Hello,
my name is Chris and I live in France in a very small village where there are more cows and dogs than people.
I'm a big fan of 00 gauge model railways. I have a lot of Hornby 0-4-0 steam locos and a few little wagons. I'm playing with my trains like a kid (I'm 63 !). I need to learn how to build a real small 00 gauge layout. So I need a lot of help from a great bunch of friends. Many thanks in advance.
Regards,
Chris

Sorry for my poor English… :oops: :oops: :oops:

   
  Bonjour Chris and welcome to the forum.
   
  Don’t worry about your English, as it’s much better than my French, which has not progressed very much during the confinement.
   
  There’s plenty of help here for you small layout, so let us know if you have anything specific in mind and we’re here to help.
   
  Looking forward to hearing more of your plans when you are ready,
   
  Cordailement,
   
  Bill

Thank you Bill. If we can understand each other we're good ! :doublethumb
Oops ! I forgot to mention that I'm specialized in unfinished layouts.

Welcome aboard Chris  :hi. As Bill said plenty of help here, just ask away
Oh and your English is fine! Much better than my non existent French  :hmm

Cheers

Matt

:Happy :Happy :Happy

Welcome from another new arrival, Chris.

Welcome to the Club, Chris. As others have said, plenty of help and encouragement here, and even better, no question is too small or simple or stupid…. which is good because I can ask all of those.  Will look forward to following along as you build your model world.
Michael  

Hello Chris, from the edge of somewhere … not quite sure where, though!!  ;-)

As the others here have already said, your English appears to be much better than my "high school" French, although I can understand a lot more French than I can speak.

This is a very friendly and helpful group, with occasional forays into humour too. It's best not to take our wonderful hobby too seriously.

Jeff (or in French, Jeff). 

:cheers

Welcome to the forum. Always great to have another Chris!

Welcome to the club Chris.Love to have you with us so ask away and enjoy yourself.

Thank you all for your warm welcome. Much appreciated. :Happy :Happy :Happy

Hello Chris,


welcome, I'm sure you'll get lots of helpful advice here so feel free to ask.

For another recent arrival I put the following thoughts together listing issues to consider and it sounds as if they'll be useful for you as well.

Some obvious issues (but not  the solutions /answers I'm afraid!) which spring to mind from my own /  others' layout builds include.
 

• Frame-work design style,
• Operating Height(s) -allowing for access / best viewing / ease of operation
• Inclines which will work effectively (if you plan to have them!)
  
• Insulfrog or electrofrog points/turnouts (+ can you get them)?
• "DC or DCC (that is the question, whether 'tis nobler……")
• Room conditions - temperature / humidity control
  

those are to make a start, others will no doubt add in their views.

 FWIW,  points are a good illustration of how I would have benefited from careful research and planning before acting!

My decision to go with Insulfrog style frogs was based purely on what I had used before but this proved to have lots of  knock-on implications. Now I've managed to live  with or manage the issues which are most evident with my little GWR 0-6-0s and other small wheel base locos.
 
Going electrofrog has its own overheads of wiring complexity concerning  power switching which are best understood before deciding, rather than  after!

 If you know all this much good, but otherwise I hope it helps. Good luck with your project .

Welcome to the club Chris - it used to be Australians but it's great to see the French membership growing………..!  One up on the Loire, you in the middle and me just south of Bergerac …………….. :cool wink

If you hadn't mentioned your English, I'd have assumed you were another British exile living here - nothing in your post suggested you were French so your English is excellent.  :thumbs

I presume you buy your stock from UK - as far as I know, there's not much in "OO" available in France - other than the track which is the same as HO gauge.

 If you let us know what you have in mind for a layout - "shunting plank", "Inglenook puzzle", "branch line" etc.,  there will be so much help on here than you'll be overwhelmed - a bit like the Welsh rugby team was ………Scotland is part of "La Veille Alliance" so that result doesn't matter too much.  :cheers
 

G'day Chris,

A warm Aussie welcome to the club! Wouldn't worry about the language stuff too much mate, you will be fine.

Cheers  :cheers

[user=2203]Chris57[/user] wrote:

Thank you Bill. If we can understand each other we're good ! :doublethumb
Oops ! I forgot to mention that I'm specialized in unfinished layouts.

 

Isn't everyone? :mrgreen:

Welcome aboard

:cheers:Welcome :hi
Welcome aboard Chris.  There are no silly questions here so please ask away.  Someone will know an answer.  I'm 63 as well and quite enjoy playing trains.  You are in good company.