I've got running trains already! Space for four short vans/wagons, and a place for them to come from and go to. All I need now is to arrange the narrow gauge bit and I'll be ready to start ballast and inlaid bits.

Photographs show the final (for now) track plan. Any weaknesses or improvements people can think of would be kindest now rather than when I've started the scenic bits. I'm hoping to be able to add to each end if need be, but for now I'll be having like a boxed in yard with buildings around it.

This is most unusual, being happy with a small layout. I'm normally best off with full length trains going fast, I suppose because at my mum's house I had an outbuilding where I ran 20 coach expresses and 70 wagon freights. Those old tender drives were quite strong... Still, once I've honed my scenery on this one, I'll be looking to expand the basement layout all round the edges. That will be good. Just got to work out why I've got late Big-Four/Early British Railways and catenary. Somewhere around Manchester, I reckon, with a bit of regional strangeness (I'm mainly LMS/LMR and GWR/WR). Or Crewe got wired early? Perhaps Crewe-Birkenhead became the way to go and that got wired early too? It's my railway and I'll justify it if I like it!