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Blogging my way through the construction of my first layout, with occasional tangents.

 

Set somewhere in East Anglia, sometime 2015-now, the first chunk of layout is Little Sudford

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Up and Running

It's been a busy couple of weeks, both in terms of real-life - my best friend getting married, plus the usual work concerns - and also on the railway front. I've got the entire track laid and wired, and (so far) it is working well. One of the things that was worrying me most about the tracklaying was the need to modify points, and bring down some sort of dropper from the frog. Turns out, I'd been reading guides for oo track, and Peco's N gauge range points don't need any of this! All you need to
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A Track Plan

The Track plan for Little Sudford focuses mostly on the heritage shed and its activities. Working top to bottom down the plan consists of: Wagon road, Two carriage sidings, Loco Stabling Road, Shed road with fueling facilities, Shed road with an inspection pit, And finally the mainline network station.   Layout operation will be DCC for loco movements, and analogue for signalling and points, from two different frames - one representing the colour light sig
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A shed for Little Sudford

The locomotive shed for the Ladybird Line is situated at Little Sudford, where the line terminates.   I've used a Metcalfe shed for it, as it's a nice and generic steam-era shed, with room for a couple of locomotives, plus a little bit of room to work on the locomotives on shed.   The longest part of its construction has been painting in all the edges where white card shows through after folding, as well as adding a little bit of dirt and grime to it.   The next job
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Let's start at the very beginning....

Little Sudford will be my first layout, so understandably I'm not going to be producing anything huge, nor will it be particularly quick progress!   A little bit of background for the layout:   Little Sudford is a fictional village nestled in the heart of east Anglia, set just south of Great Sudford, which is situated on a 'what could have been' line running north towards Ely, coming off the Great Eastern main line after Shenfield. Whilst it doesn't see much through traffic,
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