Nellie's New Railway - A 1963 BLT
WARNING: This thread drifts about all over the place ........ readers who wish to 'cut to the chase' should skip on to Page 8 or 9.
In about 1971, I bought a Triang-Hornby 'Nellie' type 0-4-0T with the idea of building a layout based very directly on Rev. Heath's famous 'Piano Line' (see the thread 'Time to Tune the Piano' for the story of that layout). The layout never got built, and for the intervening nearly half-century Nellie has barely turned a wheel, while the box she lives in
Track pinned-down, ready for soldering the bits across the baseboard-joint and to start wiring.
The Nellies are standing in the carriage shed, and the road that goes off top-left will have a loco-shed/Workshop part way along it.
Im still thinking about the fiddle-zone (bottom left): I may create sliding-cassette-things, or just leave it as a piece of track ...... we’re not talking an intensive service of highly varied trains here, or fragile super-detailed stock that can’
