After taking my son to a model railway exhibition the club he is a member of hosted, a layout there gave me the inspiration to do one of my own.
My existing layout is one my dad built for me when I was a kid, and my sons was also built by my dad a couple of years ago.
This time I wanted to to one myself, I also wanted to do it in the smaller N gauge rather than the more common 00 so as to be able to fit more into a smaller space, through several ideas and designs that grew from being 4 foot long to 6 foot long, I settled on a design.
From the start the decision was to make it an analogue (DC) layout, as much as I would have like to have made it a Digital (DCC) layout due to all the rolling stock we had either not being fitted, or being so old digital hadn't been invented yet!
It was to be a fictional Track Maintenance Depot (TMD) roughly set in the 1960s making use of the British Rail steam and diesel rolling stock we already had, later on the idea that we could expand on this and have it set in a more modern day as a depot on a heritage line.
