LAYOUT | 00/009 | LOWER HANWORTH
It all started because my son and I enjoy kit building and scratch-building of locomotives and stock, but as we only had an existing endto-end layout (‘Spilsby GNR’), we were limited in trying them out, so we concluded that we needed a circular test track. Because space was limited, we decided that the baseboard would comprise of a couple of 4ft × 3ft boards with just a single circular 00 track, but this was soon followed by a dual track.
As we had also been collecting some 009 narrow gauge locomotives and stock with a future layout in mind, we then thought it would be a good idea to add some 009 track. This required scenery building as
