New Junction EP11 - Exhibition Mode
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- In this episode at the modern image 'OO' gauge model railway layout New Junction, we continue work on building the 4-track ECML mainline, set up the layout in its 'Exhibition format' and have a layout tour and take a look at the latest additions.
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Very nice work, and planning, not to mention vision for exhibition and garage modes...
Keep aiming high, all that hard work will be rewarded...
👍👍
I hope so! Haha
Also, I love your O guage garden layout...
and, I vote yes for the station on the heritage line...
Looks great in this mode - a testament to your planning!
As for questions etc:
1) Yes, straighten the kink
2) No to the station: however small, it's going to dominate, and you'll lose that "watching the trains go by" USP. IRL, the station throat to even a small station would probably take up most of the length of exhibition mode.
When you do the fiddle yard, you're going to need a bigger church!
Great job Richard, I’m pleased it’s all working out so well.
Wow Richard the Layout is looking Fantastic you are a wonderful presenter so open and honest. The Trains look great. Yes you are right about the Heritage Line maybe sharper curves . Woods . Level Crossing.River Bridge. A slight distraction. Your lovely doggie looks asleep but she's on Security watch. Great Layout look forward to seeing more videos. Onwards and upwards. Best wishes Richard Crompton.Scarborough North Yorkshire.
Long trains look incredible
Awesome Richard as always!!! Cheers Onno.
Lovely to see you again today, hopefully we'll see each other again soon!
The pleasure was all mine, happy revising! FYI the flush sided tender is correct for the period it's been modelled on 😊
Brilliant, thought as much but I thought it was worth checking!
@@timbervalleyproductions always worth checking, many thanks! 😊
@@NewJunction 👍
No to a station. Love this so much as it is different. If you want to break up the mainline, add a loop for holding a freight.
Top tip!
looks great new sub from Canada thx for the post.😊😊👍👍
Looks mint Thirsk 4 track chester-le-street 2 track there was also one south of York but can’t remember it’s name 2 track only locals stopped. Keep up the good work team
Agree with Thirsk. Has structure over the four lines, with 125mph through the centre. Not Chester-Le-Street purely as the mission was to have the four lines. But I totally get it.
Ulleskelf, I think is the other one you’re thinking of, with the four lines. Just north of Church Fenton. Smaller station and only covers two, out of the four, main lines.
Either options would be awesome for the layout. Personally I’d head for Ulleskelf. Purely as Thirsk would dominate a bit over the four running lines. Ulleskelf can be present without that factor.
Great suggestions.
Keep up the good work Richard.
Richard, your layout looks fabulous in exhibition mode. The caledonian sleeper train looks a natural fit on the line. It will be great to see how the heritage line looks when completed. Cant wait to see the next update. Many thanks Steve
Sorry I sent that before it was done. I like your style I love your partner the furry I'm learning about DCC you are one of the few men that I watch started watching you on the new build in your garage. You're one of two European men that iWatch. The other gentleman is from Germany. Just want to thank you for your knowledge your effort you put into your videos and what I like to call your professionalism. Having said that thank you keep them coming
You may not see this but in terms of an ECML station have a look at Thirsk, you could shorten the platforms for your layout as if it were only serving 4 or 5 car length trains, eg 220s and shorter 800s, but as it only faces the two slow lines on the 4 track mainline so you can still have fast running trains at an exhibition. Add the red brick bridge for a scenic break and the station build which hugely resembles a scale scenes kit and you’ve got a fitting station for your layout! Hope this helps :)
I see all comments 😁 and think is what I've gone for, watch this space for the next episode
The layout looks great in exhibition mode! As a suggestion; if you are going to put a small mainline station into the layout, then offset the station on the heritage line so that you don't have two stations opposite each other, as that would make the while layout too heavy in the central area.
Top tip from a top chap 😘
Great work Richard. Good to see such progress. I would love to see Hadley Wood station as I used to commute from Hatfield to Kings Cross. An alternative could be a disused station, overgrown platforms with boarded up or even demolished buildings. Looking forwards to the next one.
