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posted: 7 Oct 2010 12:34 from: BeamEnds click the date to link to this post click member name to view archived images |
Hi all, here's the lastest version of Soddingham-Under-Piddle - it's now shrunk to a 11' x 2' plank. It started out as a serious go at modelling Mells Road (between Frome and Radstock) circa 1980, but, well, you know..... So now it's entirely fictional, but the same general area and period. The sidings are the font of the layout. Because I like signals, the four roads at the back are infact four single line branch lines. The two rearmost ones will disappear into bridges/tunnels so things can be hidden there temporarily, the other two branches just disappear into the wall, also through bridge/tunnel mouths. There will be a platform against the road between the two rearmost branches, with a signal box above (because I fancy doing all the point rodding) as the layout is cut into the side of a hill for some reason. The object of the layout is to provide as much parking space as possible for my rolling stock, while allowing a reasonable amount of operation - which is essentially just shunting. Apart form being hidden, a train will will get assembled (being able to work with a 3' train is the main requirement), and then I'll turn my back and magically the next one has arrived (spookily with the same wagons and engine) to be shunted. If there were space, the addition if a fiddle yard at each end would make it a pretty practical layout - be needs must and all that. It looks a lot better with labels turned off! Cheers Richard |
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posted: 8 Oct 2010 14:49 from: BeamEnds click the date to link to this post click member name to view archived images |
Here's a screen shot out of the signal box window - the Sketchup file is too big to upload unfortunately (13Mb). I created the Sketchup model to see how having an elevated signal box would work. Looks good I reckon, especially with all the steps leading to the platform and box. Quite why this station would ever have been built in the middle of Somerset is a mystery. I've got some shufflling about to make the 'tunnels' work, but this essentially the plan that work starts on over the weekend. 5c22r6vs5g |
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posted: 8 Oct 2010 15:08 from: BeamEnds click the date to link to this post click member name to view archived images |
just thought........ here's a link to the Sketchup file stored at Box.Net - a safe file-park. Soddingham-Under-Piddle II - The Sequel - Shetchup File You should be able to download it from there (works for music files anyway!) Cheers Richard |
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posted: 17 Dec 2011 14:01 from: BeamEnds click the date to link to this post click member name to view archived images |
After more re-arrangements on the domestic front, centred around the need to create a 'studio' for my guitar playing (which has gone public), Soddingham-Under-Piddle has again re-located - back up to the loft room! If having a train set in the studio is good enough for Hawkwind, it's good enough for me. Gaining a whole 3ft has made a bit of a re-design possible, though it is still a shunting puzzle/animated diorama set up. Luckily track made to date is all re-usable. I can't get the diamond in the middle of the scissors to work (I'll do that when building). |
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posted: 17 Dec 2011 19:23 from: Tony W
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Hi Richard. Your file is a right mixture. Some of the turnouts are bull head, 40 and 47 are bull head REA switches with flat bottomed style planned wing rails and the scissors is a mix of bull head and flat bottomed units which will not work, it needs to be one or the other. I can sort the scissors out for you if you wish but I need to know which rail type you want it in. It will be far better to sort out the design before you try to build it. Tony. |
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posted: 18 Dec 2011 14:05 from: BeamEnds click the date to link to this post click member name to view archived images |
Tony W wrote: Hi Richard.Hi Tony, oops - wrong version (note to self:tidy up old versions!) Here's the right one. Some check rails are the wrong length, this is a known bug, seemingly it only happens to me. I can get the right-hand half of the scissors diamond (2.4 angle), but when working on the left half any mouse action creates a new copy and I end up with a vertical version of Clapham Junction (might be a Linux thing?). If you'd have a go I'd be grateful, there only so much language available here.... ;-) Cheers Richard |
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posted: 18 Dec 2011 22:39 from: Tony W
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Hi Richard. Yes you are right about the checkrail lengths. Are you sure you didn't alter them early on for some reason under the Real > Customise V-crossing > Wing and check rails as it is very easy to alter the wrong thing and then copy this wrong data onto subsquent templates without realising it? I have corrected them all anyway. I have sorted out your scissors, now all flat bottom by various dubious means, and it looks a lot better. All the best with your project. Incidentally just out of curiosity, which member of Hawkwind was it that was the train enthusiast? Tony. |
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posted: 19 Dec 2011 15:10 from: BeamEnds click the date to link to this post click member name to view archived images |
Tony W wrote: Hi Richard.Hi Tony, thanks for doing that - I had tried again last night, and failed miserably. The check rail thing is a mystery, on most points it works fine, on others I always get three-sleeper bent ones, whatever the settings in "Real->etc". There is a thread on this somewhere here, Martin knows about it but as it's only me the effort to fix/sort it out simply isn't worth the candle. It seems to be related to changing from FB rail to BH, or vice versa, mixed in with dash of some template file that crops up in whatever I do. I don't know if it's any particular member of Hawkwind, or just a general band thing. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8159908.stm Somewhere on the web is a picture, but as ever I can't find it just now - I think it might have been on New Railway Modellers forum. Once again, thanks for sorting that out. Onwards and upwards, as they say! Cheers Richard |
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