A Layout for Home Use

[Hobby]

Ah yes, the "out and back" layout. For those who don't know this layout it was designed by CJF to fit in the alcove one side of the fireplace and had a station at the front and the main line went round the back and then back towards the front, climbing as it did and at a high level at the back there was a reverse loop, someone on RMWeb did what looks like an Anyrail version, I've seen a few over the years and they make a nice layout...

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/uploads/monthly_12_2013/post-6882-0-97466000-1387828814.jpg

[Graeme Dunbar]

Yet another possibility with a continuous run is to divide the scene into three with a fiddle yard or loop at one 'short' end. Yurze Ore Mine is a bit like this as is another layout whose name escapes me.

Was the other layout Nixnie?
https://www.009society.com/forum/index.php?topic=883.0

Frank

No, but that's another good example. Thanks. Even without the addition of the extension through the 'Hagrid door', the passing loop in the station allows operation of alternating trains.

The layout I'm thinking of was more elongated but designed to be viewed (short) end on. The track looped behind a backscene. The baseboard was built and possibly the track laid by a professional builder or another modeller for the owner to add the scenic work. It had a smart built-in lighting pelmet giving the feel of a kiosk or stall. I've forgotten if it had 'hard sky' dividing down the middle or a soft scenic break such as trees. For some reason sand dunes spring to mind, but it was not the Shifting Sands layout. (OK, that one is 09 not 009, but I'm fairly sure the layout I'm thinking of is 009.)