witherbrow

it looks great to me I used to love catching views of the plant when I rode by on my bike or the train. coincidently my Grandad used to work there too, he used to bore the piston holes in the engines plus he did a few cosworth engines too

afternoon all building on a comment from the previous entry I've added another siding to the plan, just to see what it looks like mind as I fear I may be filling the board with track. I imagine this being a private siding for the local brickies/cement yard maybe even for the towns prize cattle? I feel I have the track plan near enough sorted, baseboard plans are done and permission from SWMBO has been obtained. All I need to do is finalize this plan and set a location/theme for the layout then I can crack on Any opinions on this plan are most welcome As you can see the extra siding is down to the right hand corner, it would add another shunting move and require a run around the wagons. I imagine it to be fenced off from the rest of the railway as it's privately owned Regards - LB

definitely doable I will do a few test plans and see how the space works out, poss a low relief warehouse could be incorporated and help the hide the fiddle siding

Afternoon all I've been jiggering about with the track plan seeing what I can do to it in the space I have. Looking at my spare room 4FT by 4FT may just be over the limit on what I can do with the space in there. It's still a do-able plan but I've been looking into an alternative and I think I may have it in the form of 5ft by 2ft. The new plan is still based on the old circle but has a much smaller off scene storage siding (not to fussed about this to be honest). I've decided to try and make the location in outer London , as a small suburban branch, the reason for this is more the fact I just bought two aec single deck LT red buses off ebay and I quite like them just to run this image down the blue bit will be the general town scape and station buildings, the red line is the platform, grey is just general goods yard area, and green is - well grass really possibly I will dig out a building to represent a telephone exchange if they were around then (1960's) I'm looking into two foamcore boards for the baseboard top which gives me an excuse to go to hobbycraft The beard scratching continues.... Regards - LB

yes all peco setrack

sorry that doesn't work this should: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/58955-square-tail-chase/

I've had a fiddle and came up with this - I quite like it - also having a circle of track would be very nice

I thought this too, I think it's originally design for use with a loco lift. As I think it will do for my needs

Hello All I've done little apart from collecting stock and working on scenarios and routes for the simulator in the past three years, oh I've also moved twice and got married Anyway I found myself picking up this months model rail as all my book are still in boxes and stumbled across an article on the 4ft square peco setrack layouts. I've been bitten by this article and a spark of enthusiasm seems to have returned, albeit with a cautious head. At the moment I've been researching track and Baseboards, realizing that 4 1ft square foamcore boards 2/3 layers thick would be a good solution for cheap start, a standard timber frame with plywood top would be better meaning I'm going to have to practice my carpentry! Regarding the track I've found that this plan can be done with either Peco or Hornby, as its from the peco book though I'm going to stick with peco. I'm leaning more towards Insulfrogs, as when last bought an electrofrog it came with loose wires and my knowledge stops at buying the point really. Although as the smallest loco i'll be running is a 0-6-0 pannier i think it will cope fine over insulfrogs Without further ado - a track plan I'm aiming a small country terminus nothing fancy, something nice to look at really. As I say I'm thinking hard about this one as I dont want to be at home to mr cockup! Regards - LB