TrainMadDavid

OK You are right, but I'm not the first to make the mistake. When I looked up the page to get the link, I entered Great Dexter in the search engine, so the engine recognises Great Dexter as a corruption of Great Dixter!

Hi The next stage of the design process was to decide how the layout would look. The real location has a pair of cottages backing on the railway, but I've moved them closer, modeller's licence and all that. BUT there is only room to model them in half relief. The fascia will form the back of the them. The other side of the station site there is a small wood, but I've found it necessary to move them closer to the station to squeeze them in. The line at this point does go around a sharp curve, but the curve on the model is too sharp, slightly, even for an HF Stephens prototype. The tress behind the station are added to make the train travel through the scene, and not around it. The drawing below shows the completed scene with all the major features inserted. The illustration below shows how the whole layout will look when completed. Using a computer graphics package, gave me an idea how the completed layout will look, even before a single cut is made to make the baseboard. Track and Baseboard Design http://www.rmweb.co....-model-railway/ David

Hi The diagram below is the same track layout as the final photograph in my first post. From the Settrack layout, to a design which forms the basis of a convincing model railway is a complex process. When flexible track replaces Settrack this gives the ability to make loops and sidings the correct distance apart, in this case closer together. The diagram below is the final track plan, which is designed to be smaller, but still to have the model railway look, rather than the toy train set appearance. The dead end siding has been replaced by a cassette. The plan below show the same track layout, as shown above, but shows the left hand flap folded below the main part of the layout. This is to minimise the size to make it possible to transport the layout as hand luggage on public transport, such as on trains. NEXT posting How the scenery was designed. David

Hi It is Great Dexter, below you will find a link to their website. http://www.greatdixter.co.uk/gardens.htm David

Hi This is a blog which follows the development of my first attempt to build a N gauge layout. I am a very non computer person, so I have asked trainmadlisa to assist me do the blog thing. Below are some photographs of the of the track from an N gauge starter set with an extra point and some extra short straight and some extra short radius 1 curves too. The track was set up on my kitchen table, to get an idea of the space required. The photograph below was added to the entry at 18:10 on 03:10:11. David