• Project Name: Model Railways
• Field Researchers:
• Bluebottle
• Skinnylinny
• Researcher U216547
• Florida Sailor
• Tavaron de Quirm
• Bobstafford
• Faculty: Faculty Of Sport & Lifestyle
• Start Date: April 2013
• End Date: Completed July 2013
• Assisting Sub-editor:  TBA

Articles In The Project:

• Model Railways: Introduction - By:
  1. Skinnylinny
  2. Researcher U216547
  3. Bluebottle with Additional Research By:
  4. Tavaron de Quirm
  5. Florida Sailor
• Model Railway: Glossary - By Bluebottle and Florida Sailor
• Model Railway: Scale and Gauges - By Skinnylinny and Bluebottle
• Model Railway: Locations - By Florida Sailor
• Model Railway: Themes - By Florida Sailor
• Model Railway: The Trains - By Florida Sailor
• Model Railway: Layout - By Skinnylinny Additional Research By: Bluebottle
• Model Railway: Scenery - By Skinnylinny, Tavaron de Quirm. Additional Material By: Bobstafford

Conversations And Related Articles:

• Model Railways (under construction - about 85% complete)
  
  Original Placed in Flea Market
• Original Entry Conversation
• Flea Market Conversation
• Flea Market Submission Conversation
• Skinnylinny Conversation 1
• Skinnylinny Conversation 2
• Train Sets
  
  By the same author as Model Railways.
• The Christmas Map - Florida Sailor's love of Model Railways explored
• Model Railways
  
  Flea Market Rescue Version
• Peer Review Conversation
• University Project:
• University Conversation
• Subeditor Conversation
• Peer Review Conversation

Back-Up Copies

We plan to make a copy of the entire project for safe-keeping. This is because it is the project pages themselves that are subbed (not copies, as is the case for Edited Entries), so in the unlikely event of the Sub accidentally deleting a page, we have back-ups.

• Model Railways: Introduction
• Model Railways: Glossary
• Model Railways: Scales and Gauges
• Model Railway: Baseboard Locations
• Model Railway: Themes
• Model Railways: The Trains
• Model Railways: Layout
• Model Railways: Scenery

The Story Behind The Article

In late 2002 Skinnylinny began writing an article on model railways, writing in his words 'about 85%'. He never finished, apparently because he had problems logging back in as himself. Skinnylinny returned to h2g2 as 'Researcher U216547', and in January 2003 wrote a related article on Train Sets. Shortly after, he left completely.

In 2013 Bluebottle decided to rescue the Model Railway article from the Flea Market. Wished to plug the original entry's gaps with Skinnylinny's own words rather than his own, he incorporated parts of the same author's Train Sets article and added some information of his own. Creating a new version, he placed this into Peer Review. The view of Peer Review was that this article was too much for one article, and that the topic would be better served by a University Project.

It is a very, very wide topic that this project only hopes to cover a basic introduction to. Hopefully in the future other researchers will wish to write more.