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That Jekka Gal

That Jekka Gal

That Jekka Gal

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Has anyone here got a layout? I had a huge one up in the attic up until the age of 15 when I sold it and bought a hifi system.

I've had a real urge recently to get back into it again.

I have a lot more patience than I had in those days and I'd be able to devote much more time to it.

I used to have a couple of Wren steam locos - made of die cast metal - I'll bet you can't get them anymore and I seem to remember Pico was another quality brand.

I had a lot of Lima stuff as well which was actually HO scale but still ran on OO track. It was just very slightly smaller in scale. What bothered me more was that it was all German & it didn't fit in with my 1960s BR theme at all. I think Lima was a cheaper brand so family members used to buy it for me at Christmas.

Anyway, the only purveyor of model railway related stuff out here is a company called Frateschi & their stuff is very reasonably priced. Will probably buy some locos when I'm back in the uk and smuggle them in to avoid the tariffs. I think an InterCity 125 in a tropical setting would be quite fitting since they are now running in Nigeria and Mexico!
 
I used to love model railways. I still got my old Hornby steam engine. It needs work doing to it though. Circa 1972 ish.

Would love to have a layout. Space and lifestyle dictates otherwise...
 
I only had a basic 2 loop setup with some Papier-mache type hills and a basic station, built on top of an old door, with an Intercity 125 on one loop and GWR Pannier steam locomotive (don't recall model now) on the other.

My grandad had a pretty mental setup with I think 7 lines and around a dozen different trains with light controls, etc. in the attic but by the time I was a kid it was already a shadow of its former setup - I'm not sure what the original was but he was heavily inspired by a model railway setup someone built that was on display with fully modelled Teffont Magna and Chilmark stations and was a fairly close copy of it.
 
I too had a simple oval set-up as a kid. My nan and grandad got it for me one Christmas. I've always been tempted to get back into it but it's just time, money and space. It's not a cheap hobby and unless you've got a spare room or converted loft/garage you'll be struggling. YouTube is great for ideas on layouts and what works best but it also depends on what you want the railway for, do you want a fiddle yard to move locos and build up a train or are you more a fast line/slow line person.
 
Your dad must have had a lot of money to let you sell all his work......

There was a model shop on the corner of my old road in London. Among other things it sold N gauge trains, The small ones.
My dad convinced me I wanted a trainset so one xmas i got a double oval loop nailed to a huge board, 2 trains a few carriages and wagons a lot of green flock and some very plastic buildings. Like my dad it was a kinda half arsed attempt to do something cool but he probably lost interest too early too lol

I/he played with his new toy for a while then it got boring and i dunno what happened to it. I remember the electric smell. Me basically trying to short out everything with a 1p coin, crashing trains breaking trains.

I wish i had a clue how expensive it all was maybe id have respected it a bit more.
 
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My Dad has some in some boxes somewhere in the attic at his. I bet they never see the light of day again. I wonder how they are worth.... such a shame for things to go to waste inst it. Now that I think about it I have a real urge to get into model railways too.
 
I love N-Gauge train sets. I had one as a kid on a big baseboard, double loop with a tunnel through a hill. I keep wanting to build one again but I don't really have the room for it.
 
In our old house I built a 6m x 3m layout in OO gauge. It had 4 main lines, a large maintenance depot on one side of the 3m, station on the other 3m. An intermodal yard down one 6m side. The other long side had a 11 line fiddle yard.

Sadly it had to be removed when we moved house.
 
My older brother has boxes of N gauge stock and some OO.
 
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EddScott said:
In our old house I built a 6m x 3m layout in OO gauge. It had 4 main lines, a large maintenance depot on one side of the 3m, station on the other 3m. An intermodal yard down one 6m side. The other long side had a 11 line fiddle yard.

Sadly it had to be removed when we moved house.
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That's pretty big. I remember ours was 8'x4' with a piece cutout in the middle so you could control everything from there via an HM Duet transformer which would control the 2 lines.
 
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