LAYOUT | N | CHIEFTAIN PLACE
‘Chieftain Place’ is a rebuilt layout dedicated to the memory of my granddad, who first introduced me to live railways and was a talented engineer who worked in the agricultural machinery industry all his life, and in later years became a keen railway modeller. My own interest in railways stems from regular visits during school holidays with him to local heritage railways and the National Railway Museum in York – a particular favourite. I always took great interest in the interactive model railway they have on public display, spending considerable amounts of time watching engines disappear into tunnels.
When he retired, my granddad took up railway modelling, firstly with an O gauge layout built around the walls of a spare bedroom, which had a hinged hatch to gain entry, before moving to a 00 gauge layout in his shed. From the moment he introduced me to railway modelling, I was hooked and over the years we shared the hobby, creating multiple different layouts until I finally received my own layout one Christmas.
My first layout was N gauge, which was
