LITTLE SALKELD
In 2013, I returned to the hobby after a break of nearly 30 years and soon decided to get going with a new layout. Pretty much everything has been a learning curve for me and, at each stage, from start to finish, needed to be thought out carefully before starting work.
The choice of prototype to model was strongly influenced by my interest in the Lake District and the Settle & Carlisle line. During the early 1960s period, where steam locomotives were in their final years, various classes of new green diesel locomotives were appearing and a mixture of coach branding, together with ageing freight stock, all provided lots of opportunity to create an interesting layout. ‘Little Salkeld’ was selected as it has a through track layout together with a simple yard design and a refuge siding allowing a mix of train formations to be run.
Another source of inspiration for me was the well-known EM gauge layout ‘Black Country Blues’, which appears to provide a viewing window on a
