Apologies for the lack of home grown content of late, I’m working on it. Meantime here’s one of my favourite bloggers about a visit to one of my favourite layouts/modellers of recent times. Richard’s modelling is superb. Although his track is to OO, the overall quality of his modelking creates an overall atmosphere that has few rivals. Hope you enjoy it!
In my last visit to the Highlands, I took my father up to almost the extremity or our island to Thurso. The purpose of doing so was to mooch around portions of the Highland Railway north of Dingwall but also to drop in on Richard Doake. Richard is a fellow follower of the Highland Railway and has a rather nice layout depicting a pair of the Far North line’s more interesting stations; Helmsdale and Thurso.
Although Richard has sought to use a large degree of ready to run stock, most of the infrastructure on his model has been scrachbuilt so that it captures the Highland flavour. This includes signal boxes, goods sheds, water tanks and the like – the combined effect works as this is one of the most authentic feeling Highland layouts I have seen.
An overall view of the main part of Thurso.
The train shed is a…
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