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My very good friend Doug has now delivered the promised baseboards - he has built in one week what it would have taken me months to do! What's more, as a professional in the building industry, he has produced something far more professional than I could do; the carpentry is superb.I have started to play around with track to check that what I have drawn on my plans will actually work and, so far, the indications are that it will do so rather better than I had hoped.
I have to start with the London Underground tracks which will form a self-contained double track circuit on the lower level, with two crossovers and two loops to store extra trains. Trains will be of four, five or maybe six coach lengths. Where the three car CO/CP train is sitting is where the island platform will be. The outer loops are for storing one train each and will not have platform faces.
After that, the upper double track circuit will represent British Rail main lines with eight storage loops at the rear (hence the eight lengths of track in the pictures at the far end demonstrating that they will easily fit the space). Most of the loops will be able to hold an eight car EMU or a loco with seven coaches. The loops (which double as a fiddle yard) will be on open display so will be ballasted eventually. There will probably be no station on these lines, although I had also thought of modelling an abandoned/derelict station.
All this is in a sort of L-shaped dumbell, so no duck-unders required. To reach the farthest places, Doug has thoughtfully put everything on castors.
The first pics were taken after dark so have a little bit of a colour cast to them - I have only partially corrected this.
Doug delivered it on Christmas Eve. What a great Christmas present. Now most of the rest is up to me, although here are a few corners to trim later - Doug deliberately left them so I could have room to move with the track laying and scenic ideas.
The heavier locomotives are holding the lengths of track in place (very roughly!) while the two class 166 driving coaches are the longest and widest vehicles I have so will be used for all gauging and clearance purposes.
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The orange curtains are quite old and have been there since the year dot! Agnes put up the blue curtains only a few days ago so they are brand new. We had a painter in to redo the ceiling in our sitting room (which was the old train room where you saw the original layout) so Agnes had him repaint the end wall in the new train room at the same time.
I will scan a version of the track plan in soon, although I should point out that I haven't finalised how I'm going to do the loco shed and sidings yet so any drawings of that area are still works of fiction.
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Yet more ideas to ponder!
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Looks good Jeff, plenty of space to play with. I like the Underground O/P stock train, may I ask what make it is?
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The CO/CP stock is really Harrow Models Q38 stock but I have modified one DM with no end vent and numbered all accordingly. The Harrow Models kits were white metal and are still available from their designer, Phil Radley (Radley Models http://www.radleymodels.co.uk/). He has also modifed most of the kits to have one-piece resin bodies rather than the multi-piece white metal parts - each CO/CP/Q38 car has six pieces for each side; the F stock is worse!
That three-car set is unpowered and I am using it for gauging purposes, mainly to set train lengths for the storage loops and platforms for five or six cars. The remaining two-car unit is powered by two Black Beetle motors. DCC-ing it is going to be interesting!
Next I'll be setting up eight BR mark 1 coaches to represent two 4CEP units along the back so I can see how long I need to make those storage loops for the main lines - the drawings have really been pure guess work so far.
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Also, a few photos showing the board framework and L-girder construction.
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In the background you may notice an eight-coach pseudo- SR EMU. That was also for gauging purposes to see how long the storage loops have to be as it turns out, my drawings and sketches have proved to be pretty close to the mark. The train itself consists of a half-built 4BEP, using Southern Pride pre-coloured sides and MJT driving ends on old Triang-Hornby mark 1 underframes, and four ordinary mark 1 coaches (three x Bachmann and 1 x modified and repainted Mainline).
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Looking forward to seeing how the rest of this project develops.
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Our feline companion Toby decided to inspect the new works, especially as I have allowed him into the train room while he can't damage anything - normally the doors are hooked closed so he can't get in. He loves the trains running, even more so if they have sound (we nicknamed him TechnoCat since he also loves computers and the laser printers when they are turned on).
When I was running the old layout I had to unhook at least one of the doors. Toby just shoves the sliding door aside and walks in to watch and play.
For the time being I have temporarily hooked up a short test track of 4 yards of Peco flexible track with flying leads from one of my Power Cabs. Toby heard me running trains up and down this test track and this was the result:
EDIT: attempted to fix the aspect ratio on a couple of the pics.
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Yes, Toby liked to push the trains around so he was only allowed in if I hung onto him tightly while he watched the trains!
Rick, he was most interested in the blue class 33 CAT just behind the plank because it was making loud noises!
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