Why 2mm and the baseboard

Although rather late this is my entry to the 2mm Association and RMweb layout challenges. The layout will be based somewhere in South Wales around 1969/70, so will be requiring quite a few mineral wagons and 21t hoppers for the coal traffic along with a selection of general freight.

With all the recent stuff coming out in N gauge, I was quite taken by the Bach/Farish class 37 when released and opted to purchase one, which followed with a few other locos and the odd bit of rolling stock. This was followed a couple of months ago by joining the 2mm association along with purchasing a few wagon kits and some of their "Easitrac" components to build my own track.

I decided that i needed to do something layout wise and with joining the 2mm association, i received with my members pack which contained a flyer mentioning the GJ layout challenge, I thought this would be an excellent opportunity to get something built, nothing like a deadline, then with the announcement of the RMweb 2010 , the chance was given too run the two alongside each other. So with a few days holiday over the festive season a start has been made on the layout.

Anyhow onto the layout, the scenic section will be 4' x 18" deep with two small end to end fiddle yards, which consists of a two track branch line with a small good yard and two other sidings for something else possibly a coal yard or something similar.

The trackplan of the scenic section using Templot.

And a couple of pictures of the the constructed scenic board with the printed Templot track template stuck down ready to lay the track, although the runround has now been changed for an extra siding in the goods yard and the crossover is now trailing instead of facing.