No. 97

Voie Libre international

The magazine for the narrow gauge railways enthusiast.

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Get Involved… So They Said.
Railway modelling is a great activity! An activity that calls on many kinds of skills, as we often observe. The layouts we report on are increasingly complex, be it for their fun potential, but also artistically, technically or historically. This act
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Voie Libre International
PUBLISHER: Christian Fournereau - christianf@lrpresse.com/ EDITOR: François Fontana - francoisf@lrpresse.com /Consultant to THE EDITORIAL TEAM: Éric Fresné (ericf@lrpresse.com), Jean-Paul Quatresous / With assistance from: Yann Baude (yannb@lrpresse
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Tillig : A Railcar
Tillig has released a delightful little metre gauge DR VT 133-522 railcar from the Harz network in 1950s, period III condition. One single unit of this type was built in 1933 by the Dessauer Waggonfabrik for the GHE system, where it was numbered T1.
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Micro-trains Line : Civil War Bogies
Micro-Trains Line has released some small N gauge bogies of the wooden type used during the American Civil War. Sold in pairs, they are perfect to evoke lightweight stock in H0-9. The models are made entirely out of plastic, including the wheels. RE
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Bemo : Mob Superpanoramic Express Carriages
Bemo has reproduced the carriages for the Superpanoramic Express consist that runs on the MOB (Montreux Oberland Bernois) network, in their original 1986 version. The set consists of two pilot carriages, Ast 116 and 117, with cabs located above and b
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Pmt : Former Gdr Bogie Carriages
PMT has released four complementary carriages for reproducing consists of the Prignitz network: One 2nd class metal-sided carriage KB4trp 970-885 with a “Traglasten” compartment for various parcels. Two 2nd class carriages, originally from Saxony, KB
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ARCHITECTURE & PASSION : A RECONSTRUCTION-ERA SHACK
Although not necessarily a very happy topic, this new reference in Christophe Constant’s range is quite in line with the current period of WWI commemorations. It is fully representative of the thousands of temporary structures erected after the end o
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Press Review
Readers of the Narrow Gauge and Industrial Review are faster than their shadow. Hardly had issue 116, containing the diagram of a small Franco-Belge 0-4-0 T, been published, than Paul Berntsen had already built a model of this engine, pictures of whi
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Peco : A Set To Make A Good Start
As was already the case for standard gauge track in 00/H0 and in N gauges, Peco has released a starter set in 00-9/H0-9. The components are from the manufacturer’s Setrack range. These are rigid segments mainly targeted at enthusiasts who are not fam
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Gatherings
Don’t miss Trainsmania, come and see us in Lille at the Grand Palais. ■
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Book
Over pages, describes in detail and with lavish colour illustrations the design and construction of his charming 00-9 layout. Everything is explained: how he found the space, how he chose the topic, how he drew the plan, how he built the layout and h
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DVD
Who isn’t familiar with Anne, Jeanne et Marie, the three Decauville driving units of the Mont-Blanc railway? This attractive video journey is almost entirely dedicated to that trio, with a few additional and spectacular snowploughing scenes. LE TRAM
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Nuremberg 2019
60 years old, more than 6.7 million km travelled, 50 years of LGB, there’s plenty of scope for celebrating anniversaries. This was the German brand’s approach with the Ge 6/6 RhB engines. Delivered in 1958 for the first two units and in 1965 for the
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Mjm : A Verney Gmc Railcar And Its Trailers
Marcel Jolly Modélisme has released a resin, etched brass and white metal kit that reproduces a Verney railcar, together with its distinctive trailers for passengers or parcels. The white metal castings are accurate, the resin ones will require some
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The Island!
This small 0-14 layout features a short line running from the harbour to the lighthouse, serving a beach-side halt on the way. An imaginary line, of course, considering its length when compared to the actual distance separating both termini. But a fi
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The Layout At A Glance
Scale: 0-14 (1/43.5, 14mm gauge track) Dimensions: 150 x 66cm Type of layout: terminus to terminus Track: code 80 on copper-clad epoxy sleepers Control: Digikeijs digital central unit Inspiration: the coast of Brittany ■
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THE COLOURS OF THE LITTLE TRAINS of the Great War
There is a kind of paradox when it comes to 60cm gauge military railways. They played a key part in the logistics of all the armies involved in the conflict, and all the Great War fronts. But they lacked a personality such as Louis Renault or Marius
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A Colour Chart For Your Models
