FiveandNine

No chance Hornby mistook the Genesis reference too, which is why we have the Rush and King Crimson referenced play packs?? I'll get my prog rock coat...

Noticed Lifeson and Peart locos on the video but not above. King Crimson beat out Rush then?

Really intrigued by this. My Grandad worked at the Greenwich gasworks (SEGAS?) from the 30s to the 70s, and my Dad was for some time based out of Greenwich Fire Station (the old one under the flyover), so used to know the area quite well. Mundane ask - any chance of a track plan or overall shot? 

Mitch

Simon B - great minds...

https://www.carendt.com/micro-layout-design-gallery/

Carl Arendt's micro layouts site is always a good start. "The Timesaver" seems a versatile candidate for the size you're talking about.

Mitch

Just as there is only one Miller, for me, there can only be one fishmonger ...

https://youtu.be/yI2oS2hoL0k

Been toying with a similar idea. Am going for backscenes:

Docks - shipping etc. Bristol has a good one. Also try googling Gloucester.

Main line terminus (ie. just the roofs in the near distance - your area is the grotty goods area hidden out of sight of the public face of the railway).

City scenes are more difficult as getting good colour pictures of something without high rises may be an issue. Durham or Wells may offer something with a cathedral and not much in the way of office buildings.

Sure there's better ideas out there, but that's where I'm aiming.

Al

What's not very clear from the photo and the plans here (MRJ does it much clearer) is the way Jaz handles the junction. Behind the J15 at Bishop's Yaxford, you can just about see where the double track main line (all twelve inches of it, including the ends of two platforms) runs between the two bridges, pretty much in the way it appears in your condensed Dunton Green. I know space is an issue for you but, given the quality of your other work, I'd love to see this done. All the best, Al

Are you familiar with Jas Millham's "Yaxbury Branch", featured regularly in Model Railway Journal?

Its a "whole branch" layout, and his junction station features a separate curved platform in a similar way to Dunton Green. He has managed to lose the end of the line and the actual junction pointwork under overbridges and only a short section of the mainline is visible.

The most recent article on the junction (Bishops Yaxford) was in MRJ No.220, a couple of years ago.

Cheers,

Dave.

Link to the Yaxbury branch here (hopefully - doing this on a mobile). Al http://www.s-scale.org.uk/gallery5.htm

Hi Pete,

DCC has the stretch potential for constant, directional lighting and sound, items that become more important on a small layout. Most of my recollections of travelling the 'slam-door special' in SE London seem to involve the lights being on simply because the windows were so dirty, and then there's that noise they make when setting off. A Class 73 switching over from third rail to diesel would also be an interesting feature to hear.

That said, I've just junked DCC due to cost and the fact that some of my favourite locos are difficult (not impossible) to convert. If all your stock is going to be relatively long wheelbase, dead frog points wired to be permanently live in both directions really simplify the wiring - your fiddleyard could be a mare to wired up if using live frog. I ended up getting all sorts of weird and wonderful faults when I (wrongly) assumed I could just switch all my tracks to live with electrofrog points. I ended up having to install switched sections, which sort of defeats the object of DCC a bit...

Looking forward to seeing this one progress.

Al

Don't know if this helps with your signal box dilemma, but the link goes to a photo of one of these boxes in 'platform mounted' mode. For 'mounted', read 'sunk into'.

Al

http://www.railwaymedia.co.uk/Miscellaneous/Signalling/Southern/i-5wk8pLG/A