Dream Layouts

This came up on the Ngauge mailing list

If you had more money, and British N gauge gear wasn't as rare as rocking horse droppings (as it appears to be at present, especially the models) and so on - What layout would you have if you could be totally let off the leash with it? E.g. Features, Loco's, etc?

My dream layout would be a US-style 'system layout' based on Cornwall. The layout would start with Penzance, including Long Rock carriage sidings. The other end of the layout would consist of the china clay hubs of Burngullow, Par/St Blazey and Lostwithiel.

That's the minimum; if there was even more space I might include Fowey docks, Goonbarrow and Parkindillick clay works, Liskeard and Moorswater including the viaduct and the spiral, and Plymouth North Road which could function as a terminus. And of course Saltash Bridge as a set-piece scene.

Time period would be mid-80s to present day. The sad thing is, I'm probably got enough stock to populate all this.

Dream Layout 'B' would be the Bern Lotchberg Simplon main line from Speiz to Brig, incorporating Frutigen, Blausee Mitholz, Kandersteg and Goppenstein.