Firstly, thank you to all subscribers to the ‘Lowleigh’ videos. Your support and encouragement are most appreciated. Sadly, Lowleigh is no more. But I have incorporated as many as possible of the buildings and smaller models into my new layout ‘Ashcombe’. And some of my favourite old locos are still plying their trade albeit converted now to EM gauge.
Lowleigh was, of course, closely based on Highley, Arley and the railways and trains of the Severn Valley and thereabouts. Moving south, the lines radiating from Wells in Somerset are the inspiration for Ashcombe.
The new layout is longer than Lowleigh, offering wider perspectives but progress is slow. Instead of waiting for the layout to be...