Even just loco sized boxes would do. The cattle dock definitely looks better like that.
Get a [url= http://www.precisionlabels.com/shunt/jpage300.html ]shunting puzzle[/url] in it somewhere. Something to do in between running trains in and out (link might not work if not using internet explorer)
I live very close to the Manchester Buxton line. Would it be possible to build a fairly small set which has DB Shenker locos, aggregate wagons and local passenger services i.e. Northern Rail and East Midlands?
Thinking something on size of a A2 or A1 piece of paper?
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Mr Sheen- going n gauge you might be able to compress a historic version of Dove Holes station onto A1 size. Or a wallpaper pasting table. Using a historic version you can retain the sidings that make it interesting to operate, and if you want to run modern trains just invent an excuse for the sidings being kept. This is what I did for my layout.
It's totally possible, depends on how much operational interest you want.
[url= http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/108369-the-sidings-recreating-the-modern-scene-in-a-small-space/ ]this[/url] is a great modern layout, and very compact, but frankly operationally it's little more than a (very detailed) diorama.
N gauge would afford you more options, you'd just about get an oval in the area of A1 paper.
Takes me back a fair bit. As a kid I had a layout which took up the whole of my Grandads loft space. Spent most weekends up there and buying new locos and rolling stock with him. Good old days.
Unfortunately I sold most of it when we left the UK over 10 years ago. Just kept a few locos that have sentimental value.
Maybe one day I'll get back in to it.
I built a model of [url= http://www.gwr813.org/ ]GWR 813[/url] to approximately 1/16 scale in Meccano.
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I also do a bit of 12" to the foot modelling on the Severn Valley Railway.
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Well, there haven't been any updates lately, least of all from me, so I thought I'd give you a progress report. The layout is off the drawing board and very much in progress. Here's a general view of the station end..
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All the buildings are Metcalfe kits...
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This Bachmann Class 101 is a beautiful model and runs as well as it looks.
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A bit of freight action:
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No idea what I was doing when this thread started!
Anyway just for Saxon Riders benefit, here's me in Medicine hat in 2000..
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Haven't got much of my Hornby Dublo set left. No track & only 2 loco's, but one is a mint & boxed tank engine in black BR livery, The price on the box says 19 shillings & elevenpence! (Or however it was written) It's in the loft along with a mint & boxed repair crane & an unboxed but clean Princess Elizabeth loco & tender. (6201?) All circa 1960's!