A couple of weeks ago we did our community thing, and Yamanouchi Oshika made the arduous journey of about 10 feet to the main hall for the local village fayre. Not the most glamorous of gigs, but something which keeps us in the local spotlight. Some brave souls were even willing to give some of the local sprogs a chance to play trains!

Setting this layout up has become a relatively easy task...taking about 20 minutes from start to having something running. I could not make the actual day, but bravely (foolishly?) supplied the stock for the day's event. Here are a couple of pictures of the layout being set up and played with tested...

In other news... we are starting work on a new layout!

In (yet another) break from our normal comfort zone, this offering will be set in Germany in the late 1950s - early 1970s and based on Freidrichstrasser station in Berlin. It will be a roundy-roundy in H0. Early plans are being drawn up, but this plan is for a working tram and S-bahn. Work on the fiddle yard has started, and the plan is for the track to be down over the next couple of weeks...

Progress thus far.

Time to start looking for those rather nice Berlin S-bahn units methinks!