Gailston - a little mentioned layout of mine!

I talk a lot about several model railway layouts of mine, My Last Great Project in 00 gauge, Chalkdon in 009 gauge and the USA Switching layout in H0 scale which ahs yet to be named. There are however other layouts which hardly or have never featured on this blog. One which has had mention but not a great deal, is Gailston, my 00 gauge terminus to fiddle yard layout. As with most of my projects, it is yet to be finished despite being started nearly 25 years ago but it does work and I do enjoy running passenger and freight trains in and out of the station with some shunting and run rounds being part of the process - very therapeutic especially when the Man Cave is cold!

It is 9 feet long which is the scenic part.

And another seven feet long at right angles to the scenic board and this is a five road fiddle yard.

I will come back to looking at Gailston in a bit more detail in future posts but here area few closer up images.

Its a blue day!

It may not have been a blue sky outside, but inside WMD HQ it was a blue day on my 00 gauge terminus layout. Whilst my railway interests are broad and I will run old steam next to current day locomotives and anything in-between on my Last Great Project layout, I was struck by just how focused I actually am on the so called 'Corporate Blue' era of British Railways back in the 1970s and 60s. Whilst filming a YouTube video yesterday of the layout, I noted whilst editing it that everything rollingstock wise dated to the 70s/80s in era. Most strange and something I had not really noticed myself until that editing! Thinking about it, I guess those where my early years of being interested in real railways, so there is probably some sub-conscious thinking going on! Anyway at the moment I cannot get too much blue so this photo from today shows just some of the 'Corporate Blue' rolling stock that I have on this layout. There is just something about it all that blue......

Gailston - My 00 gauge terminus layout.

A bit of a dreary start to the day with mist and general gloom so I brighten things up for myself by doing a YouTube video of Gailston my 00 gauge terminus layout. A six month project that is still not finished after 25 years! Story of my life! Anyway, here are a few pics and the link to the video is below them and live once it has fully uploaded later tonight!