Experimenting with Train Station for Knaresbourough 2012

[playmofire]

If you have all the pieces the you might as well do your own

Damo

I was thinking of the platform "footprints" so that I could get spacing and track connecting properly in advance.

[flatcat]

I was thinking of the platform "footprints" so that I could get spacing and track connecting properly in advance.

Sorry if I sounded a little gruff in my last post - I was in a bit of a bad mood

Have you not got these sets to re-create what I have built? I used exactly one big station, and two smaller ones

Damo

[playmofire]

Sorry if I sounded a little gruff in my last post - I was in a bit of a bad mood

Happens to us all! 

Have you not got these sets to re-create what I have built? I used exactly one big station, and two smaller ones

I've got two big stations and one small!

Damo

[playmofire]

I've been doing some track planning for the 8 foot by 8 foot ends of the display.  So far, I've got five versions, plus there were quite a few I abandoned.  Attached is a possible left hand end which would allow Damo's platform idea to be included.  As you can see, there are some gaps in the track, but (hopefully) these can be dealt with using the little track extenders.  if they can't, then it's back to the drawing board!  (I hope to set the track up after Christmas.

The blue line marks out the edge of the 8' x 8' board and the 16' x 2' board;  the grid lines are 12 inches apart.

[playmofirth]

It looks good.  I take it that this is the "town end" rather than the village end.

Could you check my last plan - I took two foot off the left side (looking from the front) to allow space through to the fire exit, and space at the other end between the dispay and the wall to allow some access to the display.  www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=9844.45

If I keep this reduction of 2ft I can take it from either end or the middle.

Mark

[playmofire]

I hadn't picked upon that, Mark, but 8 feet at one end and 6 feet at the other would be OK, as would 2 feet less in the middle.  Again, I probably need to actually set the track up and check it out (and that means doing it outdoors so needs better weather).

Looking again at the layout, I notice that the town element will be beyond the stationand so paetly obscured.  I've done a quick rejigging of the track and attached an alternative layout which gives a bit more prominence to the town.

I intend to bring the centre section down at some point to a single track as this allows a two span bridge which will be a bit more dramatic.