Hello from Shropshire

[coastalview]

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
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[Ohmisterporter]

Welcome to the forum Chris. As you have no doubt already found, there is a great deal of inspiration in these pages.

[coastalview]

Thanks @Ohmisterporter , I'm steadily building up a list of threads to follow.

 

Some remarkable modelling goes on here.

 

Chris

[Happy Hippo]

Chris, As a matter of interest, which part of Shropshire are you domiciled?

[coastalview]

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

[Happy Hippo]

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

[coastalview]

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. 

[coastalview]

Hi @Happy Hippo does the BRMC have a website anymore ?

 

Regards

 

Chris

[Happy Hippo]

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.

 

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