Afternoon all!
I thought I'd spend a bit of my home isolation thinking of the design for my first layout.
The Home Office has graciously given approval for work to be carried out on a bit of garden to the side of the house. So I've come up with a quick design before permission is revoked.
From everything I've read most designs evolve rapidly over time anyway, so I'm not expecting this to be the finished article but something to start with.
I'm expecting to make this initial layout elevated and will be running Deadrail Battery and hopefully some live steam. All pointwork is going to be pneumatically controlled.
I'd be grateful for a bit of feedback on the layout as it stands, whether it's missing anything particularly useful or there are any glaring issues.
I've tried to keep things fairly simple and I've not got to the point of working out the exact radii and pointwork yet - I will lay everything out on the ground once I have the rough idea. I wanted to keep large radii wherever I could, with the exception of the tightish little return loop in the top right, which coulc be used by the smaller locos.
One concern I do have is that it's an enclosed double loop which may make getting to/maintaining the centre a bit of a pain as you constantly need to cross the track.
Thanks!
Darren
I thought I'd spend a bit of my home isolation thinking of the design for my first layout.
The Home Office has graciously given approval for work to be carried out on a bit of garden to the side of the house. So I've come up with a quick design before permission is revoked.
From everything I've read most designs evolve rapidly over time anyway, so I'm not expecting this to be the finished article but something to start with.
I'm expecting to make this initial layout elevated and will be running Deadrail Battery and hopefully some live steam. All pointwork is going to be pneumatically controlled.
I'd be grateful for a bit of feedback on the layout as it stands, whether it's missing anything particularly useful or there are any glaring issues.
I've tried to keep things fairly simple and I've not got to the point of working out the exact radii and pointwork yet - I will lay everything out on the ground once I have the rough idea. I wanted to keep large radii wherever I could, with the exception of the tightish little return loop in the top right, which coulc be used by the smaller locos.
One concern I do have is that it's an enclosed double loop which may make getting to/maintaining the centre a bit of a pain as you constantly need to cross the track.
Thanks!
Darren