Facts & Design
Facts
Name: Shelford-upon-Trent Railway
Reason: I simply looked around at local road names and found Shelford. The on Google Maps, went to the actual village in Nottingham and saw it was next to the River Trent. I then made the name from this.
Scale: 1:76/OO, 4mm to the foot
Period: Mostly modern with older steam and diesel visits
Area Depicted: Somewhere Central
Layout Location: Loft
Size: TBC
Control: Bachmann Dynamis
Buildings: Hornby, Scratchbuilt and more to be made
Rolling Stock: Bachmann, Dapol, Heljan, Hornby
Track: Peco Code 100 track (concrete & wooden) and points with the odd Hornby long straight for sidings.
Design
Whilst I was still making Ivetsgate Yard, I attempted to try and decide what I was going to do for the layout. I laid track out in the standard loop and added loops and sidings. Boring as it was, I only really used it for playing trains. I then decided to ask a fellow railway modeller (Pug of Duffryn Road TMD) to make me a layout plan to my specification. In the weeks it took, I decided to draft my own and then maybe use both ideas. Needless to say they were different and I, in the end, preferred Pug's plan. I built a layout which had bits of the two designs but after finishing laying the track in January '09, decided to change it to suit the space I had ie. more freight sidings and more operational interest. Below is Pug's original plan and below that is the current final plan that I will try to stick to this time...