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Can you get enough space for a balloon loop at each end? Then you could continious run up and down a double track mainline. No one likes corners in gardens anyway...

So Model Rail magazine ran a 3 part article on building an fiddle yard to terminus layout about 9 foot long. I know I had them but can I find them for my life? No. So if anyone can remember which issues this was it would help greatly! Definately within the last year I think. Had a centre platform st...

What wire did you use for the points? Looks very nice and tidy.

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Japanese outline at heavy discount, mostly n gauge. Not quite my cup of (green?) tea.

Apparently Rod Stewart has donated £10,000. 'It took me 23 years to build my layout, so I know how they feel,' he said. And there I've been all these years, dismissing him as an overblown egotist with his brain between his legs. Just goes to show. Respect to Rod I say, while nothing will replace th...

The BNR's workshop should go into scrap renovation with all these busted mainline locos, or they need a word with the management about their impulse buying!!

Bachmann have a good selection of old time American in HO. Might ge expensive to get hold of here... so perhaps fill your boots while you're over there!

Good old magnahesion technology! Seems a useful upgrade. Your lift out section aapears concerningly large, and heavy but without it would be quite a crawl to get to the operating well.

Good luck!

I had heard about the "no new level crossing" policy as well. There is also the one where the curves around Avon gorge are too sharp to run nothing more than 1 train an hour. Yes the track is intact up to quays avenue, although in a poor state since the gwr centenary was the last train to...

Definately helps having shorter coaches, I did some measuring a while back! For even shorter rtr coaches you're pretty much looking at Bachmann's Thomas range. Ancient hornby mk1 = 26cm Hornby railroad GWR collett = 24cm Bachmann mk1 suburban = 24cm Bachmann 'Ambulance' midland = 23.5 Hornby Gresley...

A go around with a track rubber now and then and no bother. If you're putting multiple feeds in I doubt you'll get many issues otherthan higher maintenance.

People coped a long time with steel!

That was station number 3 for Portishead and there have been rumblings and mutterings about building station number 4, as they demolished number 3 just as the place started growing, now they are all complaining about how long it takes to get into Bristol of a morning. total lack of foresight as usu...

Yes quite long, cut down to 4 foot of platforms allows three coach trains and I can work loco release though station pilot or new engine onto the train.

Wildly unprototypical for portishead but if the line had higher traffic is a potential could have been.

Always like Borchester (drop me a pm if you want to read the full article again!). :D Although the other option in my shortlist (I promise its the last!) is Portishead (the 1950s built station). Single line terminus with resricted space hosting a moderate commuter service and had storage roads along...

I really like the bridge idea, that would work really well. I don't know anything of E.A. Beet outside of this picture which I nicked from an anicent locked thread on RMweb, LNWR seems most likely to me although I couldn't identify the loco,the coaches are definitely pregroupibg by some way and ther...