François Fontana: Hallo Thomas, this layout is a family story, so tell us how it started.
At first, we advised my mother to opt for reasonable dimensions, as space wasneededtoaccommodate the layout. We left it up to her to imagine the scenery: she drew the outline of a pond, of a clump of trees, a stretch of path leading to a future station, a field... and two bridges. To give all this some meaning, more track