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Sorry if I wasn't clear. Transpennine and Northern are now run by the government/ Dft so are the same operator. Therefore logic would suggest the public would have the benefit of common ticketing on trains run by the same operator. Agree with your comment on different operators.

Living where both Northern and Transpennine are now part of the 'Operator of Last Resort' (ie nationalised) I witnessed a person on a Northern service being ticked off for being on there with a TP ticket. The train she wanted to catch was cancelled. The T P train was going to where she wanted to go a few minutes later. She was told she should have waited an hour for the next Northern train , despite the train we were on being less than half full. I don't remember catching the next available train as an offence in BR days? No wonder the public prefer the car when this sort of 'customer service ' on a privatised railway prevails.

Pondered. Plan c) (Traverser) it is. Progress below with the new hidden sidings board and the sliders for the traverser roughly set out. The first picture is taken in the same direction as the picture in the last post. The point in that picture will lead onto the scenic traverser. Legs, intermediate landings for the traverser on Board 1 and fixings for the sliders will be the next job.

Is that a fiddle yard on the opposite side of the room?

Possession over-run.

Can I just add to @Northroader s excellent helpful into : . . . . making sure the cursor is where you want the picture to go. Do a return / next line to put spaces between pictures as though you were starting a new line of text. Good luck @shropshirelad !

Mentioned sector plate to a friend. Who said a traverser involves straight lines and no angles or curved boards and will probably give greater storage capacity. Repondering . . . .

. . . .and under the first overbridge ?

Started. . . . The picture below doesn't seem to show a lot, but much pondering and sketching of the scenic sector plate has resulted in an experimental, wider (along the track), pier for the sector plate to land on in front of the turnout to the carriage sidings. Nothing fixed down yet, underlay to add, electrics to add and point operating mechanisms, plus plain line in the carriage sidings. This first pier may end up further down the sector plate, as I will need a very wide one at this location to support the sector plate as it swings round to feed into the hidden sidings. The sector plate will use narrow timber laths either side of the track to provide structural rigidity, with piers at regular intervals beneath. The laths will form the parapet walls of the viaduct. Might be a bit overscale, but I don't want a bendy sector plate. Additional rigidity will be gained via a backscene that moves with the sector plate. As elsewhere on the layout, the piers will eventually be hidden by arches. Connecting this all together looks like it will be an interesting project.

Sunday Engineering works. You need a rail replacement bus service . . . .

Well, plywood acquired yesterday and reduced in size on the cutting machine at the timber merchants for the hidden sidings. I decided to use traditional 2"x1" PSE as bracing rather than the plywood sandwich beams used on the main boards for simplicity. There is a shortage of 2 x1, so ended up with 3x1. Now to extend the high level section to the scenic sector plate and lay the two carriage sidings and entrance points at the back of the existing boards. Then on with the hidden siding boards.

Superb picture. I thought it was the real thing and I was on a different topic until I looked very closely. Is this layout on RMweb? Please could you add a link if so ?

Chuff. or whatever the motorbike equivalent is. . . . Hope you had a successful expedition. Pictures to follow?

Very, very nice. Looking forward to seeing what you do with the 0-8-0.

When I grow up I will have lots of levers, just like Daddy Box.

Board 1 has always been intended to have a scenic cassette. This will plug into an extension towards the camera of the high level part of board 2 seen at the RH side of the photo below. The plan was the 'scenic cassette' would be there most of the time but be taken out to allow other temporary cassettes to plug in. Cassette storage in the original railway room was going to be on shelves extending immediately above Board 1 and part of Board 2. In this room, cassette storage is a bit more complicated due to the room being an attic conversion and hence 'triangular', with the sloping wall here replacing the previously vertical wall . A vertical wall is now at 90 degrees to Board 1 and also, of course reduces in width as it rises to the apex of the roof. I could see handling cassettes would become a 'lift and turn' operation in a relatively confined space between the wall, Board 1 and Boards 2, 6 and 7, rather than a straight lift. I think this 'lift and turn' will have some inherent risks in snagging a cassette. In addition there is a supporting roof beam running along the slope, as shown in the picture below (which also highlights 'stuff that needs sorting'). I didn't want the railway running beneath that beam, so the layout will stand off the wall. The distance from the wall to the layout will be about 400mm. Having pondered on this gap, I think converting the 'scenic cassette' to a 'scenic sector plate' will enable storage of trains in hidden sidings behind a backscene. That makes use of the gap, avoids a turn and lift movement with cassettes and simplifies electrical connections. With a backscene I will also be able to keep the storage area dark. The only downside I can see is access via a duck-under at one or both ends, and more boards to construct (although I would have bought material for cassettes). Literally watch this space. Incidentally, the white packet marked 'steam train' was given to me as a surprise gift from Mrs FP. I haven't opened it yet, but it is a scented diffuser which (apparently) gives off smells of hot steam and grease. DCC eat your chips out 🙂

At which point it presumably became a Can'tgoo. . . . Agreed. In the cause of 'adding value'. Worst example in a car I was unfortunate enough for Mrs FP to own was a Freelander. Why, oh why was the roof line above the rear door so low that the back window had to lower automatically when you opened the door ? . . . . Tried doing a hill start between parked cars with an electronic brake ? I had a hire car for work with this 'improvement'. Had to go back to the hire office and get them to tell me how to move the thing. Subsequently specified that any hire car for my use must have a normal handbrake. Mutter. if someone wants to make a proper improvement, how about a winter weather heated windscreen washer system?

All looking very nice. Don't often see the wall ladders modelled. Gradients of railways are interesting because they look odd to modern eyes. However, in imperial measure, 1 in 1056 equals exactly 5ft rise (or fall in this case) per mile. I suspect you will find that gradient on the original parliamentary plans.

On a western layout, he must be called Ernie, surely. Looks like his cart is missing though. . . . (Although there is a difference in speed between LM and Ernie)

Very nice. Thank you for sharing the construction details. I have bookmarked your post for future reference.

Would setting out the railway boundary fence/ wall/ shrubbery help decide? From the (angle of the) photo it looks like you might not have much room between a boundary feature and the cottage for something else? Will you have a side gate to the ground beside the cottage?

Soooooo, pre Modern Image then 🤣🤣🤣 😇?

Hang on, we don't know what's in the crate yet . . . .

And welcome to D1 No 1741 in Southern Livery. Built by R Stephenson & Co 1903 as a D Class locomotive and rebuilt to D1 in 1927. Withdrawn 1959 (1). Justification for purchase: Known to be allocated to Faversham MPD 17th December 1945 (2), and 1948 (3) (1) A Pictorial Record of Southern Locomotives by J H Russell; Published BCA 1991 (2) Shed Bash UK: Gillingham & Faversham 1945 - 1959 (3) BR Steam Locomotive allocations by Hugh Longworth; published by OPC 2011 How good is this? I really do need to crack on with this layout! ps, I already have a D Class featured on a previous page in SE&CR livery. I resisted a friends suggestion that 'you need one of those' by saying I already had the D Class. Then I looked at the various ones on offer by Rails and compared the numbers to the three sources above. How could I resist . . . . . . ? I trust you think it was a Good Decision ?

Ditto. What is BCE/CE ?