So Loverboy continues his enjoyment of trains, looking at 'Thomas' books and playing with his push along set, while Grandad is now outside once again beavering away in the garage to make a small 'n gauge layout'. I have opted for 2 foot 6 inches by 2 foot. With a double loop feeding of a single connection and a curved double platform station at the top of three levels with a double hidden siding at the bottom. This may sound complicated, that's because it is! The main reason being that I decided to design all of the layout in standard PECO Setrack and did not follow a track plan. The idea is to have three trains on the board with one working at anytime. The single feed is so loverboy can operate the train using the large but siimplistic PECO standard railway set controller. Although his tiny hands and coordination will not be much use if anything derails. The three levels exist to achieve full clearance height at bridges and tunnels bewteen the lower and high levels where trains have to pass under and to achieve that clearance within the minimum length of running track.
The finished model will have full scenery, including fences, buildings, people and cars. We had a 6 foot by 2 foot 6 inch track running with two loops and a major terminus station for the last two years, but I reclaimed the space for my room and that layout was placed in the garage. If we had a fine day, then I could run it outside, but unfortunately the weather has changed for the worse in Wales and winter is almost upon us yet again.
Which is a far cry from lovely warm Turkey where one of the children have been on holiday for the past week. It was great as I got to use the spare car while the Breakdown Company decide how best to safely deliver 'the Beast' back to Wales. Although two of my main journey's this week were to take and collect the travellers from Cardiff Wales Airpot. Question: why do they call it 'Cardiff Airport' when it is 'Outer Barry' at the end of a long route to nowhere and an even longer return with bumper to bumper traffic? And the so called Cardiff Central shuttle connection takes **51 minutes to **39 which is 48 minutes if I can recall the data correctly. I wonder if they would like me to design a track for them, and Loverboy could do the operation and choice of trains. Choo choo, woo a woo
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