It is a bit short but could hopefully be able to hold a small tank engine or a wagon. Not much but something
Haha!
I'm still learning how to use RMWeb - it doesn't work like I think it should most of the time (and surely the issue can't be my fault
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Talking of trackplans, I thought it might be worth saying that I
think there's a new design on the layout. I'm not going to share things yet (unless you all ask really nicely) otherwise this thread could be renamed "Examples of how Peter can't make his mind up and will probably never get the layout finished", but I'll share a few things here:
- Turns out that moving the railway centre to where the mainline T&RSMD was to begin with solves most of the issues I had. It still allows for a sizable set-up - four sidings and a small station - and it gives the entire railway centre area over to be the T&RSMD. I've got things laid out (goods shed, level crossing, small signalbox, coal merchants building) and it looks nice too
- Town planning is difficult
- Squishing everything I wanted to have on the layout into a small area requires having a convoluted kickback siding set-up but is jolly satisfying when it all works
- Town planning is made difficult in no small part by the Hornby insurance offices building; massive, heavy, and a pain to work with (but that's enough about Mrs Miggins)
- 1:76 scale cars are smaller than I think they are so the roads can be quite small and still realistic
- The building layout design/town planning was really difficult OK: it took much longer than expected and the buildings only just work and most of Oldmoor is now going to be parking spaces but that's better than nothing
As I said - if you ask nicely and say please, I'll share what I've come up with: complete with poor MS Paint captions and annotations.
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I think it's probably time for the next instalment of everyone's favourite soap comedy opera:
Mrs Miggins Investigates...
Did Mrs Miggins ever find who stole her gramophone? Where did Dave Hatley go on holiday for Easter? Why do I keep asking questions?
We join Mr and Mrs Miggins in the Crown & Anchor pub. Mrs Miggins is talking to Dave Hatley.
"Well I never knew you could do that with a felt-tip pen and a fish finger," she says.
"You pick up this sort of thing after working in the pub industry for as long as I have," says Dave, who's been working in pubs (he says working, he means drinking as a customer) for decades now.
Mr Miggins is currently on the floor, completely plastered after having had one pint too many. He was well-known in Oldmoor when he was younger for being able to drink 100 pints in one sitting, and wants to try and prove he can still do it. Mrs Miggins hasn't noticed this yet as she's so engrossed in what Dave has to say.
"Did I ever tell you about that time I went to Oxford?" says Mrs Miggins.
"I don't think you did Maureen," says Dave.
Mrs Miggins goes on to tell a long and rather boring tale about the time she went to Oxford; highlights included her visit to the museum, walking through the grounds of the university, and how she got done for trespassing.
Eventually, Mrs Miggins notices her husband slowly climbing back up onto the stool next to her. "What were you doing on the floor?" she asks him.
"Oh, nothing" says Mr Miggins, embarrassed that he'd only had half a pint.
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Apologies for that being such a short story, but I thought it was worth just posting it as I know many of my readers (in my dreams) were really confused following the last episode focusing on the mystery of the missing teapot in Little Piddling-on-the-Wold.
Thanks for reading,
-Peter