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Miniature railways and cultural
microsms
railway modelling in Britain, c.1900-c.1950
Ralph Harrington
BA (Lond.), MSt (Oxon.), DPhil (Oxon.)
This essay is divided into three parts, each of which deals with a particular theme and each of which can, to some extent, stand alone. However, this is a single essay with a unified argument, not three separate essays, and needs ideally to be read as a whole. Each part is further divided into two sub-sections. Click on the title of each part to go to that part of the essay.
Part 1: On miniature tracks
I. Leisure, hobbies, and historians
II. Reality in microcosm
Part 2: From model engineering to railway modelling
III. Model engineering and the rise of railway modelling
IV. Resemblance, reality, and rival realisms
Part 3: Model modernity and nostalgia
V. Railway realism and model modernities
VI. Steam, diesel, and the old-time railway
A note on the illustrations. All the illustrations in this essay (including all three parts) are taken from materials in the author’s private collection. They can be freely reproduced elsewhere as long as credit is given, in accordance with the copyright conditions below.
© Ralph Harrington 2008. This work is protected by copyright and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivative Works 3.0 Licence. This means that you can copy, distribute and transmit this work freely as long as it is attributed to the original author; you may not alter, transform or build upon this work; and you may not use this work for commercial purposes.
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