traction

Well, lets start with a bit of background first me thinks!

Male over 40 years old!
I work for Linx Printing Technologies based in St Ives Cambridgeshire.
I'm a service engineer so will be out and about fixing the coding machines

Completed my Apprenticeship at The Boots Company on the Beeston site in Nottingham.
Funny, couldn't wait to leave school then spent another 8 years at college to get my ONC's in both Electrical and Mechanical engineering, then finally my HNC in Mechatronics.
Can't remember a thing about it now!!
I Live in a little village near Sleaford.
I will have been married for 14 years in Feb 2017

I joined RMweb in March 2007, and visit most days, not too many posts but its good to read about others projects and get some inspiration.

Started off with some second hand OO track, and a digital controller, have never wired up a DC layout with section switches seems like hard work to me!
It took me ages and many different layouts to realise that I just didn't have the space for what I wanted to do......yep a roundy roundy as that was all I knew.
It proved a good learning curve though, and DCC was definitely the way for me!
Anyway changed to N-gauge which gave me my roundy roundy.....Thomas and Friends layout.
Since then built an end to end layout all based on Hornby products Train Sets as Tail Chasers

I went to the Grantham exhibition, a few years ago now and seeing the OO layouts got me thinking again, so a small micro layout was built and just for the fun of it I made the same layout in N-gauge as well which can be seen in my blog "Wolds-End"

I would still like a OO roundy layout and have been working on one for a while but just stall as it's just not what I want and then just give up really.

I met up with Paul Lunn at an exhibition (he who writes the Peco Setrack Plans books) and showed him some photos of my aqueduct and after a good chat came away with some really good ideas and motivation.

Its still not a full continuous run, but it is something a bit different and most of the scenery ideas I had not done before as can be seen in my Large Aqueduct thread

This layout has now been given to Paul as he did say if ever I wanted to get rid of it give him first refusal!

I have moved home due to my shoulders having arthritis, thought it a good idea to try and reduce the mortgage for if/when I have to have them replaced.

Have another small oval layout that's already had its first outing to Mansfield exhibition 2017 and should be going to Bingham MRC exhibition in April.
Hopefully it provides some interest for the children to actually play with at an exhibition.

Thats about it as an update as of 17/04/2017!

Cheers

Ian