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Being a student and not having a lot of time on my hands Laughing I decided to have a go at designing a layout which could fit into the room I currently live in. The OO layout had to have:
1) a goods loop
2) a terminus station
3) some sort of industrial feature
4) a TMD or stabling point
So, here is a description of what I have created:
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"Trad Brick" is a fictional town in the North West with a medium sized semi-terminus station. The station has four platforms, three are termini, one is a runthrough (due to space issues it is not a runthrough on the layout). To the East of Trad Brick there is a small Quarry/ ballast store which operationally will run similarly to Peak Forest in Derbyshire in that the class 60/66s will do most of their own shunting.
I wanted to include a goods loop on the layout, i'm a big fan of modern diesels. Because the station is a terminus I wouldn't be able to run the length trains I wish, so the fiddle yard is actually underneath the baseboard, the tunnel disguised by a road bridge and a large factory building which disguises the curve of the track, and the fact that the track goes under the baseboard. It suggests that the track would carry on behind the factory and doesn't go under it. This would hopefully enable longer goods trains to run along the goods loop.
To the North of the station is a TMD with engine shed and refuelling facilities.
Stock:
Modern image
Class 66, Freightliner, EWS, Malcolm
Class 60, as above
Class 08, EWS
Class 37 DRS
Pendolino, Virgin
Voyager, Virgin
Various DMUs (for local traffic) Arriva,
Rolling stock
intermodal flatbeds
Nuclear flask traffic
Coal hoppers
Seacows
I think that's it really, i'm not sure what to include in the central section, perhaps farmland, or buildings to represent the transition of rural to town.
I've also not layed out the pointwork in the fiddle yards just yet, that requires a bit more thinking Laughing so it's a bit basic for the time being.
Comments, criticisms, Suggestions?
Dave
1) a goods loop
2) a terminus station
3) some sort of industrial feature
4) a TMD or stabling point
So, here is a description of what I have created:
"Trad Brick" is a fictional town in the North West with a medium sized semi-terminus station. The station has four platforms, three are termini, one is a runthrough (due to space issues it is not a runthrough on the layout). To the East of Trad Brick there is a small Quarry/ ballast store which operationally will run similarly to Peak Forest in Derbyshire in that the class 60/66s will do most of their own shunting.
I wanted to include a goods loop on the layout, i'm a big fan of modern diesels. Because the station is a terminus I wouldn't be able to run the length trains I wish, so the fiddle yard is actually underneath the baseboard, the tunnel disguised by a road bridge and a large factory building which disguises the curve of the track, and the fact that the track goes under the baseboard. It suggests that the track would carry on behind the factory and doesn't go under it. This would hopefully enable longer goods trains to run along the goods loop.
To the North of the station is a TMD with engine shed and refuelling facilities.
Stock:
Modern image
Class 66, Freightliner, EWS, Malcolm
Class 60, as above
Class 08, EWS
Class 37 DRS
Pendolino, Virgin
Voyager, Virgin
Various DMUs (for local traffic) Arriva,
Rolling stock
intermodal flatbeds
Nuclear flask traffic
Coal hoppers
Seacows
I think that's it really, i'm not sure what to include in the central section, perhaps farmland, or buildings to represent the transition of rural to town.
I've also not layed out the pointwork in the fiddle yards just yet, that requires a bit more thinking Laughing so it's a bit basic for the time being.
Comments, criticisms, Suggestions?
Dave
