Copyright © 2002-2010, Crawley Model Railway Society [Apr 10] Made with Xara Web Designer Made with Xara Web Designer ‘Littlehaven Belt Line’ 3.5mm:1ft Scale HO Gauge Click image to view track plan For more pictures, visit  Littlehaven Belt Line is an H0 switching layout, with industrial and harbour scenes, based in the USA West Coast post 1945. The lightweight plywood baseboard is only 1.37 x 0.42m (54" x 16.5").   Fitting in all the builder's design requirements - industries, harbour and jetty, oil depot, small passenger depot and a diamond crossing - into the confined space was quite a challenge. The whole layout is on one baseboard to simplify setting up at exhibitions and avoid alignment problems. Anything longer than 1.4m is too unwieldy.  The trackplan is based on 150mm units, the length of a switcher or 40ft car.   Trackwork is Peco code 75, with many points drastically trimmed to fit.   Points are operated by wire in tube and sliding switches that also change frog polarity. The buildings that disguise the 450mm (18”) sector plate and stock changing cassettes are three Walthers Cornerstone series suitably "cut and bashed". The ballast and scenic materials are from Set Scenes. All locomotives and stock are from American manufacturers, fitted with Kadee couplings and weathered to varying degrees to represent a hardworking line in its declining years.