Base Board Help and ideas for a track plan?

[ess1uk]

Now you have your track plan sorted has the wood work been planned and ordered?

Not at the moment. Too many other demands on my time and money but hope that I will have it sorted soon using the advice from here.

Thanks for taking an interest.

[ess1uk]

I have found a 4foot by 3foot sheet of ply that I can use for a sidings based layout.

I'm just wondering if to cut it down the middle to give 2x 4 foot long boards?

I want at least 3 sidings and they must be able to hold minimum of 2 Lima PWA vans.

Just need to work out a track plan using Peco sl-95 an sl-96 points.

[DCB]

You can have an awful lot of fun with a 3ft X 4ft layout, double track 1st and 2nd radius with sidings and two crossovers. My son had a 4'6" X 3' layout with double track, two crossoves, platform loop, turntable. 5 loco roads but did require a hacksaw taken to set track points, and 15" Ist radius

curves but it was great fun. The board was ply probably 12mm and the supporting frame was around the outside and projected above board level by an inch or so thus keeping derailments off the floor, normally it was used on the kitchen table and stood against the wall when out of use.

 

All the wiring ran along the baseboard surface

[ess1uk]

some pictures of my thinking

must be able to hold 2 PWAs in each siding as a minimum