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The magazine for the narrow gauge railways enthusiast.

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Voie Libre international
PUBLISHER: Christian Fournereau - [email protected]/ EDITOR: François Fontana [email protected] /CONSULTANTS TO the Editorial Team: Éric Fresné ([email protected]), Jean-Paul Quatresous / WITH ASSISTANCE FROM: Annette and Jean-Louis Rocha
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Editorial #119
The title of this piece has something to do with looking back into the driving mirror, following an Olympic summer when everything went peaceful around us, so concentrated were we on contests, results, medals; forgetful of everything else and especia
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Bachmann The Quarry Hunslets In 0-16.5
0-16,5 Our appetites having been whetted by the small Quarry Hunslet in 009, Bachmann cranks up the pleasure-meter and has now released them in... 0 scale! These models look as great as those in 00, with a finer standard of course, heaps of detail an
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Atelier Du Tacot A Plymouth Locotractor
A small engine has just been released in the Atelier du Tacot 009 range. It’s far from being dropdead gorgeous, but it’s cracking all the same! A small Plymouth, with a coreless motor, a belt primary drive, a gear cascade driving both axles, a 3D pri
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Trains De Rêve A Wagon On Feldbahn Trucks
Trains de Rêve has released an attractive wagon consisting of two Feldbahn carrier trucks and a flat deck, fully assembled and painted grey, to be hauled by this supplier’s GRIMIC locotractor. The 3D printed trucks are fitted with pointed axles, the
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Smoky Bottom Lumber C° A Freestyle Locotractor
This is a new release in the Smoky Bottom Lumber C° US range, a locotractor kit: a steam locomotive cab, a diesel engine bonnet, a tarred canvas roof, large headlamps, a bell... In summary, highly seductive! The model consists of plastic parts and fi
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Mano Polish 60cm Gauge Wagons
Schmalspurbedarf, a German retailer, sells the new releases from the Polish artisan Mano. Here are four new wagons, three of which are from the Kruszwica sugar mill: the small open wagons, the bogie open wagon with a brakeman’s seat and the bogie box
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Kato A New Range Of Track
Following on from its successful cooperation with Peco on the Small England 0-4-0 T+T engines, Kato Japan has just launched a new range of track for H0-9/00-9. Kato is not a newcomer to the field of scale track. Their Unitrack ranges in H0 and above
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Bois Modélisme A Station Building With Semi-detached Goods Shed
The prototype chosen by Maxime Boiteux for this new laser-cut and engraved MDF, card and wood kit is the station building with semi-detached goods shed of Poulangy on the Chemins de fer Nogentais (CFN). The kit is supplied with inside partitions and
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RÉGIONS & COMPAGNIES LIVE SCENERY: BRINGING LAYOUTS TO LIFE!
Jean-Paul Guimbert, the creator of Régions & Compagnies, has launched a new range: Le Décor Vivant («Live Scenery»). Many references are already available, all of them cameo scenes to give life to our layouts. A signalman moving a turnout lever, a st
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A Status Report On Minitrains
Following the sudden passing of Andreas Schönfeld, the creator of the new MinitrainS firm, time seemed to stand still. Today, his widow, Ursula, assisted by the small company team, has decided to carry on with the adventure. To continue in the spirit
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Technique Dcc Sound For Your Narrow Gauge Engines
In the face of growing demand from enthusiasts, Sven Van der Hart, the dynamic manager of Tramfabriek, is now selling Zimo sound decoders loaded with sound tracks suitable for various narrow gauge locomotives. You can fit sound to the Bachmann Baldwi
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Bemo A Large Loading Gauge Wagon
Bemo had announced them last year, they are now available: the ultra-modern Rhaetian Railways (RhB) large loading gauge bogie and stanchion wagons of the Rp-w or Sp-w type. 10 of them were put into service in 1993 for the construction of the Vereina
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Loco-revue Les Dossiers Thématiques 05 («thematic Files 05»)
A new opus, the fifth, in the new practical series published by our sister-publication Loco-Revue: 11 layout projects, fully wired - a real mine for all readers. A mine, because issue 05 details 11 projects, three of which are specifically in narrow
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Gatherings
A few more meetings with gifted modellers are scheduled this autumn. Opportunities for exchanging, finding inspiration and above all having fun. Voie Libre will be attending some of these shows, so we look forward to seeing you! CASTRES 26TH AND 27TH
