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  • Welcome to the Orion Models website
    • Coach models
      • Coach construction
      • Coach specifications
    • Loco models
      • GWR 48XX/14XX 0-4-2T – 10mm scale
      • GWR AEC railcars 5 – 17 – diagrams W, X & Y     1/32 scale
      • GWR Collett Goods 0-6-0    1/32 scale
      • GWR tenders (1:32 scale) – new series
      • LMS 3F 0-6-0T – 10mm scale (1/32 version soon)
        • LMS 3F (full size) – image gallery
      • LSWR Adams Radial tank 4-4-2T 1/32 scale
      • LSWR M7 0-4-4T 1/32 scale
      • LSWR T3
      • LSWR/SR T9 4-4-0 – 1/32 scale
      • SECR H class 0-4-4T
        • SECR H class transfers
      • SR Q1 0-6-0
      • Retired models – no longer in production
        • BR 08 Gronk
        • GWR 56XX 0-6-2T
    • News 2026
      • News Archive 2021
      • News Archive 2022
      • News Archive 2023
      • News archive 2024 – now includes 2025
    • About us
      • Contact us
      • Privacy Policy
    • Manual control or r/c systems?
      • Radio Control system
    • Cost changes
    • Shunting layout for Exhibitions
    • Sustainable manufacture
      • Orion Models business philosophy & New Strategy
    • New free services
    • Special offers
    • Models – note all are 1:32 scale unless otherwise stated
      • Ordering
      • Sample build instructions page
      • Prices & dates
      • Recommended tools
      • Loco models information
        • What you get
        • Model types – content summary table
        • Loco design & construction information
        • Loco design techniques and limitations
        • Loco design process and current status as at May 2020 – updated  2021
        • Loco backhead examples
        • Model loco design  – updated 2025
  • Links

Links

Call me if you know of any that should be added

All links should open in a new window – so you can return here when you have finished

Railways

Standard gauge railways – all with GWR locos:-

Didcot Railway Centre
Bluebell Railway (Sussex)
National Railway Museum (York)
STEAM (Swindon Railway Museum)

Narrow Gauge Railways:-

Ffestiniog Railway
Welsh Highland – Caernarfon
Welsh Highland – Porthmadog
Talyllyn Railway
Vale of Rheidol Railway

Great Little Trains of Wales – all the above and more

Corris Railway
Teifi Valley Railway
NG Heaven

Links to various websites

Modeling

GWR

GWR modeling
G1MRA – Gauge 1 Model Railway Association
Historical Model Railway Society
UK model shops
Bowaters Models

Narrow Gauge

Association of 16mm Narrow Gauge Railway Modellers
G Scale Society

Model Engineering & CNC

Glue it
HobbyCNC
HUBS – Complete Engineering Guide to CNC Machining

  • Welcome to the Orion Models website
    • Coach models
      • Coach construction
      • Coach specifications
    • Loco models
      • GWR 48XX/14XX 0-4-2T – 10mm scale
      • GWR AEC railcars 5 – 17 – diagrams W, X & Y     1/32 scale
      • GWR Collett Goods 0-6-0    1/32 scale
      • GWR tenders (1:32 scale) – new series
      • LMS 3F 0-6-0T – 10mm scale (1/32 version soon)
        • LMS 3F (full size) – image gallery
      • LSWR Adams Radial tank 4-4-2T 1/32 scale
      • LSWR M7 0-4-4T 1/32 scale
      • LSWR T3
      • LSWR/SR T9 4-4-0 – 1/32 scale
      • SECR H class 0-4-4T
        • SECR H class transfers
      • SR Q1 0-6-0
      • Retired models – no longer in production
        • BR 08 Gronk
        • GWR 56XX 0-6-2T
    • News 2026
      • News Archive 2021
      • News Archive 2022
      • News Archive 2023
      • News archive 2024 – now includes 2025
    • About us
      • Contact us
      • Privacy Policy
    • Manual control or r/c systems?
      • Radio Control system
    • Cost changes
    • Shunting layout for Exhibitions
    • Sustainable manufacture
      • Orion Models business philosophy & New Strategy
    • New free services
    • Special offers
    • Models – note all are 1:32 scale unless otherwise stated
      • Ordering
      • Sample build instructions page
      • Prices & dates
      • Recommended tools
      • Loco models information
        • What you get
        • Model types – content summary table
        • Loco design & construction information
        • Loco design techniques and limitations
        • Loco design process and current status as at May 2020 – updated  2021
        • Loco backhead examples
        • Model loco design  – updated 2025
  • Links