I have not made much progress on my current projects which will happen when I finally get the shed cleared and weatherproofed so that I can get my workshop sorted out.
With this in mind I have taken a logical decision to start another project :-)
This will be a portable layout that I can use when the weather is bad and that will be a test and photographic stage, and I also hope to build it to a high enough standard to exhibit it.
The latest Railway Modeler came with a booklet describing several compact layouts one of which was a main line station that shows only the end of the platforms with the loco and 3 coaches only showing. The loco then uncouples and runs round its train, in other words it runs back into the fiddle yard. The coaches are then pulled back into the yard and a loco put back on the front for the next journey back into the station. There are through trains but these are short loco hauled services of a maximum of three coaches hauled by smaller locos or DMU's. Freight trains, again only short ones, also run through.
My plan will use all this and will include a diesel refueling point into which the loco's will be run into after they are uncoupled. Loco's will leave when a train arrives giving the illusion that this loco will haul the train out again.
I have downloaded a layout planning program called xTrkCad and I will use this to design the layout and post the results on this blog in the Projects area.
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