Links to other websites

If you find that any have died, please let me know. If you wish to nominate any other links for inclusion, let me know.

Members of the Association are also encouraged to look at the online members page and also the page listing Area Groups with their own websites.

Sites with 2mm Models

• The Model Railway Club. The oldest MRC, based in London, home of Copenhagen Fields.
• Mark Fielder 2mm Narrow Gauge (Nm / Nn3) and the Pizza layout, access via the Nn3 site
• The MAP Group, who are building Kingswear in Devon
• fiNe group, with numerous links off to aspects of finescale 1:160, including the amazing MFK coupling.
• David Mallot's 2mm site. Covering Chapel Wharf and Building a Sentinel locomotive. (dead Nov 2007 ?)
• John H. Wright, various items, including a selection of pictures of NE layouts to 2mm scale.
• Basingstoke and North Hants MRC. Active 2mm group, currently working on 'Bognor Regis'.
• Masham and Thirsk Town by Tony Simms.
• 2mm World, Richard Lake's website.
• The 2mm Pennine Area Group. Meeting in Todmorden, Yorkshire.
• The Royal Albert Bridge. See progress on a model of Brunel's famous last bridge.
• Nigel Cliffe's photobook - pictures of various 2mm models under construction.
• Peter Whitehead's photobook.
• Oxford Area Group - website about the area group based in and around Oxford; well worth getting in touch with if you are in the area !
• North East Area Group
• Darkest Essex Area Group - covering Essex and south Suffolk(usually taken to mean outside M25, East of A12, but anyone welcome)

UK Model Railway Sites

• IRail - UK Based Search Engine and Site Directory covering Railway topics.
• Historical Model Railway Society
• N Gauge Society
• UK Model Railway Web Community (a webring of other sites)
• The Scalefour Society
• The ScaleSeven Group
• The Model Electronic Railway Group
• UK Model Shops. Much more than a list of shops, this also has lists of clubs, societies, layouts.
• Nottingham (Bulwell) Model Railway Society, and the Nottingham (East Midlands) Model Railway Exhibition
• GWR Modelling
• Waveney Valley MRC - Organisers of the Southwold Show, a well loved East Anglian Summer tradition.

UK Model Suppliers

• Bill Bedford (Catalogue of his coach and wagon etches and list of British railway line societies)
• Fox Transfers
• N-Brass Locomotives (Nick Tilson's range of N locomotives, some in kit form, and can be suitable for conversion to 2mm. Also supplier of numerous casting details for locomotives)
• Nigel Lawton (maker of tiny 009 industrial kits, and supplier of tiny motors)
• Peco Home Page (Also Railway Modeller and Continental Modeller)
• Scale Scenes (Building kits and brick papers for download, reports back from members indicate that the brick papers are excellent products)
• Worsley Works (Allen Doherty's etched components, expanding range of coaching and multiple unit stock)

UK Tool and Material Suppliers

• Eileen's Emporium. Email, no website. (Tools and materials for small scale modelling)
• Shesto (Model making, jewellery and engineering tools). Members get 10% discount, see members only area for details.
• Forhmann. German supplier, reasonable prices, English language option on website. Post outside Germany quite low.

DIY Tools and gizmos

Either a way to save money on fancy tools, or a hobby in its own:

• Fold Board (DIY Hold & Fold tool, German language, many photographs, rest of site has other interesting ideas)

 

UK Prototype Railway & Book Suppliers

• Southern E (for Email) Group
• UK Rail (Links to privatised railway companies)
• railUK (UK Railway web site for passengers, operators and enthusiasts)
• National Railway Museum
  
  
• Pendragon Publishing (BackTrack and the Railways In Transition books)
• Stanley Fish (Specialist second hand books)
• The Transport Bookshop (Online specialist bookshop)
• Transport Diversions (Online transport specialist bookshop)

World Model Railway Sites

• BRMNA (British Railway Modellers of North America)
• British N Scale (Canadian site with compendium of useful information about British N)
• Valley Ntrak of Connecticut N gauge modules
• Taiwanese coal mining mania's page (Lots of wonderful photos of narrow gauge models and prototypes)
• The Platelayers Society

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