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topic: 2263Tandem pic
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posted: 19 Jul 2013 20:42

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Martin Wynne
 
West Of The Severn - United Kingdom

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This pic shows a nice collection of irregular diamond-crossings:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kerryp28/6159481290/sizes/l/in/photostream/

Also interesting is the tandem turnout in the middle distance on the right. It's a Type 2 tandem with the second switch in the turnout road of the first switch. At this distance it's not obvious why the middle road couldn't have run straight through as a Type 1 tandem, but it makes an interesting exercise for Templot. :)

If anyone knows the area (Wigan Springs Branch) and can post an old 25" map, we can perhaps see why it is laid out that way.

regards,

Martin.

posted: 19 Jul 2013 20:55

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Trevor Walling
 
United Kingdom

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Hello Martin,
Would that be classed as a double-double crossing?:)
Trevor.

posted: 19 Jul 2013 21:01

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Martin Wynne
 
West Of The Severn - United Kingdom

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Trevor Walling wrote:
Would that be classed as a double-double crossing? :)
Hi Trevor,

I'm not sure it has a name. It's 4 tracks branching out of 4, so correctly it could be called a quadruple junction. :)

regards,

Martin.

posted: 19 Jul 2013 21:16

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Paul Boyd
 
Loughborough - United Kingdom

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That's a lovely photo - in those days everything about the permanent way looked neat and tidy.

If you built the tandem turnout like that, it would look like a badly built tandem turnout!  That would be quite tricky in Templot, although the quadruple junction would now be dead easy!

As an aside, it's a bit irritating when people post useful reference photos on Flickr, then disable downloading.  It just means we have to go through the "Save page" malarkey and extract the image from the appropriate folder :thumb:

posted: 19 Jul 2013 21:30

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Martin Wynne
 
West Of The Severn - United Kingdom

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Paul Boyd wrote:
As an aside, it's a bit irritating when people post useful reference photos on Flickr, then disable downloading. It just means we have to go through the "Save page" malarkey and extract the image from the appropriate folder
Hi Paul,

In Firefox,

Tools > Page Info menu item -- or right-click, View Page Info.

Media tab.

Click the list and arrow-key down through it until you find the image.

Save As... button.

Martin.

posted: 19 Jul 2013 21:36

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Paul Boyd
 
Loughborough - United Kingdom

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Thank you :D

posted: 20 Jul 2013 17:48

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Judi R
 
Sutton-on-Sea - United Kingdom

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Martin,

I use Firefox and I wasn't aware of that method of saving an image - thanks for the tip!

The method I've always used when images are locked (which will work in any browser) is to make sure the image is fully visible and then press the "Print Screen" key. This copies the whole screen into the Windows clipboard and I then paste it into my image program. There I can trim away all of the extraneous stuff I don't want and then resize and save the image as I choose.

Judi R

posted: 22 Jul 2013 17:44

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Tony W
 
North Notts. - United Kingdom

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Hi Martin.
Returning to the original topic and the rather odd layout of the Tandem, a possible reason is that it was a recovered unit and fitted rather better in its original site. Studying the picture gives the impression that there may once have been additional sidings in the space next to the running lines (spare sleepers etc. lying around) so this may be the result of the rationalisation.
Tony W.



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