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That extra few feet really does make a difference! I have been over the plan time and time again, this is about as simple as it gets. As for ambitious, I totally agree. The plan is to cut my teeth on the wiring of the points, buses, droppers etc on the fiddle yard board; the lower board is a layout ...

Does anyone forsee any major drama's with the layout with regard to short circuits? I will be running DCC with bus wires and droppers, but I was going to go insulfrog now instead of electro to keep it simple. The traction yard and freight depot/sidings will be manual control and the hidden and stati...

[quote="Ex-Pat"]Looks impressive - will the level crossing gates work? All in good time! I haven't played with electrics and servos for about 25 years now! In fact I'm probably only doing this as I stumbled across some footage on youtube of a class 37 with digital sound fitted. That got me...

This is going to be my first venture into an adult model railway. I've spent ages on the track plan and going from prototypical in N to simplified in OO, this is the 'final' plan. The red oblongs on the plan are trains (for length) I'm working on 5 car rakes, (+2 power cars for HSTs) which just fit ...