making room for the layout

[@KennethRankin-r2z]

After watching your planning video for the East Lancashire railway, I have decided to build a small O gauge layout based on the village in Buckinghamshire England where I lived as a child.
The village is Weston Turville and the line would run from Stoke Mandeville station.
The line would serve the station and a private siding for a fictious electrical engineering company run by my late father and his friend.
This makes the layout have personal appeal to me.
The first layout plan is 16 feet by 2 feet including the fiddle yard.
I have revised the plan down to 14 feet by 2 feet. I am not sure how much smaller I can get the layout and still have enough operating interest.
The engine must have space to run around the train.
A carriage is 18 inches long, a van 10 inches and the engine is 12 inches.
Thank you for your inspirational videos.

[@MicroModelRailwayDispatch]

Thanks for the comment. Yes “operating interest” is the key phrase and it means different things to different people.

[@mysticrailroad]

good luck with the new build! :)

[@ajkleipass]

All layouts have a life-cycle, so no tears for those that have served their purpose.
That said, when can we come to your place to dumpster dive? 😉🤣

[@KennethRankin-r2z]

So the trick is to reduce the size but keep the interest. I wish I knew how to do that.

[@MicroModelRailwayDispatch]

I think I sense another video blogchat on the subject coming... :D

[@microlayoutsbytom]

Are you going to salvage that APA box, or is it pretty much shot?