Do you have any model railway projects on the go?

[Cowley]

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I've come up with a vague track layout. The boxes represent the station platforms with the whisky distillery yard at the top, the bottom left sidings are a military logistics depot and bottom right are general goods sidings. Any thoughts? The idea is that it's an early 1960's coastal terminus somewhere in Scotland but close enough to the Central Belt to be the end of the line for commuter trains, with the occasional longer distance service. Freight traffic will be Whisky (out), grain and coal (in) as well as fish, parcels and military supplies (oil/fuel, ammunition). The bay just above the station would be a small loco servicing road and storage for the station pilot as shunt release would be the main method of working.

That looks really good. Plenty of interest on there for a small layout too, I had a couple of ideas straight away but I’m going to sit with it for a couple of hours and have a think if there’s any more.

 

[Iskra]

That looks really good. Plenty of interest on there for a small layout too, I had a couple of ideas straight away but I’m going to sit with it for a couple of hours and have a think if there’s any more.

Thank you, I’ve realised that I can get more roads in the fiddle yard already. I wasn’t really focusing on that side!

 

[Cowley]

Thank you, I’ve realised that I can get more roads in the fiddle yard already. I wasn’t really focusing on that side!

Right I’m back (doing something that I’m actually interested in).

A couple of thoughts occurred to me. The first one being that the class 20 set (with its tablet catcher) would very much suit a layout that was based somewhere around Scotland - perhaps just off the Aberdeen - Inverness line?
There were certainly plenty of distilleries around there but I’m not sure how far north the class 20s got in that era. I’ll page @GusB here and see what he thinks.
Alternatively you could go for somewhere West Highlandish but then it’s hard to do that area justice without doing some whopping great mountains...

I did wonder for a moment whether you could set it in East Anglia because there was lots of grain traffic in the area as well as military traffic. That’s something else to consider possibly?

I really like the track plan but for me there was something missing, and it was that a terminus of this size would almost certainly have had some kind of loco shed and possibly even a turntable at some point.
With the advent of diesels though it’s quite possible that the shed would have shut down so what about this as an idea:
You could purchase an extra point and fit it here:


This could provide a couple of interesting things:

1) You could have a disused ex steam loco shed at the end of the siding with broken windows/weed covered track etc (Peco do an inspection pit which you could incorporate for a bit of extra detail too).
2) You could still use the bit of siding in front of the shed to stable a loco waiting between turns which could also be useful, and maybe incorporate a small refuelling facility even if it was just a fuel tank and a hosepipe with a few oil drums lying around?

Some other things to consider:

1) You can never have enough sidings in a fiddle yard. The temptation is to put enough in to take the stock you have plus a bit extra for a couple of extra purchases, but believe me once you’re three beers down sitting on your sofa and you end up on eBay you’ll soon be thinking that you should have built more in!

2) Capturing that changeover era could be really interesting. Things like a water tower with rust all over it, peeling paint on the station buildings, and that feeling of decay in the Beeching era with grass growing between the less used sidings, maybe even a track lifting team preparing to remove a siding as a little cameo?
I really love stuff like that.
3) Also have a think about whether you want to fit point motors and auto uncoupling magnets etc. You’ll have to do that stuff first and make sure it works before anything else. I’ve just done it for the first time on my current layout and although it was a bit of work it’s done now and I’m really pleased with it.
4) I’d also advise weathering the track before ballasting because it makes a huge difference. I suppose it all depends on how far you want to go with it, but putting the effort in at an early stage can be very rewarding in the long run.

Anyway that’s what I thought of today for what it’s worth.
In this era of the internet it’s so much easier than it was when I did my first layout to find information and tips etc.
There’s something about that track plan that’s really sparked some imagination in my mind today...

 

[hexagon789]

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I've come up with a vague track layout. The boxes represent the station platforms with the whisky distillery yard at the top, the bottom left sidings are a military logistics depot and bottom right are general goods sidings. Any thoughts? The idea is that it's an early 1960's coastal terminus somewhere in Scotland but close enough to the Central Belt to be the end of the line for commuter trains, with the occasional longer distance service. Freight traffic will be Whisky (out), grain and coal (in) as well as fish, parcels and military supplies (oil/fuel, ammunition). The bay just above the station would be a small loco servicing road and storage for the station pilot as shunt release would be the main method of working.

You may well have done so, but have you looked at actual Scottish coastal termini to see how they were laid out?

