Big! I like the ideas, but the space required is frightening.

 

Then again, I want to do a tailchaser layout (I get really annoyed by units that have headcodes at the back - but maybe that's just me), and even for a limited selection of more recent West Coastway trains and only 4 car units I'm still going to end up with at least 12 feet of length (to hold enough different units in the storage), maybe more if they won't go round the trainset curves I plan to use. So, if you can handle that size, may the volts be with you - when push comes to shove I'd much rather see more southern electric and avert my eyes from the rear views.

 

Thanks Ken

I agree about headcodes, something we will need to address carefully. There was a topic on the old site about working roller blinds in 4mm but I'm not sure we will go to quite those lengths.

Obviously with a total scenic length of around 25-30ft and 12ft fiddle yards each end (if we want decent length trains) it's not going to be permanently housed anywhere and may only come out in full at exhibition - assuming we get that far!

Intriguing. I had a ramble past the viaduct a few years ago - you could climb up into the central arches and look down the middle of the whole thing - its an incredible structure. The valley drops a great deal more than it does on your 'found' version but I think with the extra fiddly bits it should pass muster. Go south from here and you can make your fiddle yard entry look like the junction at Copyhold! If you are going for a site visit you must use the footpath over the line just south of Balcombe and if you walk north from the viaduct on the east side of the line [another footpath I believe] you can just make out an intermediate signal box or certainly the remains of from the first overbridge... Depending on the time of year you model it you may have to take shares out in etched bracken.