[CeeDeeI]

For ease of working on the layout is at 105cms, a nice height for me, and then I have a stool to sit on whilst operating which gives me a few cms higher than eye level viewing. I'm not at all keen on looking down on the layout whilst operating.
Forgot to mention that at this height one has to be careful of the width of the layout as detail work at the rear of the layout can be very difficult if you are at full stretch.

 

[CeeDeeI]

Have just swopped my stool for my old computer chair and it is brilliant for watching the trains with it's height adjustment. I can also roll along the floor so that when I start a train off from the platform at a crawl I can roll along the layout as it picks up speed and don't have to take my eyes off it, all this taking place at eye level. I must point out though that my effort is an end to end one and as one train vanishes into the fiddle yard I can hear another one coming into view so I roll along with that to it's appropriate platform. All this made much easier by a hand held controller, and only one train at a time actually on the move.

 

[CeeDeeI]

Now that's what I call a stool.