I have started this Blog as a means to track my progress as I begin to return to my most favoured hobby of my youth.

I last had a model railway over 28 years ago and always intended to get back into it one day and to possibly to go down the P4 or EM route. However I now do not wish to spend time and expense that it would take to learn to build my own track and modify rolling stock at this time so I will be going down the OO route. The fantastic level of detail available in RTR now, compared to 28 years ago makes me feel that at least in the short term I will be satisfied.

Over the last Year or so I been researching up on what is new to the hobby and testing out some of my old and new methods in a small way but have not actually done much modelling. I Have come up with a first probable layout which would be (please don`t groan!) based on a blue and yellow era diesel depot, to which end I have drawn up several iterations of a plan but have yet to get any further than buying some locos.

One of my ideas for this layout was to have a small area with a Woodhams type scrapyard nearby and whilst researching this I came across the wonderful Woodmores Scrapyard by cactustrain( Michael Russell). This inspired me to get on with that part of my first project in the form of building some scrap locos. This would also allow me to practice and hone some of my very rusty skills. This However has proved to be far more time consuming than I had first thought because I find myself trawling the internet for detailed photos or drawings of the relevant locos I am trying to recreate. Whilst I do not need the locos to be perfect representations, I do want to produce them as accurately as the available internet information allows. This about brings me up to date and I shall be posting photos of the progress on this which I have made so far.