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topic: 1393Rail lengths in difficult situations
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posted: 27 Feb 2011 21:19

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Dasatcopthorne
 
 

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Hi Folks.

My first posting in a long time.

Two questions please.

I am working in OO-SF and building BH track for BR(S). I am using 60' rails with 25 sleepers and equalised timering on points.  Is this correct please?

If there was a length of plain track between two turnouts say 140' long, what length would the track panels be cut to. 2 x 60' + 20' or would they try to avoid the 20' length and have 2 x 50' + 40'? Is/was there any set rules or minimum length please?

It the toes of two points faced each other, a what distance apart would a separate panel of track be inserted as against the two turnouts having only one rail joint separating the two them?

Any info very welcome as I really want to get my track as correct as possible.

Cheers


Dave Smith



posted: 27 Feb 2011 21:26

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Rob Manchester
 
Manchester - United Kingdom

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Dasatcopthorne wrote:
Hi Folks.

My first posting in a long time.

Two questions please.

I am working in OO-SF and building BH track for BR(S). I am using 60' rails with 25 sleepers and equalised timering on points.  Is this correct please?

If there was a length of plain track between two turnouts say 140' long, what length would the track panels be cut to. 2 x 60' + 20' or would they try to avoid the 20' length and have 2 x 50' + 40'? Is/was there any set rules or minimum length please?

It the toes of two points faced each other, a what distance apart would a separate panel of track be inserted as against the two turnouts having only one rail joint separating the two them?

Any info very welcome as I really want to get my track as correct as possible.

Cheers


Dave Smith


Hi Dave,

If you want the track as correct as possible shouldn't you get the track gauge right ?? Sorry, couldn't resist the comment and no, I don't want to start the old gauge argument again and no, I doubt my modelling skills are as good as yours.

Rob


posted: 27 Feb 2011 22:16

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Martin Wynne
 
West Of The Severn - United Kingdom

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Dasatcopthorne wrote:
If there was a length of plain track between two turnouts say 140' long, what length would the track panels be cut to. 2 x 60' + 20' or would they try to avoid the 20' length and have 2 x 50' + 40'? Is/was there any set rules or minimum length please?
Hi Dave,

The commonly quoted rule for running lines is that no rail should be shorter than 15ft / 6 sleepers, but I don't know if that is applicable for BR(S) for your period. That might make it necessary to shorten 60ft rails in some cases. In which case ideally at least 15ft would be cut off, so that the offcut would be usable elsewhere.

So for say 130ft length, 2 x 60ft + an extra 10ft is not allowed. Instead one of the 60ft rails would be shortened to say 40ft, requiring a further 30ft length to make 60ft + 40ft + 30ft. The 20ft offcut is then on hand if needed elsewhere.

But that is only for running lines. For yards and sidings it's a case of using whatever rail lengths are to hand.

However these practices vary widely for different companies and periods, and you can easily find photographs showing the exact opposite. :)

regards,

Martin.



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