I've always admired the Lenz 0 gauge system since I saw some pictures on their web site. Last year at the Winchester 0 gauge American/ Continental meet I made an "unplanned" purchase of two small carriages and followed that with an "impulse buy" of their "good value" start up set at the German Railway Society show at Sutton Coldfield this year. The set contained a Lok shunting loco, some wagons, track, one point and a Lenz DCC controller.

The loco and rolling stock is DCC fitted for lighting and uncoupling, with the loco also sound fitted.

I regularly visit Carl Arendt's Micro/small layout site and recently noticed a proposed small shunting layout set on a line cut by the internal border between East and West Germany in the 1950's. it allegedly fits into a space 1650 x 350 (See small layout scrapbook No 89 for Sept 2009 on

www.carendt.us/scrapbook/page89/index.html)

I hope to have slightly more space than Carl's correspondent allowed but haven't decided exactly how much.

This blog will follow the planning and construction of the layout which is a German translation of a local place name. I hope my colleagues at the Liphook and District club will join in!