On the 1st of June my wife and I moved off of our narrowboat Hadar and into a flat in Warwick, and we sold Hadar on the 4th September, so I am embarking on building a new model railway, by coincidence to be named Hadarford. The reason for this is my wife Jo bought me this name board for Valentines Day 2018, and the original Hadarford is going to be part of another layout with a different name.
This plan is version 8 (will skip past the first 7 versions) and although not necessarily the final plan but it gives an idea of what to expect.
As can be seen it sits astride a chimney breast in our bedroom. It will be built on 3 seperate baseboards, one each either side of the chimney breast and the third joining them together across the front of the chimney breast. one major design feature is that all 4 points are sited on the central board, and as I propose to the the Pecolectrics Smartswitch which uses ribbon cable connections this will simplifying the wiring up of the layout. Note also the row of half-relief buildings to hide the line at the rear of the layout.
These are 2 half-relief buildings I have bought for hiding the line at the back of the layout.
I have also purchased these 4 kits to build, and the intention is, except for the Farm Cottage bottom left, to build them as half-relief buildings. The 2 sets of semi-detached cottages and the Post Office should actually give me 8 cottages and 2 shops by using the sheets of stonework that would normally be used on the rear of the building as extra fronts. Will be interesting project to build them.
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Today these 3 buildings arrived to create the new station buildings. Not as grand as the ones on the original Hadarford, but more in keeping with a narrow gauge railway.
Keith
