Having spend quite a while wandering the forum looking for ideas and inspiration, I have now made a start on a layout of my own. The main inspiration came from "Makers Mark Distillery" (http://gn15.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6313) with a bit of "Upton Whent"

My plan is to model part of a Scottish Distillery with the classic white-washed stone buildings. I know that many of the Scottish distilleries had standard gauge railway lines but I thought narrow gauge might be a bit far fetched - but I was wrong! Talisker distillery on the Isle of Skye had a 2-foot gauge line from the pier to the distillery which was horse drawn and later used a tractor. I may extend this layout at some point to include the pier as a destination - there are some good photos of the track remains on the pier here : http://hlrco.wordpress.com/scottish-narrow-gauge/constructed-lines/talisker-distillery-tramway/
As you may spot from the image above and from the name, there will be a certain amount of fantasy with references to Terry Pratchett's Discworld books including the Nac Mac Feegles and at least one swamp dragon.
Andy
