10 min.
Building Leightonwood Part 1: A movable shelf layout series
Introduction
I have a very simple goal – I want to come home from work and run trains. I'm sure I'm not alone here. This has been my goal for many years, but it has required learning some hard lessons about time, space, and capacity.
As our living circumstances change, with more people living in apartments as opposed to houses, renting, or having to move house to follow work, there are many factors conspiring against having a dedicated space for a model railway.
In the past I've built a small shelf layout, Rozelle Street (featured in AMRM Issue 350, October 2021), which fitted perfectly into the single-bedroom apartment my wife and I were living in at the time. When we bought our family home, I figured that the time had…