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Guess it's railway if not railroad... <br /> <br />Stayed with 00 - 4mm=1ft because 1mm =3inches etc is easier than dividing up 3.5mm... 'cos we work that way not as !/72 or 1/87... and 'cos we're BRITISH. <br /> <br />I imagine that 1/87 is pretty easy when you're working in metric... but 12inches= 1foot... 3feet = 1 yard (3 feet three and one third inches = 1 metre). It caused havoc converting to decimal currency... and the politicains bottled out of the rest... jam still comes in 454gm jars... and 454gm =? You've guessed it...one pound. <br /> <br />Lancs and Yorks (Railway) wasn't Midland (Railway) nor located in the Midlands... it's North... where all the big strong men come from... so they tell us. The L&Y people would be screaming... so would the MR... BOTH went into the London Midland and Scottish in the 1923 Grouping. <br /> <br />Benches are good... there's an argument for arranging the boards as much like a single beam as possible and letting them just sit on legs acting as columns. This requires greater longitudinal strength. <br />Problem with supporting off of a wall is if you get any structural movement ...which a heavy layout can cause. <br />You can combine walls and legs but then you are into two different factors at once. <br /> <br />Of course the big difficulty with bracketing a layout off a wall is taking the wall to any meets or shows... <br /> <br />Where layouts are resident it is amazing what humps and bumps and apparently diabolical arrangements can be got away with. <br /> <br />Are you scratch building the Aspinall or using somone's kit?
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