I'm going to try and make more of an effort to come here and post stuff, we'll see how long that lasts haha.
Anyways, for those of you who haven't followed my youtube shenanigans, I decided this year to deconstruct the second iteration of Beaglington-On-Sea which had been a 6 by 4 layout and removed all of the track and a much of the buildings, and then build frames round the room to have a longer continuous run. In doing this it would free up space on the floor in our spare/play/railway room and trains can finally stretch their wheels. The room is supposedly 11ft by 11ft but a we found out when installing the baseboards and frames, the walls undulate from side to side and top to bottom and the corners of the room are not perfectly square xD
I had a vision in mind of a stretched out version of the previous Beaglington-On-Sea layout along one wall, and then different scenes on others, I wanted to retain the cliff element, tunnel and road overbridge. While some things have been rearranged like positions of goods sidings, loco shed and brewery, I still feel like I've retained the elements. Being stretched out means I can hold trains in passing loops/extra platforms at the station, allowing me to have more on show and more choice of what to run and doesn't have an unrealistic curve of platform.
The trains will leave through a tunnel on the left hand end of the station, but this time there mainlines are just two, not three, a I'm now able to model a branch line properly, which will run towards the front of the boards. SO when the mainlines go into the tunnel and onto the "hill board" they emerge onto an incline behind the intermediate branch station (which is where my track for the branch runs out for now), the branch line will run into its own tunnel at the end of this board before turning on to board 3 and terminating in a harbour station. The incline on board two is to allow the trains to climb to a height where they can traverse whats intended to be a viaduct made with two metcalfe stone viaduct kits on board 3 before entering a tunnel under the harbour town. Below both of these the height of board 3 is something like 100mm lower so the incline doesn't have to be too steep and will allow me to model the harbour wall/water at a more realistic height in comparison to the track in the harbour. Below the curve from board 2 to 3 theres also a small 009 circuit which will serve a lower town/village...if it works out properly.
While the branch terminates at board 3s end, the mainlines emerge from the tunnel on a narrow board above the desk leading to a door flap. I want to add maybe a very low relief beach station on this section where the platforms are part of the sea wall and there are beach huts along them, I am not sure if itll be possible. The lifting flap section may be modelled to look like a bridge somehow too, and after that the mainlines run under the road bridge, round a corner, past the brewery and back into the station.
With all the track I rescued and all I had spare I still only had enough track for board 1. Over the summer I worked hard and managed to get enough R603 double long straights to get the mainlines running without any scenery but it was slo going a Amazon would only let me buy 5 at a time, and usually only let me buy the 5 once every like 10 days.
I'll try add a plan here and then in a subsequent post show some pics of what I've been doing although there's been some slight deviations to that plan and the 009 is not on it.
Alex.