Incredible! It looks great.
Exciting times ahead thankyou for the video 👏
Amazing to see the layout in all its exhibition glory. I have binged on this series over the last two days and you have really re-kindled my enthusiasm again after 50 years away from it all. (that does sound a long time!) Looking forward to the next video. Nice one.
For a station, you could consider Sandy. Platforms on the pair of outer (slow) lines only. Another thought is a disused station. Platforms in situ but overgrown. An unusual feature rarely seen as most layouts only have space for 1 fully functioning station, so they don’t use “waste” room on a disused site.
Recently got back into the hobby…after a 26 year hiatus. I’m in the States. Old layout was HO. New layout, in my new house, is S. Just got caught up on your videos. Cool garden and garden railway, btw. When you first got started in the garage, you initially showed a double deck dog bone with helixes as a layout plan. Unless I missed it, that never made another appearance and the garage mode / expo mode scheme was the order of the following days. While you adequately explained the desire behind the modular layout, I don’t think I heard the impetus behind the change from the double deck helix design to what you went with. If you don’t mind, I am just curious. Appreciate the effort you make in your layout and the videos! Great attitude too. Bill
sandy, Hitchin or St Neots would be a good start. that was my home turf and great smaller stations!
Yup i agree with that 👍
I'll take a look
Although not my era, those MK5's do look impressive... fantastic effort there Richard really does look great, look forward to seeing those MK4's & 5's belting up and down the ECML!!
PS: What a great hobby, so glad I got back into it :)
It looks great. Obvs 'it's your train set..' etc but in response to your comments about adding features to the mainline I'd probably leave as is because I think the intricacy/details and features on the low level preserved line with slow running and necessarily infrequent trains will nicely counterpoint the faster, and more frequent, mainline trains running above and create an overall sense of balance. And there can be plenty of scenic interest in even 'plain' mainline with signalling equipment, track cess and other features, control boxes, maybe a maintenance gang on one line requiring slow running etc etc.
my two bob's worth is what you are doing and sharing with us is absolutely brilliant and thankyou so much, ive paused the video as i comment and i thought you are gonna see challenges with a lot of similarity to pete waterman's making tracks layout which is phenomenal, then i see two guys working on that helping you which is fantastic and your bound to succeed, i have followed New Junction and new new junction since i got back into the hobby a few years ago and see you at g e t s but didnt want to bother you, i am watching and learning and appreciate your passion/enthusiasm and look forward to how this wonderful project progresses.
Thanks Andy, I'm glad my trifles ate of interest! Do come and say Hi next time you see me! 😄
Wow exhibition mode is AWESOME! It's so cool seeing such long trains. I personally like you original idea of no platform on the mainline and keeping it to the heritage line. But if you have changed your mind to add a small station go for it. You need enjoyment from your layout and if that will increase that - go for it.
Thanks Jade, you're dead right!
Looks fantastic ! Like your improvement ideas and love the transit !
Thank you very much!
Looking good Richard I think you are right about the station it would add some more play value
Curious as to how you are going to build the exhibition fiddle yard to deal with the sleeper.
Personally I am not bothered with a station on the mainline - I think the long trains, both passenger and intermodal frieght will look impressive enough - and as there are points, you will always have an excuse to stop trains at signals/ slow line to fast line movements etc
Good point!
@@NewJunction I was going to say are you not going to need a fiddle yard at each end ???
Sorry I missed the premier Richard. I expected you to find adjustments to be needed. Some look intimidating to me but your enthusiasm tells me that you have it all in hand. An ECML station? How about Arlesey or Sandy? Looking forward to seeing the next update. David.
Hi Richard,
Harringay might be a good candidate, platforms on just the up and down slows, only around 120m long, just right for 5/6 coach trains, there's Green Lanes in the cutting within walking distance on the other line and even the chord to join the two lines up.
Take a look at Northallerton station on the ECML, I think that may have what you're looking for. Layout looks fantastic in exhibition mode.
Thanks for the tip!
