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Iain, that is great gen and some wonderful drawings there. Thanks very much! Best Scott.

I'm always in awe of your CAD skills, Steve. Great work. Best Scott.

Hi cypherman, It will help with responses if you can give a bit more information, such as which area the layout is to be set, which era it is set in, the types of stock you propose to run and that ind of thing. What scale is the plan in? OO, N, O... Best Scott

Outstanding ! My hand is raised for a tutorial thread... Best Scott.

They look perfect! Thanks for posting Best Scott

Thanks for the welcome. And worry not, Jim, I was only (half) joking But really looking forward to seeing your work in the flesh. Best Scott

Blimey, Jim, that is a stunning piece of work from start to finish. Do you do commissions?! Something like that would be ideal for my Perth Caledonian... Best Scott.

Incredible work with the etched canopy. Really clever work. Awesome, in the original, true sense of the word. Best Scott.

Thank you for the response, Simon, much appreciated. Best Scott.

It's a work in progress to get it to a 1960ish state. It's designed using Finetrax code40, so the turnouts would stand a bit of curving, i'd have hoped to make it flow better. I'm pleased with it. My man cave/layout room is 17.5 by 9.5 ft, so it won't quite fit. It would satisfy my love of freight trains as they were more than prolific on the WR. I'm half way through Galashiels as we speak. If you're interested, to really do it justice, 28ft long room should do it to scale without compression and using the northern overbridge as a scenic break. Best Scott. EDIT: PS, the storage yard has just been copied from my Perth Caledonian layout plan, so that part at least will actually get built.

Sadly not, I'm afraid. Drawing scale plans I find is therapeutic in times of anxiety and depression, and I wondered to myself, what size room would one need for a scale layout of Riccarton Junction. It would be my dream layout if I'm honest, but I would only ever do it without any compression. Anyway, the answer is 17' by 13' in 2mm scale.

O T, but this is my home station. It's changed quite a bit since then. I must say, it looks lovely in these images.

It does. The photo is actually duplicated, now I see, later in the page dated 1967 so mystery (?) solved. Best Scott.

But that appears to cast doubt on the date of this image on Disused Stations: http://disused-stations.org.uk/r/riccarton_junction/index47.shtml Which purports to be 1957, yet shows Up sidings lifted. Should this be 1967 as the caption? This one states circa 1960s, yet the sidings are there: http://disused-stations.org.uk/r/riccarton_junction/index106.shtml And be 1969 the Up sidings are gone: http://disused-stations.org.uk/r/riccarton_junction/index117.shtml

Thanks. I've since found a couple of signal box diagrams, dated 1963, which shows up sidings and the entry turnouts to the down sidings, so that helps. Riccarton North by CHOPPER1988, on Flickr Riccarton South by CHOPPER1988, on Flickr

I'm working on an AnyRail plan of Riccarton Junction, to scale, using the NLS 25" maps as a starting point. Can anyone advise when the Down and Up sidings were lifted respectively? Ditto demolition of the original 3-road engine shed. I assume the later engine shed and elevated coal loading siding would have been removed when the branch was closed? It looks like the bay at the Edinburgh end was removed very early on. I'm primarily interested in mid 50s to early 60s. Best Scott.

It is a strange one. I'm generally inclined to back him with most things, but this seems bizarre. He cites the govt. not taking carbon neutrality seriously, but a new, efficient, electric railway, increasingly supplied by renewable sources would appear to be at least part of the answer... Best Scott.

Information already on the thread - deleted.

There is a Dallas in Moray. And also a hamlet that is Lost, in Aberdeenshire...somewhere.

Lovely work. Best Scott.

This is a little gem of a layout, some lovely modelling. I hadn't found it until now. What couplings are you using? Best Scott

Wow! Fantastic, and very realistic. Well done and thanks for sharing! Best Scott

N Gauge?

I was just trying to be helpful. New or relatively new modellers perhaps wouldn't immediately be aware that Dapol only produce the HST in N Gauge. KMS' main announcement at MRS concerned an O Gauge HST (manufacturer unknown at this point); Dapol are active in O gauge, and so it's not beyond the realms of possibility that this could have been O gauge if people hadn't seen the main announcement elsewhere on the forum. N Gauge/2mm in the title immediately tells people the scale just with a glance. Surely we should all be trying to be as helpful as possible? Anyway I see the title has been amended kindly be the OP, so it wasn't a complete waste of time. Best Scott.