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Press Review
Issue 96 of Rail & Industrie is entirely dedicated to vertical-boilered locomotives. When talking of such boilers, one thinks at once of the Belgian builder Cockerill. This study, which aims at being comprehensive on the topic of such engines used in
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H0-9/009 Challenge: 2 Foot Gauge In Colorado
Scale: H0-9/009 Dimensions: A4 format Distance below the rail: 20cm Backscene: height 25cm As you will have understood, we want to take you to the United States, among the coloured rocks. But we are not talking of vast spaces, you have to work on an
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From Rhaetia With Love
Layout plan Let’ take a step back in time: at the Passions Ferroviaires show, which is held bang in the middle of the Kaeserberg model railway (open to the public), I got to chat with Marc Antiglio, who got this grand project off the ground. For conv
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The Kaeserberg Railway
This is a large HO scale layout built on three levels, On the medium level, it depicts an electrified double track and a huge exchange station between standard and metre gauge, a station through which a great many trains run, On the lower level, visi
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Bachmann Europe, AN ULTRA-MODERN BAGULEY-DREWRY IN 009
Anounced by Bachmann in early 2019, the Baguley-Drewry 009 diesel tractors have been available for ca. 140€ from retailers since May These small and quite simple machines logically complement the range of four-wheeler wagons they used to haul on the
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Blow-up Project!
DETAILED PLANS Plan of the layout The ancient buildings of the company are located next to warehouses worthy of the London docks - we deserve nothing less! The name of the layout could be «RNAD Limehouse», totally imaginary but combining an old river
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A Réseau Breton ABDCf12 Composite Carriage In 1/22.5 Scale
MY WORD, 100% WOOD! With the same objective of building scale models of rolling stock in service on the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme (CFBS) heritage railway, I undertook in 2016 the construction of the Reseau Breton composite carriage, property
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FITTING A DECODER into a MinitrainS DECAUVILLE 0-6-0 T
SOMETHING EXTRA! Operating a layout in digital mode brings many benefits. Although some models in 009 are sold pre-fitted for a decoder, it is not always easy to incorporate one when this is not foreseen by the manufacturer. The MinitrainS Decauville
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THE ANVIN-CALAIS Attractive Metre Gauge Carriages
One of the lines operated by the Compagnie Générate des Voies Ferrées d’Intérêt Local (CGL) wound its way gently from Anvin to Calais, in the département of Pas-de-Calais. In this article, we will forget about time and take a look at the area as it w
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At Parthenay, Gyro Gearloose And Friends
* Translator’s note: the ”Plan Freycinet”, named after the Minister of Public Works, was a large publicly-funded programme for the construction of railways, roads and canals - a kind of pre-Keynesian effort. The standard gauge railway network in Deux
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At Parthenouÿ, Pasta Hits The Turntable
Let’s retain the salient features of the real facilities: the two parallel over-bridges, the turning triangle in the middle of the crossroads and its unusual trackplan, the use of the ex-État turntable for shunting wagons, via the engine shed, toward
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Houses for SWEETHEAVEN
As you may recall, Sweetheaven is the 009 layout built by Frederic Mazza, which evokes the small harbour where Popeye, Olive, Brutus and their merry gang live, as seen through the cartoons as well as through Robert Altman’s him «Popeye». The scenery
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A Peat Wagon
This article could have been titled, kitchen-wise, “How to cook something out of leftovers?”. An old Peco chassis in 0-16.5, offcuts of samba wood planks and strips, and we are getting started on a construction project! The techniques used can be app
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SCULPTURE BLOCK How To Easily Engrave And Sculpt Volumes
FOAM MADE EASY Redesigning the trackplan on Quittancourt meant replacing or creating various parts of the scenery, with relief sections in each case. I had to build a bridge to cross a gulley just before the entrance to the left-hand hddleyard, as we
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The Boidon-Cuncou* Wire Drawing Mill The ESCADRILLE Is Back
Actually, this is the group’s latest layout only in terms of the date at which it was revealed to the public; we know that the next opus is already on the drawingboard. Boidon-Cuncou was built some time ago, but completion had proved elusive. So the

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