I was just about to say at the end that you can’t get the staff and you stole my thunder! Great minds think alike.😂😂 Thanks for the episode, I enjoyed it.👍🏻
There are plenty of small stations that aren’t long enough for modern express trains, but are serviced by local stoppers made up of shorter DMUs. So a station just big enough for three and four car trains would work. Longer trains stopping there would only disembark passengers from the first three coaches as per the real railway.
4 track station with short platforms, there’s a few suitable candidates towards Kings Cross. Some good examples are Brookman’s Park or Welhan Green (the latter being local platforms only), these can only take six car trains bound for KGX/the former Northern City Line into Moorgate.
Thank you for putting together a great channel. Here in South Africa I have had to resorted to downloading episodes so that I still have access to entertainment while experiencing loadshedding (Systematic shutting down of the electricity supply in order to prevent a national blackout). My layout is nowhere near the level of sophistication and quality of yours and I seriously doubt it will ever be, because for financial reasons I resort to looking for the scraps that my children and I get to fiddle with. I still enjoy getting new ideas from what you are doing. Keep it up. Also glad that Lucy keeps I eye on you.
Wow it’s really coming together Richard 👍🏻even the 16 coach Caledonian sleeper looks right at home…i can already imagine them flying down the layout 👍🏻brilliant
You and me both!
Looks great in exhibition mode ! Re a station on the main line, why not model just the end of the station at one end of the layout so it would double up as a scenic break but give the impression of a much larger station. (Half relief). Looking forward to seeing more progress soon.
Good idea!
Thought I would check the comments, thought someone would beat me to it, and William has! 🤣I think this is an idea to look at, would then not restrict any trains stopping? Great work, Richard.
The layout in exhibition looks good 👍 your planning was really well thought out so really well done for that . Once again Richard love your TH-cam channel. Bye for now.
The layouts looking great mate,
One point regarding the stations ( and I know it’s already been mentioned) is off setting the stations, rather then having both in the middle.
Maybe on the corner where the class 91 DVT is sat, one prime example is Thirsk using the over bridge as the scenic break on this end of the layout, you could always make it look like the platforms continue on underneath the over bridge, That way the platforms on the scenic section perhaps only need to look long enough for a coach or two on the scenic section.
I’m also in Love with the MK5s Accurascale have done a cracking Job (as always), don’t forget I’ve got my set if you need a another set at exhibitions 🤣
I’ve also ordered another 68 but I’m keeping it under wraps until it arrives 🤫
Excellent video
Thank you very much!
I was confused for a bit there - until I realised that you were talking about super-elevation, rather than simple embankment.
Slip of the tongue after a long couple of days lol
One of the best stations you could probably consider is a version of Welham Green. A very simple Station with very narrow platforms and only platforms on the outside of the 4 tracks so you wouldn’t need to relay any track.
Personally though I would say it doesn’t need a station as it would just slow down the operation of the whole thing.
If you want a station for inspiration how about Sandy? Fast running in the middle roads, the Oxford to Cambridge was once there (a what if preservation) and the south of the station on the down slow has a siding that serves a small industry.
The layout looks great personally I’d leave those running lines as running lines, maybe add some boards to extend it in the future. If you wanted a bit more added interest how about a railway virtual quarry like hinksey
Think you answered your own question as regards to the station, if you want it go for it 😉 you could model the ends of a station at the scenic break end, a road over the tracks housing the station building etc similar to Crewe, that way you can stop any formation in the platforms.
Brilliant,, i think a station would go, and be a asset to the layout. keep up the good work looking forward to the next installment .
One of the most impressive layouts I've ever seen on the exhibition circuit depicted a stretch of the ECML and was simply that - no stations, churches with wedding parties, car crashes or other such clutter. Just a signal box, the odd lineside hut, and a beautifully landscaped long stretch of track with full length trains making their stately progress along the line. I think it was called Stoke Summit, and it attracted quite a crowd. It's rare to have the room to model wide open spaces like that, so I vote no to the station (but am sure it will be fantastic, whatever you do)!
