peeling back the layers...
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Afternoon all,
Firstly, many thanks for all your interest and kind comments regarding this project - that helped me realise that it is indeed a goer...once of course matters Thurso are dealt with.
That doesn't mean I can't tinker around with it mean time though 
especially as I really enjoy the research period for a new project.
It's quite difficult to source photos of the line off the Internet, many being the rail tours at the end however a couple of book purchases have been made and these arrived yesterday which revealed new information to me.
I never realised that the siding in fact was a loop which now explains why a class 31 was sitting at one end which I thought was land locked. This is good news as it increases operational interest as I can have clay trains emerging through the building structure rather than just the main line.
I had initially placed the shed tight to the fascia as a view blocker but it now means this can be a separate additional road on that Fiddleyard. I am guessing that they never actually ran onwards from here so the opposite Fiddleyard may just be a single road to allow run off beyond the turnout and reversing. At once stage there was quite an intense Narrow Gauge network adjoining it...but this remains outside my era and scope of interest.
I also did some sketching to think about the Fiddleyard designs. As I mentioned before I think I might make two separate ones and hinge them so they can fold around and protect the front of the layout during transit. It also means I can incorporate a couple of viewing slots into them as per KoL to give a sneak inside to avoid rubber necking 
My initial first sketch before the mock up assumed I had more space and that the turnout could be halfway down the display - how wrong that was! So glad I mapped out the physical dimensions to lay it out with the rolling stock.
Construction of the baseboards and fascia will be in 3mm ply so I might start to draw that in CAD and get the pieces printed one night at work.
It looks like I now have an opportunity to buy the new Farish 25 as when CJM was scrapped, attention has been on matters Scottish for a while. This of course will be sound chipped to enhance what will be a simplistic layout. Then there's a class 31...and other variants of 25's that worked the line 
Who said you only need one loco for a small layout
Pete
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