Also is this a large town station (say something akin to Gourock, Largs, Wemyss Bay) or something smaller (such as Peterhead, Fraserburgh or even wee Banff)?

Just if I have an idea in that sense I could maybe say something more.

As it is though, looks like it will be an interesting little terminus. I've thought of having something similar but keep getting torn between having a terminus or a through station and the pros/cons of each

 

[Cowley]

You may well have done so, but have you looked at actual Scottish coastal termini to see how they were laid out?

Also is this a large town station (say something akin to Gourock, Largs, Wemyss Bay) or something smaller (such as Peterhead, Fraserburgh or even wee Banff)?

Just if I have an idea in that sense I could maybe say something more.

As it is though, looks like it will be an interesting little terminus. I've thought of having something similar but keep getting torn between having a terminus or a through station and the pros/cons of each

Oh blimey Banff station.
I just nicked this image off Wikipedia:



Just look at it!

 

[hexagon789]

Oh blimey Banff station.
I just nicked this image off Wikipedia:

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Just look at it!

I know right!

The way the departure platform runs into cover under a mini-overall roof! Two platforms seems way to grand for the service it had.

 

[Cowley]

I know right!

The way the departure platform runs into cover under a mini-overall roof! Two platforms seems way to grand for the service it had.

Oh god and that grass covered loading platform on the left? It’s making me want to reach for the static grass applicator right now...

 

[Iskra]

Right I’m back (doing something that I’m actually interested in).

A couple of thoughts occurred to me. The first one being that the class 20 set (with its tablet catcher) would very much suit a layout that was based somewhere around Scotland - perhaps just off the Aberdeen - Inverness line?
There were certainly plenty of distilleries around there but I’m not sure how far north the class 20s got in that era. I’ll page @GusB here and see what he thinks.
Alternatively you could go for somewhere West Highlandish but then it’s hard to do that area justice without doing some whopping great mountains...

I did wonder for a moment whether you could set it in East Anglia because there was lots of grain traffic in the area as well as military traffic. That’s something else to consider possibly?

I really like the track plan but for me there was something missing, and it was that a terminus of this size would almost certainly have had some kind of loco shed and possibly even a turntable at some point.
With the advent of diesels though it’s quite possible that the shed would have shut down so what about this as an idea:
You could purchase an extra point and fit it here:
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This could provide a couple of interesting things:

1) You could have a disused ex steam loco shed at the end of the siding with broken windows/weed covered track etc (Peco do an inspection pit which you could incorporate for a bit of extra detail too).
2) You could still use the bit of siding in front of the shed to stable a loco waiting between turns which could also be useful, and maybe incorporate a small refuelling facility even if it was just a fuel tank and a hosepipe with a few oil drums lying around?

Some other things to consider:

1) You can never have enough sidings in a fiddle yard. The temptation is to put enough in to take the stock you have plus a bit extra for a couple of extra purchases, but believe me once you’re three beers down sitting on your sofa and you end up on eBay you’ll soon be thinking that you should have built more in!

2) Capturing that changeover era could be really interesting. Things like a water tower with rust all over it, peeling paint on the station buildings, and that feeling of decay in the Beeching era with grass growing between the less used sidings, maybe even a track lifting team preparing to remove a siding as a little cameo?
I really love stuff like that.
3) Also have a think about whether you want to fit point motors and auto uncoupling magnets etc. You’ll have to do that stuff first and make sure it works before anything else. I’ve just done it for the first time on my current layout and although it was a bit of work it’s done now and I’m really pleased with it.
4) I’d also advise weathering the track before ballasting because it makes a huge difference. I suppose it all depends on how far you want to go with it, but putting the effort in at an early stage can be very rewarding in the long run.

Anyway that’s what I thought of today for what it’s worth.
In this era of the internet it’s so much easier than it was when I did my first layout to find information and tips etc.
There’s something about that track plan that’s really sparked some imagination in my mind today...

Thank you for your excellent feedback I should probably add now that I've also acquired a 101 DMU, Standard 4 Tank, a Stanier Jubilee and WD 2-8-0 Austerity, so I think that puts me somewhere closer towards the Central Belt. Although obviously, being fictitious artistic license can be used.

