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Thanks all for the positive comments, as it says in the heading "/Saving Wigan", hopefully I can achieve the desired outcome with a snapshot of Wigan in the early fifties.
The layout is built to 4mm/foot scale ( Hornby trains size ) and it is being built in a room approx 20 square,which is probably about the minimum needed to get it in.Even so modellers Licence had to be invoked with Dr Beeching removing the lines through Pemberton and the Southport line turning left not right under the West coast mainline. Trying to figure a way of getting Prescot st shed represented as a visit to that with my Grandpa Mason in the mid`late 50's is probably where this all comes from.
King st will have to be on a large sweeping curve, sorry but to lay this out accuratly I would need a room about 50' wide, having said that the WCML to Wallgate to Chapel Lane arre not far short of true scale hence the required 'bending' of the subject.

20130427_090021 by Kevan Taylor, on Flickr
Pic 'looking up Wallgate'the empty space in the r/h corner is where King St will curve around


IMG_1672 by Kevan Taylor, on Flickr

Looking over Chapel Lane with the original Gasworks Retort House in the distance.
Careful here as trains running to Manchester currently run into a Plasterboard obstruction on the line.
The centre of the room is occupied by an 8' x 4' table that my wife and I share ( 75/25% ) several evenings a week, Deb turns out some award winning Paper Tole works like this in progress print of the Tigers.


debs work by Kevan Taylor, on Flickr

Each frond of the ferns etc is cut formed and attached seperately, she intends to enhance the tiger's fur by tiny cuts between individual strands!
Cheers
Kevan