Good evening to you all.
I did join this site last July on the recommendation of a fellow member of the Train Collector's Society and I note that there are some other members of the TCS here as well. Over the last few years I have very slowly been collecting the odd items of G scale with the idea of starting a garden railway although the garden at our present house does not lend itself easily to that idea being on quite a slope. I will occasionally put down an oval and watch a loco and coach run round but I want more. Not just for that reason but we are now in the process of selling the house and some may say we are being foolish but we have no house to go to yet. Our idea is that we bank the money so when the house that ticks all the boxes comes on the market we can proceed without any hindrance. Last year we missed out on a couple of suitable properties because we couldn't act quick enough. Along with room for my wife's hobbies and garage for the classic car, one of the boxes that has to be ticked is a garden that will allow a reasonable layout to be built.
I have been steadily reading through the various forums and love the links to the many videos people have posted of their own layouts. There was a wonderful one I saw yesterday that was an 8 minute long on board of a single run round a garden that I watched three times trying to work out the layout plan, quite convoluted, it must have gone over or under itself as well as hoping the livestock kept off the tracks. Made me a little jealous!
Despite most of our stuff heading for storage for a while I still seem to be able to gather in the odd bit of G and today picked up some that I had bid on blind at a Norfolk auction. I really should be only acquiring more track as I have a few locos and a reasonable amount of rolling stock but this was a small mixed lot of LGB loco (LGB 2095 OBB Diesel), a coach, a van and some track. It's a nice loco and it ran well around another quick oval I made up but I will have to see if I will be keeping it as it was the track I really wanted.
OK, that's the introduction from me Paul who at present resides in a village in the Norfolk Broads area but is hoping soon to move about 8 miles away to another village in the Norfolk Broads area.
I did join this site last July on the recommendation of a fellow member of the Train Collector's Society and I note that there are some other members of the TCS here as well. Over the last few years I have very slowly been collecting the odd items of G scale with the idea of starting a garden railway although the garden at our present house does not lend itself easily to that idea being on quite a slope. I will occasionally put down an oval and watch a loco and coach run round but I want more. Not just for that reason but we are now in the process of selling the house and some may say we are being foolish but we have no house to go to yet. Our idea is that we bank the money so when the house that ticks all the boxes comes on the market we can proceed without any hindrance. Last year we missed out on a couple of suitable properties because we couldn't act quick enough. Along with room for my wife's hobbies and garage for the classic car, one of the boxes that has to be ticked is a garden that will allow a reasonable layout to be built.
I have been steadily reading through the various forums and love the links to the many videos people have posted of their own layouts. There was a wonderful one I saw yesterday that was an 8 minute long on board of a single run round a garden that I watched three times trying to work out the layout plan, quite convoluted, it must have gone over or under itself as well as hoping the livestock kept off the tracks. Made me a little jealous!
Despite most of our stuff heading for storage for a while I still seem to be able to gather in the odd bit of G and today picked up some that I had bid on blind at a Norfolk auction. I really should be only acquiring more track as I have a few locos and a reasonable amount of rolling stock but this was a small mixed lot of LGB loco (LGB 2095 OBB Diesel), a coach, a van and some track. It's a nice loco and it ran well around another quick oval I made up but I will have to see if I will be keeping it as it was the track I really wanted.
OK, that's the introduction from me Paul who at present resides in a village in the Norfolk Broads area but is hoping soon to move about 8 miles away to another village in the Norfolk Broads area.
