The buildings on the Clackwick layout have come from a range of sources during the thirteen year build period to date. They range from "substantial" to "trivial", but all conform to the same basic theme - being "that out of the box" is far from finished. The first to be pictured here is the goods warehouse; I begin to see that some of the "visitor" damage has yet to be repaired and several other aspects of this area are far from finished, but will be embelished with far more detail in the next f
Thought I should say something about Clackwick control systems before going on to layout details:
My loft layout in Dorset had relied on two single-loco controllers "of the day". Although my loco inventory was still quite small when we moved house, the new layout possibilities soon provided indication that a more sophisticated form of control would be required. I was quite inspired by the "new" ZTC system, and so invested in a 505 controller, and associated gear. The new layout slowly took s
Prior to moving to a large house in Germany in 2005, we had occupied a bungalow in Dorset. Whilst there I had developed a layout in our loft, but soon came to realise that a layout located just under the roof of a house was uncomfortable at either extreme of the season without environmental control, and far from ideal as far as smooth operation of locos was concerned due to extremes of temperature. When we moved to our present home (with 5 large double bedrooms) in 2005, I immediately claimed an
