Middlebrook

[Middlebrook Model Railway]

In the beginning 

 

Since moving house 6 years ago I have finally decided to take the plunge and create a 00 gauge model model railway in the loft space. At my other house I had created Woodhouse  Parkway which later become Boston Junction. This layout was dismantled just after track laying stage and what I could save was saved. My new layout will be called Middlebrook and will be set in the mid 1980s to the present day with modelers licence of course. I have decided to base the layout on the WCML preferably in North West England which will have overhead catenary fitted at a later stage, a station is planned with 2 long platforms with 4 platform faces   to accommodate 9 car trains, 2 bay platforms and 2 through roads. A viaduct will be incorporated somewhere along with a diesel & electric maintenance facility. Overall I have available to me  a space of 18ft x 11ft which will be 3x1 timber framed with 25% open famed topped off with a 9mm Birch ply base.

I started to convert the loft at the end of January and had a specialist to install the sub frame floor which is suspended from the purlins, electric soon followed and hope to completer the plasterboards by the end of March.

 

[Middlebrook Model Railway]

All plasterboard complete and stated on the framework for the fiddle yard end of the layout which is 800mm x 3500 mm. Acoustic flooring was installed to blank out sound transfer to bedrooms below which I need to finish off  then I can continue with the rest of the framework for the open plan baseboards. 

[Middlebrook Model Railway]

I have now completed all baseboards ,layed cork to the fiddle yard area. Now starting on  the backscenes.