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Western Thunderer
Hi folks.
As it seems sooner or later I will have a running 2mm engine, so the next step is to get an actual layout built. I plan to stick with the Midland for now, and while eventually I may wish to do the joint Midland / LNWR station in Buxton, for now I'd like to do something a bit simpler, a bit more rural, to take advantage of 2mm's biggest strength - a railway in the countryside.
I'd like to model something rural, and the GWR does not have the monopoly on branch line termini in out of the way places. While the Midland doesn't have the library of coverage of their termini like the GWR does, I assume something fitting my desires could be found. I am imagining my 2F on the pickup goods and perhaps a 0-4-4t on the branch passenger train, though it's entirely possible this would be done with another 0-6-0 or a class 1 tank. I plan to build the layout on the by now ubiquitous ikea "LACK" shelf - I have a 26 x 110 one, and a 40 x 120 one at hand - to use. I'm picturing a small town where the railway terminates, with the typical platform with runaround and a couple back sidings with a loading bank, cattle pens, and goods shed. I was thinking of somewhere in the Peak District of Derbyshire. Anyone have any advice?
Thanks much,
Amanda
As it seems sooner or later I will have a running 2mm engine, so the next step is to get an actual layout built. I plan to stick with the Midland for now, and while eventually I may wish to do the joint Midland / LNWR station in Buxton, for now I'd like to do something a bit simpler, a bit more rural, to take advantage of 2mm's biggest strength - a railway in the countryside.
I'd like to model something rural, and the GWR does not have the monopoly on branch line termini in out of the way places. While the Midland doesn't have the library of coverage of their termini like the GWR does, I assume something fitting my desires could be found. I am imagining my 2F on the pickup goods and perhaps a 0-4-4t on the branch passenger train, though it's entirely possible this would be done with another 0-6-0 or a class 1 tank. I plan to build the layout on the by now ubiquitous ikea "LACK" shelf - I have a 26 x 110 one, and a 40 x 120 one at hand - to use. I'm picturing a small town where the railway terminates, with the typical platform with runaround and a couple back sidings with a loading bank, cattle pens, and goods shed. I was thinking of somewhere in the Peak District of Derbyshire. Anyone have any advice?
Thanks much,
Amanda
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