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 12 March 2012

Signalling the way.

Well ive spent today fitting the catch point and doing the copperclad so the track can be cut. Ive also been doing the signals, they are all now in with the wiring completed as far as the tag strip, although i havent wired the panel yet. One of the signals ,an eckon junction signal was quite tricky to put together as there was nowhere for the wires to go. A little bit of black paint later and its sorted. Im going to add some non working feathers to the main entry signals. I think i might use the model scene signal and kitbash them together, they dont need to be working as its too close to the curve and tunnel mouth. Its probably prototypically incorrect but its my train set and ill do what i like :). Anyway thats it for now although tomorrow i plan to wire up the panel and then i can test. Thats the wiring more or less done.

Why am i posting this at 2.30 am? Well im also stuffed full of a cold so as im awake now seemed an opportune time.

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