Never too late...?!!
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My main reason for joining is to express thanks for advice found about separating body and chassis of my Hornby Caledonian Belle. I was struggling before doing a google search, and finding how to do it on this site was most helpful.
After 66 years of deprivation, I have recently (last year) started on the learning curve that is railway modelling - well, not quite modelling yet. Interest began after I bought a second hand 'Flying Scotsman' (sans tender, so just push along) for my 4 yr old grandson to play with.
Since then I've bought a few more locomotives - some from the Thomas the tank engine series, Hogwarts Express, and others that revive memories of my youth back in the 50s when I went trainspotting with my brother.
I'm afraid my layout presently consists of inner and outer oval tracks laid on the (carpeted!) spare bedroom floor… most unsatisfactory (in more ways than one), as it needs to be taken up every time we have visitors (including grandchildren sleeping over).
However, I am undaunted, and one day, childminding duties permitting, will get round to making a more permanent layout.
Meanwhile, I've been amusing myself by installing dcc decorders in the locos, and adding lighting to intercity trains and carriages - all scratch built using fairy light LEDs and various other electronic components, with reasonable success. So I guess I've got two new hobbies for the price of one.
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At 6'4'', Bill is a tall chap, then again, when horizontal he is rather long and people often used to trip over him! . . . and so a nickname was born :)
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Welcome to YMRC where after reading what everybody else has got up to here over the years you'll either end up buying a massively expensive shed or a barn !
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Childminding duties offer an excellent excuse for building a model railway - "It's for the grandchildren dear, if they didn't enjoy it so much, I wouldn't bother. It's a real PITA for me" ………………….. ;-)
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