The camera never lies :)
About thirty years ago I had a 'Saturday" job in specialist model railway retailer in Birmingham namely called Just Continental as simply they only sold at that time 'Just Continental", in fact to this day i still keep in contact with the owner who has moved on to other aspects of model retailing. At the time I was gradually building up a nice collection of French HO items and began to construct a small terminal station layout, unfortunately due to discovering 'females" the layout never got completed and i sold the finished four boards to Totally Trains in Ross on Wye.
At the time besides odd trips to France, Continental Modeller and the old Euro Model Rail magazine you were limited to a phone call to a fellow modeller to get advice on infrastructure and other railway methods used in continental Europe. 'God save the World Wide Web".
On construction of my SNCF layout I had it stuck in my head that as they drove on the right in France they must surely drive on the right on the railways too so duly placed working colour light signals on the layout accordingly, it was a later conversation with a member of the SNCF society that I discovered my mistake,,,. I didn't fancy up routing all the signals and filling in the baseboard holes where wires were meant to be cabled and asked, what he would do?. Well in the Alsace region they do run on the right as when the region became part of France after WW1 there were already railways operating to German right hand running so it was adopted for the region for the same reason as my HO blunder, infrastructure demanded it.
So with the construction of my Norwegian layout, I have the best information highway anybody could ever want, the internet, youtube is simply a god send for information, train formation, infrastructure, station and building architecture, everything, you can actually travel for five hours in the cab from Bergen to Oslo and this gives all information that I need, no expensive flight, books etc etc
Part one is here for your pleasure--
(P.S. my blog picture above is 'Dag H" the poster used on 3/9/67 when Sweden changed the rule of the road from left to right)
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