Dieseldog Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Hi Everyone hope you all had a great xmas, Well I joined in oct 14 and have been lurking in the shadows since then with only posting a few posts but I thought it was time to introduce myself and my ongoing layout which was started around the time I joined the forum. Firstly I do this for enjoyment and do use the "modellers licence" and honestly know hardly anything about the running of railways, I had never been intrested in railways until my wife purchased a set for me as a surprise in 2012 (mixed goods) I thought wow, two trains running on the same track independently controlled this was good. Up to this point I had only ever been on a HST to london for the day and that was it! I started browsing the internet and came across a few layouts which I liked the look of and went about starting to build one. My plans soon ground to a halt as I was too ambitious and couldn't see the boards for the track, I had loco's stalling all over and was disappointed with my first attempt so it all got boxed up and sold on. Anyway during october this year I decided to build another one to keep me from getting bored over the long nights, I thought about what I wanted, did some more browsing and came across two layouts one called 'stoating bank', and the other '16 tons' this was when I saw the Austerity's shunting and I decided I wanted somthing similar, maybe a simple little layout which maybe I could exhibit one day (getting ambitious again) This was the turning point I purchased the material for the baseboards and started late October. The layout is 8 x 2 end to end with a yet to be constructed fiddle yard coming off at 90 degrees to layout. Next job was to think of a name, this is when "foxton yard" was born. Anyway thats enough for the introduction I will be starting a topic with some pictures in the members layout section so if any of you are intrested please take a look. Dieseldog Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcm@gwr Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Hello Dieseldog, Welcome to the forum. Good luck with the new layout. Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieseldog Posted December 29, 2014 Author Share Posted December 29, 2014 Thanks for the welcome Jeff DDog Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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