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Just had a thought. What if the long vertical was modelled as normal but two lines of track "descend to a hidden fiddle yard under the board I've marked A. First question is would that be a manageable incline/decline? allowing enough room under A so that the "fiddle Yard" is accessable?

This is how I pictured things in my mind. As you can see my idea of sidings along the long vertical board at the right, whilst good in theory, seems very difficult to make work without resorting to R1 curves.

Possibly. The mainboard is only screwed to the wall, but the back scene boards are fixed in place.

Yes but I'm not against moving some if they need it!

The road bridge needs redoing as its too narrow to be on a bend. The road will drop down into the station car park.

Yes the top two tracks are the ones I want to extend towards the garage door. I agree the other end of that need redesigning a bit so that there are two separate lines going into the station to the left. Need to take the platform back to enable this . There are a few reasons I don't want to start over, not least of which is sentimental as my dad had a lot of input into that plan! The rest is all fair game! I'm open to any suggestions for the rest! Clive

I had to stop doing the inside sidings as that is the only way I can get access to model the back (Yep! should definitely have listened about the access panel!) so that will be done as I work forwards. sidings then carpark then Lyneworth Station itself. Far left is the mainline station but all I've done so far is put platforms in as I was hoping I'd get the go ahead on extending that way! The big cupboard behind that is going in the shed! Clive

I'd Like the roundy round bit to stay. I'm sort of modelling that as a "Preservation" railway. I take your point about using setrack for the tighter curves. I'm not after masssively long trains about 4-5 carriages max. Yes I want to make Millhampton more Freight orientated. Definitely want to be able to run trains around acomplete circuit. Boad sizes are not fixed except the original 8' x 4' board, The rest Ives sized up allowwing the maximum modelling space with the maximum in central access, but I'm happy to look at changing anyof those. Cheers Clive

One Piece of advice I was given at the start was to put an access hatch in, I didn't listen! I REALLY should have!! LOL!!! Reaching accross the large board is quite hard, which will be even more difficult once the station is in, although that will be removable - Still! Lesson learned!! The 36" one is not too bad I have part of that in now which I am using as a work bench.

Hi All, Some months ago you all chipped in to help me with "Lyneworth" and as you can see from the first pic it's taking shape nicely. I'm now looking at phase 2! Having bought SWMBO a puppy and a shed to put gardening things in, I now have the whole garage to play with! I want to bring the mainlines at the top right round and down the long vertical board at the far right, and possibly have a few lanes along that bit to store trains on, then the tracks continue up the other side of the garage to the bottom left in the pic which will be "Millhampton". My problem is trying to get the turn right from the top. I have used Setrack up to now but want to try and use Streamline 100 if possible. For anyone who would like to have a go in AnyRail, the base board sizes are (clockwise from top left in inches) 69 x 18, 32 x 24, 96 x 48, 15 x 96, 119 x 24, 78 x 36 The garage door is in the gap to the left but I was considering a "lift-up flap" or "swing gate" so I can run trains around in a complete circuit. Any ideas????? Clive (Not so Newbie!!)

For anyone who would like to have a go in AnyRail, the base board sizes are (clockwise from top left in inches) 69 x 18, 32 x 24, 96 x 48, 15 x 96, 119 x 24, 78 x 36 The garage door is in the gap to the left but I was considering a "lift-up flap" or "swing gate" so I can run trains around in a complete circuit. Clive

Hi All, Some months ago you all chipped in to help me with "Lyneworth" and as you can see from the first pic it's taking shape nicely. I'm now looking at phase 2! Having bought SWMBO a puppy and a shed to put gardening things in, I now have the whole garage to play with! I want to bring the mainlines at the top right round and down the long vertical board at the far right, and possibly have a few lanes along that bit to store trains on, then the tracks continue up the other side of the garage to the bottom left in the pic which will be "Millhampton". My problem is trying to get the turn right from the top. I have used Setrack up to now but want to try and use Streamline 100 if possible. Any ideas????? Clive (Not so Newbie!!)

I thought about that running it down as sort of unkempt land merging into the ballasted area? thought it seemed a bit like an easy out?

THis is a pic from the other direction showing the points layout and into the (unfinished!) station!

hhmmm could be. there are several sets of points there. I'll put up a pic form a different angle when I get in from work later

Nice idea, strangely enough I have just bought the C class 592 that featured in the 2000 version of the film!

Hi All, Work at Lyneworth is coming on nicely, as you can see in the photo! I am stuck, however, for ideas on how to model the small triangular area to the left of the hill! Any ideas from more experienced modellers??? Cheers Clive

Thanks everyone, sorry for late reply but had a busy weekend! Some Gaugemaster oil on the centre wheel axle seems to have done the trick. B2B Gauge on order! Cheers Clive

Cheers Terry, I have callipers and they are between 14 and 14.5 mm

Showing my "Newbieness", how do I do that?

Hi - Advice required! I have 2 Hornby 6 wheel coaches which look really great behind my Bachmann C Class loco. The problem is the coaches keep derailing on the bends. I have 2nd and 3rd radius curves. Is there any adjustment I can make to sort this? Clive

I'll do my best not to!

That was my thought, will it last ok?

Hi All, Hope this is in the right section! I've just bought a second hand Bachmann C Class loco (31-460) which arrived today and looks superb. One small snag is the chimney has come off. It's come off cleanly and I'm sure it's an easy fix. My question is what sort of adhesive do I use? Clive

Thanks for all of your ideas everyone. I went with the safe option of PVA and it looks pretty good!