Denys Brownlee's 2mm finescale 'Flying Scotsman, and Monty Wells' superbly weathered MR covered goods wagon. Returning to MRJ, John Dornom had found a new way to add real "atmosphere" to his models using a disco fog producing machine and after a brief introduction in MRJ 92 he provided a full article on his extraordinary experiments in issue 97 as illustrated on its cover.

Issue number 25 had a specially designed cover to mark a "quarter century" of MRJs. Now in its fourth year, the editors reported that sales of copies were by now eight times larger than the sales expectation upon which the whole venture had been based and that the magazine found readers around the world, including significant numbers of modellers who didn't model British outline or to any specific sets of finescale standards - quite an achievement. Extracts of letters from W. S. Norris to Gerry Mann which provide a rare and privileged insight to the abandonment of Norris's 3-rail O gauge GWR layout in favour of the new 2-rail timescale set in the pre-grouping era The life and works of a Scalefour Society Area Group - Cambridge area in this case - by Geraint Hughes.

BR / British Railways / British Rail, GER / Great Eastern Railway, layouts, LNER / London & North Eastern Railway From the following issue and Tim's accession to the editorship, the style of MRJ changed to that seen today

Advertisement for the Scalefour Society's annual exhibition, with details, brief descriptions and photos of layouts. Railways Illustrated occasionally if an article or two appeals but probably at least once every three months.Someone somewhere may have drawn up rules about the siting and operation of coal pens but evidence suggests that local arrangements prevailed. You can find a 'prototype for everything', as this small selection from Paul Karau suggests. Chris Leigh – Scottish station nameboards in 4mm.Graham Farish – BR Mk4 DVT.P & D Marsh – New owners and road cones.Gateneal Ltd. – Agents for Sagami motors.DJH – 7mm BR Standard Class 2.MJT – Working BR gangway.Roundfield Engineering – 7mm ex-NER 10T dropside wagon.Ratio – 7mm GWR signal.Model Signal Engineering – 7mm ex-SR signal and lever frame.Richard de Camin – Peco 7mm GWR van conversion. At a more approachable level Stephen Williams was converting the latest generation of Bachmann wagons into P4 models, demonstrating again how much better the then current generation of ready to run models were than anything that had gone before. Model Railway Journal is a no frills, advanced modelling magazine that appears to deliver the goods (tee hee) with every issue. It’s aimed at the “serious” modeller, the magazine set out to provide a forum for those modellers who wished to progress beyond what was on offer from the ready to run manufacturers, whilst also providing a good read for those just interested in the topic of model rail.

Advertisement for the 50th anniversary exhibition of the 3mm Society, with description and photos of 3 of the layouts: Bilton Goods by Tony Briddon, Oxenhope by Victor Hall, and Ballyconnell Road. M7 class 0-4-4T No. 30107 at Corfe Castle on the Swanage branch viewed from a vegetable plot in July 1962. Having already looked at 4mm versions of the 16T family of mineral wagons, Peter Totman moves on to their bigger brothers - the 21 tonners.

In the event Model Railway Journal (by now often referred to just by its intials MRJ) proved a huge success, its second year's volume ran to six issues and by the spring of 1987 when issue 13 arrived it was planned that eight issues would be produced each year.

Stephen Duffell, a qualified pathologist, examines the use of microscope cover slips for glazing coaches. Aerial photographs of and information about Layerthorpe, in the City of York, where the independent Derwent Valley Light Railway sprang off the NER Foss Island branch In the third part of his widely acclaimed series, Chris Crofts, having discussed the anatomy of common private owner wagons at length, gets down to modelling them in 4mm. Here he describes his own perfectionist methods for building and painting bodywork. Still under joint editorship and with the same typographical style, Issue 13 is one of my favourites from the early years.Atmospheric shot of a down-at-heel ex-LMS upper quadrant signal on Brettel Road, Jim Smith-Wrigh's 4mm scale layout based on the GWR sidings at Birmingham Moor Street. Peter Totman looks at BR-built 16-ton mineral wagons and ways of representing them in 4mm scale, using inexpensive, good-quality plastic kits. Mike Trice, who has ben deeply involved in experimentation and development within the Scalefour Society, discusses the 'poor relation' in the compensation debate.