I definitely need somewhere for the minor servicing of locomotives and I like the idea of a dilapidated small shed, hopefully I can create space for that. In my imagination the main MPD was somewhere 'off scene', which would save space by not needing a turntable on layout. I think MPD's were often away from the main stations, for example Carnforth in relation to Lancaster & Morecambe, Kingmoor in terms of Carlisle or Stranraer in relation to Stranraer Harbour, even that's why I felt I didn't need one on layout? I am also constrained by only having 2 foot of width to use which is the main limiting factor.

Yes, that aura of decay is one of the aspects that attracted me to the era!

Excellent call on the auto uncoupling magnets, I hadn't considered those at all. Point motors are probably a step too far for me at this point.

Yes, track weathering is something that I want to attempt, I think it makes a big difference. As soon as I have the boards and have tested that my final track plan actually works then I will be onto underlay, ballasting and attempting track weathering.

Yes, there is a lot of information out there to consider!

 

[Iskra]

You may well have done so, but have you looked at actual Scottish coastal termini to see how they were laid out?

Also is this a large town station (say something akin to Gourock, Largs, Wemyss Bay) or something smaller (such as Peterhead, Fraserburgh or even wee Banff)?

Just if I have an idea in that sense I could maybe say something more.

As it is though, looks like it will be an interesting little terminus. I've thought of having something similar but keep getting torn between having a terminus or a through station and the pros/cons of each

I have now! The main thing that I seem to be missing looking at some examples is a centre road for carriage storage.

This would be a large town.

 

[GusB]

A couple of thoughts occurred to me. The first one being that the class 20 set (with its tablet catcher) would very much suit a layout that was based somewhere around Scotland - perhaps just off the Aberdeen - Inverness line?
There were certainly plenty of distilleries around there but I’m not sure how far north the class 20s got in that era. I’ll page @GusB here and see what he thinks.
Alternatively you could go for somewhere West Highlandish but then it’s hard to do that area justice without doing some whopping great mountains...

Apologies for the delayed reply. I've had a look on railscot.co.uk to see if I could find any photos of 20s from my immediate local area, but I couldn't find any. That said, I only checked Burghead, Forres and Elgin.

According to "Diesels in the Highlands" (Weeks, G. p44), Inverness had two in the early 1960s, and there were five allocated to Kittybrewster. Apparently they could occasionally be seen on the Highland Main Line, but their small fuel tanks limited their range. The accompanying photograph shows one running light at Pitlochry. It's not inconceivable that that they might have appeared on the Aberdeen to Inverness line at some point, and may have run over whatever branches were left. Probably a bit before my time, to be honest.

With bit of modellers' licence, though...

 

[FrodshamJnct]

First go at wiring a DCC bus this afternoon on my micro coffee table layout/diorama and... ...nothing. Convinced I had it right. Tested everything and it turns out I hadn’t been aggressive enough when splicing the dropper wires to the bus wire! Extra hard pressing into place with the pliers and we’re alive! Thankful the weather is going to remain nice so I can get outside and start the track weathering tomorrow.

 

[Cowley]

First go at wiring a DCC bus this afternoon on my micro coffee table layout/diorama and... ...nothing. Convinced I had it right. Tested everything and it turns out I hadn’t been aggressive enough when splicing the dropper wires to the bus wire! Extra hard pressing into place with the pliers and we’re alive! Thankful the weather is going to remain nice so I can get outside and start the track weathering tomorrow.

I was having a wiring brain ache today as well Tom.
I wired in all the bulbs for the lights in the buildings. This is what it looks like underneath now...



The bits of track are my busbars with the one on the right being the point motors, the middle one the lights and the one on the left the track.
My last layout was wired so badly that if something went wrong it was almost impossible to work out what had happened.

Edit - Bear in mind that this is a small station with a loop and only three sidings.

 

[Cowley]

I have now! The main thing that I seem to be missing looking at some examples is a centre road for carriage storage.

This would be a large town.

Ah see what you mean now.
I’m going to have a further think about prototypical locations tonight but I must say that I’m very impressed with your expanded fleet.
I think it’s going to be an excellent project.

Apologies for the delayed reply. I've had a look on railscot.co.uk to see if I could find any photos of 20s from my immediate local area, but I couldn't find any. That said, I only checked Burghead, Forres and Elgin.

According to "Diesels in the Highlands" (Weeks, G. p44), Inverness had two in the early 1960s, and there were five allocated to Kittybrewster. Apparently they could occasionally be seen on the Highland Main Line, but their small fuel tanks limited their range. The accompanying photograph shows one running light at Pitlochry. It's not inconceivable that that they might have appeared on the Aberdeen to Inverness line at some point, and may have run over whatever branches were left. Probably a bit before my time, to be honest.

