Layout Design

The design is actually a shortened version of one of the late C J Freezer's city termini layout, SP54 infact. By shortening the scenic area and fiddle yard each by 2 feet I made the layout easier to accommodate at home. Baseboards are constructed from 25x44mm Pine PSE timber, with a 9mm MDF surface. Since I wast intending the layout to be based at home I wasn't too concerned about weight. The legs are to a design presented in the Railway Modelling Explored partwork by Railway Modeller a few years ago.

Trackwork is mostly Peco Setrack Code 100, with some pieces of Code 100 flexi-track added in where necessary. This was to keep cost down primarily since the pointwork is slightly cheaper. The electrics consist of feeder wires off of a single buzz-wire, running the length of the baseboards. Wiring was simplified since I was intending to use the layout solely for DCC, though isolating rail joiners have been fitted here and there as per the original Freezer plan in case I want to modify the wiring in future to cater to DC control too. Points are manually controlled – with wire-in-tube control to be added later. Scenery work has yet to commence.