BlackRat Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Whilst having a rummage and clear out (with nearly 40 years worth of 'stuff'') I found the following piccy! Its my first layout, built on a 6'x4' peice of softboard, no framing and sat on (I think) old paint tins or similar (my Uncle was a painter and decorator!). Its got on the back, 'Lawnton Green' and dated 1976 when I was a mere lad of 14. What a lot of water has passed under the bridge since then! Anyone else got a piccy of their first layout..............? Its going with me, (hopefully not yet) along with my fav dvd's (Kellys Heroes etc), family phots, my ABBA collection and Undertones vinyls! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 An excuse to show some pix of my old N gauge layout which I built some 25years ago. Hope I'm not hi-jacking your post Black Rat. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRat Posted March 11, 2011 Author Share Posted March 11, 2011 Not at all, great pics! Anyone got any more???? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 halfmoon colliery is my first layout (i know it's not finished) i felt like posting this because you asked for people's first layout Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRat Posted March 11, 2011 Author Share Posted March 11, 2011 Sir D, good effort and thanks for posting. make sure you keep the picture (prob easier with digi!) for posterity. I can clearly remember my mate Pete Taylor taking the pics, he had an old 126 film camera with bellows on it, which used to be his dads! I still have all the stock, which isn't bad after all these years, and yes, the Hornby pannier STILL works a treat (tho it wont of course run on code 75). Its in a box with all sorts of bits and pieces! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raffles Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 I never got any photos of the 6x4 board with twin ovals of track on from when I was a child. Some years ago, I did build this before the cats (kittens at the time) meant it got taken down. Hmph. I should imagine it ticks all kinds of boxes as far as cliches go but we have to start somewhere I suppose. The wallpaper HAS since been removed. If I can find another photo you will see why that's a good thing. EDIT: Found another shot: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted March 11, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2011 In 1958 Dad built a layout in the loft when I was about 9 years old. I took over his layout based on Tetbury and Cwmmawr stations in the garden shed. Tetbury Cwmmawr Both 00 gauge David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted March 11, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2011 My first layout was a Hornby Dublo set I was given for Christmas 1958. The first picture below was taken when it was set up on the dining table in the front room in 1961 The remaining pictures show it set up on a 6' x 5' baseboard in the late 1960s. The layout was dismantled in late 1970 but parts of it are still in use today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRat Posted March 11, 2011 Author Share Posted March 11, 2011 Fantastic, keep them coming, real history and hope its envoking some memories and nostalgia! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 I can't because photography was in it's infancy.............. It was Hornby Dublo and I'll try to find the one picture of it - it was in "The Railway Room" at a large house my Father's family had in Stoke Newington. It wasn't really mine it was shared by the whole extended family. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGN Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Never took any photos of my childhood layout. It wasn't much of a layout, tbh. Yours put it to shame! After some years out of the hobby, I took it up again in my 20s. We had a flood Easter 1998 and had to have a fire door replaced. When it dried out it still lookd OK to me, so rather than take it to the tip I stuck some plywood over it and built a test track layout which still sits in my railway room. It's called Dorton Junction. Because it's built on a door and it weighs a ton The track laying isn't up to much, and running isn't satisfactory as a result. So it's shortly going to be dismantled and a more satisfactory layout built into the railway room. Meanwhile, after several false starts (don't ask!) my first portable layout is coming on by leaps and bounds in the drawing room. The name is still to be decided. It is a little passing station roundy-roundy depicting a section of the fictitious Ouse Valley Light Railway. I'll take and post some photos of that when it's a little more advanced. I can report, however, that track laying and wiring are complete and that running is most satisfactory. But then again, it's hard to go that far wrong with Kato Unitrack ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave777 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Sadly no photos, but a ton of memories: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php/blog/309/entry-5777-where-it-all-began/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRat Posted March 14, 2011 Author Share Posted March 14, 2011 Sure there must be lots more out there............. