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!

Saturday 27 November 2010

The New Blood (EAS)


I know i havent updated this for a long long time but sadly family things have got in the way, anyway its business as normal now and time to announce the new project.

Easterton was something which i was playing with before i built Westlea Road however Westlea kid of got in the way, anyway the decision has been made to stip Westlea for bits so i can build this new project. So far its been fully budgeted and so far i have got the wood and the track sorted, i just need to await the finance to get it all. Hopefully i should begin building the boards over christmas.

To give you some background on the layout, its 11 by 2 for the main scenic boards with the fiddle yard at a 90 degree angle to the rest of the layout. Its got a small 2 road station with a small SP and a warehouse unloading area. I toyed with the idea of using code 75 track but i decided to go for 100 in the end as it was easier, i will be using electrofrog points and this will also be a start for DCC control. I'm planning to get an NCE powercab unit as it seems reasonable for the money.
I'll try and upload a plan on here if possible in the next day or so.

Richard
Posted by at No comments:
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)