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Hope Springs - the layout...
OK. I am no longer meurglysIII on here, I am now a more human "Pete C..."
As I mentioned on the "Makerfield" thread, I am about to start building a new layout. Back to bare baseboards.
It will still be nominally 1970s, North West, Wigan area, but not prototypical location-wise. I want to achieve the following:
1. Accommodate a massive diesel shed (built)
2. Have an "open" baseboard arrangement to enable embankments, bridges etc., I want to see trains crossing bridges and diving into tunnels
3. Large-ish fiddle yard for decent length trains
4. No station (I have got rid of my passenger stock as I realised I never ran it. I seem to be far more interested in goods traffic) I just have a class 108 dmu which can trundle through.
5. More operational interest
Track plan hopefully attached, with lower level and upper level shown. Please feel free to comment. I have kept most of the buildings from Makerfield and will re-home them on the new layout. I like to think my modelling skills have improved since 2008 so they will be upgraded with new windows, doors, details and better (led) lighting which should result hopefully in less wiring.
Here goes...
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