The Welcome Mat

Welcome to this Blog. Hopefully you may find it of use (i doubt it but it doesnt stop me hoping does it?). All my skills are normally self taught, and at the moment i'm a lone ranger when it comes to my layout with the occasional help from friends (normally it involves alot heckling).

I've never yet got a layout really past the electrics stage. I normally lose interest which is why i've decided to become involved in lots of things so i can vary my time between different things. All the work you see on Westleigh is my own work and all the photos you see on my fotopic sites are again my own work. I'm amazed i havent started to play with it, perhaps leaving the vast majoirty of the wiring to the end helps.

My main interest in railways is principally the early 90s. Even though i only just got into double figures in terms of age just as privitisation came in, i find it a very interesting period. My earliest memories were at Salisbury, Oxford and Bristol. So to counteract this aswell i tend to model the northwest scene during 1990 to 1994. However i also do the Wessex area during the same period and the scottish lowlands during 1988-1990.

I do have a little interest in the 1996-1998 privitisation period. I'm more aware of this period than the sectorisation period and again i wouldnt mind if it turned into this era.

I also am working on a project of Devizes station in 1963/64 just before alot of the line was rationalised and eventually closed. This however is a very very long term project and probably wont get anyway for many many years yet.

I do spend alot of time in the summer out an about doing photography particularly of civil jet aircraft. I'm certainly no David Bailey but i'm reasonably proud of most of the photos taken.

Anyway i suppose i really should get off the computer and get on with some modelling work, except work has a tendancy to get in the way!

Monday 15 March 2010

Its Electrifying (WR)

Firstly an apology. No updates in over a week. The reason for this is simply i've been so busy doing other things. But work has been continuing with the layout.

As i seemed to have got to a bit of stalemate with the scenic side of the layout i've decided now could be a good time to convert the layout to DCC operation. So far board 1 has been completed with board 2 half way. While i was doing this i also put the extra capacity in for lights and wire up the signals. After board two is completed i will need to rebuild the panel which will mean another new front. By going dcc however it has meant there is now just one cable to each of the boards as before board 2 had two cables and there was also the trans board connection which are now defunct.

I have got a before photo showing the wiring but i'll also get an after shot before i post them both to my fotopic account.

Also as an aside if anyone knows where BMI A319 G-DBCH is let me know as so far i've never copped it. I've done all the others at least three times. This must be my bogey aircraft.
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