Roundy Roundy OO Test Layout - Potteries Loop Line

[Darius43]

The idea sprung from the purchase of an OO gauge double track helix a couple of years ago from a friend who was converting from OO to O gauge. The helix came ready mounted on a baseboard with legs.

 

The helix is to be used on a 30ft by 10ft layout that another friend and I are to start building in a shed at the bottom of his garden and has been dismantled ready for later reconstruction in said shed.

 

This leaves me with a pre-fab baseboard 1.66m (5.4ft) x 1.275m (4.18ft) which breaks down into four pieces and is currently residing in the entrance to my flat. In an idle moment yesterday I wondered if I could use it as the basis for a roundy roundy test layout...

 

Here is the baseboard clipped together (minus legs) on the living room floor.

 

 

 

Cheers

 

Darius

Edited April 25, 2018 by Darius43

[Darius43]

Starting to get enthusiastic I started to draft out some plans using Sketchup. I used to live in the Potteries in the 1970s (Newcastle-under-Lyme) and have always been interested in the local railways. One of my earliest memories is seeing a small industrial steam loco shunting on the Pool Dam branch.

 

The current plans are loosely based on Hanley station on the long gone Potteries Loop line.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers

 

Darius

Edited April 25, 2018 by Darius43