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The following is a simple guide to help you build your first Hornby TT:120 model railway. Within this guide you will find an array of advice and top tips gathered from Hornby and its loyal customers since its creation back in 1920.

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• Firstly, are you building the layout for you or someone younger, or maybe it is for the whole family?
• Secondly, what type of layout do you want?
  • Do you fancy a layout that centres on steam and historical locomotives?
  • Or something more modern featuring models of the latest freight or passenger trains?
  • Or, would you prefer to have a layout that caters for all genres and types, after all, it is your layout and purely your decision alone as to what you run on it.

Whatever the case, take some time to explore Hornby TT:120 and get a feel for what is already available and what will soon be arriving.

Having thought about what type of layout you wish to construct, now is the time to ask yourself a few more relevant questions:

• Are you the type of person who enjoys building things?
• Do you want the layout to tell a story or create a particular time and place; a snapshot in time so to speak?
• Or is it that you like to learn new things for yourself or as a teaching aid for your children or grandchildren?
• Maybe you want to use a model railway as a stress release after a hard day’s work - you would certainly not be alone, there are many people who use their model railway to ‘lose’ themselves and de-stress after a busy day. Whatever you wish, do think things through and contemplate how you would like your layout to be.