A thread on Narrow Gauge Railway Modelling Online has got me thinking. I regularly Read Colin Lea's Rhydd Ddu blog about his 009 layout (link on the right), and he has been through a series of posts commenting on lines he's visited. One area which many people seem surprised about are the number of narrow gauge lines that ran in Scotland, and there were many more proposed!
I intend (after new year) to start going through these lines one by one and listing any info i can find on them. For many there is very little info, but the major ones have a little bit here and there that could be amalgamated into a blog post some time.
On the layout front i'm likely to be heading up to Plockton in February/March for a weekend away around my birthday. While i'm there i intend to take plenty of pictures of the town (buildings, vegetation, coastline etc) for more fieldwork research for the layout. I'm getting more tempted to leave the inspiration for the trackplan that has come from Portree and focus on Plockton to get a more believable scene as an end result. Because of this fieldwork will be very useful, fortunately i can fit well over 1,000 photos on the memory card of my digital camera!!
Finally, as this is likely to be my last post on here before Christmas... Happy Christmas to all those who have been reading!
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