Pipe dreams…

[LNERW1]

I have been known to post layout topics that don’t go anywhere and I thought I’d explain myself and prevent it from happening again, all in the one thread.

Some people enjoy planning layouts, some don’t. I count myself among the former and have created enormously detailed plans before of layouts in many scales that I never plan or planned to build. I thought I’d stick up a few here as some people might be interested in reading all of my brain farts and maybe can find some inspiration- anything to feel helpful.

My most recent idea that’s been floating around is a large balloon loop in OO/HO, with a large coal-fired power station at the centre of the loop, a Magnorail-powered motorway crossing the board, and some Soviet/British Isles 1960s blocks of flats anywhere they’ll fit. As with all (read: most) of the ideas in this post, I’ll outline this one in a later post, based on interest.

Another recent enough idea, which I have posted a little about, is a massive model of Connolly and it’s adjacent junction, several Luas stops, North Wall yard and literally all of East Wall, in T scale. I still have no idea what size this would be, but likely at least 60 or so square metres, so not a likely undertaking.

Going back to before I joined this forum is a London terminus called Liverpool Lane. This started out as a large sketch of a modern-image ex-LNER station in north London, based on a drawing by CJ Freezer, consisting of a double track tail chaser with a triangular junction feeding into a terminus. It later evolved into a much more realistic post-steam, pre-TOPS Western Region terminus, somewhere in northwest London.

Another idea, more a track plan than anything else, I nicknamed the Bandaid. It has quite an odd story- it’s based on a pattern I once spotted on a mattress. After tracing it with my finger, I realised it was actually one compressed loop and not two overlapping ones. A *very* rough plan is reproduced below:

I do have a few more, I think, but these, for me, are the highlights so far. If you would like to see more of this, please tell me. If not, that’s fine. I understand if you have no interest in my layout-planning brain farts.

Best wishes,

LNERW1.

Edited December 8 by LNERW1