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Posts posted by Leon
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Just thought I would set up a Youtube channel documenting the progress of the layout build, i'm hoping this will be the last build so would like to capture the process. Im no Youtube expert as you can see, maybe over time I can add more bells and whistles....
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First picture showing the freight yard. It will be four tracks in total. A daily Speedlink service will arrive in the morning and depart in the late afternoon. Engineers trains and other freight stock may also stable in the yard. The tracks will have the impression they continue under the motorway.
Second photo shows a class 47 in the station.
Third photo a pair of Trainload Coal 37,s on the stable point.
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Good morning all. Fitted the layout leg supports last night. Bit of tweaking then I can lay the cork and track work.
I didn't realise track from the big boys are hard to get at the moment, had to pay a bit extra to get all the points on order.
There will be a small yard where the HAA wagons are in the 1st picture. A station where the rake of Intercity coaches are in the 2nd picture.
It's fantastic having a well lit temp controlled room, no more climbing up into the attic.
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Thanks Mike,
Yes that makes sense, i'm not planning on taking it anywhere so would be cheaper to do and pretty straight forward.
Many thanks for the reply.
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Still deciding what to do about legs/supports, do I build something from timber of spend £80-£100 on DIY saw horses ? Any thoughts ?
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Good evening everyone,
Firstly hope you are all well, secondly i'm excited to get on with layout building.
I think this is the track plan I will base the new layout on, I was going for a simple approach of something like just two running lines but this would need a fiddle yard at both ends and two decent length fiddle yards would eat into the room I have, my longest wall is 4.8m, 4.8 meters sounds a lot until you put a train on it. Part of this length will be the curve into a fiddle yard on the other wall.
So at the bottom the track work enters through the tunnel from the fiddle yard, There is to be a station on the left to run my coaching stock, Class 158 and mail stock.
The track beyond the station which is the end of the layout will run under a bridge giving the impression the mainline continues. Passenger locos will of course need to uncouple and run around its train and return to the fiddle yard, I know this would be the case in a terminus but not sure if this ever happens on a through station ? Unless I pretend the line continues freight only.
The third length of track from the left will be the freight loop, this is where freight trains come in, the loco can then run around its train and shunt into the 3 or 4 track yard.
The two track towards the bottom are fueling and stable point. The is based on Tidworths track plan. Im not sure how many mainline station have a yard and service point, I will need to research this.
From what I can see this will give me plenty to play with without having to offload coaching stock or freight stock.
Any advice, ideas or comments most welcome.
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Been in the new house a month now, building the framework in the garage then it will be taken up to the new train room. The frames will be 2.4m each by 800mm. There will be three in total, two running along the one wall, then the third at 90 degree along the other wall, this will be the fiddle yard. Im not having end to end as most of the layout would be fiddle yards leaving only a few metres for a layout scenic section.
Ordering the ply next week and something to use as legs.
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Im thinking of a much simpler layout in the new house, to save time and costs, also on my own it will be easier to operate. Im thinking just a double track mainline with a freight loop to add a bit of interest. Although its always nice to have a TMD or servicing point.
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Good evening all,
All the rolling stock has now been boxed up and started on the loco's hopefully moving home in the near future and South Wales Freight will be restarted there. It won't be possible to save any of this current layout so im looking forward to starting a new one.
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