Dougs gang are the GLR 5 groups and hang out in the vale of Pickering, they run scale 5" trains and of course engines. It is run in every way as a proper scale railway. Not my thing as i prefer pulling trains with people on. Still in 5" guage and 3 1/2".
I model 5" guage as the size is more suited to my 'fingers and thumbs' approach of clumsiness.
For my pleasure i travel to llandudno to be with the north Wales model engineering society. I find that quite a few members do all the scales, from 00 upwards. So long as its engines and trains Were all happy.
I had a 00 layout in the loft, but after i broke my foot getting in and out of the loft i thought i would call it a day on the smaller gauges, that was about 4 years ago.
My wife has just been on holiday in NZ for the last three week, so to kill my boredom i divided our double garage in two by putting a stud wall up, 2/3 for the wifes car and 1/3 for me.
Thats left a dilema, a 12' section of wall with about 18" of spare width behind my machine tools, mmmmm wonder what will fit in there?
Browsing this excellent web site i found a post by a Silver Sidelines who had posted pages out of an old magazine on flicker and there it was a small compact layout that can be added to at a later stage.
So that will fill the gap, but i had better finish the wall first.
Brian