A shelf layout in the garden…
Visiting Larkrail this weekend wasn’t just an exhibition, it was a long weekend spent with my now, very good friend, Simon Castens. Beyond the day itself, and the help I could offer in preparation too, we enjoyed time chewing over modelling, discussing book ideas and clearing and playing with his lovely garden railway… Not your usual sort though, ‘ one ’ quite special. Gauge One is standard gauge on 45mm track. Simon uses finescale standards and DCC power, using Cliff Barker scratch-built bullhead track and is absolutely inspiring. Just as we find inside, real stations and run around loops take an awfully large amount of space. Simon’s current line centres around a junction between the LSWR, a fictional GWR branch and a light railway and quay, somewhere, dare I say it, in the West Country. The long turnouts and gentle curves of the main and branch are rather lovely to behold, even without a train… The quayside features a fearsome gradient down from the junction (all good fun) with some...
