Having been away from modelling for many a year, my interest was rekindled whilst browsing a retailers website and coming across a Bachmann class 37 in large logo blue livery. Not having a layout for around 25 years with the last 12 spent in Bangkok, I was still suitably impressed by the model to purchase and subsequently store in the cupboard. This pattern was repeated over a few years with a collection diesel models starting to grow.

The models collected all hark back to the 80's and 90's which is the era in which I grew up. Having lived on the south coast, I was always intrigued by these mystery locos from Eastfield and Inverness with their strange markings and so this is how my collection grew of models grew.

I finally took the plunge about a year ago to build myself a small diesel depot layout on which to put the models into context. The layout would be based on somewhere north of the border although this would not stop 'other' locos from turning up, as was the case back then.

The depot layout is constructed on 2 boards 1000x500mm joined end to end and is a first experiment to see how much I remember for my modelling youth. I am still very much in the DC era and with not so much technical support available here in Bangkok, I decided to continue along this path.