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Chris, this looks great - and I'm very impressed with your carpentry. That baseboard looks solid! Just my opinion but I'd stay away from trestles. With something that size the weight of the board ought to be distributed as evenly as possible, either on its own legs or on another table. Thank you, s...

Hehe. I'm right on the Hope Valley line as it happens (Bredbury), and it's my favourite train journey ever, so may have played a little part in the setting...

Thanks for the comments

G'day all. After years of having a permanent structure in the loft, I decided I'd rather have a portable layout, so set about creating this. Now I have some progress to report, I thought a PL thread was in order. http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l289/f1_mw/eckythumpington.jpg As the title suggests,...

Now *that* I like! In fact that's similar to my plan for my 00 layout...

I like the last plan Michael! One thing I'm unsure of, though, why is your turntable going to be in the fiddle yard!? You can just pick em up and turn em round in there How about you put the TT outside of the station with a couple of small sidings?

Do you have a track plan Spavo? Or have I missed it on this thread?

Looking good MetroCamel.

Just been looking through your website, some good stuff on there, but it's *very* difficult to read with those backgrounds...

This is a very interesting thread, well done Andrew :) My loft space is crying out to have a model railway reinstated... just need to find my old baseboard under all the junk :oops: Could anyone post up or point me in the direction of some wiring tips/diagrams for "cab control"? This sound...