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Our heart sways between both: Should we support traditions, bolster what we are familiar with, observe our achievements and work from familiar bases? A way of reassuring ourselves because we can produce what meets our expectations? Or should we, on t

PUBLISHER: Christian Fournereau - christianf@lrpresse.com/ EDITOR: François Fontana - francoisf@lrpresse.com /Consultants to THE EDITORIAL TEAM: Éric Fresné (ericf@lrpresse.com), Jean-Paul Quatresous / With assistance from: Yann Baude (yannb@lrpresse

Once the United Kingdom will have effectively left the European Union, there will be inevitable consequences on our cross-Channel way of buying. According to the French Ministry of Finance, ordering via internet will remain possible, but European law

In the days when goods used to be carried at prices that varied according to their value, the Pouey company had specialized in producing personalized tariff directories for its customers. Each volume was accompanied by a general directory of French r

Issue N°119 of the Narrow Gauge and Industrial Railway Modelling Review provides the opportunity for faithful readers of Voie Libre to re-discover a layout we had reviewed in our own Issue N° 70. Ten years later, the charm of Peter Kazer’s rendition

Let’s start with ExpoNG on 26th October in Swanley near London. This one-day show dedicated to narrow gauge is a great tradition. 15 layouts and some 50 traders’ or societies’ stalls. This will be followed by Savoie Modélisme in Chambéry on 2nd and

This fine small format book, hardbound under a blue cover and illustrated with diagrams, has been self-published by the Italian author Mauro Bottegal. If you are convinced, like many, that narrow gauge was massively employed in France during WWI, Mau

In his customary and favourite A4 format, Peter Smith has produced a book describing 26 railway buildings. He based his research on a few drawings, some photographs – often period postcards –, as well as some on-site measurements. The text is printed

• “La mission du Génie au Soudan” [The Engineers mission to the Sudan] in Revue du Génie Militaire, 1893. • Anonyme, Les Chemins de fer au Sénégal au Niger [Railways of Senegal and Niger], Germain & Grassin, Angers, 1896. • Raymond Godfernaux, Les

Having been present since the XVIIth century in the “Colony of Senegal”, France, prompted by Faidherbe and later by Galliéni, undertook from 1880 the conquest of territories located on both sides of the Senegal and Niger rivers, as well as the connec

• Electrostatic applicator • A spray bottle • Matt acrylic medium • Diluted medium • Woodland Scenics fine moss, ref. T49 • 2mm fibres for the background • Various shades of 4mm fibres for increasing the height of the grass • Electrostatic applicato