Mid-Cornwall Lines - 1950s Western Region in 00
At last my new railway room is complete and in use, the existing St Enodoc layout has been set up and I am ready to start building the new Mid-Cornwall Lines, but before doing so I thought I would tell you a little bit of history to put the project in context and, I hope, explain why a little slice of Cornwall is taking shape in suburban Sydney, Australia.
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin.
My life with model railways goes back to when I was about three or four. Not, as was of
I have now just about reached the present day, but before describing the new layout (largely because it isn’t built yet) I thought I would set out some of the philosophy behind it and some of the thinking that went into its planning and design.
If you have followed this topic so far you will probably have realised that my primary interest in railway modelling is operation rather than building things. That’s not to say that I don’t enjoy building things, but my main objective in buying or bui
