Hello everyone

Hi there, welcome to the forum. Good to have you onboard.

David

Thanks for the welcome. I chose "watersmeet" as an id because it was the loco on the last up Atlantic Coast Express I travelled on (must have been in 1964) which rather shows my age. My original layout idea was for the Somerset and Dorset in the 1950s and I got together/made/renumbered etc. various stock for this. Then of course I started on the North Cornwall line in early sixties (see first comment) and I once lived near the ECML and I've been on various railtours and don't these new diesel models run very well - you know how it is! So the collection has rather spread geographically and historically I'm afraid.

A friend (now deceased) had a layout that ran to timetable, used 4 operators and he swapped stock and buildings to represent different regions for each session.

Now I've got the boards down in the loft and can run right round it, I'm finding a lot of basic layout building things that I need to know so a forum like this should be v. helpful. Already found out about live frog crossovers which was becoming a hassle, for example.

Cheers for now.

Hi there and welcome.
A Southern background can't be a bad thing I think, but I too give in far too easily to temptations from varied eras and systems I'm afraid so I'll never produce anything remotely prototypical - but I will be having a lot of fun

Small world dept; there's a photo of Watersmeet in the November Model Rail - part of a Chris Leigh layout plan, and a related childhood reminiscence of his on his 'Backscene' page.

Regards.

QUOTE (steam-driven boy @ 7 Nov 2008, 21:19) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Hi there and welcome.
A Southern background can't be a bad thing I think, but I too give in far too easily to temptations from varied eras and systems I'm afraid so I'll never produce anything remotely prototypical - but I will be having a lot of fun

Small world dept; there's a photo of Watersmeet in the November Model Rail - part of a Chris Leigh layout plan, and a related childhood reminiscence of his on his 'Backscene' page.

Regards.