Thanks, I do enjoy Stoke summit
Sandy is on the ECML with LNER etc passing through at speed in the centre with Thameslink stopping at the station
The ECML doesn’t have too many small stations on the 4 track sections, as most of them are the commuter stations outside London. However, up in Yorkshire there are a few stations on the Leeds branch designed for local DMU/EMU services which are maybe 5 car length platforms. The other option for a station would be to consider Thirsk as an option. Platforms are designed for 8 carriages at the most but could be scaled down as Thirsk is only served by Northern & TPExpress services. The other option you could go with is having the heritage station as operational, but with abandoned mainline platforms no longer in use.
Thanks!
Looks great in exhibition mode as it does in garage mode. So very well done 👏
I'm definitely saying yes to a small main line station 👍
Already looking forward to the next update
All the best
Russ
Hi Richard the exhibition mode is working. The mainline kink needs to be smoothed out somewhat why not have a high level platform to incorporate it with the heritage line below? Probably nothing prototypical but may offer interest so probably a more fictitious scenario than modelling reality. Not sure if the 91’s /Mk4 and the Azuma’s have what you call an SDO facility so that longer trains can call at short platformed stations as they do down here in Cornwall! (SDO being selective Door Opening) Keep up the good work.
East Retford is a nice old station with a branch line crossing the main line via an underpass, could be adapted to link to the heritage line
Good idea!
I'm looking forward to an update, whenever that is! :)
Looking good
That is the best way to go at the station, that is of the real Railway, then you’ll get it right
Retford station minus the long platform on the one side, it would look perfect at the far end of the layout before the curve into the fiddle yard
Awesome to see the layout set up in full length mode like that. I've really enjoyed following along with the progress of this!
I'm glad to hear you think the 'kinks' in the mainline are too severe; can understand how it was hard to plan them out when in 'garage' mode. If you can sort those to allow better high-speed running, that'd be great. Same thing with the banking out of the tunnel too.
Personally I'm not keen on the idea of a station of the mainline; I think it would work best just as a stretch of 4-track main line. I'm not so familiar with the ECML, having lived in the East Midlands for the past 12 years; but on the Midland Mainline I do know of those smaller stations, so can sort of see where you're getting at.
Keep up for the fantastic work either way!
Thanks!
The station is a good idea. Now, it looks like Just a long straight track, whereas in garage mode it seems so different. Yes, scencery will change things a lot. Good luck. Martin. (Thailand)
Work is looking good and progressing on the layout Richard, congratulations. I did note at 7min 35sec the vertical deviation when the train was traversing the supports and board breaks, you may want to look into this. I wish you all the best and look forward to future video's, how's the garden layout coming on? Dave
Wow! Looking good. This looked big in garage mode, now it's absolutely enormous! If I put that sleeper train on the tail chaser section of my layout I would be able to connect the front to the back I reckon 🤣.
If your tunnel/bridge is based on Hadley Wood, what about Hadley wood station? Coming out of the tunnel top speed, it’s a good place for train spotting
Also I’ve only just noticed on your intro sequence you have a mini figure of you in each scene 😂👏
There is a simple solution if you think the station will be too big. Build part of a station at the end of the layout so half(?) the train is still on the scenic side and the rest is in the fiddle yard. Great progress.
This is looking awesome look forward to seeing it out on the exhibition circuit. In terms of a station perhaps the centre section of Doncaster this would give you 2 platforms plus 2 fast passing lines in the centre
Hi Richard,
I don’t know if you remember but I sent you an idea a while ago (long before you actually started building 😉) where there was a simple interchange with a connecting walkway down to the preserved line. It would look good to see the remnants of the old ‘original’ station on the main line alongside a modern structure where the station was reopened to connect with the heritage line as well as serve the local village. I think the station would be best suited to the left hand end near where the branch line emerges under the mainline. I can’t think of a prototype off hand, but I’m sure it could look excellent 😎 Perhaps have a road bridge under the mainline and the road traversing the heritage line with a level crossing? 🤔
As for the ‘kink in the main line, I agree it should be smoothed right out but do try to keep a nice long curve in it as it will definitely look better than a dead straight line! 😉
Great to see the beast in its full size. Fantastic! 👍🍻🍀
Its your idea that put a spanner in the works haha 😄 I'm looking forward to attempting to make it work
@@NewJunction: I am so glad that I am such a pain in the Spanish onions mate😂
If I get a chance I don't mind pinging a couple of ideas over to you cos I am thinking of doing a multi level station eventually myself. There was something similar at East Grinstead station but they were perpendicular rather than parallel. However, its well worth a look in terms of how the stations were connected
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Thanks for sharing. Stay safe.
