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Author Topic: Designing and maybe making a portable model railway.  (Read 1817 times)

Tony Bird

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Hi,

This morning I was looking at the base boards that make up the ends of the layout and realised that the entrance to the layout though very compact didn’t make as good a use of the space in the trailer as it could.  So, entrance plan ‘B’, Gordons machining of the aluminium angle came in useful as locating pieces so that the entrance could be attached for transport to the board that balances it at the other end of the layout creating a more compact unit.  This means that both of the curved ends of the layout and their legs can be stacked in the trailer one on top of another and still be a few centimetres lower than the side of the trailer.  Will I need the four remaining pieces of Gordons angle?  Only time will tell!

Another base board has been fitted with a pair of legs, one more and all the four base boards that will make up the front of the layout will be finished.

Original idea for the entrances transport mode.

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Regards Tony.