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posted: 8 Mar 2009 21:48 from: Alberta, click the date to link to this post click member name to view archived images |
This weekend has resulted in alote of research for my modern image layout. After my thread about rialways around Brum & various brain storms i have come up with this ''Walsall stadium''. For starters i used google earth & this site plus http://www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk/ for information on the railways of Birmingham. Using the geography of Langley Greens station & surrounding area i have managed to fit in what i hope to be a intresting prototype. I have thought long & hard about the types of traffic i want to run on the layout & in my head visualise the overall size of the layout. Firstly i wanted to have some fo the typical locos seen around Birmingham today Sprinters , Turbostars , XC Voyagers , 37,s ,47,s 56,s & 66,s. I also wanted to feature intresting operation & i though that the way locos are turned at Warrington was a intresting way of getting them pointing in the right direction. So on the layout their is a scrap siding like at Saltley which trains are reversed into via the loop. Their are also Walsall Stadium sidings which are accessed by reversing the train around in the loop (half relief towards fiddle yard) & then running into the sidings via a loop which goes under a road bridge to Walsall sidings fiddle yard. The layout has 3 fiddle yards which are able to hold a 4 car voyager or loco & wagons. The design of the layout is so it is fairly compact but prototypical & fun to operate within a fairly compact space. The model is in Em & it is intended to be 1990,s to now era wise but mainly ultra modern. |
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