From the official Ixion Press Release -  a full in-detail review to appear in Model Rail in due course. IXION MODEL RAILWAYS - O GAUGE HUD...

 Model Rail 173 September 2012 is here, and it's on a brighter whiter paper, and if that's not enough it's now perfect bound wh...

120803_arnewharf_DSC_7637 , a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr. Model Rail Live on the 22/23 September looms closer and closer, the weekend...

nevard_120719_DSC_7298moon , a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr. Here's a real chocolate box one (alcohol filled ones I think) of Brewho...

Back of an envelope sketch of the Mendip Colliery extension to Polbrock Last weekend I popped down to Camrail in Bradford on Avon with Po...

120720_camrail12_DSC_7341 , a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr. High jinx! I turn my head on Polbrock for just a second and look what happen...

nevard_120715_polbrock_DSC_7105_BW , a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr. Ivan Locksmith's (A good friend of Lord Kernow of Brent, aka Ca...

nevard_120709_DSC_6818 , a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr. Continuing the looking down from the clouds , falling from an aeroplane or goi...

830711_canberra_008 , a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr 30 Years Ago Today on the 11the of July, a very tired looking Canberra , was greete...

Model Rail 172 August 2012 Issue on sale 12 July Reviews: Dapol Class 56, Hornby SR Van B, Hornby SR push-pullcoaches, TMC BR Mk1 horsebox...

nevard_120708_BQ_DSC_6792 , a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr. Dusk at Brewhouse Quay. Earlier today I was going through some of old lens...

111128_arne-wharf_IMG_1984 , a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr. People often ask me about the track plan of Arne Wharf and whether it's...

nevard_120703_polbrock_IMG_3812 , a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr. With a name change, the Cornish inspired Polbrock seen here with a Mid...

How to Build a Model Railway - New Bookazine! I've been wanting to write about this for some time, but until now didn't have a cle...

nevard_110201_stmrryn__DSC_1264_CLAG , a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr. As Model Rail's layout photographer I get to regularly point ...

nevard_120621_BQ_DSC_6247 , a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr. When it comes to model trains whilst the day jobs of photography and broadca...

8104_stogursey_003_01 , a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr. Combwich is a lot older than most people think, the baseboards and track dating ...

nevard_120617_catcott_DSC_5874 , a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr. 43216 shunts a grain wagon into the siding at Catcott Burtle. There wer...

Click the above photo to enlarge. © Chris Nevard Here we are back at Combwich looking south into the midday sun, it looking like a windy ...

I'm always being asked about some of my techniques, many of them have been in Model Rail magazine, the frequently copied original hom...

nevard_120614_catcott_DSC_5845 , a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr. I have typed a 'Billy Bullshit' page for ages, so here goes a...

Who says that 13 is unlucky? Not if you're a Model Rail reader , because here we are just 4 weeks on again and another glorious issue is...

nevard_120612_catcott_DSC_5788 , a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr. Templecombe's 43216 is captured pottering about the sidings at Catc...

nevard_120606_CQx_DSC_5456 , a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr. A rather clean 20168 in Lafarge livery slowly pulls a train under a centrif...