SprinterMan30

After this the next course of action was a no brainer. Bored with looking at bare baseboard constantly, I finally decided it was time to start some scenic work on this area. The tight curvature on this corner of the layout was always going to hidden underneath a tunnel, so naturally I was more than happy to construct a two level board to accomodate a raised section above track level.

Work on the layout has been pretty quiet over the last six weeks, but following my latest visit back home that has now changed. Having had a second look at the trackwork on approach into the station where it turns from two lines into five, I have started the addition of two extra running lines from this area to the fiddle yard on the otherside of the layout. Although it looked okay I felt it made this part of the layout look a bit "Train Set-ish" in appearance and less like a serious layout of a mainline location. It also limited train movements into and out of station which was not ideal either. Now with two extra lines it looks and should operate a lot better

Just found some more pictures of the recent work I have done on the layout. Aside from all the electrical work taking place on the layout itself, on the workbench work on what will become the main Station building has been advancing well. As I wanted the main station building to be a big, grand and old looking building similiar to that of Carlisle for example, I quickly realised that I wasn't going to find a ready made resin building big enough or suitable enough to replicate this. Shortly afterwards I came to conclusion that a Vollmer Baden Station Kit I bought and made up years before was the best bet and after a dusting off and a coat of primer, two coats of humbrol enamel 121 pale stone and weathering composed of a thinned wash of a mixture green, grey and black paint this is what the building has been transformed into and I must say I am quite satisfied with the results. There still is some work to be done on it before it is ready to install on the layout, some new window frames and glazing have to be added as sadly when I was in the process of preparing the building for priming I had the break some of the frames in order to remove the glazing ( looking back in retrospect I wish had used Humbrol maskell as it would have saved me some time and extra work, but hey ho). Automatic Sliding doors will also be added to the main entrance, whilst the other side of the building will be modified to have three sets of steps that will lead to the platforms below, once this has been completed, weathering will be applied to this side and after that the building will be ready to placed into it's final position on the layout.

Absolutely. That's exactly what the plan is. The station itself will be made to look like it continues underneath a bridge whilst any tight curves will be obscured by bridges or tunnels. It's the only way you can pull it off

Hi everyone, my name is Ed and welcome to my thread dedicated to my Layout based somewhere around the North West Area of the present day West Coast Mainline The Layout is 18 x 6ft in size features a double track mainline which grows into medium size Station, Harriton, that is the main focus of the Layout. The Station will have 5 platforms, Bay platform 1, Up platform 2, platforms 3 and 4 and Down Platform 5 with an avoider line to allow freight trains to pass through without using the station's platform's. The Station serves a large citadel town and is served by a variety of different operators such Virgin West Coast Pendolino/ Voyager Services as well as Commuter Services operated by Transport for Wales/ Arriva Trains Wales, London North Western Railway, East Midlands Trains, some Northern Services and possibly Cross Country and of course various freight and engineering trains passing through as well. I started the layout back in late 2017, shortly after completing a much smaller project, progress on the layout is slow due to living away from home, however after recently taking some time off from work and getting most of the wiring and other long and hard jobs completed I now expect the layout to advance more quickly onto its next stages of development. Naturally all progress made will be posted on here, please stay tuned! But for now here are some pictures of the Layout in it's current form and Workbench developments...