Reviews

Welcome to the BRM Review Area, the place to both read and watch product reviews covering a plethora of railway modelling products from model locomotives and wagons through to glues and trees. Expect to see the hobby’s biggest names such as Hornby, Bachmann, Dapol and Heljan.

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Impermanent Ways The Closed Railway Lines of Britain Volume 13 Kent by Jeffrey…

This soft-back volume illustrates abandoned railways and stations in the Garden…

11 January 2019

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British Railways In Transition. The Corporate Blue and Grey Period 1964-1997 by…

This A4 landscape volume describes a particularly-fascinating period in the…

10 January 2019

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101 Railway Stations A Journey of Variety by Jeffrey Graye

A ‘journey of variety', featuring as it does 101 railway stations, mostly…

10 January 2019

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Atlas of Railway Station Closures

A great and invaluable source of reference, though all stations currently open…

10 January 2019

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Isle of Man Transport in the 1970s by David Christie

Throughout the 1970s, David Christie visited the Isle of Man five times to enjoy…

09 January 2019

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In Miniature by Simon Garfield

Non-modeller Simon Garfield examines the human desire to produce miniature…

09 January 2019

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Steam In The East Midlands and Lincolnshire by Roderick H Fowkes

In its 150 pages, the major railway centres are covered in the areas (though…

09 January 2019

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British Toy Trains 4 – Wells-Brimtoy Ltd and one-hit wonders by Michael D.Foster

Michael Foster and Michael Bowes turn their attention to what might be described…

09 January 2019

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British Steam Sunset. A Vision of The Final Years 1965-1968 by Jim Blake

A black and white pictorial volume portrays a rather gloomy (if natural for the…

09 January 2019

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Peter’s Railway Activity Book by Christopher Vine

The the latest volume in the enduring ‘Peter’s Railway’ series...

09 January 2019

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A Pageant of British Steam. Steam Preservation In The 21st Century by Jim Geoff…

134 pages, full colour showing examples of just about every preserved standard…

09 January 2019

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UNBOXING: Hatton's 'P' Class

Watch us take a first look at the Hatton's of Liverpool SECR 'P' Class - a small…

05 December 2018

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Video: BRM tests...Deluxe Materials Brush Magic

Watch this BRM video whereby we put Deluxe Materials' Brush Magic to the test.

05 December 2018

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Hornby Hitachi IEP Bi-Mode Class 800/0 GWR

Hornby is well known for creating models of the latest high speed streamline…

26 October 2018

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Hornby 20 Ton ‘TOAD’ Brake Van

If you model the steam or early diesel eras and run freight, then you are going…

26 October 2018

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