Model Engineer – 09 November 2018

John Arrowsmith reviews Chris Vine’s latest offerings from his Peter’s Railway series.
John Olsen crosses the picturesque Brienzersee in Switzerland on an elegant century-old paddle steamer but spends the entire trip in the engine room.
Ray Griffin machines the parts for his circular broach.
Tim Coles reports from the Southern Federation rally held at the track of the Cambridge MES.
Bradford MES has renewed their raised track; Graham Astbury tells how they tackled the task.
Martin Gearing assembles the chimney for the boiler and gets started on the firebox shell.
Mick Knights machines the 9 connecting rods required by his nine cylinder rotary aero engine.
Roger Davis begins the construction of his one third scale GWR water crane with the machining of the main column.
Graham Sadler discusses the niceties of achieving well ground tools.
Chris Rayward describes the construction of the cylinder block, crankshaft and connecting rods for his LNWR ‘D’ tank locomotive.
Geoff Theasby, as always, gives us his unique view of the club scene.
Alan Barnes takes a look at two of Martin Young’s road locomotives; a 6 inch Fowler showman’s engine and a 12 inch Foster Wellington steam tractor, the former featuring on our front cover.