With bit of modellers' licence, though...

I’d slightly picked the wrong area there Gus. Thanks anyway though.
Interesting that Inverness had two 20s in the early 60s though. I know that Eastfield had quite a few over the years , but I wonder what the Inverness ones were used on?

 

[Cowley]

Ah lockdown heaven today.
I managed to gather together some chipboard, screws, wiring and enough track to cobble together a temporary return loop for the railway.
I used every single spare bit of track for it but it’s been lovely watching the trains go round and doing a bit of shunting this afternoon.

 

[Iskra]

Ah lockdown heaven today.
I managed to gather together some chipboard, screws, wiring and enough track to cobble together a temporary return loop for the railway.
I used every single spare bit of track for it but it’s been lovely watching the trains go round and doing a bit of shunting this afternoon.

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That looks excellent! Is there any reason it cant be left like that permanently?

 

[Cowley]

That looks excellent! Is there any reason it cant be left like that permanently?

Thanks mate. If I ever round to taking it to shows I’ll eventually do something like this but a bit better made and with some extra fiddle yard roads. It’ll certainly do for now though.

 

[FrodshamJnct]

Ah lockdown heaven today.
I managed to gather together some chipboard, screws, wiring and enough track to cobble together a temporary return loop for the railway.
I used every single spare bit of track for it but it’s been lovely watching the trains go round and doing a bit of shunting this afternoon.

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Looking good! Really like the scenery. Unfortunately work was too busy today so I didn’t get around to any track weathering but fingers crossed I’ll have that can of Railmatch Sleeper Grime out tomorrow!

 

[Peter C]

Ah lockdown heaven today.
I managed to gather together some chipboard, screws, wiring and enough track to cobble together a temporary return loop for the railway.
I used every single spare bit of track for it but it’s been lovely watching the trains go round and doing a bit of shunting this afternoon.

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Wow - that's amazing! How long has it taken you to get to that stage? Apologies if this has already been asked, but how did you do the roads and the (what I assume is) concrete around the large building by the station (is it a dairy or something similar? I can't remember from reading your thread on it!)? It all looks really brilliant!

-Peter

 

[Peter C]

I thought I might as well share some of my recent work on my layout here as well as my thread. For those who might not have heard of my layout, it measures 8'x4' and is comprised of two main running loops, a large(-ish) station with two through and two terminating platforms, a railway centre, and a couple of sidings - one representing the rest of the world in terms of my railway, the other acting as a coal unloading siding for the railway centre.
My railway is called the Oldmoor Junction Model Railway and is based on the fictional station and town of Oldmoor, located on the old Banbury & Cheltenham Direct Railway between Kingham and Banbury. The station is called "Oldmoor Junction" as the timeline I'm working on for the layout (designed to explain why certain bits of the railway are like they are) includes a section when the station used to connect with another line running northwards to a currently undefined location - hence "Junction" despite that fictional branch having closed in the Beeching Cuts.
The trains running from Oldmoor Junction include heritage and mainline trains, with the former being comprised of a couple of steam locos and some old diesels and the latter being made up of more modern traction and stock.
Anyway - now this post has some context - here are a few of my current projects:-

• Ballasting track
• Designing operations (basic timetable, etc.)
• Town scenery
• Station scenery

I plan to start work on the station scenery during this lockdown as I've already got plenty of bits to make the scene look much better and I can hopefully scratchbuild anything else I may need. I've found the website "Wordsworth Model Railway" has proved to be very useful for free card kits for all sorts of railway and non-railway infrastructure and I'm hoping that there'll be some detailing kits or something I can use from that.
Here's a photo of my current progress in part of the layout:

(this photo is slightly outdated already, despite being 3 days old - the track laid out at the bottom of the frame has become a siding now and the scenery has been sorted a bit)

So that's my model railway project which is on the go at the moment - a full layout! I've been working on this layout in some form or another for 5 years now and I've had several trackplans and two baseboards but I'm hoping to make plenty of progress during lockdown to keep myself entertained - although I don't seem to have suffered from cabin fever at all really!

Thanks (and I hope this isn't too long!),

-Peter

 

[Cowley]

Wow - that's amazing! How long has it taken you to get to that stage? Apologies if this has already been asked, but how did you do the roads and the (what I assume is) concrete around the large building by the station (is it a dairy or something similar? I can't remember from reading your thread on it!)? It all looks really brilliant!


