Catalogue of books

Tag Gorton's Live Steam Workshop » Tag Gorton

There is an increasing range of live steam models from a number of manufacturers and the most popular of these can nowadays offer well-made locomotives from a price level that is attracting ever more newcomers to this delightful hobby. While attractive, powerful and reliable these less expensive models will generally however, come with a comparatively basic level of detail. This book will help the new locomotive driver to improve their model both cosmetically and functionally, often using inexpensive engineer designed third-party add-ons. The accent here is on simplicity and the book is designed for the average railway modeller rather than the model engineer. These suggestions and ideas can be also used with equal success on the generic models higher up the respective ranges of the various suppliers.
Format: 210 x 297mm, 84 pages, colour throughout.
ISBN: 1-902827-15-5
 £11.95 + p&p (+ p&p: UK £2.00; Europe £3.00; Rest of World £3.50)

Your G-Scale Locomotive » John Lythgoe

Welcome to the second GardenRail Special! This accessible book is packed with enough hard information on G-scale locomotives (and stock) to stand the G-scale modeller in very good stead over the years. Herein John Lythgoe, with his many years experience as a professional model-maker, provides meticulous and fully illustrated step-by-step instructions to cover a range of practical maintenance and repair tasks to keep your motive power in good working condition. Not only this but sources are provided for tools, spares and materials, such as glues, oils and greases. This easily searchable work is set to become an abiding reference source for the practical G-scale modeller who wishes to keep his track powered railway in tip-top condition both for maximum running pleasure and to protect the resale price of what actually is quite a significant investment...
Format: 210 x 207mm, 100 pages, colour throughout.
ISBN: 1-902827-16-3
£12.95 + p&p (+ p&p: UK £2.00; Europe £3.50; Rest of World £4.00)

Tag Gorton's Steaming In Your Garden » Tag Gorton
The history and development of live steam models. The book also goes into the detail of how to look after and operate your live steam engines. It looks at all the main scales, 16mm, G-scale and Gauge 1.
112 pages full colour
£18.99 + p&p (£2.50)

Designs for Urban Layouts » Iain Rice
The first volume in a projected new series, this design guide looks at the model railway in town and urban settings. The author sets out to capture the special atmosphere of congested and industrial settings, providing imaginative ideas and concepts based on protoype locations spread around the country. Such atmospheric locations have held a life-long appeal for the author and his infectious enthusiasm and love of the genre bursts out in this creative treatise. The design ideas and art work are vintage Rice and are what the hobby has come to expect from this most creative of layout designers. Written in a lively style, modellers will not help but be inspired by these ideas.
80 pages; 215 x 273 mm Casebound
£14.99 + 15% p&p

Garden Railways In Focus » Editor: Tag Gorton
It takes a pictorial look at eleven unique and eye-catching garden railways.
96 pages full colour
£18.99 + p&p (£2.50)

Layout Designs For Operation »Stephen Rabone & Trevor Ridley
Third in our series of layout design, this book explores ideas for developing a model railway layout with the emphasis on realistic operation. This has been an aspect that has long fasinated the authors Stephen Rabone and Trevor Ridley, both well known for their work in the model press.
96 pages full colour
£16.99 + p&p (£2.75, UK only)

Mainlines In Modest Spaces » Iain Rice
The second in the layout design series from Atlantic Publishers by Iain Rice. This volume sets out to present a case for the modeller whose inspiration is the grandeur, drama and excitement of mainline operations but is put off thinking that large amounts of space are required. The author creates a series of inspirational examples, in the style we have come to enjoy and appreciate, which provide a selection of approaches set out in spaces, while not all necessarily small, are not beyond many aspiring railway modellers.

The plans and musings presented in this volume are a mix of nostalgia and pragmatism which should prove inspirational for those modellers less spatially challenged! 
96 pages, 215 x 273mm
ISBN 1-902827-11-2
£16.50 + 15% p&p

The Narrow Gauge in Britain » Cliff Thomas
This Encyclopaedic volume provides the most comprehensive coverage of the narrow gauge scene in Britain and Ireland. A detailed text of almost 120,000 words tells the story of narrow gauge railway development right up to the present day, looking at lines that have served industry, transported people and provided a source of pleasure. The emphasis is on passenger carrying railways and the more significant museum collections. Special prominence is given to the stunning progress made since the 1950s - not merely the survival of near-derelict railways that are now flourishing but also the establishment of many new projects that provide safe home for locomotives and other equipment from closed lines.
Hardback 273 x 215mm, 192 pages, approx 200 colour and mono photos.
£29.99 + 15% p&p