Westavon

[class25]

This is my 7mm shelf micro layout. My dad was a Great Western scratch builder with a garden line. He died last year and my brother and I dissembled the garden line which had been a feature of our lives. I wanted to model the branch line scene so we spilt the locos accordingly.
I had a loft line but have found the railway gets used if it is downstairs. A coincidental upgrade of my sons playroom to a games room saw the closure of my US micro layout on top of an Ikea unit and I was offered another room for hobby use. Hurrah! I had already built a 4mm micro BR blue line on one dude if the room. space was very limited, 8 foot in total. 

Whilst the run round accommodates a lock upto the size of a 42/52xx, other bigger locos exist. 
The boards sit on IKEA floating shelves. I have deliberately kept the fiddle yard capacity small and tend to operate in real time. Shunting the (very small) yard can be a protracted affair, normally accompanied by a cup of tea. My dad drove Hall locomotives  in the Snow Hill area in the 50’s because he knew lots of drivers. Therefore despite the branch line location, it is not unknown for the odd 4-6-0 to appear on a running in turn post works!