A while back my old model rail stuff from when I was younger was retrieved from my parents loft and brought home much to the disgust of my other half who declared that she didn't really fancy me building a layout on the dining room table and the spare room was apparently for guests so the box of bits were banished to the shed.
About that time I'd acquired an IKEA wardrobe from a friend which I was planning to use for storage in my shed however I didn't realise it was 8ft tall and definitely wouldn't fit.
It wasn't long before I figured out what to do with the wardrobe sections! :)
Originally I planned to make an 'L' shaped layout running along the back and left hand walls of the shed (12ft x 8ft ish) forming a fiddle yard and terminus station. After watching videos on YouTube with trains running at speed past each other I decided that a round and round layout was what I wanted even though that meant creating a section that could be removed / lifted to gain access.
As you can see, I couldn't resist laying a bit of track down and running something :)
The piece over the door was the last bit of baseboard to be completed.
After doing some test running it was obvious my existing 30 year plus old track was past its best so a trip last weekend to a local model railway specialist saw me returning with shiny things
A mixture of Peco flexible track for the straight(ish) bits and Hornby 3rd and 4th radius curves for the bends :)
Finally last night I was able to complete the fold-up section over the door so hopefully I can start getting track semi-fixed down this evening so I can at least run some trains around until I figure out the plan for the layout.
