My layout in the making

[dynamite25]

Well i have ordered my box of flexi track now with a peco cat from hattons and i have also ordered the new honrby book from play.com and i should recieve them maybe tuesday.

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Also i am getting some free seep point motors from a good friend that he nolonger needs and have been posted today and i should receive them tomorrow morning with my other parcels.

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I have recieved a email to say my book has been posted so i'll get that tomorrow,but still haven't recieved a email from hattons to say that my track and cat have been packed and posted so i might get an email in the morning so i will check again in the morning.

[dynamite25]

Well my seep point motors arrived this morning from a very good friend from another forum and i have 35 seep point motors that i got for free, and i am very grateful to him for letting me have them for free.

I am just waiting for my track to arrive from hattons which i ordered saturday and i am still waiting for that email to say they have been packed and posted which i still haven't recieved yet.Plus my book hasn't come either from play.com.

[dynamite25]

Been getting more ideas for my layout again as i been thinking how will i get the trains back down to the main level from upper level and with what other things i want to do and it didn't leave much room for a good incline down,and then i thought if i remove the smaller brock ontop off the bigger one that will let me carry the upper baseboard straight across and not have to cut around the brick.

So with that sorted i can run a twin track incline back down under the station down to the lower level and back to the lower main tracks,i have that many ideas for my layout i can't draw them out to show you as i am no good at it so you will all have to wait till i start working on the layout again to see my idea.

As that bit has been bugging me for months on how to get around it so i can now rest.

[dynamite25]

Well i received my track and peco cat at 2:30pm so i will be back to working on the layout tomorrow yippee, and i will be getting my next order ready tobe sent on Saturday to get more goodies for my layout.

[dynamite25]

Now that i got most of the things need to get my layout up and running so from tomorrow till sunday night i am going to get done the following things.

1)To get all lower baseboards in place and the rest of the roof boarded up

2)Get all lower track work in place and pinned down

3)To fit all points motors for the lower level and have wires off them into a wire blocks ready to completely wired up

4)Start to work on upper level

[dynamite25]

Have decided that while i am building the layout is to wire it ready for DCC as i will be changing over later this year but still be able to use DC control till then,it will make it easier to do it now than later when all track is layed and ballasted.

[dynamite25]

Well i have manged to finish boarding one side of the loft up today and i will do the other side tomorrow afternoon as i am building a wardrobe in the morning for my sister,but before i start the boarding up of the rest of the other side of the loft i will cut the other basboard and fit it in.

Then saturday after food shopping and get supplys for the layout i will start laying track down,i'm gonna try and get the lower level done by saturday night if nothing else crops up.

[dynamite25]

Well i have decided to stick with DC control as that seem far easier to me as i just connect two wires from each of the 5 controller to each loop and to my depot area and away i go controlling my trains.

And what wire i bought can be used to wire extra lighting in the loft.

[dynamite25]

Well i have ordered 6 100m reels of wire for my layout from www.rapidelectronics.co.uk and cost £5.17 inc vat each and for all 6 £31.02,and i have also order the new hornby cat aswell as two track plan books,two packs of hornby track pins and 12 PL 12 Motor Adaptor for the PL10 point motors from hattons.

[dynamite25]

Well i received my wire today at 10:15AM which is great service really as i thought i would get them tomorrow,but i got them today just waiting on items from hattons now.

[dynamite25]

Well i got my things from hattons today so i'll be starting my layout this weekend and i might use some of the ideas form the track plan books i got today on my layout,also going to buy one or two packs of cork tiles so i got some more full tiles for station area.

[dynamite25]

I have had a redesign of the station area and storage fiddle yard area under the station have a look and tell me what you think,also there are some parts that aren't the same in both pics.

Station area

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v687/dynamite26/improvedlayout.jpg

Fiddle yard

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v687/dynamite26/improvedlayout1.jpg

[dynamite25]

Made another order to hattons for 12 hornby points 2 L/H and 10 R/H i also ordered another track plan book and i need another 2 points aswell as the points i ordered today,but i will get them from my local model shop when i get paid again in two weeks as i only had enough money to buy the 12 points and the track plan book today.

Also not been beable to get anything done today as my parents had to nip out so i had to stay down stairs with sam till they came home but by time they did it was to late to go into the loft to make a noise,so maybe tomorrow but they might be going out tomorrow aswell to chester so maybe Wednesday now.But i need to get atleast the roof done tomorrow but we will see what happens.