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. This is finescale Gauge one, DCC powered on Cliff Barker kit and 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…