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  1. croydon junction
    If you want a depot you could build it on the lower level
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    I'll be honest, I think stratford market sounds cool but I think limehouse basin is better as it isn't real, meaning you can make more up and it has more justification. However, you could use stratford market as exchange sidings
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    or an extension of the beckton line
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    you could have speedlink goods to the basin and they kept the station to serve the modernised docklands
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    Or you could model custom house, which had its own loco shed and lots of abandoned exchange sidings in the 1970s. Here is a map from the 1950's: http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=51.5095&lon=0.0258&layers=173
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    If you can make a baseboard, making a kit will feel like a joke because it is so easy.
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    Just try on something small like a parkside grampus or a Dapol tanker. Then you can learn how to paint and weather without feeling too worried about a mess up.
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    Just to say, if you modelled Canning Town (which you have the right track plan for) or Connaught Road, you could also use the other board as a docks exchange sidings complex which could be overgrown with weeds, and you could use the sidings in front of the station to be possibly extended to a dockyard.
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    or you could have a 4tc and class 33 like this at tilbury riverside http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/t/tilbury_riverside/index8.shtml
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    what about OHLE for some locos to access a plant with DMU's? What about OHLE with freight and DMU's instead of EMU's? That's kinda what I had in mind originally.
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    you could also add OHLE/replace the 3rd rail, as that could look quite good
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    You could build the low level platforms like the ones at Edgware as if it is part of a program that was never finished, which could let you extend the sidings further and use them as a goods line. This would be below street level, with a small station building at the end of platform 1
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    why don't you make it more like Clapham Junction with the Platform Arrangement? Have Platform 1 at the back and 2/3 as an island.
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    Just in case you were thinking of using it, you can use Anyrail and get the right points to fit into what you need, and not have to worry about it. Not sure about the Mac bit though.
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    in some crossings it works like that, and a double slip could work like that
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    Looks really good! If possible keep up the good work, as it could turn out to be one of the more popular layouts on the layout topics page and could bring more people to southern electrics
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    sorry about that mistake, but not many people make high standard models of locations round that area. Really good layout though, and if the owner ever gets bored they can get rid of some structures, add OHLE, remove the central rail and use AC electrics with 501's or 313's! Matthew
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    Just to confirm, this is camden shed?
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    you could just have everything else sink or the track rise on a gradient out of the station
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    looking really good. If you want to have an unusual location for the layout, you could base it off something from the London docklands at there was still traffic at that time. It would also allow you to add lots of warehouses and potentially modify the track plan and possibly even extend a siding into a warehouse or add turntables for wagons. Other than that, I hope it's as good as Acacia Avenue! Matthew
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    not sure about this but it could be anodized, as anodizing could reduce conductivity but is used to make things stronger. Anodized aluminium is quite strong but it might not be conductive (im not sure)
  22. croydon junction
    really good work but it could be improved with replacement bogies. Or failing that, chop off the tension locks and replace them with proprietary coupling units (could just be simple). That is assuming that they stay in the same formation. Other than that good.
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    if you want a single blade one just remove the inside rail but retain everything else.
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    Possibly add a sector plate instead as that could add a larger amount of space and there are some good examples: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/88480-a-nifty-design-element-for-micro-layouts/
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    looks better than really good. Don't really know what to say other than that. Just keep it up
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