Railway

I am building a model railway in the games room. This is a fairly ambitious project, the room is 27' x 17' and the track goes round twice, crossing over itself once. It's double track most of the way but with a concealed section of quadruple for parking trains, and some sidings and other workings. We are not hugely concerned with prototypical accuracy, play value is more the aim, but we don't want to make it hopeless so we're building to a scale and design which has curves of not less than 48" radius on running lines and gradients and stations which will allow for a pacific with a rake of at least 13 coaches.

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My railway
Some pictures here: Railway/In progress. No flames, please, it's all about playing trains for us.


 * Experiments with night scenes

Some hints I picked up along the way:
 * Railway/Tools
 * Techniques and tricks
 * Railway/Pinning track
 * Railway/Track bed
 * Railway/Laying points
 * Railway/Curves and 6ft way
 * Railway/Back to back
 * Railway/Parkside PC80

Some projects:
 * Hornby Class 110 remotored, lit and tidied a bit.

Links

 * LNER encyclopaedia
 * Model trains Wikia
 * on Wikipedia