-Peter

Thanks for your kind words Peter.
I just had a look back and I started it in March last year so 13 months ago.
The first thing I made was the station building and then I made all the other buildings before I made the actual board.
It’s definitely the best thing I’ve ever made, and I’ve really enjoyed doing the research on it and trying to recreate the actual place as best I can - I’ve never actually modelled a real location before but in a way it makes things slightly easier because you know what you’ve got to do...

The roads were made of thick card sprayed with a dark acrylic primer, and I bought a packet of road markings (which I stuck on individually!) to finish it all off.
I actually went to the place and took photos to work out where everything should be even though I’d driven through the place countless times in the last 30 years.

I used a warhammer pigment to do the concrete, and yes you’re right, that was a dairy once. Although by the period I’m doing it was being used to manufacture and distribute fertiliser, and the yard was also being used for loading logs.

All of this is why it was such an unusual place and was just begging to be modelled.
Just look at all of this activity (not my photo):



I’ll be honest, I’ve become slightly obsessed with the place this past year.

 

[Peter C]

Thanks for your kind words Peter.
I just had a look back and I started it in March last year so 13 months ago.
The first thing I made was the station building and then I made all the other buildings before I made the actual board.
It’s definitely the best thing I’ve ever made, and I’ve really enjoyed doing the research on it and trying to recreate the actual place as best I can - I’ve never actually modelled a real location before but in a way it makes things slightly easier because you know what you’ve got to do...

The roads were made of thick card sprayed with a dark acrylic primer, and I bought a packet of road markings (which I stuck on individually!) to finish it all off.
I actually went to the place and took photos to work out where everything should be even though I’d driven through the place countless times in the last 30 years.

I used a warhammer pigment to do the concrete, and yes you’re right, that was a dairy once. Although by the period I’m doing it was being used to manufacture and distribute fertiliser, and the yard was also being used for loading logs.

All of this is why it was such an unusual place and was just begging to be modelled.
Just look at all of this activity (not my photo):

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I’ll be honest, I’ve become slightly obsessed with the place this past year.

13 months - that's not bad. For the buildings, did you use scale measurements or did you just make them to a size which looked appropriate? I've found that Google Earth (when the buildings still exist) can be useful for building measurements - use the line tool and measure the length and width, and then in my experience, guess the height! A program on the "Wordsworth Model Railway" website converts these measurements from the prototype to scale sizes which has helped me quite a bit.
I've always thought of modelling a real location and the reason why I've wanted to do so is partially because of that reason - you know what you've got to model. If I was to make a real location in model form, it would probably be either an end-to-end layout in 00 gauge or a (very) small loop in N gauge to store underneath the main layout.
That's a good way of doing the roads - before I have only used pre-made road sections and laid them one after the other so when I get to that bit of my project I'll try that out.
That whole thing does really look interesting and a fun place to model! Plenty of things to see and I assume there'll be plenty of things to do in terms of operations?

-Peter

 

[Cowley]

Yes in the period I’m doing (1986 - 1993) there were regular loco (31 and 33) hauled trains to Barnstaple, plus Speedlink traffic (37 and 47 hauled) which also served Lapford for logs and fertiliser.
After the loco hauled services finished there was a spare set of tatty coaches kept at Exeter which was pressed into service and frequently took the departmental (DCWA) 50s to Barnstaple as well as the odd 47. There were also DMUs of course and I’d love a chocolate and cream 142 Skipper if one comes out.

All the buildings were made purely by eye but they seem to be about right. I did think about trying to get measurements, but just diving in got the better of me in the end.

I think I’m going to finish sorting out the garage today and maybe do some more trees.

 

[cossie4i]

Ah lockdown heaven today.
I managed to gather together some chipboard, screws, wiring and enough track to cobble together a temporary return loop for the railway.
I used every single spare bit of track for it but it’s been lovely watching the trains go round and doing a bit of shunting this afternoon.

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Just to show you how well you have done, I showed the wife this picture (she has no interest in railways) and the first thing she said it looks like Lapford.

 

[Cowley]

Just to show you how well you have done, I showed the wife this picture (she has no interest in railways) and the first thing she said it looks like Lapford.

Yes!!

 

[AnthonyRail]

Ah lockdown heaven today.
I managed to gather together some chipboard, screws, wiring and enough track to cobble together a temporary return loop for the railway.
I used every single spare bit of track for it but it’s been lovely watching the trains go round and doing a bit of shunting this afternoon.

