Lancs&Yorks
Member
Good morning, and reight good it is to be here.
I’m a Yorkshireman, or more correctly nowadays, a Northumbrian, for I’m living in what we now call Northumberland, though I have documentary evidence that the old kingdom of Northumbria included Leeds so I claim the best of all worlds.
No surprise then, that when living inWharfedale, few yards from the still working Leeds to Skipton line, I was inveigled towards model railways by my next door neighbour, an accomplished exhibition modeller. So naturally I turned to something local, and the one railway with Yorkshire in the title.
Then life intervened, and memberships lapsed, hose moves came and went, and apart from some idle speculation and passing years, nothing.
but here we are, still with the notion of a doughnut presentation on hexagon based boards of around 3000mm overall. Two presentations, one side rural, one side industrial. I have acquired various loco kits of L&Y engines, and even have an entire layout - see photo - which I believe I may be able to claim as a size record. A wrongly liveried Pug and a sad wagon represent the entire model. The wagon shows the effect of an unplanned and unwanted plunge over a 970 foot cliff.
A long ramble to say that I’m here because, firstly, I’m about convinced to work toP4 then I thought “do what Ivan (the next door neighbour) did, and convert to 7mm. Chunkier items, and you need fewer of them. But I either case, now, I need to consider the cost, and P4 or S7, stuff is eye wateringly expensive these days compared to the 1960s.
So there you are. I’m here to drink in the atmosphere, ask questions, annoy folk by asking beginner stuff, and generally get in the way. If there was a club locally, I’d annoy them.
Richard Wilson
I’m a Yorkshireman, or more correctly nowadays, a Northumbrian, for I’m living in what we now call Northumberland, though I have documentary evidence that the old kingdom of Northumbria included Leeds so I claim the best of all worlds.
No surprise then, that when living inWharfedale, few yards from the still working Leeds to Skipton line, I was inveigled towards model railways by my next door neighbour, an accomplished exhibition modeller. So naturally I turned to something local, and the one railway with Yorkshire in the title.
Then life intervened, and memberships lapsed, hose moves came and went, and apart from some idle speculation and passing years, nothing.
but here we are, still with the notion of a doughnut presentation on hexagon based boards of around 3000mm overall. Two presentations, one side rural, one side industrial. I have acquired various loco kits of L&Y engines, and even have an entire layout - see photo - which I believe I may be able to claim as a size record. A wrongly liveried Pug and a sad wagon represent the entire model. The wagon shows the effect of an unplanned and unwanted plunge over a 970 foot cliff.
A long ramble to say that I’m here because, firstly, I’m about convinced to work toP4 then I thought “do what Ivan (the next door neighbour) did, and convert to 7mm. Chunkier items, and you need fewer of them. But I either case, now, I need to consider the cost, and P4 or S7, stuff is eye wateringly expensive these days compared to the 1960s.
So there you are. I’m here to drink in the atmosphere, ask questions, annoy folk by asking beginner stuff, and generally get in the way. If there was a club locally, I’d annoy them.
Richard Wilson