Shaun's Model Railway - Future Plans

My Future Layout Plans

This is where I intend to outline any future plans I have for the layout. One of the things that I would like is not just to have DCC control but full computer control of my layout. Is this achievable? I've been looking around the internet and it would seem that there are software packages out there than can be used to give computer control of layouts. If I've read correctly, there is also a way of using computer control via the DCC controllers.

I've also had it suggested to me that extending into the garden might be an idea. Not too sure about that but it might be something worth investigating.

Queenborough Station today

I'm also thinking about a modular layout, perhaps themed on another location on the island, Queenborough, that can be exhibited. It's got some operational potential as there was a siding behind the Sheerness bound platform that was/is used as a loco stabling point, there used to be a goods shed which has been demolished but the track was in place for many years afterwards and has only been ripped up in the last few years, another siding on the Sittingbourne bound side that has been/is used for car trains and steel trains plus a line that branches off to a car loading point that was, I believe though I could be wrong, originally the line to the old Queenborough Pier station that's long since been demolished. On the other side of the road bridge from Queenborough station there's a branch off to a line leading down to a car loading facility and another siding off of this that used to lead all the way down to a dock at Rushenden - I think this line is not used anymore but could be wrong.

The station was also the terminus for the Sheppey Light Railway and there used to be a third platform at the station for this line. While the line was closed in 1950 and the track ripped up shortly after, there's scope for having a scenario where the line was kept open by a preservation society thereby allowing for preservation traffic on the layout.

That's quite a lot of operational potential in quite a small space.

I belong to the N Gauge Modern Area Group and there's talk of a modular layout by members of the group. That might be another future plan of mine.

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