I planned to model a larger station on the line, but did not want to compress any of the track plan so settling for one of the smaller stations (although one with plenty of goods traffic) made for a much better option. The only wall longer than 10' in our house is in the living room and that is out of bounds for model trains. On top of this I have a small car, and if the layout was going to be portable then it had to be compact.

I took the track plan from a map in a book and increased the size until the platform matched the length quoted in the text. I also checked that the station building was about the right size based on the elevation and plans available from the same source.

I measured up the boot carpet from the car and worked out what would fit comparing to the plan. The prototype is on a curve and that has helped with fitting things in, but I still ended up with about 10% shrinkage from the prototype. I figured that this would go un-noticed.

The baseboards are from ply of varying thickness. Most is either 3mm or 9mm with the track bed being 18mm (I think). The latter was cut from the reinforced parcel shelf that I built for my first car, aged 21, to house speakers. It has been knocking around for several years since and finally been put to good use. Shown below are the finished main boards with the track bed laid on.

The idea is that the boards will not have any removable or detachable parts, travelling easily in one piece, without being to heavy and fold out transformer style. Two pictures below show the boards in their folded and unfolded state.

The legs need some further bracing yet, and the catches and closures all need to be added. For the time being though attention has turned to other parts what with the reducing temperature and daylight.