Modelling the Southern Region: 1948 To The Present

by Chris Ford

Overview

Comprehensive in its coverage, Modelling the Southern Region - 1948 to the Present presents an historical overview of the post-war Southern Region of British Railways before guiding the reader through a series of detailed modelling projects, illustrating all of the techniques and equipment required, from building freight, locomotives and architecture, to modernization, electrification and the third rail.  These projects make use of the best available commercial model-making products and provide an introduction to scratch-building your own lineside items.  Each project is supported by a short historical background section and suggestions as to how each project could be further developed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785003004
Publisher:	The Crowood Press UK
Publication date:	09/12/2017
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.50(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

1 Introduction 6

2 What to Model 16

3 Southern Region Freight 26

4 Southern Region Locomotives 55

5 Southern Region Architecture 67

6 Ancillary Items 98

7 Non-Revenue-Earning Vehicles 112

8 Southern Region Steam-Hauled Coaches 120

9 Into Modernization - A Simple Locomotive Kit-Build 129

10 Electrification and the Third Rail Layout 134

11 Electric Units and a 'Track Paralleling' (TP) Hut 145

12 Diesel Units 159

13 Conclusions 168

Index 174