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posted: 29 Jan 2012 19:48 from: Jerry
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It has taken me several false starts to set this out over a scanned OS 1:2500 map of the station and goods yard. A box file is attached and I am hoping for comments. You can see it is not complete; at this GW station few trains stopped on the main line tracks, but the relief was fairly busy with trains to and from Paddington, (24 miles) and Reading (~12 miles), both passenger and goods, many of which stopped. The goods yard had its own shunting loco stabled at Reading, which was kept busy and will hopefully provide some challenges in operation. I have not paid any attention to sleepering yet. It looks right but I am sure there must be better ways in many areas. Jerry |
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posted: 29 Jan 2012 20:02 from: Jerry
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And here is the relevant section of the OS map showing how the layout was sqeezed between pre-existing slopes above the Thames floodplain to the west of Brunel's sounding arch. Jerry |
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posted: 29 Jan 2012 23:24 from: Tony W
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Hi Jerry. That looks fairly ambitious. The secret of nice flowing formations is to put in lengths of plain track over the map and then insert turnouts into it. With the TDV you can add diamonds where two lengths of plain track cross over one another by making one length of plain track the control template, place the mouse pointer over the other length of plain track left or right click the mouse. Select P peg / align tools > D make diamond-crossing at intersection. It really does do all the hard work for you. Tony. |
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posted: 30 Jan 2012 07:32 from: Jerry
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Thanks for the advice Tony. You obviously saw how I struggled to get it to look something like the plan. I don't regard my work as complete yet and will go around again and use your method. When I was a lad, collecting numbers I never realised the extent of the yard, even though our school, which was just to the South, arranged almost annual trips around. Oh that I had paid more attention 50 years ago! Thanks again Tony  |
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