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The next stage of the design process was to decide how the layout would look. The real location has a pair of cottages backing on the railway, but I've moved them closer, modeller's licence and all that. BUT there is only room to model them in half relief. The fascia will form the back of the them.
The other side of the station site there is a small wood, but I've found it necessary to move them closer to the station to squeeze them in. The line at this point does go around a sha
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The diagram below is the same track layout as the final photograph in my first post.
From the Settrack layout, to a design which forms the basis of a convincing model railway is a complex process. When flexible track replaces Settrack this gives the ability to make loops and sidings the correct distance apart, in this case closer together.
The diagram below is the final track plan, which is designed to be smaller, but still to have the model railway look, rather than the toy train s
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This is a blog which follows the development of my first attempt to build a N gauge layout. I am a very non computer person, so I have asked trainmadlisa to assist me do the blog thing.
Below are some photographs of the of the track from an N gauge starter set with an extra point and some extra short straight and some extra short radius 1 curves too. The track was set up on my kitchen table, to get an idea of the space required.
The photograph below was added to the ent
