My Model Railway - Atkinston

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Michael
NER Y7 0-4-0T
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My Model Railway - Atkinston

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Hi, I'm new here, and am inspired to base my model railway on the fantastic LNER. Shots of my model railway are here http://michaels-railway-photos.fotopic.net/. I am still a British Railways fan, but I am really starting to love the LNER. Flying Scotsman has always been my favourite locomotive, and it has really made me want to have the LNER more represented on my layout. I am deffinitly going to get Hornby's new Mallard, possibly Great Northern and a V2. I will still have BR steam represented, just not as much :) Any suggestions?
124...125...Then we did it, 126 miles per hour!
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richard
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Post by richard »

Welcome the forums Michael!

The LNER tends to be more famous for the larger engines such as the Pacifics.

With the smaller curves that your layout has, I think the smaller engines might look better. I'm not sure exactly what is available from Hornby for LNER, but some options are the N2 0-6-2T (suburban services out of London, etc); the J83 (A Scottish 0-6-0), and I think Bachmann do a V1/V3 (2-6-2T - branchline and suburban types of work).

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Bullhead
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Post by Bullhead »

Hi Michael, and welcome. Your model railway reminds me of my first layout, and I hope it brings you as much pleasure as mine did to me. Now, perhaps 35 years later, I still have the bug!
So - did anyone dare tell Stephenson, "It's not Rocket science"?
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