... : 14 Aug 2010 17:36 from: philchudley Hi All Thought I'd share my latest effort. This is a P4 layout plan constructed directly from a scanned Ordanance Survey Map dated 1905 of Exeter Queen Street (LSWR) Specifically, just the area between the two road bridges (New Road North, and Howell Road) is modelled. The only compromises to the original layout are: 1) the bottom left of the plan (in reality this the bottom two exit tracks cross on an acute diamond, but I needed an ... exit for the traverser/ cassette fiddle yard) 2) the turntable is moved slightly right (to avoid straddling a baseboard joint) 3) the crossover between the up and down main (centre left of the plan) has been moved slightly to the right towards the diamond crossing, also to avoid a baseboard joint 4) The top left exit from the goods sidings is a single slip (in reality it is a really like a three way overlaid on a diamond!) Again I needed a simple exit to the fiddle ...

... switch blades and the third crossing with the second switch blades. Regards Ray Hi Ray This doesn't quite work out. The problem you get is that if you set the first switches to the leftmost route and the second to the rightmost, then both left and right roads (but not the centre) will be live. This combination, obviously, doesn't normally arise because if the first switch is set to the left then a train coming from the facing direction won't negotiate the second switch anyway- however it means that careless operation ... about combining turnouts in this way. I have altered the turnouts in the station approach tandem to arrive at something more feasable but am still pushing it with the middle crossing. This will give you a bit more length than the original design you posted. The goods yard point (the pink one) I have left as a three throw for the moment. Although appropriate in a goods yard, they can be difficult to construct and operate and if you do not fancy the challenge there may be an alternative of making the turnout ...

... 49 from: Martin Wynne Hi John, Many thanks for that. Was that just for fun, or do you have an aircraft hangar to hand? Looking at this turnout, using a regular crossing there you have a reverse curve into the siding at the turnout road exit. I don't know how fussy the S&D were about such things, but if modelled and viewed end-on I think it would be noticeable. If you change that turnout from A-5 regular to A-6.5 curviform, and then ... copy of that plan because (a) it's a bit rough and ready on the NLS site, with a bit of misalignment between the map tiles at the south end, and (b) the plan dates from about 1903, at which time neither the down yard nor the turntable and locomotive servicing facilities in the fork of the junction had yet been fully developed. Consequently I have had to do a fair amount of plotting that involves assumptions about the exact positions of these facilities as finally developed. Broadly the upload represents the ...

... hell of a lot faster and easier to assemble a lead with plates with pre-set clip mounts. Especially with a volunteer labour force. As long as you set the plates out properly, in the right order, the gauging and rail angles of the diverging road should be as designed. I note there is a bolt that doesn't appear to be attached to anything going throughout the rail web between the last two sleepers at the bottom right corner. Clipped track is a pig to model accurately due to the fine nature of ... 16 Dec 2014 21:46 from: TPP The more I learn the less I know Some more reading has revealed that in 1946/47 the RH&DR received some items from the closing Eaton Hall Railway. Apparently 21 sets of points and 5,000 yards of 'track' This is weird- I thought Eaton Hall was laid by Heywood using 16lb rail and Heywoods own design of cast iron sleeper. I also think that the pointwork was built at Heywoods Duffield Bank workshops and transported to Eaton ready to lay. I ...

... the headshunt to the Gas Works Sidings, and I wonder what your thinking is here. Depending on the era when the prototype is supposed to have been built, the Board of trade might frown upon a facing point into a siding (and, as an Arrival Road it is a bit short). On the other hand, a less plausible explanation would this:- if the Junction Trailing Point (the one by the Platform end) were less than 440 yards beyond the home signal AND there were no Outer Home Signal ... "scenic" bit. The same might also apply to goods trains since you currently would have to run round them in the Branch bay then shunt them out, though in that case, you could get round that issue by providing a cross-over in the yard, or, alternatively, by having a permanent "Station Pilot" to pull the train "off the loco" via the headshunt (for which purpose it could usefully be a bit longer). Hard experience tells me that using the hidden siding as a ...