Thank you, I will
I'm really looking forward to this. I took my children to the Doncaster exhibition and there were very few layouts that inspired them. This is in no way a criticism of what was there, ultimately we are not the target audience and what was on show far surpassed anything I could make. However there was no energy, everything was slow and drab. I think there were three layouts which excited them and they all had long, colourful trains moving at speed. One had some penguins escaping from a van, my 6 year old pointed that out to me straight away, he found it very amusing! Certainly look forward to seeing it in action and thanks for sharing and being honest about both the good and bad.
Love the vision and work so far. Quite like the idea of a disused station, maybe with little trace like at Copmanthorpe where there’s the station building (now a house) and a diverging track but little else
Good idea!
Tiny station, sort of 3 car dmu length, you could even have split platforms for the up and down with an underpass connecting them
Good idea
T
Thirsk station just north of york on the ecml has 4 running lines and hst's fly through at 100+mph but also has local stopping services
Firstly, thank you for the update, you clearly are chuffed with it (pun intended)
My thoughts, and no disrespect ment, but I'd not add the mainline station, in garage mode I don't think it would work. Yes to straightening the snake curves up, a gentle sweep would suit the mainline feeling you want to achieve better.
At the none tunnel end, you could make a feature of a large road over rail bridge as scenic break, Halton Road outside of York or the big blue one near Peterborough spring to mind
Let your trains do the talking on the mainline, you have a massed some pretty awesome sets, slow running locals waiting for the fast line or how about a Bells & Two Tones bowser parked up with hoses all rolled out waiting for a heritage rail tour (which in turn gives you more play factor)
Other thoughts are which closed line/route is the Heritage now running on? NVR Station at Yarwell could make a simple feature of a single platform with a run round loop, and maybe you could model a derelict second platform
What ever you decide on, rule one applys!!!
If you are ever over Lincolnshire, drop me a message and I'd happily open my garage up
Thanks again for the update
Thanks Brian, you should email some pics of your layout over 😊
Most of the 4 track running on the ECMLis south of Peterborough so fits 12 cars for Thameslink. You might find a shrunken down Hitchin works maybe long enough for TPE/Northern to stop at but not big enough for a 9 coach express? Hitchin has crossovers but is 2 platforms with fast lines in the middle and a little yard behind one side
Although my personal favourite station is Morpeth, or Manors may work well for you too!
Thanks
Would love to see a time lapse vid of the taking down one "mode" of the layout into the other
Just to make sure I've got the right pieces in the right place 🤣
Great to see it in Exhibition mode and really does look fantastic, I know some people already suggested it but a scaled down Thirsk or Hadley Wood are good options as watching it they would be the suggestions I would had made as well. Great Video.
Hi Richard, Great to see the layout in exhibition mode! For now the jury is out on the station, I can't think of many on the ECML that would fit, If you where to do a station I feel it needs to be at the end of a board so it looks more pleasing and not so busy in exhibition mode but so it can also be self contained in garage mode. For now I would say no to the station, bare in mind you can always use some low relief buildings on the top which would break up the scene and won't be so cluttered. I'm sure you'll get plenty of ideas in the comments, and also from talking to viewers at Model Rail Scotland, see you there, All the best Tony.
Thanks Tony!
Regards a station…..what about something like Dunbar with a single platform to one side of the line? You’d have stopping trains crossing from the mains to relief lines to make their station calls then back again.
