4mm Woolwich/Charlton (Working title) - P4 - 1980s/1990s NSE

d827 kelly

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Thought I'd make a topic for the layout now something is starting to happen with it (there planning and thoughts stuff over on the blog on here too). The most recent entries below:



Key points of interest:

  • NSE 1988-1994 era (initially)
  • SE London area (Woolwich/Charlton)
  • 3rd rail electric EMUs
  • DCC (MERG)
  • MERG CBUS system
  • P4
  • Modular
  • Planned using templot software - almost finished.
  • Lasercut baseboards from Tim Horn - to be ordered

A bit about the layout:



The layout will be based on the Woolwich Dockyard area of South East London. Part of the former Southern Railway's North Kent Lines. The initial era is to be around 1988-1994, so firmly in the NSE era, but also approaching privatisation. I extended it to '94 so that I could make use of the '92s I have. The likelyhood is I'll run a timetable of some sort for a particular year at a time so the most likely is to be about '92 with EPBs being on their last years and Networkers just coming into service in small numbers.


The track plan and area have been chosen as they're rather generic in nature and fairly simple. With a bit of work in changed buildings both the era and the area could be changes. Technically any era from electrification to present could be represented by the plan with suitable removable items (all items except track and electronics will be removable for storage reasons). In practical terms it will likely be late 1950s-present as limit to era represented as whilst I could feasibly represent different era buildings and so on, I'm not sure it'd be practical to have colour lights and semaphore signals interchangeable (the point ridding would be a pain).


The track plan:

Originally I planned it in Templot and came up with this plan:

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Eventually after a number of iterations, the below plan was reached. We're (myself and my co-conspiritor Natalie) are reasonably happy with this, it still needs some tweaking however. Some of the other iterations are attached.
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A key feature of the area is a listed chimney:

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The current state of the layout is that I have acquired 5 3ftx2ft boards from Tim Horn.

However, before going much further it has been decided to make a smaller layout to learn and experiment with a few aspects relevant to this layout (MERG items, building track etc).
 

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