TAUNTON TOWN Model Railway Club

Retired engieer.Moved to presant abode 7 years ago. Half way through insulating the loft space, 56foot long x 10foot wide, (WOW). Longinly lookeing at THE RAILWAY, IN BOXES at the moment. Patiance!!! So many plans going through the head at the moment.

Interested in 1960-1990 era particularly in the N.E.

My long suffering other half and I enjoy our garden and going of for the odd holiday in the caravan to where-ever takes our fancey.

Good luck to the new era of ZTC controls

re entering hobby after forty year absence!

have traded in oo stuff for n gauge, and about to trade back up tp oo again, sometime i will get  round to thinking before i do stuff!

i hanker after my days on the footplate of 52 hydraulics , but will have to make do with my old mainline pannier until money gets less tight!

New to Digital Control, just being given a second-hand 511 iin great condition.Just trying to understand controls.

I've loved model railways since when a child I was given a hornby clockwork layout. ( I think Dad thought he was going to get a chance to play with it! ) So I am delighted to realise a dream of being able to play with electric locos. Like the man who was run over by a train I am chuffed to bits.

I run h.o. here in the San Diego, California, at one of the layouts at the San Diego Model

Railroad Museum. It is the San Diego and Arizona Eastern layout, modeling the 1950's

era. Both dc and dcc is used. The highlight of the layout is a model of the Goat Canyon

Trestle located in the Carrizo Gorge. The real Goat Canyon Trestle in the Carrizo Gorge,

is a National Engineering Landmark. I am also a overseas member of the Bluebell

Railway Preservation Society, in East Sussix, and a member of the Pacific Southwest

Railway Museum in Campo, 60 miles east of San Diego. I share the website for the

San Diego Model Railroad Museum: WWW.sandiegomodelrailroadmuseum.org.U.S. or WWW.sandiegomodelrailroadmuseum.com.u.s.

Have arrived into the hobby fairly late in life.Found that it combines my creative and practical instincts.I need to work with my hands as an antidote to deskwork (I'm an accountant) .

I enjoy virtually all aspects of the hobby from detailed modelling to landscaping..Have a lot to learn but am currently modelling two layouts:"PARKMORE" which is a 6ft x 2ft  009 layout, of the  highest station in N.Ireland at the passenger termination of the Ballymena to Cushendall narrow gauge line,circa 1900.Locos are  Manx Beyer Peacocks et al.The line closed in 1930 but retains much of its original trackbed and  infrastructure,and which I have walked when visiting my wifes family in the Glens of Antrim.

The other  is a 14ftx14ft DCC fictional GWR meets SR heart shaped  loft layout,"WOOLMINSTER" with a terminus and four  lines plus street scene  including trams, which I love.Have successfully modelled Townstreets' rural station and s/box  which is ready for installation.(I'm nervous about plaster and wouldn't use it for exhibition /portable projects).Otherwise its kit bashed Metcalfe and Superquick.

Photos to follow.

Well, what can I say. I am the local yeti, I like heavy metal and rock music. I grew up next to North Road Station in Plymouth and my interest into model railways grew from then on. I have a 9x9 layout in the living room of my flat that I bought as a second hand deal and had a great deal of help from Graham in transporting it (A big thanks to him) and it is nothing more than a place where I can run a few of my locos. I also use a computor simulation program called TRAINZ in which i can create endless layouts, I have created a layout of Yeovil East as a Demo for the club.

As a little boy I used to watch the real ones from my bedroom window

As a big boy I can now play with the model ones in my garage

March 2010 thought U mite like a change of view

June 2010 Preserved Yank coach at Naples, Florida. Depot (station) behind is currently being converted to a railway museum. Who's an anorak? Even find railways on hol