On 10 February 2020 our house had an electrical fire during which my model railway was destroyed. The layout was a write off and the house suffered considerable structural and smoke damage but has since been rebuilt.
This article aims to outline how the model railway fared in the fire and provide some information about dealing with insurance and builders. A future article will outline the building of a new layout.
The layout occupied a room about 12m × 3.6m. It was double decked with the lower level being mostly staging and created a return for continuous operation. Operation was by DCC with manual point operation. Locomotives and rolling stock consisted of items from every manufacturer in every type of material.
There were six stations on the
