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    Unfortunately, as you rightly perceived, the lack of real estate has forced the O gauge layout to the back. It would be completely unworkable the other way around... (It was fun for a short while, having a loco of each gauge (O, OO & N) going round and round in sync for a circuit or two. Parent, child and dog all going for a walk together :) . Another idea I had that adds emphasis to your excellent suggestion of back scenes, was to elevate the O gauge layout anywhere from 6" to 12 " or so - ( I am not Yet sure what the optimum height for operation would be, but it will probably be determined by access to the electrical panel).

    Then a back scene could be permanently applied that would then work for the OO/OO9 - H0/H0e arrangements.. I am sure the answer lies somewhere in a novel application of the Droste Cocoa Tin effect...

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    Thanks for the advice... It would however have taken a lot of extra work but in the end produced a lovely result with 1 in 48 slopes... At this stage I am leaving OO modelling behind and going for O gauge which I somehow get more enjoyment from. This ramp was a last Hurrah! - and I shall now give it away to some deserving cause...

     

    There are now about 20 Large plastic containers of OO gauge stock to dispose of - mostly British Railways circa 1950's and 1960's. With some modern container freight, nuclear flasks, DRS and Network rail diesels etc., to represent the modern era.

     

    The big obstacle is that I live in Canada and they are all into American style modelling over here. And no one in the UK in their right mind would pay the freight to buy any of it...  

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    Paul - thanks for the encouragement. I wish I could say I built the locos :) The pannier is RTR from Lionheart Trains and excellent value it is too - the Prairie and The Saddle tank came ready painted from Tower. They are all very nice runners, not that they do that much running on a 12 foot layout... In my view the 45XX prairie was the most beautiful tank engine ever built. Whoever designed it loved engines and got the proportions just right. Though I am pretty sure not all would agree....

    I would encourage anyone to try out a small O gauge layout - It s quite a revelation to do so..

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    The two things that jumped out from your picture to me was driving on the wrong side of the road and having the starter signal in advance of the gates. (But no doubt there were exceptions to that general rule as well!)

    Thanks for your very useful comments - I guess I have been living too long on the wrong side of the pond (that and all the codeine in my system from my last root canal) - The cars do need to revert to UK driving rules. And that's really helpful about the signal - it felt as though it was in the wrong place but I could not quite put my finger on it... And with a little bit of tinkering the level Xing could be made to look a bit more like the Bronwydd Arms version... Maybe I should get another Peco Kit and start from scratch - unless someone else makes a GWR 7mm level Xing kit?

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    Thanks for the help - border miniatures has some very alive and realistic models, I shall be getting some from them.

     

    With regard to the backscene - thanks for the advice - maybe a simple plain light sky blue background is all it needs?

     

    It could be one of those many stations planted in the middle of the fields miles from any settlement... Its worth thinking about and it would make life a lot simpler.

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    Thanks Don - that should work out well

     

    So -Thanks for all the help fellas!

     

    I have bit the bullet and a double slip should be arriving in the next two weeks from somewhere near Liverpool...

     

    ...What is driving me sleepless is how to wire it up? - a little experimentation with it when it has arrived will hopefully sort it out...

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    Hugh Flynn - thank you for your efforts in redesigning the proposed layout - it makes a lot more sense. It makes the whole work together. I suppose it now becomes a branch line terminus...

     

    The double slip (I knew working in 'O' gauge was going to bankrupt me!) makes for a better economy of space... Now where did I put that link on how to wire up a double slip?

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    Thanks for your encouraging views...I was raised in the home counties and immersed in all things SR from birth and have a great fondness British Railways in the 50's and odd places like Three Bridges Station...In my school years I travelled each day from Guildford to Woking on the old 2 Bils and 4 Cors - and I wish someone like Bachmann would hurry up and make a model of each soon - I know they can do it! ...And of course many a lunch hour was spent watching the Bournemouth Belle as it thundered through the station, an impressive sight for a young mind, as well as noting and being amazed by the evolution from Spam Cans to rebuilt Bulleids .

     

    Other memorable railway times were spent visiting London, travelling to Brighton on the Brighton Belle with my grandfather or going to see relatives in the West country. Now throw in a life time fascination with the London Underground as well as great times as a young adult riding the North London line EPBs or travelling north to Newark and Hull from Kings Cross ( always on a sunday when track maintenace work slowed everything down or diverted the trains through Lincoln on the Sleaford loop) and it kind of explains the feelings and atmospheres I am trying to evoke with one layout.

     

    What better way to enjoy one's retirement years?

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