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I've bought lottery tickets. If I win, this project happens even if we have to go to 60' x 20'. Not sure a Farish V2 would manage to complete one circuit of a 60 x 20 layout before something in the mechanism wore out, but we'll worry about that later.
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Just been looking at the location on Google satellite and I see what you mean. The Border Counties branch doesn't make life any easier - that's two lines you have to 'lose' at that end and the southern approach to Riccarton is rather distinctive. Bigger room needed - say 40' x 12' to do it justice in 'N'? There must be a cutting somewhere if you go south far enough...
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What would be great would be if a group of modellers could get together and build a really epic Waverley Route model, a bit like Roy Jackson has done with Retford. I'm thinking Riccarton Junction around 1958, possibly N gauge (4mm would be absolutely huge), no compromises on platform length or track plan. Anyone got a really big room going spare?
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That's a seriously ambitious project, love it. I spent far too much time hanging around Lincoln Central in the early 1980s in the hope of seeing something more interesting than the usual class 105 and 114 DMUS. I never seemed to be there at the right time though. Double-headed 31s on oil tankers was about as exciting as it ever got. You'll have fun when you get round to doing the signalling, Lincoln had LOTS of semaphore signals, most of them complicated.
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Thought you might like another bit of West Highland atmosphere - another shot of 37027 earlier the same day at Crianlarich. Reproducing that hand-written destination label on the Mk1 could be tricky in 'N'.
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Here it is: Not much for the weathering brigade to get their teeth into there. Date unknown, possibly Easter 1984?
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An inspiring piece of N gauge modelling - makes me wish I hadn't given up on my planned Kyle of Lochalsh - based layout. Change of job and location killed that one off. Somewhere I think I have a photo of 37 027 in ex-works condition at Oban - I'll try to dig it out for you.
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I love embankments and overbridges, and you don't see enough of them on model railways. Yours is a fine example and the water looks very convincing. Does anyone make otters in N gauge? The abandoned croft is a nice touch as well.
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Not quite Waverley Route, but at least in North British territory: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/86288-belstone-n-gauge/ I couldn't quite fit Steele Road onto a 4 x 1 board.
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Dulverton Station '62 - Let there be grass...
Richard Hall replied to Douglas G's topic in Layout topics
This layout has the potential to be something quite special. It's great to see someone using N gauge to model a railway in a landscape, rather than trying to cram every available inch of board with track and other railway stuff. Keep at it.
