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Synopsis: "Early Railways: A Guide for the Modeller" by the team of Peter Chatham (Production Manager for the London & North Western Railway Society's Journal, and Researcher And Kit Designer for Parliamentary Trains' Ltd.) and Stephen Weston (who joined The London & North Western Railway Society who formed Parliamentary Trains Ltd., where he is responsible for kit Production and marketing) will encourage and support the modeling of the earliest period of railway history, from the very beginnings of steam traction at the start of the nineteenth century, up to about 1880; a period which for British modelers has scarcely been covered in book form.

A vast array of trade suppliers will also be there as the show aims to cover all modellers' needs, from those just looking to start out in the hobby with box sets and track wiring to the finest detail modeller with scratch-build materials all under one roof.

Train Shunting and Marshalling for the Modeller is a pick for any involved in model train layouts and provides the author's expertise and insistence on 'realism in miniature'.

Private-owner wagons in colour for the modeller and historian.

Team members included representatives from Newcastle company The Magic Box, Dennis Dillon, president of The Magic Circle, balloon modeller Darren Bonas and two balloonist magicians from party company Balloon XE UK.

Fully menu-driven with its own Solid Modeller and various CAD interfaces for geometry input, the software is a turnkey solution.

Wisdom Systems, Pepper Pike, Ohio, announced a new integration of its Concept Modeller "knowledge-based engineering" software with two CAD programs: CADDS software from Computervision, Bedford, Mass., and Catia from IBM's Dassault Systems USA, Paramus, N.J.

Among the guests will be the editor of specialist magazine Continental Modeller, Andrew Burnham.