Hello everyone, today I will officially be announcing a new project of mine, where I plan to make my own professional model railway, this will be around a month - 2 month long project, this is the concept map I made: So the left part is a station, the sidings platform is for dmus, more on that in a bit, however let's spotlight the middle sidings first, the 3 shortest ones are for Locomotives, the second longest one is for freight, and the longest one is for coaches and may get expanded as time goes on. Anyway onto loco allocations; flying scotsman & tornado will take turns on the outer line passenger services with the lner teaks, flying scotsman will haul the weekly pullman service on the outer line too, I have a Caledonian Freight loco which will haul freight services + inner line (slow line) passenger services until a dmu is bought for the line, I also have a summertime cola train which will operate freight and breakdown services I also have a Santa Express loco which will only run in December on Christmas Charter + Christmas Freight. But yeah so far, that is really about it, I plan to start the project in a few weeks so I can't wait for that, I thought I would make this thread as a nice little announcement. I will keep you all posted.
Things I Plan To Get For The Railway Once Complete: BR Class 20 BR Class 47 DB Class 67 TBC Livery Class 70 LNER A4 IC HST (2 IC Yellow + Blue Power Cars (Both Working) & One Swallow Power Car + Mk3's) SR Merchant Navy Clan Line & Some Freight For The Freight Yard Expansion I Want To Make If I Have Extra Space.
Is this your first model railway layout? If so, best of luck - I find the hobby a lot of fun and I get a lot out of it. Have you checked out AnyRail? I use it for planning model railway layouts as it helps me get a sense of what I can realistically fit into the space I have available. Don't get disheartened if it takes you more than a couple of months - I find that even the simplest and smallest of modelling tasks seem to take three times as long as I originally thought at least lol. Good luck, hope you enjoy the process!
Yeah, I have to do some measuring, thought the space I'm using is being used for storage right now so can't, I definitely need to make it a smaller size to add the yard section I planned, which I am currently working on now. Realistically this next week or 2 is clearing stuff and planning the measurements, then I can start building.
MAP UPDATE The map has been compressed to fit, however a new yard has been added, it will be shared by Freightliner, Colas Rail, & GBRf. The 2nd longest siding will now be used as a maintenance siding where locos will undergo servicing and wait on servicing if further away from the end of the track.
Good news! After a right faff trying to get it out of storage After 4 years of being in storage I can confirm 60163 tornado is still in (near) mint condition besides a missing buffer which I think was an issue before.
This sounds great mate, good luck! I have one of those Tornado's and it is a fairly decent model without a doubt.
I'm looking forward to seeing your progress! A quick suggestion, you may want to look into a program like AnyRail for track planning. I used it for my forthcoming layout and it was extremely helpful in determining the space I'll need in addition to the list of track material required. It may help you out quite a bit with your plans! https://www.anyrail.com/
Not that I'm aware of. Due to the intricate and precise nature of track planning I'm not quite sure how well it would translate to mobile.
Update: Work is soon to start (hopefully this week or next week, however I was able to find this out: So as a nice touch, I thought it would be nice if I were to put it on the side the model station is, facing the station! Eastleigh Arlington are also selling some parts which I hope to get when the auction ends, (https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/afsl-parts) So yes, it's looking good.
