looking for old CTT article on a British clockwork layout

I would also be interested in this article if anyone finds it ! ( online or a scan )

Perhaps you recall a series of Garden Railways articles by Jack Ray on his "Crewchester" in 1988. He also wrote a book called A lifetime with '0' Gauge: Crewchester and others. Apparently, he utilized clockwork for some time before eschewing it in favor of electricity.

A bit of internet usage reveals that there also existed a man called Norman Eagles who built the clockwork "Sherwood Section" and ran on timetable and fast clock. There were several articles in Railway Modeller and in other publications.
Further research also reveals a man called Andrew "Drew" Donaldson who used advanced clockwork operations to model Irish 0 gauge. There were also articles on his work.

I was just going to pout to the Garden Railways articles about Crewchester, as they described his layout. Quite impressive too. The children operators would quickly slip the keys in the gearboxes and wind up the engines so quickly that the railway operated very efficiently.

Perhaps a call to CTT’s office might elicit a response?

An easy thing to do is an Ebay search in Great Britain for this book as explained by Überstationmeister member which is extremely interesting about clockwork trains

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.h...O+gauge&_sacat=0

It is not expensive and easily avalaible.

Very best, Daniel

Thank you Daniel @FRENCHTRAINS

Order is in !

Thanks for your comments, tried to contact CTT, looking forward...

Cheers, Sandor

Please let us know what you find!

In the meantime... type "Gauge One Clockwork" into YouTube (not google) and you get a dozen or so nice videos listed right at the top.

I subscribed to trains.com and for about $85 a year I have access to all the current and past issues of Trains, CTT, Garden Railways, & Classic Trains. 

I think it is quite a value as the issues can be downloaded as PDFs and I was able to recycle 60 years worth of magazines that were taking up quite a bit of storage space. 

It might be something to consider.  While I love paper, the digital subscription just makes sense just like my OGR subscription.