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 I never got any photos of the 6x4 board with twin ovals of track on from when I was a child. Some years ago, I did build this before the cats (kittens at the time) meant it got taken down. Hmph. I should imagine it ticks all kinds of boxes as far as cliches go but we have to start somewhere I suppose. That sixteen-wheeler's certainly no slouch, even now. I'd be pleased to have her rubbing shoulders* with my gang * cantrails surely, loco anatomy Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixteen 12by 10s Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 That sixteen-wheeler's certainly no slouch, even now. I'd be pleased to have her rubbing shoulders* with my gang * cantrails surely, loco anatomy Ed Yes a fine loco, not that i am biased in anyway. Gary http://www.trainweb.org/cfa/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Hamblin Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 My first proper layout when I was about 8: Two very flimsy boards resting on a pair of pasting tables that eventually sagged in the middle! At one stage the turntable got shifted to the left and I enclosed the central section in a massive hangar (made out of cardboard) that housed my collection of Airfix kit aircraft. Rather good to peer in at one end and see a Lancaster next to the turntable! Layout number two: Westwood Junction (Mk1) was 6ft x 6ft layout with a very long shed at the back, which locos tended to get lost in, hence the construction of a glass top workshop/shed on the left hand side. Grand plans for a narrow gauge line starting at the Church and ending where Rocket is never came to fruition, but the N and OO9 stock purchased eventually found use on my N gauge layout and the narrow gauge line on Westwood Junction Mk3. After completing my GCSE's I decided I wanted a roundhouse, something I had developed a taste for from visits to the New Romney layout at the RH&DR. So Westwood Junction Mk2 was developed out of the main boards from Mk1 version: Both photos show the layout in the midst of demolition in the summer of 2007 when I had to get rid of it ready to develop Westwood Junction Mk3, which had the full run of the loft. This layout developed my scenic skills a little further, but left a lot to be desired e.g. that hideous foam underlay! My first layout was a basic bit of old Tri-ang track laid on a sideboard giving an out and back run, and this layout was a return to that concept but with a very poorly thought out fiddleyard area (I was so desperate for that roundhouse!). So I wanted to get back to a circular track layout. So on to Westwood Junction Mk3, my curent project, operational but on ice until we have got the BWWMRC's Horton layout ready: And that as they say, is that! Regards, Dan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRat Posted March 14, 2011 Author Share Posted March 14, 2011 Dan, great to see the pics, thanks for sharing them! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.A.C Martin Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 I'm still using the original baseboard of my first ever layout! Pre-Copley Hill days: The one thing which alarms me is the amount of GWR stock on the layout! I still own a few of those models, but I don't remember owning an old Lima King at any point. Then there's this pic which made me laugh: My dad bought this at a fair, and put it on the train set as a "grounded coach body". I later worked out it was an old coach from a Triang Rocket set. Years and years later, I have two matching coaches and am in the process of restoring this one to go behind my late Grandfather's Triang Rocket! EDIT: Just to add - those are smashing pics Dan! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny Emily Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 The following are from my first attempts at railway modelling back in around 2000. The scenics were passable, but the baseboard construction and electrics were rubbish. Over time these limitations led to the layout seeing little use and eventually being ripped apart for material to be recycled into 'Grove street yard'. I found some construction images too, and for those interested, this picture is of the portion of the layout recently featured in the Model Rail article on recycling a layout. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kris Posted March 16, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 16, 2011 I don't remember taking any photo's of my first train set (or my parents doing so either), but my child like self is very jealous of some of the layouts that have been shown on here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave777 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 I think Martin's tiny hill with the windmill on top takes some beating! And I thought his loco stud 'on shed' was pretty impressive... until I saw the additional selection in the display cabinet on the wall B) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.A.C Martin Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 I think Martin's tiny hill with the windmill on top takes some beating! It's sat on top of a foam box I think in that pic! And I thought his loco stud 'on shed' was pretty impressive... until I saw the additional selection in the display cabinet on the wall B) Shared with an equally train-mad father mind! Worked out where the Lima King came from - my friend Andrew brought it round as its his model sitting there. From the looks of it, neither the Flying Scotsmans nor the Eurostar have moved from their space in the cabinet for over 10 years Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted March 17, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 17, 2011 I don't have any photos going back into my prehistoric times. I never had a decent camera until 1979, but one or two model photos were taken earlier than that, usually by others who had better cameras and also knew what they were doing. There are photos of the original 005 modules that we built when in the Sixth Form in the mid-1970s, so I'll try to dig some of them up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cromptonnut Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Christmas 1976. I was 4. Built by my grandad, straight out of the Cyril Freezer book of track plans - but living half an hour from the Peco factory that wasn't too much of a surprise. Check out the hideous wallpaper and lime green woodwork... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
br-nse-fan Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 I don't have any pictures of my old clock-work Hornby set that I used to have.... and once I graduated from that, I stated 'helping' my Dad with his. My first layout was actually fairly recent... about 6yrs ago.. fairly large for a first go at one on my own... but, I had the room... and was spoiled by being able to run 'full length' 4-coach trains and wanted to keep doing so. I don't have any other photo's... but if I locate them, I'll post more! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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