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I thought that's what I was doing? is this now right - keep the tips coming! PROGRESS possibly - I found another plan on a 2014 thread which really seems to tick my boxes so to keep faith with the stuff before this is a new picture 2 if you will

sorry I missed the link (this is all very new to me) love the layout just what I dream of! Thanks to all this has brought me out of my gloom of yesterday.

its just on the layout/track plan which was borrowed from elsewhere on this site - this will probably just be a scenic backdrop break but its a bit early for that yet - rest assured no motorway

noted I'm not committed its just that setrack means train set to me so I will have to revisit - you are not alone in your advice but I suppose I'm increasingly moving from wanting a layout to being happy with a better modelled area and a marshalling/fiddle yard but still on a loop for ease. I'll go and "play" now and await the postman for my early Christmas present as mentioned above! continued thanks

REALLY like this approach - it was where I think I was getting to but thanks for articulating it - I will move on with this and look at a combination of the round the room loop and laying out bottom plan layout Shed cannot be any bigger and there is nowhere else but I was getting to think nothing worthwhile could be delivered in it so thanks for that encouragement I don't want a train set so perhaps don't want to major on setrack - I do want a phased approach so I am happy to model the picture 2 environment and just play with the rest even if it doesn't look like anything (ever!) THANKS

thanks I might try laying this out real time and see how it fits with my 2nd stage (posted @ 7.23) thoughts above

shunting VERY little money not into shows don't do well in crowds and we are a bit off the beaten track also don't like driving lots of time but winter months only high ambition is ingrained but I DO take your point thanks

thanks - playing seems to be the collective advice - I am in to pre nationalisation steam goods only - setrack 2 and 3 rad curves for the round the room loop and streamline small radius points and flexi 100 for the rest thanks for your interest.

Hi - Sorry but I'm getting lost with this as already I don't have any sense of the right or wrong way to engage with trains (I assume this will come with time) this is why I don't see the point of designing anything myself as I wouldn't know if it worked or not! Any chance of a simple sketch based on "improving" picture 2? I am now thinking that basing on picture 2 the top RH motorway bridge tracks and the bottom left (3 into 2) will form the other end and that the bottom rh 2 "marshalling" yard tracks will access the slightly distant larger marshalling/fiddle yard The lower plan seemed to me to have been well "kicked" about on this site already so I assumed it worked was I wrong? I'm not keen on split levels but what you suiggest sounds as though that might be OK as I do like the idea it portrays I'll have a look at scarm and try freezer again but as mentioned above its a bit like saying I'll design a house on CAD when all I've ever done or seen is life on a dessert island All comments are really appreciated - I will start playing with the round the room loops and basic electrics to keep my spirits up - it stills feels like a 1:20 gradient!

thanks - I have built a "lift out" bridge section which in woodwork terms certainly works well. Coaches aren't an issue I really am looking to wagons only with a possible 3 set in the future. I'm not in to modelling sweeping landscapes industry/docks appeal far more I am troubled with hip issues so I cant duck under anything and don't really want to try wiring at different levels.

thanks that is exactly what I am doing (great minds) - 6 lh and 6 rh short streamline points arrived yesterday with 8 no 2 and no 3 radius setrack curves and today hopefully a class 5 and 10 wagons will show up and I will start playing - watch this space...............

Hi all, I am returning/new to this hobby after 45 years – and have NEVER engaged with BLOGS! I have decided on size – a 9x7 garden shed, scale OO, era 3 (LMS) steam only, goods only - lots of activity wanted love engines and private wagons. I want to model in stages, preferably not going back over phased decisions so a modular/stage build is preferred starting with an industrial through station with good goods facilities and a separate marshalling/fiddle yard (the theme for which can be re-developed later) with 2 tracks around the room linking them up . Baseboards exist ( I know not the right way to start but there were very good reasons) so I basically now have a 102”x80” fully insulated heated and lined internal area with an outwards opening door centrally located in the 80” end an “L” of 32” at the “opposite” end, a 16” shelf on the long return opposite the 32” longest length and an 8” bridge to close the shape across the door way – I do hope that all makes sense. I would like to build on one level (boards are 40” high) and I think I want to have 2 tracks around the room feeding into stage one on the 102" x 32" section which would be as per (picture 2) a through station plus goods marshalling – treating the remaining tracks on the shorter 80"x32" section and the 80"x 8" (min) bridge section the as a feed into and out of a marshalling/fiddle yard (as per the appropriate (rh) bit of picture 1) which would be located on the opposite 16”x102"section for now which will one day be lifted and fully modelled. I have been doing a lot of research which has produced the above scheme thoughts, I have about 20 “good idea” layout plans copied from various www contributions BUT I am now totally overwhelmed by the decisions needed to actually commit to something and get started and I have therefore stalled. I am not a computer fan so don’t want to engage with CAD I don’t understand real life operating protocols so struggle with lots of blog terminology, I repeat - I have NEVER blogged! So I’m completely stuck and terrified of starting off spending too much and getting it wrong such that I lose heart. Can you guys help!! FYI all/most of this has come from this forum How am I doing?? PLEASE be kind with your comments especially if they relate to “I suggest you start again” but - short of spending £00’s on professional design services and waiting months for the outcome I need your help/advice and will very much appreciate it otherwise I fear I will never get started and eBay will get some more business!