hockeyshooter

They do - but then they cost a fortune! That's the plan, yes. There will be a light inside too.

Have recently bought one of these to go into my dockside section. I'm planning on having it turn using a servo motor controlled through a MERG board - basically a spare channel on one of the points control boards. The crane will live here, straddling the tracks but won't be mounted on rails - in fact I may cut the legs down a bit. Am finding it a right pig mitreing these Bachmann dockside sections - didn't realise they were made from such hard material! They're obviously designed only to be used at right angles.

I'm afraid I didn't get far with the ScaleScenes experiment - just didn't have the patience! I downloaded the free coal office design, printed it on coated paper, glued the stated parts onto three different thicknesses of card as instructed. But cutting the thickest card (2mm), even with a brand new scalpel blade, was taking ages! The Metcalfe kits have spoilt me! Their PO237 brick country station will do just fine for the main station building, but the separate building that comes with it will be too wide for my island platforms, so I'll consider having a go at brick paper-coating their PO322 island platform building.

I've tested my old, sad example of this on my two island platforms and sadly its too wide - the canopies foul the passing trains (or the other way round).

Considering what I've just spent on Bachmann Scenecraft quaysides, I'm very impressed!

Just bought a tin of that! Have bookmarked the LCUT site, John, thanks. I have access to an A3 colour laser printer at work... Looks to be readily availble through Amazon too - £10 a tin. The moisture protection is a factor as this layout lives in a shed. Thanks everyone. Am going to build the free coal office/weighbridge office from ScaleScenes as a starting point.

Haven't ever made one but my two concerns are: they look a bit flat in the photos - and the longevity of inkjet printed paper. Guess I should just bite the bullet and build one to see.

I've actually got one of those - in a bit of a sorry state after more than 30 years stuffed at the back of a cupboard. A possibility but just so recognisable!

Having just built Metcalfe brick platforms, I find their most suitable kits for station and island platforms are stone. Grr! I'm after suggestions therefore for alternatives for the PO238 and PO239 kits of similar size and function but in brick - preferably also in card and therefore not scarily expensive! Era being modelled is BR green diesels; longest platform just about handles five Mk.Is.

Will be watching this thread with interest as I want to work a quayside into my layout too.