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My thoughts on model railways - my personal projects as well as more general thoughts.

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Running before I can walk?

Hmmm. No baseboards or track down yet, and yet what do I spend the first money I actually get in ages on?   Erm, a locomotive, a wagon, and a DCC chip.   Okay, maybe the third one can be excused - there's no way the stunning Hornby Class 50 I got for Christmas will stay DC on my layout for long, not when it has working lights and fans - but the other two? Well, my excuse is that both of them are excellent prices that couldn't be ignored. The loco is a Bachmann Standard Class 4MT 4-6-0, no.
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The Impetus to Get Moving!

Well well well, give and you shall recieve...and I gave...and I wound up recieving a massive reason to push on with my layout and really get cracking on it in the new year. And they didn't come in the form of the three rather nice Dapol wagons I recieved from my dear nan, oh no. It came in the final present I opened from 'neath the tree...a stunning Hornby Class 50 locomotive, 50 048 'Dauntless' in early Network SouthEast livery.   I filmed and posted a review of this gorgeous loco , have
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Where to begin?

So I've been stuck in a state of limbo over the design and format of my layout since deciding I've dive headfirst back into it a few months back now. I know exactly the size I have to work with, what I need to get going...so what's really stopping me?   Well, firstly it was a location and setting, that old chesnut, but now, it's merely a case of what I actually want mixing with what I can realistically run and work with. Essentially my restrictions are that the baseboards can be no wider than
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