I really should put something in this blogg rather more frequently than monthly!

Trouble is that I started the blogg so as to report progress with my venture into EM and the building of a super-light-weight layout, but that venture is a very small part of my hobby activities and over the last few weeks EM modelling has been low on the list of those activities. I have however started on converting a Bachmann K3 to EM.

My idea was to limit EM to converting RTR locos and stock ,but to continue scratch building locos to S4 track and wheel standards for as long as my aging body can manage such engineering dexterity.

However If I am to report here on a more frequent basis I will have to resort to telling you of my other hobby related activities.

One such is a few days break in the Yorkshire Dales from which Margaret & I have just returned. We stayed with a friend made via Scalefour Society membership and another web forum. The B&B called "Bottom Chapel" at Askrigg is run by Ian Everett and his good lady Betsy and with three layouts on which to play trains is a very suitable destination for any railway modeller.

It is down to Ian that I have decided to modify my inputs here as he had been looking for photographs of my layout 'Birch Vale'. Accordingly when I have posted this I shall be off with the camera and will later post some new picks