Looking for inspiration...

[lionwing]

I am looking for some visual inspiration for my new layout.

It will be a minimal space continuous run layout (as with my previous one) fitting on a baseboard 3ft x 3ft.

I hope to include a traverser, with four tracks, behind a scenic break.

Front of house will be a small terminus station and small goods yard surrounded by a very built up urban scene.  Think rows of terrace houses, narrow streets...almost Coronation Street like.  I can see these individual elements clearly in my minds eye but need some form of visual inspiration (perhaps a similar layout already constructed) to help me see how they will work together.

Should the track be raised above the scene or should it run through a cutting with the built up urban area rising above it...

Lots of questions but any input gratefully received...

Richard

[edwin_m]

London and not a terminus, but Hedges Hill Cutting may be of interest.  Google image search finds plenty. 

[Greybeema]

You could try something like Borough Market beside London Bridge Station.  With the railway running on arches and the urban scene in a kind of under croft under the arches...

Why have lower or higher level?  Why not both?  A low level circuit goods line & a high level circuit mainline..

[PostModN66]

I like Greybeema's suggestion.  I have often thought about doing a layout based on this area.

In fact I have bought a couple of "Cathedrals" (big churches) to represent Southwark Cathedral and a 1:144 ship (the "Wasa") which looks to me like the "Golden Hind" that is in a dry dock nearby.  You could add a some (Japanese origin) skyscrapers.   I used to work at no 1 London Bridge, the big pink office building, so used to walk through this area often.

It so far is a daydream - a few layouts on the list ahead of this!

Cheers

Jon 

[steve836]

Being a  cockney I tend to think Liverpool Street suburban. Only trouble is no N7's or Gresley artics. Up to the 60's and maybe a bit beyond it was the most densley trafficked in the world with a train entering or leaving the Street every 30 seconds and mostly steam hauled.

[Greybeema]

Know it well Jon.  I used to travel in from Gravesend and work in the City so sometimes I would walk in from London Bridge, sometimes Canon Street but usually Charing Cross..  Hence my own North Kent line and my requirement for 465 Networkers..

Lionwing, are these the sort of scenes you want?  What period are you modelling?

[lionwing]

Thanks for the replies everyone.

The period is certainly post WW2 and in my mind no later than the 1950's.  That said not all my rolling stock will fit this period...but as they say "..It's my layout etc..."

Reading through the replies has helped direct my thoughts a little and perhaps a "dense urban" inner city theme isn't something I had imagined.

I do like the idea of the arches with a few rows of terrace houses below, shops with a station building perhaps at street level with access stairs to the platforms...mmm...

[steve836]

Lets have a butchers at some pics when you get it underway. Please.

[lionwing]

Lets have a butchers at some pics when you get it underway. Please.

I'm not shy in posting photo's!

There will be a lot!

[PostModN66]

I do like the idea of the arches with a few rows of terrace houses below, shops with a station building perhaps at street level with access stairs to the platforms...mmm...

It's like the opening credits for Coronation street, with the tram going past on the viaduct.

You could actually do a Coronation Street Layout, with Rover's Return:

http://www.corrie.net/start/where.html

Cheers  Jon 

[lionwing]

What a amazing idea!