I've been trying to think over the last couple of weeks about how to start a blog, then I remembered that somewhere in some dusty box there might still be some photogrphic evidence of my last layout.

After a little help from my father, the pictures were found ... I must apologise for the quality, they were taken about 20 years ago on a disk camera (if anyone can remember what they were).

This is a general overview of the layout as installed in my parents loft.

While these are some ropey close ups. Doesn't black gloss paint make a lovely reflective road surface!!!!

All the buildings, rolling stock, locos etc. are Hornby and the track plan comes from the Hornby Track Plans book of the time. I still have the "Hornby Treasure Chest" box that some of this stuff came in (which I noticed was displayed on one of the stands at Model Rail Scotland last week).

The layout is long dismantled and the baseboards cut up, but I have all the rest in boxes in my loft.

Now if only I had the space to set some of it up ...