after my last layout, a planned GWR branchline was completely ruined by a leaky garage roof, and when i say ruined that could be counted as an understatement, a torrential downpour, me not investigating for a couple of days then going to 'play trains' to find using MDF as a baseboard was a bad idea, track really does corrode, and gaugemaster controls go bang when they get wet. as a result i packed up all the surviving parts into a box and forgot about railways for a time. its like anything, once the bug bites...

so i made a baseboard, nothing too big just something for the kitchen table, 150 x 50.

thats the easy part...

my problem is, i like railways, any size, any scale if its on rails im interested. unlike most who have a preffered period to model or a preffered scale my stock ranges from N, through 009 00 0 and SM32. so now im struggling to think of what scale, time period and indeed the point of the railway. so do i lay some track so i can at least run some loco's and do a bit of shunting? or do i wait till i have a plan...

i always preffered to make up things as i go...