Ian XC

Is there a tutorial or anything for Anyrail? I've come up against exactly bthe problem I had the last time I tried to use one of these programmes, I can never get anything to line up and lie where I want it to be!

@Chimer the 'bath' at the bottom left of my diagram is what I was describing as the cross section of the baseboard supporting frame. I'm anticipating being able to make a series of those to sit on top of the bookcase, with the wider side being the cantilevered out baseboard. Thanks for the drawing - yes my sketch wasn't exactly to scale was it! @Flying Pig what I meant was more, that would change the dynamics of that corner, and also that I'm not really sure how far I can cantilever out while avoiding supporting legs in front of the furniture! @DavidCBroad thanks for the concept drawings, I rather like them. Yes Hull does indeed have a very distinct curve on platforms 6 and 7 outside the trainshed. The others are shorter and straight so trimming the other 2 back could get this over quite nicely. I guess a 4 car Azuma might sit quite nicely round the bend in the platform and look quite prototypical for the location. Time to have another play with Anyrail I think! thanks

Thanks for the thoughts so far. The bookcases and the drawers are almost exactly the same height so no worries from that perspective. What I perhaps didn't get across very well is that the measurements I've shown are the furniture, I figure I can increase the depths into the room (down and left) by perhaps as much as 50%(?) I've not had a go with that software so that will be next! Thanks again

Hi all I'm looking for some thoughts on narrowing down the choices I face in starting a new layout - the first one I've had since being about 15. I'm intending to model in 00. I've attached the space I have available, it runs along the top of some book cases and the top of some chests of drawers. I'm assuming I can have a baseboard a little larger than that by cantilevering out using a structure made up of the cross section in the bottom left to fit over the furniture, I'm guessing the top surface could go out by about a third? In terms of the actual content most of the ideas I've had are some kind of alternate reality: Hull - Hessle, to include some portion of Paragon station, potentially Botanic Gardens, the Selby Street area and Hessle foreshore. I'm thinking it'd be a case of 5 car trains being maximum, but even then I'm not sure whether I really have enough space. Selby, based on the diversion never having been built and the ECML running through today, maybe also including a stabling location for local trains. I'm not sure how to make the 2 diverging routes at either end (Doncaster/Leeds at the west and Hull/York at the east), clearly the drawers end could have these lines separating and passing through a scenic break into a fiddle yard over the drawers area, but how to make the other end work I just can't think. York - Beverley, based on the line never having closed, or having reopened. Potentially modelling the platform 2 area of York station and some of the intermediates. I'm a bit concerned there wouldn't be much operating interest on this. I'm very much open to other ideas or amendments but I think you'll probably get an idea of the kind of thing I'm looking for. Thoughts and observations gratefully received! thanks Ian