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posted: 30 Oct 2007 01:28 from: richard_t
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After a recent illness that curtailed the railway photograph side of the hobby for a while, I've come back into the model railway fold. Whilst working from home last week a thought struck me that I could have a little shelf shunting layout that runs along the back of my desk. The size isn't great 1850mm by 200m at one end, and 350mm at the other, but I should be able to get a small shunting layout going. I'd also like it to be a proving ground for various ideas floating around my head (DCC, complex pointwork, some level of computer control, etc.), so I dug out Templot and had a go. The 4mm result is attached. The back wall would extend up behind the layout and I'll put on some kind of retaining wall, and the far two tracks would exit right through a tunnel (although they won't, it will just look it!). It will sit above the controllers, and hopefully I'll be able to use it as somewhere to photograph the models, as well as a distraction from work. Without a run around I realise it will probably be a two loco shunting affair (blue diesels, I'm afraid) I'm not really happy with the actual track plan, but it's stuck in my head if you see what I mean and when I try to doddle something else I end up back at square one. I wonder if some kind soul would be able to modify/design something better? A simple drawing would do, I'm quite happy to knock it up in Templot. I would have liked to curve it, but I think the radiuses on the points might get a little tight (A6 min!), and in my mind's eye I can't see how the retaining wall would work in that situation. The locos would be either an 08, class 20 or class 25, so not very long, and the wagons a motley collection of unfitted, vacuum fitted, and the smaller air-braked stock. The more complex the pointwork the better! Help Richard. |
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posted: 30 Oct 2007 08:29 from: John Lewis
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richard_t wrote: The more complex the pointwork the better!Two suggestions: Make the single slip a double one; or make it an outside slip ... John |
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