simpleton jct

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so i have put up a few posts and i think its time to actually show my little layout (not much to go home about) but first how and why.

so as a child i loved modelling, i had a MASSIVE collection on class 37s well over 20 anyway teenage years come along and well women and pubs call and i get rid of it all (silly mistake).

well April this year i was diagnosed with RRMS (relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis) and well i must say i never expected my life to change so much so quickly.

i had gone from working full time as well as a business building nameplates and headboards some quiet well known to struggling to even get out of bed or walk to the local shop so i needed to fill my time.

so lets relive my youth and get a railway built one problem, me and the family are moving to the other side of the country at some point very soon, i have some railway bit bought some stuff from a friend and sourced cheep parts and boom simpleton jct is born the name well look at the layout and put two and two together haha, built to see how i will have to do things with my medical problems and a test/running in line.

i will be doing a few more bits just to make it look a bit nicer but until we move it will have to do.

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so today the wife gave orders that she wants the table for Christmas so after a day moving our dinning room around we have a railway and a table all be it needing a clear but my health said no so that will be finished this weekend, during a dinner break showing the little lad the finer things in life including bellowing at deltic 2, hard to think how many hours I lay on that engine room floor or crawling about in nose ends ahhhhh happy days

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today has seen ballast go down now drying nicely hopefully get to a stage where i just need to add signals which im waiting for then the test track / simpleton will be done then after me and the family get moved plan the big railway.

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today has been more a work bench day with the western, dimming the lights abit after some advice from on here and must say quiet happy with the result, cab lights could be a little dimmer but i can live with it now some after shots aswell to compare dosnt look so much like the star ship enterprise.