I've got outline planning permission....

[vernon]

To use the loft to house a model railway

No immediate action as I am busy with other things but it could lead to the construction of my O gauge locomotive kits some time in the not too distant future.

 

[colly]

Sounds like you are well chuffed.






IGMC

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Can I play?

 

[Speicher]

Can I join in, I promise not to derail this thread.

 

[vernon]

You are all welcome to play.

The dilemma that I have is whether to go for an extensive full loft approach with some detail sacrificed or a compact high detail exhibition quality layout. I have been accumulating resources for decades and now that the time has come it's indecision time

 

[vernon]

Then there's the Gauge 1 garden railway.....

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Can I join in, I promise not to derail this thread.

I'd gauge you could join in anyway - just make sure any tracks are covered.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

There is a stunning model railway in hamburg somewhere i remember

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 1692217, member: 45"]Do you like fiddling, or watching fast-moving trains?[/quote]

I do like fiddling. Long freight trains and ten coach passenger trains are very expensive but spectacular.

 

[Speicher]

There is a stunning model railway in hamburg somewhere i remember

I searched for that and found Nuffing.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I do like fiddling. Long freight trains and ten coach passenger trains are very expensive but spectacular.

A long time ago I once built a long replica of a stretch of East Coast mainline, in my parents loft, just for the joy of running long rakes. Ruddy N gauge engines of the day couldn't actually haul a full length seven/eight coach train and I had to botch a powered carriage...

 

[yoyo]

Mr Yoyo uses the whole loft in our house. Has O gauge steam and is modelling Leeds Station in the 50s. WE also have the wherewithal for a garden railway but it is currently in the conservatory

 

[vernon]

Nothing will materialise this year.

I will be looking at my reference resources with a view to producing some building drawings to be fed to a laser cutter at work to speed up the scenery construction process.

Baseboards and stuff will have to wait until I clear space in my shed to set up a jig to cut the joints and assemble a set of boards once I determine how big a layout I am going for.

 

[Archie_tect]

Sounds like you need to move to a bigger house Vern, can I recommend a bungalow- you get a bigger loft that way...

 

[ColinJ]

To use the loft to house a model railway

Why do you need planning permission to do that?