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It is a few months now since the third Model Railway Companion arrived back from the printers. Another wonderful collection of modellers, creators, artists sharing their model railways and stories with us all… I have enjoyed putting this series together - a coffee table book, deeply indulgent images that spread across the page and invite us to get lost exploring their contents. We enjoy the stories told by each modeller that go just a little way to helping us understand their motivation and the feelings and emotion captured in the work. I had a rather lovely catch up with my good friend Simon of Wild Swan and Titfield fame yesterday afternoon. We’ve been friends since he worked with me to navigate ‘Small Layout Design Handbook’ from my imagination to print - and we found ourselves talking of the future in the light of finishing off the redesign of Iain Rice’s Cameos. In the energetic and engaging conversation that followed it became clear that my ideas for Companion have morphed into R...

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