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Amazing.

N gauge looks so detailed

 

[61653 HTAFC]

So far a lack of track is limiting progress on my project (as is a lack of baseboards and general modelling skill) but I'm working on what I can with this simple but excellent Wills kit... here you can see a little bit of what might have been, had the Bristol and Exeter been as station-happy as their later overlords were... though if this halt had opened IRL it wouldn't have survived Beeching considering that neighbouring Wellington didn't.

Please excuse my temporary nameboard, I couldn't get the mobile version of Word to use the downloaded 'Rail Alphabet' font so had to use Arial bold!

 

[43055]

Ah lockdown heaven today.
I managed to gather together some chipboard, screws, wiring and enough track to cobble together a temporary return loop for the railway.
I used every single spare bit of track for it but it’s been lovely watching the trains go round and doing a bit of shunting this afternoon.

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Very nice! Whilst I do like N gauge I would probably find it to fiddley to do the scenery.

I thought I might as well share some of my recent work on my layout here as well as my thread. For those who might not have heard of my layout, it measures 8'x4' and is comprised of two main running loops, a large(-ish) station with two through and two terminating platforms, a railway centre, and a couple of sidings - one representing the rest of the world in terms of my railway, the other acting as a coal unloading siding for the railway centre.
My railway is called the Oldmoor Junction Model Railway and is based on the fictional station and town of Oldmoor, located on the old Banbury & Cheltenham Direct Railway between Kingham and Banbury. The station is called "Oldmoor Junction" as the timeline I'm working on for the layout (designed to explain why certain bits of the railway are like they are) includes a section when the station used to connect with another line running northwards to a currently undefined location - hence "Junction" despite that fictional branch having closed in the Beeching Cuts.
The trains running from Oldmoor Junction include heritage and mainline trains, with the former being comprised of a couple of steam locos and some old diesels and the latter being made up of more modern traction and stock.
Anyway - now this post has some context - here are a few of my current projects:-

• Ballasting track
• Designing operations (basic timetable, etc.)
• Town scenery
• Station scenery

I plan to start work on the station scenery during this lockdown as I've already got plenty of bits to make the scene look much better and I can hopefully scratchbuild anything else I may need. I've found the website "Wordsworth Model Railway" has proved to be very useful for free card kits for all sorts of railway and non-railway infrastructure and I'm hoping that there'll be some detailing kits or something I can use from that.
Here's a photo of my current progress in part of the layout:
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(this photo is slightly outdated already, despite being 3 days old - the track laid out at the bottom of the frame has become a siding now and the scenery has been sorted a bit)

So that's my model railway project which is on the go at the moment - a full layout! I've been working on this layout in some form or another for 5 years now and I've had several trackplans and two baseboards but I'm hoping to make plenty of progress during lockdown to keep myself entertained - although I don't seem to have suffered from cabin fever at all really!

Thanks (and I hope this isn't too long!),

-Peter

Thank you for sharing the website. Looks like some of the kits might appear on my layout in the future.

Looks like you got a good layout going one there with plenty to get you started. Will be interesting to see how it develops.

 

[Cowley]

So far a lack of track is limiting progress on my project (as is a lack of baseboards and general modelling skill) but I'm working on what I can with this simple but excellent Wills kit... here you can see a little bit of what might have been, had the Bristol and Exeter been as station-happy as their later overlords were... though if this halt had opened IRL it wouldn't have survived Beeching considering that neighbouring Wellington didn't.

Please excuse my temporary nameboard, I couldn't get the mobile version of Word to use the downloaded 'Rail Alphabet' font so had to use Arial bold!
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Nice. That’s a good little kit.
You’ve reminded me that I need to make some station signs...

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Nice. That’s a good little kit.
You’ve reminded me that I need to make some station signs...

Ideally I want two platforms, probably longer than a single one of those kits- I can probably work out a more economical way of doing so than buying multiples of the same kit and junking most of the shelters!

Getting the roof on is proving tricky though, so if I end up with a second try at the shelter it's not the worst thing in the world!

 

[FrodshamJnct]

Got to do the track weathering today. I’m impressed with the effect achieved with the Railmatch Sleeper Grime spray. One can has done 4 coats of all track to get a really grimy yard-type feel, hopefully. I have ordered another though as there a few sections where I’ve missed the sides of the rails. Overall result - chuffed.