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Construction of a new layout in 4mm scale, OO-SF gauge, inspired by the City Widened Lines, in particular Farringdon Station/Goods, Moorgate, Smithfields Goods and Vine St (Met) Goods.  It's a loose representation in a very minimalistic space but will be used to host some operations based running as well as being the place to run all of the loco's I hope to build.

 

The space is a 10'x4' L-shape viewed from the outside of the corner, with a fiddle yard across a window at the opposite end, that is around a further corner (viewed from inside).  It's minimal, it's ambitious, it's all I'm going to have as the wife and I are hoping to never move again...

 

The main focus will be the running of LNER, LMS and SR (SECR) equipment, into and out of a terminus station based on the suburban platforms at Moorgate, with a Farringdon/Smithfield's inspired goods facility below.  There is also a planned representation of the Metropolitan Railway's Vine Street goods depot, but I don't intend to operate any Met coaching stock at this stage as there seems to be a significant premium on any models of it, certainly more than I am prepared to invest at this stage.

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Real Estate

Surveying the land (in photo's)...

I have taken photos of the layout space.  It is still under construction and the outriggers that are sticking out show where there will be a slight horizontal increase in the real estate of the layout.   The door... is to a cupboard that is rarely used.  We have every intention of clearing out the cupboard and re-arranging the internal storage to pack more in and get rid of what we don't need, but we don't intend to access the cupboard very often.  The outriggers lie at the ends of the
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Change of focus.

Shift target. Shift target. Shift target

As I have had nothing but time to think about how I want my layout to look, whilst my mother-in-law has occupied the spare room over the festive period (and hence hindered access to the layout), I have moved my goal posts.  In fact I have move the whole layout just outside of the scope of the widened lines and started to focus on Holborn Viaduct and Blackfriars goods, moving out of joint LNER/LMS (or BR Eastern and Midland regions dependant on the timeframe I settle upon) and into Southern terri
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Another false start!

Hand built track options?

I have purchased two sets of the C&L Finescale point kits, the 'just the plastic bits' versions.  I think I need to get in touch with Phil at C&L as I couldn't see any slide chairs nor were there any instructions (which I was expecting) before I really get cracking, but tonight I set about making a point using a template printed from templot.  I must admit, I have never done this before and my immediate response to not seeing some of what I expected was to flee back to the idea of making
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