Some play value in signalling stopping trains onto the station whilst regulating relief line trains etc.
Exactly
I like the idea of something to draw the eye on the ECML 'upper'... but even a small station is huge...
What about a bridge, and a level crossing on the lower (a little like the viaduct near Hadley wood, Hatfield/welling... they have tunnels and bridges too) as there, there is another line traveling east/west (to Enfield?) which is could mimic the heritage 'lower'?
My immediate thoughts for a smaller ECML station was Thirsk, although the station likes are the two outer ones that splay outwards for the platforms with the fast lines keeping straight in the middle. Something line Northallerton might work with staggered platforms?
Hi Richard,
The layout looks great in exhibition mode as said in video until you see it fully you dont notice things that may need changing to make the scene flow more.
Would suggest not putting in a small station on the mainline as have got plenty of play value (as mentioned below) with the pointa and having them stop at signals to allow trains to stop and pass slower moving one. A suggestion if keen on having something on the main line section why don't you add a small yard for Network rail to gain access to the mainline and have it fenced off with security fencing and gates?
Richard Again Rule 1 Applies (its your railway you make it yours)
Keep up the great work look forward to next video!
Great idea of having a simple station which will not over power the look of the layout. Your station portal is near Potters Bar / Hadley Wood, why not consider Brookmans Park as your station (just a hop, not even a jump from PB/HW). It's in the four track section, has two island platforms which accomadates a six car DMU, and it is not unknown for main line trains to stop due to it being at the end of a section. Keep up the good work. Regards Dave
Thanks Dave!
perhaps having the heritage double track is unrealistic too.. It's pretty unique seeing a exhibition layout being built, very interesting!
That's around the station area, inspired by my local double track heritage railway. 😁
@@NewJunctionThe Great Central Railway, Loughborough?
As already said by another contributor, a station may cause issues when in the other configuration. Also to echo other comments the opportunity to run full length trains on a mainline setting through open countryside is something rarely possible on a OO gauge layout, with the exception of something like Pete Watermans new exhibition layout. Finally given the sheer complexity of the project as a whole, it make more sense to keep things a bit simpler, rather than open up a million new as yet unknown issues caused by trying to incorporate a station such as already said, as to how it will work in the other set up.
Solving issues is half the hobby hehe
Hi Richard loving the layout looks good in both Garage and Exhibition mode. With regards to station on the mainline how about Sandy as it’s got points to go from the slows on to the fast lines
Great video as ever Richard, looks great in exhibition mode with all the full formations in place particularly, and all the hard work has paid off. Thirsk station could be good inspiration for your ideas of a station on the layout, it would allow your TPE sets to stop/start and allow LNER/Grand Central services fly through at the same time
Keep up the great work as ever and hope to see you in Scotland next week for model rail Scotland
Cheers
James
Thanks as always James, sadly I'm not at Glasgow this year, the boss lady is expecting so can't go 😅
@@NewJunction ah fair enough, congratulations and hope everything goes OK for you and the other half in the coming days
This was another great video, this is such an interesting project!
Glad you enjoyed it!
A fascinating watch but I wish you had fewer ads
I think a station is a good idea, I would build it as a medium station for local trains like you suggest, but one platform would be long enough to accommodate a HST or 91, but only in a emergency so the platform would be shortened to say two 158/159’s length. ( I know they don’t run on the east coast just using them as a example of length ) Then you make the ends of platform all overgrown but keep the middle section clear for stopping trains, you could also have signs saying do not alight here, as the approach to London Liverpool Street has such signs just before the station. Not sure about East Coast stations! Nice to see New Junction at its full length and keep up the good work! Or if you don’t want a station just model a derelict station with crumbling buildings and platforms?
Nice work Richard the layout is fantastic what I would suggest is station for New Junction in the middle with the Heritage Line alongside similar to interchange stations
Thanks for the tip
Much kudos to you Richard. Looks impressive. If your going to put a station on the mainline why not put it off centre.
