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, 5 September 2011

The new Breed! (WL)

Well i havent updated this blog in such a long time that i thought id better make better use of it.

Anyway since the last post i've built a new layout. This one is called simply Westleigh. Its an expanded concept of an earlier layout i built. This is in an L shape in a fiddle yard to station design. It fits quite snugly in my spare room but it is still small enough to be easily transportable to shows, the first one will be comming up on the 24th of September in Chippenham at the Sheldon School Sports Hall. See WWW.BMRG.ORG.UK.

I started said layout in the middle of April. In the time being i've more or less completed it to the extent its showable at a exhibitions. Its powered through the good old fashioned DC way using gaugemaster controllers and transformers.

The fiddle yard is a cassette design however i'm wondering if this works and whether it would be better to simply start again and do a conventional ladder fiddle yard. The jury is out until the first show is under the belt.

The era of the layout is set firmly in the North West in the period 1993. I go a year or two each side to give some variety. This allows me to run quite a variety of stock which i am slowly building up at this present time.

I've taken some photos and uploaded them to my flickr account which can be found here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/fatherjacksphotos/sets/72157627454727866/

I will be doing some further updates on here to explain the layout further but thats for a different time. Probably tomorrow.
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