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even so, a track frame in newcastle is likely to go for a lots less than in London despite being harder to find.
it's much easier to simply find a bicycle that fit you, road bike since they're more readily available, sort it out and ride it until you found a suitable track frame and change the part over, it's the best way to go and allowed you to take your time in finding a track frame in the right size as oppose to quickly buying a bargain that's likely to be too big or small for you.
in London (especially), trying to find a decent track bike for £200 is regarded as being above your station, a decent one usually fetch twice that in the 2nd hand market (as in proper track 531 frame, not those OTP one), it's usually conversion (road bicycle converted to fixed) that tend to fetch that much, even more.
£200 is far too optimistic for the Londoners, hence the 'lazy' comment that's uttered by mikey, but in the north of England, I don't doubt that you can find a decent track bike for that much, even less.
but then, I hasn't been to the north of England in years.