Attempting to create an accurate colour chart for shades used more than a century ago is an impossible challenge. Especially as, quite frequently, the paint was made when needed by the workshops using raw materials, meaning that significant variation
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And Elsewhere?
Impossible to refer to military 60cm gauge without at least evoking the Moroccan Railways… This extensive network having been built under the aegis of the Engineers Corps from 1911, it would seem that the rolling stock was not painted in artillery gr
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Building in plastic card A BAGULEY MOTOR-TROLLEY IN H0-9
Not having had access to accurate diagrams or drawings, this construction project is based on photos found on the Internet, and more specifically on a thread in the Voie Libre section of the LR Presse forum: “La draisine du Chef” [“The Chief’s motor-
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Supplies
Kato chassis ref. 11-104 Evergreenstrips: ref. 8104 (0.28 x 1.09mmflat), 282 (2mm H), 217 (assortment of tubes) 0.3mm, 0.5mm, 1mm, 2mm thick plastic card. 0.3mm diam. brass wire Brass strips : L (1 x 1mm), flat (1mm, 0.3mm thick) Recycled lamps, A
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The Nord-Est Engine Regains Some Colour!
Éric Fresné: Patrick, restoring historic items is beginning to appear in the field of railway preservation. How do you see it? Patrick Mourot: Railway restoration remains apart in the world of vintage objects, and it isn’t very well handled. When i
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Archives
The digital Library of Castilla and Leon has placed a fine 1919 brochure online, which provides very useful information about the railway. Well worth browsing at length: http://bibliotecadigital.jcyl.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.cmd?path=10162646 ■
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CHASING The Ponferrada To Villablino
The metre gauge line from Ponferrada to Villablino, 62km long, was built between 1918 and 1920, and inaugurated on 4th May 1920. Created to carry coal from the pits around Villablino to Ponferrada, it connected there with the Spanish Northern Railway
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The Model Railway Festival
Scales will range from 1/32 to N, including the more widespread 0 and H0, there will be lots to watch and enjoy, no doubt! In the specific topic – narrow gauge – that brings us together around the Voie Libre magazine, we have selected a few gems: bes
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Supplies
Joke Track Jelly Models (25 €) Regulating module 3 position switch, DIN connector 3mm thick MDF, balsa Sculpture Block (15€ per pack) plasticine (3.95€ par pack) Gesso (2.45€), acrylic paint, glossy acrylic medium Jelly Models railcar (24€) Hakotetsu
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The Miniature Regulator
These small regulators must be fed with pure DC current, meaning a DC current supply or a supply fitted with a rectifier (diode bridge) and a large condenser. The maximum output voltage depends on the supply voltage: if it is fed with 4.5V or 6V, the
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For A Recreational Evening, Cook A Pizza!
1 Tiny, unrealistic, but so pleasing to build, we have here a pizza layout! It’s all in the box: layout, scenery, rolling stock and electrical supply. 2 The base, a simple circle of rails glued to a sheet of 3mm thick MDF. 3 For the platform and
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Computer-assisted Drawing For Buildings
It’s pretty commonplace to say that buildings contribute a lot to the atmosphere of a layout. For my own Ministry of Liberated Regions layout, I realized that I would have to build the many huts and temporary structures that are visible on most perio
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Drawing With Illustrator
1 To start your drawing, go to the editing/preferences menu and parameterize the grid to a 1mm pitch (1). In the preferences (2), display the grid and select “grid magnetism”. You can then draw your basic shape using the rectangle tool (3). It will b
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Autonomous Engines On 6.5mm Gauge
On my H0-6.5 gauge test layout, if the rails were not perfectly clean, the little train stalled, the eternal problem of miniature railways! In the past, I had already radio-controlled a locomotive in H0-9, so why not do likewise in H0-6.5? The Busch
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The Layout At A Glance
Scale: H0-6.5. (1/87 on 6.5mm gauge track) Dimensions: 143 x 35cm Structure: plywood frame, styrofoam relief Busch Feldbahn track Bush Feldbahn diesel locomotive Scratchbuilt toastrack carriages on Busch chassis Analogue control Inside lighting by sm
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Pimbelle Carhye Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
Isabelle’s layout represents a totally imaginary cave, inspired by existing sites such as the Rouffignac cave, which visitors explore on-board a small train; the single-track route, with one branch, takes passengers through three chambers. Once the v
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Kim’s Atomic Mill
The story takes place in the border triangle between Austria, Romania and North Korea – an unfamiliar area! And an area that is hard to reach, where time seems to have stood still more than once. “Nuclear propulsion” is a highly progressive idea and

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