Oldest Operational 009 Layout

[B.Meldon]

So it looks like apart from the 1967 pre-formed Jouef layouts Peter Dale has the oldest so far.

So any advance on August 1972

[Malcolm]

The questions that both Pitztalbahn and Roy

[tebee]

Still in existence, but not operational is my 1971 ELR exhibition layout - well threequarters  of it at least, it had 2ft chopped off the end to fit into a car when I was moving once. It dates back even earlier than that but not as a OO9 layout. In its varied life it used to be an Part of our N gauge club layout and before that someone's model of Crianlarich lower ! It later got incorporated into a larger home layout.

All the original coach still survive plus most of the original goods stock, but the original locos were mostly wrecked in an accident returning from an exhibition.

I've been thinking about reviving it, but it's stashed in someone's cellar back in the UK - the trip back to collect it would probably cost as much as building it from scratch in new, better materials.

Tom