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A bit of background for this thread, I have for a number of years been building a garden railway in 16mm to the foot scale, narrow gauge. It comprises six stages of construction, stages 1-3 have all the support structure in place, stages 1-2 have all the trackwork down, stage 3 should have had...

This thread will be quick, to bring it up to date on how a group of four of us built this layout, The Yard, to an initial deadline of 13-14 January 2018. Some may have already seen it on other Forums or on Facebook, so I will try and get this thread up to date ASAP. It all started on 2...

What better way to recover from hospital surgery than a new layout. It beats any medicine hands down, in my opinion! Bank Top Yard will be a shunting layout, used for slow, realistic movements of wagons around the yard to a fiddle yard off scene. There will be no run round loop and any run...

Firstly, let me apologise to all those of a GWR persuasion, for although Melcombe Magna has a goodly share of Ex GW locos and stock, it was (in my imagination), the terminus of a branch of the S&D. However, a branch was also built to here from the GW (Somerset Wilts and Weymouth line) to a...