coastalview Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 (edited) Hi to everyone, I've been lurking in the background for a while and finally decided to get a bit more involved. I started my model railway journey in London where I lived for the first 22 years and built a little 009 layout that I had fun with whilst having a Saturday job at Beatties in Holborn from 1968 until the early 1970's. Girls, college and cars intervened (not necessarily in that order all the time). In the 1990's I built a layout for the kids and then nothing until the past couple of years. Looking around for a project I bought a secondhand 9ft x 2ft dock layout from eBay which had been originally built to a lovely standard many years ago. It now needs rather a lot of restoration and I have just started the initial task of stripping back the electrics as no control panel or wiring diagram existed and I would like to operate it on DCC. Enjoying the challenges so far and learning a great deal from this forum, been absolutely blown away by the quality of the modelling I've seen. Thanks for reading if you have got this far and and I look forward to catching up with you in the future. Cheers Chris Edited October 26, 2020 by coastalview typo 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohmisterporter Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 Welcome to the forum Chris. As you have no doubt already found, there is a great deal of inspiration in these pages. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coastalview Posted November 3, 2020 Author Share Posted November 3, 2020 Thanks @Ohmisterporter , I'm steadily building up a list of threads to follow. Some remarkable modelling goes on here. Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted November 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 4, 2020 Chris, As a matter of interest, which part of Shropshire are you domiciled? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coastalview Posted November 4, 2020 Author Share Posted November 4, 2020 1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said: Chris, As a matter of interest, which part of Shropshire are you domiciled? Not that far from Oswestry HH 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted November 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 4, 2020 (edited) When the current crisis is finally resolved, If you've not already joined, you might like to consider the Borders MRC. A couple of us from Telford are members and feel the journey to Llandrinio well worth the effort. Edited November 4, 2020 by Happy Hippo 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coastalview Posted November 4, 2020 Author Share Posted November 4, 2020 6 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: When the current crisis is finally resolved, If you've not already joined, you might like to consider the Borders MRC. A couple of us from Telford are members and feel the journey to Llandrinio well worth the effort. I was looking around about a club and that's very handy thanks. Will investigate in more detail. Last time I was a member of a model railway club was in early 1980's in London. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coastalview Posted November 4, 2020 Author Share Posted November 4, 2020 Hi @Happy Hippo does the BRMC have a website anymore ? Regards Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted November 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 4, 2020 32 minutes ago, coastalview said: Hi @Happy Hippo does the BRMC have a website anymore ? Regards Chris It doesn't seem to be working at the moment. I'll make some enquiries. I've Pm'd you the latest newsletter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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