Scale Trains 1982 July

Bit tatty but all readable.

Your first British HO-gauge locomotive. Converting a Roco NS 5-600 class diesel shunter, which requires minimal changes back to a British version. Text and B/W pictures.
Starting in EM-gauge, even for the beginner, it's easy to get going following this way of doing it. Text and B/W pictures.
All tanked up. Upgrading old tank wagons with plastic card and scrap items to bring them up to the latest standards. Text and B/W pictures, plus diagrams.
Manchester's Interurbans. Lancashire's large tramway network of the late 1920s recalled. Lots of text, various B/W pictures. (Colin Withey).