Model Railways
Building A New Model Railway Layout
So you are thinking about setting up a model railway? It is surprising how many do at one time or another.
The purpose of this article is to give an insight how a model railway can be built, and to explain what you need to think about.
Gauges and Scales of My Model Railways
Gauge is the distance between the inner sides of the two parallel rails that make up the railway track. With the earlier 3 rail systems you use the outer rails.
Scale is the size of the model compared the actual 'real life' locomotive.
Travis, Skipton & LGB
TRAVIS as you will see is a barge, so what is it doing in the model railway section.
To quote Andy "We're down in Skipton for the festival weekend again this year. I have an LGB garden railway that I set up on Travis's cabin roof when at rallies".
Layouts update June 2011
A short video of locos running on my OO, OO9 and Z layouts. More work has been done on the Train Room layout (OO & OO9) since this video was compiled and it is ongoing