ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks go to the numerous people who have made railway modelling a more enjoyable place for me, including David Aldis, David Brown, Bill Carmen, John Emerson, Ian Futers, Stewart Gorman, Stephan Kraus, Chris Leigh, Martyn Rees, Pelle Søeborg, Rob Spendelow and Colin Tucker.

Thanks go to my wife Mary, who sometimes has to put up with living with model railways dotted around our house. I really do appreciate her patience and long suffering!

Thanks also go to the photographers and model makers who agreed for me to use some of their pictures in this book:

• Stephan Kraus, who is a professional layout builder in Germany offering diorama and layout building services plus modelling seminars at www.modellbau-smk.de.
• Chris Nevard, as Model Rail’s ace photographer, who always brings out the best in my layouts through his photographic expertise.
• Paul Marshall-Potter, whose recent joint DVD production with Paul Lunn will be inspirational to many would-be layout builders.
• Busch and its agents in the UK, Golden Valley Hobbies, for the pictures of their diminutive Feldbahn system.

In addition, I say thank you to model railway editors who have published words and pictures about my layouts over the past decade and who have agreed that snippets of those layouts that have appeared in their magazines are portrayed within this book:

• Dennis Lovatt as editor of Bachmann Times, who suggested that I build a tiny layout to convey the impression of four miniature railways.
• Ben Jones, now of British Railway Modelling, who has published numerous articles about my European layouts during his spell at Model Rail magazine.
• Richard Foster as editor of Model Rail, who continues to pour over my words and pictures each month and turns them into something that looks better in the magazine.
• Andrew Burnham of the Continental Modeller for featuring my European layouts.

The DMU washing plant by Scenecraft with a modified Hornby Class 110 DMU repainted in Mexican Bean colours as it ran on the West Highland Line.