Tonyo262

Thank you so much for the kind words and the wise advice about the dimensions, I’m still working all this out! I’ve been a bit poorly sorry for the slow reply and I think I need to invest in some templates next.

Seems Anyrail is PC only so I’ll go off and hunt for a Mac friendly app, thanks for getting me thinking though! Go well.

Thank you Keith, I think your advice to crack on with the track plans and refine the design, and keep an eye out for developments is a good plan. Thanks for the mention of Anyrail, I’ll check this out, and for the kind words about my sketches. Take care.

Brill, thankyou.

Hola, I last built a layout 15 years ago, so while I'm not exactly new to the hobby (I make other scale models too) I am, like many of my generation, easily confused by terminology and the increasing complexity of the products and choices. There's so many parallels with my scale modelling past-time in terms of product quality choice, techniques and, of course, cost (railway modelling is eye wateringly expensive, and nothing in the styrene world comes close unless you're into 1/32 scale Lancasters). Anyway, I think TT120 is a smashing idea, and will hopefully allow the hobby to fit better with modern living. To my eye, it 'looks right'. So track codes: I see Hornby are diving in, while Peco has announced some track and basic structures. All of which means some serious capital investment and more to come. Given that Hornby are the early adopters and have announced motive power and rolling stock, (here comes daft question 1) does anyone know if their stock will run on the Peco Code 55 track ok? Given that if you're going to go to the trouble of having a gauge which is accurate to the prototype, then the rail profile and sleeper spacing proportion should be as close as possible too, right? I'm presuming that H will design their wheel flanges for their Code 80 rails... Secondly (DQ 2) TT120 track plans: Are there any full size available? And (DQ 3) does anyone know what the scale reduction might be to drop a OO plan to TT120 for photocopying and scratch-building structures? I have a small end to end layout in mind based on a long lost terminus at Port Carlisle, and want to adapt some North British structures for this admittedly 'what if' layout. The small diorama is based on the real hamlet of Port Carlisle, which was originally a canal basin with jetty and wharf to take coal and cotton from Liverpool via barges the 12 miles to Carlisle. The canal didn't last long as rail came along, they filled in the canal and put a branch line on the route with the basin and lock silting up. They are still there as is the trackbed but all signs of canal hardware and rail buildings are gone. Here's my idea, it's a fantasy idea that the branch survived and is sliding into gentle decay and inevitable closure. It will run a couple of Era 5/6 Type 1 BR diesels (if anyone makes them in TT120 that is!) and mixed goods as pasenger services are long gone. It's a rough draft, so all comments are welcome.