Greetings from West Oxfordshire

[eastglosmog]

Hi everyone. Just to introduce myself, having  recently joined the forum. I have only recently restarted railway modelling, after a hiatus of some 25 years( seduced by a Bachmann Dukedog),  After a fair amount of doodling I  have set out to build a model based on the first (1861) East Gloucestershire railway as it might have been c 1946 if the GWR had not got cold feet and pulled the plug in 1862.  Having also discovered the old Buscot Estate railway, I have taken some more liberties with history and imagined that Robert Tertius Campbell's sugar beet distillery and industrialization of the Buscot estate in 1869 had been a commercial success (well, it might have been if there had been a railway to transport the goods and not just old father Thames).  So my model is based on a halt on the East Gloucestershire Railway at Buscot (in the upper Thames valley, south of the river a few miles south east of Lechlade and a few miles north west of Faringdon, for those unfamiliar with these parts), where there are interchange facilities with the Estate railway. 

So far, I have built the baseboards, laid all the track (standard and narrow gauge) and wired everything up. This took quite a time as I having to relearn a lot of things.  Having got everything running, work stopped whilst I sat and watched the trains go round, at least until my assistant (?) a large grey cat called Tilly, decided to stop everything by lying down on the trains!

[jcm@gwr]

Hello, Man with no name!,

 

Welcome to the forum.

 

Sounds like an interesting project.

 

Jeff

[caradoc]

Welcome to RMWeb. I was brought up in Oxford although I now live 400 miles away near Glasgow ! Good luck with your interesting-looking project.

[eastglosmog]

Hello, Man with no name!,

 

Welcome to the forum.

 

Sounds like an interesting project.

 

Jeff

Oops! Sorted that now.

[Ohmisterporter]

Welcome to the forum, you will find plenty of advice and inspiration on here.