Day 1 - Pointless?!

Day 1

Well Ive gone and bought some board to start the layout. A track plan has been fully planned out and a list of materials produced. Ebay was hit quite hard for some bits but the main came from the excellent Classic Loco, Cleethorpes who stayed open an extra half hour for me to reel off my list of track needs!

If only Id stuck with getting all my equipment from Classic Loco and not Ebay! The two left hand points ordered seemed to have disintegrated in the post. So I am one left hand point down now... annoying.

I am using Peco FlexiTrack which I have now self taught how to split down into sizes needed. A hacksaw from the Pound shop did the trick! Never said I was a professional at this did I?!

After laying down all the track, it all seemed to fit perfectly.. then came time to test using the 'builders Jinty' a curious loco from Classic that is in BR Black.. BR being the 1980s logo!!

Armed with a rake of three LNER clerestory's and four Teak coaches I tested my measurements...

Can you see the Missing Point??

Then came a mild worry that Id messed up measurements in a bid to fit the layout in the room Id had to shrink down to 2m length. Then came lots of comparing between Pictures from 'Disused Stations : Mablethorpe' and my strange BR Jinty / LNER Teak set.

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Disused Stations

Pictures above are a similar angle, but the Class 31 is on an eight coach set and my little Jinty only on a three coach set. The 31's third coach is sat on the crossover as is my Jintys.. so no problem there, my issue was that if the 31's train was all in Platform 3 then my measurements were way out. After checking every photo again I was happy Platform 3 was shorter than Platform 1/2 and the 31 must have been reversing out to come back into Platform 2 as was the norm with it being the northbound platform..? Thats my story and Im sticking to it! 

So Day 1 was done and the layout moved into its 'permanent' position in the house, so painting can now start.