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Single Board Layout Musings...

bmthtrains - David

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With no major (announced) N gauge locos/units on my shopping list due for some time (222 due November, and although the Dapol Pacer and 86 would be nice, I'm still not buying given my experiences), and Ring Road only needing some new facias ready for show next year, my 'what to do' list is getting rather long.

 

I've got ideas in play for various layouts - from the DLR to HS2, OO depots, OO model of Weymouth, and on it goes. What is certainly appealing for me at the moment is layout that is much smaller, and on 1 board.

 

Why? Well, Ring Road takes up a lot of room, and I'd like something 'instant' that can just be put on the dining table, and left there without filling up the entire room! I would definately 'play trains' more often on a smaller layout, but it would obviously not be as satisfying from a scenic point of view.

 

So, my thoughts...

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Here is a decent size board - 5 feet by 2 feet 9. By using the 'siding' storage yard approach, I can get 8 trains (admitedly far shorter than on Ring Road!) stored up, with a decent sized scenic section. While I can fit a 5 coach train (say a 66 with some intermodal wagons) in the longer sidings, to reverse back into its siding, the nose of the train would have to run onto the scenic section, which means if I don't want this visible, the actual visible track area would have to be defined by the two red lines.

 

This does reduce the visible running area, but would hide some tight curves. I'm not sure which I would go for, but if I think about it, if I'm running a train back into its siding, I'm going to be watching the storage yard anyway, so if it runs onto the scenic side, it won't matter!

 

Now I know its possible to fit all this in, I need to think what I would model! There's plenty of room for a depot, or a station, or a yard...or all of them! As I don't have a station on Ring Road, I'm leaning towards having one here, so I need to look at photos for inspiration.

 

David

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ste234

Looks like a decent plan :)

For the station why not try an island type, havn't seen these modelled very often, though i could be wrong!

Is it going to be more of a mainline or branchline?

Ste

 

 

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HeavyDuty

A very timely posting... our club exhibited at a local show today which has inspired me to look again at a simple N exhibition layout. I've been trying to come up with something that would fit on a single board, that would have a very simple sceniced portion (just two tracks running through the countryside, just like this) but with staging for numerous trains without handling.

 

A suggestion - curved crossovers hidden past the red lines would allow you to "self restage" by running from one staging yard to the other. And I very much prefer your concept with the visible portion cropped at the red lines!

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