This is an edited summary of my thread from the old RMWeb. Progress has been slow over the summer so let's start with the initial steps in September last year (wow! I did't realise it had taken me a year to get to where I am today .... how embarrassing).

So the history ..... after four false starts (OO, N, Japanese N, OO) and 30 years since I possessed an actual model railway I finally put four baseboards together and roughly concluded on a track plan. The final layout has ended up as 16ft x about 4ft. No specific prototype in mind but will be south of the country rather than north and in BR Blue-ish (and green if Bachmann ever produce the CEP) with occasional steam excursions. Maybe eventually I'll have the skill and patience to add the third rail.

This is the original track layout

Which very quickly adapted into this

The station will be partly hidden under a road overbridge so I can have longer trains than I have the platform space for. The other two tracks will be for "slower" trains maybe DMUs. In the far corner are carriage sidings and small loco depot so I need the diamond crossings to provide access to this. Reversing from the w/b slow to the e/b slow is also possible. I guess you might say I'm trying to squeeze too much in.