Hi
realise this is very late comment but i think Hatfield station would be interesting - its off-set using one platform from the original ECML station and, on the northbound i think the paltform from the old interchange with a line that ran from Watford on WCML thought st Albans through smallford and in Hatfield. The line from Hatfield to st Albans was taken up and turned into a cycle path (and later the route was cut by the A1 at the Hatfield tunnel but but the line from St Albans to Watford still exists with the abbey flyer
You could maybe have a diss-used station on the mainline I guess. Possible you could add a 4 track through station on the main with 2 thru lines on the inside.
No point Lulu adding her expertise until you have caught up!!
Ha! She's the real expert!
Instead of a station and trying to work the track so that it looks a bit straighter as it crosses the 'join', would it be possible to have a very easy curve from just after the points from the tunnel end that curves to the right, omitting the straight and the kink. The tracks on the left of the join are already slightly off-set to the back of the layout so some of the trackwork can be left as it is. The only major work to the baseboard may be a section to be added where the rear most track runs on the curve at the end near the points, and there is already some there on which it could be fixed to.
The curve wouldn't be out of place and would still enable the fast speeds that you are wanting.
Top tip
When you said you’d hired a church I imagined a church hall not an actual church. Like mini making tracks
Looking good! A small station would be great.
I think so too!
If you’re looking for a station to recreate? Could recommend Arlesey, Sandy or possibly a reconfigured Thirsk considering you have a TPE Mk5 set so would seem fitting.
I did some checking i don't think the mainline HST's stopped at any smallish station. They do stop a couple of times to add and drop off bits of the train BUT the station they stop is still BIG by modelling standards. You could add a subtract the coaches in the fiddle yard for "play value". Are they to long, Maybe they are, will you actually be able to "run at speed" end to end... start and stop them without showing that process. Small station passed by the HST's on the corner. Its a smaller model of the Pete Waterman build and he uses 120ft of straight track. To get the "AT SPEED" thing working you would have to loop the lines again.
"Play Value" add a connection from your Heritage line to the main line in the corner. Connecting it to the small station on the top of the layout. Park the train there, add a modern engine at the rear and steam around the mainline. Cheat and turn the steam engine around in the fiddle yard, drop the modern engine off at the upper station and roll down the hill to the heritage line. Keep the line separate giving you a portion of five line track on the top level in that corner.
Good Luck with your plans. I see a certain level of copycatting in the layout.
Thanks!
I would be placing a Station of some sort in the middle, straighten those couple whooies in main line, will like to the fiddle yard build as also need to build one for my layout, be off an 8ft x 4ft tail chaser so need to be able to attach & disattach when need arise to conserve space in my shed.
Thanks
Hi Richard,
Railways in churchs are becoming an everyday event so well done for doing this and that is some layout in this format and yes I do think a small station would be a good idea as a camera can be positioned on it and super shots of your mainline trains running through at high speed always good in a video and the suggestion of a link to the heritage line is well worth doing as the musuem I visited does have a "main" branch line through it ( Marks Tey-Sudbury ).
Cheers Robert.
put a station above the heritage line,then you can have a footbridge/pathway leading down to it. apart from that, looking good.
If in your words less is more, you've answered your own question, no station.
Very nice, can't wait to see this fully fleshed out, with trains going round in exhibition mode.
I'm not sure there are any stations that suit your idea on the ECML, as all those south of Peterborough can hold 12-car 700s I'm sure (Huntingdon may be a good basis, if shrunk down), Thirsk might be good if you don't mind adding an overbridge on one end and also moving the slow lines outwards and adding the islands (that only serve the slow lines, fencing against the fast lines), then Northallerton northwards (at least to Chathill) is double track only, with Darlington offset to one side. Plus, I think I'd prefer the mainlines just to be stationless, but you could maybe add something else to make a feature of, like a substation (like at the south end of Tyne Yard), or you could even do a closed station (like Otterington, just north of Thirsk, which still has its station building and signal box, but no platforms any more).
I wonder which'll turn up first, the first batch of accurascale 37s or their mk2bs?
The 37s would be my guess 😆