Its nice to have the opportunity to condense the god-knows how many pages of posts from the old forum into 'a potted history' of the last two years or so. This first post is mostly a curious tryout of the new format, so please bear with me!

The layout included my first attempt at building track, A B6 turnout in EM gauge

Not to mention a scratchbuilt version of the station building. Which was something I really struggled with in the early stages. After a couple of rebuilds of this I managed to get it roughly right. I'm still not happy with the windows, and have modified these in the makeover of the layout, which includes adding a further scenic board (more of that later)

A view of the last time the layout operated properly! this was at Scalerail East Midlands (2008) People who were at the 2008 members day will know that the electrics and fiddleyards of the layout had started to give serious trouble. It was this that made me decide the layout would have to be either scrapped or re-worked. Which is starting to take place now.

I'll be along later when I've worked out how to upload my own images, the layout features on the Northumbrian Railways site, the second two pictures here are my own pictures, edited by the webmaster of that site. A link to the Northumbrian Railways pages on Deadwater, Northumbrian Railwaysand SubBrit SubBritI've contributed a few prototype pics to both these sites from a site visit to the station in 2007.