When I started to consider building a model railway, at the beginning of 2006, I began by looking at all the magazines I could get my hands on, and by scouring the internet.

Below is a list of some of the websites that have inspired me:

Loft Layouts
Electric Nose
Steve Jones’ very readable website, and the first to inspire me to consider a loft layout. Unfortunately the original website is no longer with us, but this link is to an archive which gives a flavour of the original.

Camelot Junction
Another loft layout worthy of a mention with some inspirational night pictures.

British Layouts
Widnes Vine Yard
One of my personal favorites is the well observed Widnes Vine Yard on Wirral Finescale Railway Modellers site.

P4 Newstreet
Jim Smith-Wright’s P4 Gauge project based on Birmingham New Street.

Cement Quay, Arne Wharf, etc.
The model railway layouts of Chris Nevard are always well done.

Kier Hardy
British Rail in the 70’s & 80’s… EM Gauge layouts and contemporary photographs

European Layouts
Orkhavnbanen
A Norwegian site with an amazing eye for detail. I’ve used Altavista’s Babel Fish to translate this roughly.

American Layouts
Bronx Terminal
An interesting project by Tim Warris which I am following. Again, always well executed.

Port Kelsey
A previous project by Tim Warris on which I particularly liked some of the finishing details.

RS Tower
Following the progress of a US Outline HO scale layout on the British exhibition scene.

CNJ at Mauch Chunk
A well researched and detailed HO layout of the CNJ station in Mauch Chunk, in the late 1940s.

DCC – Digital Command Control
JMRI: Java Model Railroad Interface
The JMRI project is a collection of Java based software solutions for controlling a layout, without being computer, or system, specific.

Suppliers
York Model Making
York Model Making offer a bespoke laser cutting service for creating scale model parts.