Hi Everyone,
Sorry to barge in unannounced. I've been lurking around the site for a while now, but this is the first time I've actually posted anything. I'm currently living and working in Saudi Arabia, so I don't get to see many trains, real or otherwise, except for what I can find on the 'net. However, we're planning to move back to the UK in 2-3 years' time and Mrs W has more-or-less agreed that I can build a small layout once we find a place to live.
I had a couple of circles of track and a few engines and coaches when I was younger, but I fell out of model railways before I could make anything serious once I discovered football, beer and girls, not necessarily in that order! However, I picked up a copy of Hornby magazine on a visit home a couple of years back, which reawakened the interest, and since then I've been quietly doing some research and planning what sort of a layout I'd like to model if and when I got the chance.
So why am I posting this here, and not on a new members/introductions thread? Well, partly because as a Plymuff bey, I've enjoyed reading the chat about that part of the world and revisiting old haunts (mentally, at least) and mostly because, Rob, you've made exactly the layout I was thinking of - a small station on the edge of Dartmoor, on the Plymouth-Exeter main line, with a working branchline, in the heyday of the Great Western.
Many thanks for the inspiration, and the hours of enjoyment spent reading through the thread (page 22 so far, so no spoilers please!) If anything I ever make is a quarter as good as this, I'll be delighted.
Keep up the good work.
Regards,
Waraqah
Lawnseston...then you can have SR as well my 'andsome. Wrong side of the river, i'm afraid...
