After getting very little time with Shaunbury, and my little one growing too fast. Shaunbury is being consigned to the great unfinished layout yard in the sky (eBay).

I have always had a fondness for continental railways, and the one layout if you can call it that I did finish was a Noch Colorado Pre Formed layout board. I enjoyed learning about German DB locomotives, and watching countless videos on you tube. This was then sold, so I could move to various guises of OO gauge, and then when I moved in with my wife N gauge beckoned, but with the trials and tribulations of raising a little boy, my down time is short at the best of times, and when I can work on the layout I can't as my son is in bed in the room I use.

So, looking forward I have looked intently at the APA boxes as a medium for a layout I can work on and store in the living room. After playing around with Scarm and Anyrail, I soon discovered that I could fit an oval of KATO unitrack in the constraints of the box dimensions. The oval in question comes from KATOs Glacier Express Starter set. As I like a roundy roundy layout, I started to delve in to the wonderful world of the Swiss Narrow Gauge Railways. I will point out I have never set foot on Swiss soil, although plans are afoot to take the family next year.

So the idea for the layout was sown, and I started playing with Scarm and Anyrail, and one APA box became 2, and then eventually 3. So the plan is to use 3 APA boxes as the base for the layout.

The plan and design is for a station on RhB Glacier Express route to serve a small village called Shaunbachdorf, which is home to the Shaunbach Falls. The Faller, Kibri and Vollmer websites have been bookmarked and kits have been found. Stugl Stuhl's station building by Faller along with the KATO platforms will be used for the station. A lovely Alpine Inn by Faller with a balcony will overlook the waterfall and a Faller Cable Car set covering the right hand helix, and a Kibri Castle covering the other helix. Maybe a church and chalet to feature too.

I am about to place the order for the train set, and the APA boxes, I have a sheet of hardboard in store ready to make a start.

I will warn blog readers I may ask a lot of silly questions regarding the RhB and Switzerland in general. Fingers crossed I can come up with something good this time round.