50 years on from a child's Christmas present, I recreated my first train set, with the original locomotive and wagons, on the original living room table protected with the original airforce blanket!
My N2 celebrated its 50th birthday December 2007 with a 250 mile trip back to Lisburn, Northern Ireland to my Mother's house for the celebratory run in its first home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5SemQO3idM
Here is the same train on my current layout in Cork.
I have a span of 11'2" unsupported in the middle and it is quite stable.
The secret was to make the whole board and its supports as stiff as possible so that there is very little tendency to sag in the middle.
My board is 3/4" ply supported on L girders fixed to the wall. These are made up of two lengths of 2"x1" softwood. This gives support to the rear and each of the two ends. To provide strong support along the length of the span away from the wall I installed two L Girders that
This is my first attempt at blogging and I'm going to use it to share with you my Hornby Dublo 3-rail layout.
This is a shelf layout built above my more conventional layout (which will be the subject of another blog). I completed the baseboards in the summer of 2008 but then work stopped while I concentrated on restoring some railway relics that you can see in the background of some of the photographs.
Work recommenced around February this year and I have now finished the basics. The fo
