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Originally built as a Modern Image layout for the 2007 RMWeb Challenge . The blog now also covers my other layout (the Boxfile),  wild ideas for new layouts and general reflections...

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Mercia Wagon Repair

Wagons Roll!

So - the wagon works layout project described here is now on. And very much as forshadowed in the subsequent comment.   Several things have pushed me into actually doing something. The first and most powerful is a problem that has developed with my right eye. Gloomy reflection suggested that if anything was to be done with the N gauge bits it had better be done quickly, whilst I was capable of it.    (I am glad to report that I saw the eye specialists yesterday, and they stat
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Counsels of Despair

Things have not been going particularly well for Mercia Wagon Repair recently. As a result I've become rather disheartened and I've been wondering whether I should in fact pull the plug on the project.   Issue number one can be seen here:   A key point, buried fairly deep in the track plan has broken up at the tie bar.   This is the second point to break up at the tie bar out of 7 points I've bought so far (The first large radius point disintegrated at the tie
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A Lot of Wiring For A Little Layout

The N gauge project is firmly analogue DC. This is because the core of the stock has been sitting in a drawer for nearly 15 years and none of the four locos concerned are "plug and play" DCC ready . Indeed the Farish 04 isn't DCC Ready at all and would be a real pig to convert. (I understand current production of the model will take a decoder)   Electrical wiring was long one of my blind spots. The wiring of Tramlink (Kent) consisted of a few bits of bell-wire and an on/off switch. Poi
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"Think Thrice, Measure Twice"

A fair amount of progress has been made with Mercia Wagon Repair over the last 6-8 weeks. However this has involved a number of revisions and minor tweaks.   The layout - or at least the "main line"  side of it , which was all that had been laid - had been test run  a few times. This amounted to running in a train behind a type 5, the loco running round and picking up a train of wagons waiting in the departure siding , then returning whence it came. The shunter would then shunt the inc
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"I can see clearly now the rain has gone..."

Things are looking up a bit for Mercia Wagon Repair, and the business seems to have escaped the liquidator's clutches.....   Two or three weeks ago I was feeling more than a little hopeless about the whole thing here , partly (if truth be known) for one or two reasons external to the layout. Although there were enough problems arising within the project to cause dispondency.   In the end after a certain amount of glum staring at N gauge points, I decided to see if  the second
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