... much appreciate some comments from the expert among you all on the attached plan. (The shapes file is uploaded separately and shows the whole of the loft where the layout will live) it is designed to be a busy, but cramped terminal surrounded by factories and roads, with a traverser as at Moore Street, Birmingham. A lot of freight and parcel traffic as well as passenger. Traffic enters by the lower track heading the the double slip and outgoing trains take the upper track. Thank you in advance gentlemen. Attachment ... 7-coach rake of 60-footers to be accommodated. However the upper platform is only 2.4m long limiting the capacity to 5 coaches even with a loco standing beyond the platform end and possibly fouling the slip giving access to the other platform face. The fiddle yard appears to permit rakes of coaches of only 1.9m limiting you to 4-coach trains. All that said, I do like the sinuous curves through the plan- so much more interesting than straight track! Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable ...

... major expansion, it was decided to add a small station/halt to service the business park. There is also a siding on the layout which I've called Timber, but may well be domestic coal or oil etc. So the layout comprises the following Main arrival road with run round loop and engineers siding. Three siding roads with kick-back road for Timber/Coal/Oil. I've tried hard to eliminate the parallel tracks to avoid the "Train-set" look; quite tricky on a fairly narrow board. ... line on the Right hand side that extends past the 2880 marker is the sole exit to the fiddle yard (2880 being the length of my scenic boards). This is my first attempt at a layout plan using Templot. I'm not entirely sure how I got here and no doubt there are many errors that the experts will be able to point out, but it's along the right lines (excuse the pun). A few things I have questions about.. 1. I seem to have an over-laid CCE ...

... Below the 3-way point will be a double slip, but I cannot see a menu option or template to create one? I've dropped a diamond crossing in for now to represent the slip, but what am I missing? Slips are created by adding slip roads to a diamond-crossing: slip_road.png The base diamond-crossing can be curved or straight, regular or irregular, and short or long. So there are an infinite number of possible double slips. It's best to leave adding the slip roads until your track ... do, but wanted to check I was learning correctly to start with! Hi Richard, What you have there is the makings of a 3-throw turnout, with both switches coincident. 3-throw turnouts are quite rare on the prototype and only used in yards and sidings. A 3-throw turnout would not be used in a passenger running line as you have it there. What you need is a tandem turnout, in which the two base turnouts are staggered: 00_tandem_quick.png Have a look at the one Tony has ...

... the gents facilities! 1951_191912_510000000.jpg The effects of lens compression makes the gradient look steeper than it is. I also need to "relieve" the kink inside the gents. Ian posted: 24 Apr 2013 23:32 from: Ian Allen 1951_241820_180000000.jpg 1951_241820_560000000.jpg The coal depot roads are now laid, which means except for one point, all track in Phase 1 of the build is laid. Ian posted: 22 Jan 2014 23:41 from: Ian Allen A little update. Work has now started on Phase 2 of the build ... are the connecting lines to another "shed", double track to a mainline station, inside double track rising to a high level station for the "electric" services, and three tracks (double main and goods loop) leading to another small station and goods yard. These are all laid with Peco and a couple of Markway double slips and will be staying as they are. The single line off the junction at top left will continue to run up to the present Bexhill, which will become a dedicated goods yard and ...

... same cant, all on the same plane. So the outer tracks are well above the inner tracks; or making the crossover go up and down over the low and high rails don't seem likely! There is a difference between a running line junction, where both roads are running lines, and low speed connections into a goods loop or yard. Regardless of any superelevation, such loops or yards are often at a lower level than the running lines. This uses gravity as a protection against vehicles running away, in addition to ... through crossovers posted: 1 Sep 2007 16:43 from: Templot User -- --- from Ian Everett -- --- Dear all, I would be grateful for your collective wisdom. I am designing a layout where the connections to the goods yard at my passing station will be from a gently-curved main line. It will have the standard trailing connections at each end of the loop, with the connection from the down line crossing the up line via a trailing single slip. My question is, ...