup
2025 10-Jan 234 4,760 124 Smoke Rings The Joy of LEC's
2025 10-Jan 234 4,760 124 Smoke Rings Garden Rail Show
2025 10-Jan 234 4,760 124 Smoke Rings Conundrum John Arrowsmith, safety valve
2025 10-Jan 234 4,760 124 Smoke Rings Cock-Up Corner Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition - Highlights (see 233 4757 736)
2025 10-Jan 234 4,760 128 Stationary Engine 11 A Tandem Compound Mill Engine David Thomas Builds Arnold Throp's model of a Corliss mill engine. Cylinder covers and t... more
Builds Arnold Throp's model of a Corliss mill engine. Cylinder covers and the imitation metallic packing for the piston rod seals, HP cylinder assembly
2025 10-Jan 234 4,760 132 An Engineer's Day Out Austria's Zillertalbahn Roger Backhouse Recalls a holiday to the Austrian Tirol. History, the railway today, compou... more
Recalls a holiday to the Austrian Tirol. History, the railway today, compound locomotive No. 3 Tirol at Jenbach station, tourists' view of the Zillertal from the Heritage Train, the journey, goods traffic, view into No. 3 cab, No. 3 takes water at Mayrhofen, ballast wagons, snowplough. Schlitters Bruck station, balises, standard gauge shunting locomotive on a transporter wagon, timber wagons, steam locomotive, cab picture No. 3, 0-8-2 tank and tender engine No. 4 (Photo courtesy Gunter Denoth and ZB 2024), No. 4 on shed at Jenbach, sandboxes and turbo generators, No. 5 Gerlos, Heusinger von Waldegg motion work, Lupo class diesel hydraulic locomotives, locomotive D40, four wheel Zillertalbahn coaches, open carriage, rack locomotive demonstration at Jenbach, Achenseebahn, Riggenbach system, diesels, D40,, coach interior, wheel lathe, coaching stock and railcars, workshop the Achenseebahn, the Zillertalbahn in Wales
2025 10-Jan 234 4,760 137 Locomotive 64 Flying Scotsman in 5 Inch Gauge Peter Seymour-Howell Reach Rod. Builds a fine, fully detailed model of Gresley's iconic locomoti... more
Reach Rod. Builds a fine, fully detailed model of Gresley's iconic locomotive to Don Young's drawings.
2025 10-Jan 234 4,760 142 Workshop 2 Working on the lathe: drilling and boring Neil Raine Explains how to create holes using drilling and boring in the lathe. Drilli... more
Explains how to create holes using drilling and boring in the lathe. Drilling in the lathe. The accuracy of drilling, references
2025 10-Jan 234 4,760 145 Book Review Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway Graham Bessant Review by Paul Carpenter
2025 10-Jan 234 4,760 146 Nautical 5 A Radial Marine Steam Engine Ian Couchman Builds a rather unusual 'quasi radial' triple expansion engine. The final b... more
Builds a rather unusual 'quasi radial' triple expansion engine. The final bits, run time, finishing off, painting
2025 10-Jan 234 4,760 152 Historic 65 The Stationary Steam Engine Ron Fitzgerald The Ultimate Fate of the Patent. Takes a look at the history and developmen... more
The Ultimate Fate of the Patent. Takes a look at the history and development of the stationary steam engine. References
2025 10-Jan 234 4,760 154 Competition IMLEC 2025 Fareham and District Society of Model Engineers Howard Atkins Chairman of Fareham and District Society of Model Engineers, invites entrie... more
Chairman of Fareham and District Society of Model Engineers, invites entries for this year's IMLEC. FDSME Club, FDSME track layout, a lap of Fareham raised track, our location, local community interactions, submitting your entry, our location, how to find us
2025 10-Jan 234 4,760 156 Competition Announcing LittleLEC 2025 - at the Tiverton and District MES Adrian Newson Invites entries for this years LittleLEC. About us, track, facilities, park... more
Invites entries for this years LittleLEC. About us, track, facilities, parking, finding us, Tiverton contacts
2025 10-Jan 234 4,760 157 Competition Narrow Gauge Locomotive Efficiency Competition (NGLEC) 2025 Glyn Davies Invites entries for this year's competition. Oswestry and North Shropshire ... more
Invites entries for this year's competition. Oswestry and North Shropshire MES
2025 10-Jan 234 4,760 158 Exhibition LOWMEX 2024 Julie Williams Offers an account of East Anglia's biggest and fastest growing model engine... more
Offers an account of East Anglia's biggest and fastest growing model engineering exhibition. 3 inch Fowler showman's engine by Clive Randlesome, Tommy by Gary Edwards, Halesworth and District MES display (photo by Kevin Rackham), Butch & clocks by Colin Walton, 7 1/4"g. Cowan's crane by Charlie Lovett, 7 1/4"g. 0-8-0 'S1' South African shunter by Glyn Ford, 16mm scale coal fired locomotive by Chris Nobbs, hit and miss engine by Mr Harding, carbide lamp, Foden steam wagon by John Dickinson owned by Brian Baker, 5"g. 4-4-0 Glen Garry by Terry Woodward, garden railway layout, Persious, Norwich Droids, 3D printing, paper galleon
2025 10-Jan 234 4,760 162 Locomotive 9 A GWR Pannier Tank in 3 1/2 Inch Gauge Gerald Martyn Cylinders. Decides to build a locomotive that he can lift. Cylinder assembl... more
Cylinders. Decides to build a locomotive that he can lift. Cylinder assembly, cylinder block