Pondering on layout plans!
Time has come to start finalising plans for the "Great Railway Project." After numerous drafts and ambitious schemes, that never had any chance of ever being completed, I'm going to settle on something that endeavours to fill the following wish list.
Layout Requirements list
- Great Western Railway circa 1907
- 7mm to the foot O gauge finescale
- Hand built track/pointwork to a minimum radius of 6 foot
- Branch line terminus
- Station platform facing viewing side
- Small goods yard with goods shed and cattle dock
- Engine shed
- Private siding leading to an off stage industry of some kind, Creamery, Brickworks,Brewery etc
- Not more than 18 feet long, including fiddle yard
- Sufficient width of base boards to allow decent scenic development.
- Sectional baseboards, enabling layout to be transported to exhibitions
- Elliptical layout design, with curved back scene avoiding any 90 degree angles
I need a small fiddle yard area on the right side of the plan, to act as an off stage feed for the private siding. This only needs to be long enough for a small industrial loco, plus a couple of wagons.
I like the idea of trains disappearing and reappearing from under the road bridge during shunting manoeuvres in the goods yard.
I like the idea of the back scene extending around the ends to form a proscenium arch view blocker.
I'd like some water in the foreground, lots of reeds, bull rushes and maybe a 7mm to the foot Weeping Willow!
This is the result of a number of doodles, that I quite like!
Key to plan
C D - Cattle Dock
G S - Goods Shed
S B - Station Building
E S - Engine Shed
I need to spend time finalising the fiddle yard area, I'm not sure whether to use a traverser, cassettes or some kind of pivoting system. Once a larger scale drawing has been made, I'm hoping it will be easier to sort this out more clearly in my mind.
I'd appreciate your thoughts and input guys! On looking at the plan again, I guess I should consider puting some kind of trap to protect the main line from the loop. Changing the front left most point into a double slip would work, but would the GWR have used this formation in this situation.
Edited by wenlock
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