Model Railway Layout - Webpage Under construction - Dec 2017

I don't know why, but quite a lot of Amateur Radio operators also have an interest in trains. Mine started in the UK when my mother used to take me (on a train) to Waterloo Station to watch the trains as a days outing back in the late 50's. Model trains for me started with the old Hornby 'O' gauge clockwork types through to the 3 rail Hornby Dublo (boy, do I wish I had kept all those) and later Triang equipment. I have other the last few years started collecting a bit of the 3 rail Hornby Dublo items I used to have. There were the usual not very sophisticated layouts as a youngster which slowly progressed into something better like that of the Porthleven trackplan below. Unfortunately, I never did get any pictures of it, even though I had a father who was a photographer.

Then the usual things got in the way, cars, girls, work, amateur radio (not necessarily in that order) and modelling took a back seat. All the model railway equipment I do have, is stored in boxes on top of the wardrobes and now I have the urge to do something with it again. The intention is to recreate something like Porthleven, but this time in OO9/HOn30 (I'm not a 'rivet counter' or a stickler for exactness, I much prefer to model something pleasing to my eye, with the odd memory of younger years back in the UK thrown in). Oh and one of the reasons for going to OO9 is that every time we moved house in the last few years, the house got smaller and smaller, so room is at a premium. This trackplan for Porthleven was published in the UK magazine Railway Modeller in July 1967. It is a fictitious extension of the railway into a part of Cornwall (UK) that didn't have railway access.