I started in O-14, built a bit, found friends with O-16.5 and I've converted most of the O-14 to O-16.5. Somethings matter more than 2.5 mm.

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As regards Lionheart L&B, I find it odd that they should pick a prototype totally isolated, notorious in modelling circles for the difficulty of getting scale locos round less than scale curves. Surely one of the more well known lines, FR or WHR and associated if not directly connected slate quarry railways has to be a more commercial market. Often modellers are short of space, L&B coaches are long. I'd have thought a few quarry Hunslets and a few slate wagons could be made into an interesting layout on a board that would fit in the back of an estate car. You have the option of going up several levels.

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Frank