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  1. It doesn't really resemble the prototype in any way. The electrics will be a challenge for a newbie, especially if it's DC. Everything seems to run through that one double slip in the middle of the plan. Relying on everything running smoothly through a double slip is... ...brave.
  2. It doesn't look much like 1971 Cambridge. Rather, it looks somewhat like Cambridge after the island platform was added in 2011.
  3. People are telling you to apply the KISS principle - keep it simple, because quite frankly, they don't think you'll finish it. Forget about "getting it 99% right" -- you're headed towards about 20%, and it won't work. Consider getting some help. There might be another retired bloke who lives near you with an interest but not enough space of his own who is able to help and become your mate. Or, as you seem to have enough cash, and there are guys who can help you, e.g. Professional Layout Services - professional model railway design and construction. Model railway and train set manufacturers. (http://www.pls-layouts.co.uk) You've been told that grades in N are not desirable. The light weight of N gauge stock means they struggle to climb grades. Remember that when reducing the scale, you're reducing in three dimensions, so it decreases as the cube root of the ratio size. N is a lot worse than 00. This is why modellers are always trying to get weight into anywhere they can. It would also put the fiddle yard in an inconvenient location, under the main board. You're going to try to build it, but then discover it doesn't work. You've got enough space to allocate 5 feet or so off the 20ft where you have the "branch line station" on the above plan. Double track on the rest, rather than quad, to keep it simpler, and you've got quite an extensive run to run your Deltics and Mk 2s. Consider first building a 1-2 baseboards, with temporary fiddle yards at each end. So you can get something up and running. It doesn't matter that it won't take up the whole footprint of the shed. That can come later.
  4. I still think a short lift-out section over the door would be better than having it go back on yourself. It only has to be 4 cm wide, hinged at one end, and the length of a person. Also, think about the location of the door or doors. Is the door definitely going to be located in the middle of one of the long sides, or do you offset it to one side? The ECML is partly double track, partly triple track, and partly quadruple track. And it's very long, with different characteristics in different places. Some of it is very flat and would require minimal baseboard work. Other bits aren't. Where exactly on this 400 mile long line is it going to be set? Another question is how many tracks do you need?
  5. The goods yard would usually have a horse for this task, which could quite easily handle a single wagon. The wagons would be hauled into the shed, unloaded, and then hauled out the other end, so the next one could be fed through. There are probably some stables on the original plan somewhere if you look closer.
  6. Roundy-roundy round the outside with a lifting flap bridge, two-foot wide open frame baseboards, double track, 4 foot minimum visible radius, Settle-Carlisle theme, Metcalfe buildings, lots of scenery, a viaduct and a few sheep,
  7. The ElectroTren 0-6-0 chassis is good, small, modern choice, available with outside cylinders. It does have rather large flanges, however, and is not super cheap.
  8. I think it needs something on the underframe between the bogies to make it look right.
  9. An LMS 4F 0-6-0. Bachmann have the chassis for the Midland version. 575 LMS 4Fs were built and worked across the LMS system, but only 197 Midland ones, which were mostly restricted to ex-Midland Railway territory.
  10. The loop at Damens starts about 200 yards up the line from Damens station.
  11. It's patterned after my alternative suggestion 2 with a single bidi line down the middle. Roads 1-4 are clockwise only. Road 5 is bidirectional. Roads 6-9 are anticlockwise only. At the risk of repeating myself: This is absolutely fine if you're mostly happy with trains continuing in the same direction and only occasionally reversing them. But the track spacing at the start of the yard is too wide.
  12. You've got two facing points off the main line into the goods yard. Don't use set-track Consider single track. You don't have a lot of room. If you do stick with double track, remove the facing points.
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