Damems Station, on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, is one of my (Bens) favourite spots on the UK railway network, and during a spell of feeling a tad depressed at being stuck indoors, and more than a little nostalgic during Lockdown One, I thought I'd write an article on the place for a model railway magazine.
Most of the mags have a 'Plan of the Month' type section, and after a bit of doodling, I thought Damems might make for a nice micro layout. I did at least have a ton of photographs of the place, and writing/drawing about it would give me a project during the lockdown.
I didn't have time or space to make an actual layout, and I was struggling a little with the illustration work to accompany the article, so I ended up making a little mock-up using bits from Younger Child's model railway, and some odds and ends from the spares box. The above mock-up was turned into...
...this.
I also drew out a plan of the layout, which wasn't used in the end.
So, many months later, I picked up a copy of Railway Modeller magazine (Feb 2021 issue) and was delighted to see the article had been given three pages!
I've had articles published in railway mags before, and fairly often I have work in the likes of "Garden Rail", but this is only the second time I've had a multi-page article in one of the 'big four' model railway mags. Big thanks to RM for including me, and doing the piece was so enjoyable that I'm thinking of doing some more...
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