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TEMPLOT 3D PLUG TRACK - To get up to speed with this experimental project click here.   To watch an introductory video click here.   See the User Guide at Bexhill West.

  • The Plug Track functions are experimental and still being developed. Some of the earlier pages of this topic are now out-of-date.

    For an updated overview of this project see this topic.   For some practical modelling aspects of using Plug Track see Building 3D Track.

    The assumption is that you have your own machines on which to experiment, or helpful friends with machines. Please do not send Templot files to commercial laser cutting or 3D printing firms while this project is still experimental, because the results are unpredictable and possibly wasteful.

    Some pages of this and other topics include contributions from members who are creating and posting their own CAD designs for 3D printing and laser-cutting. Do not confuse them with Templot's own exported CAD files. All files derived from Templot are © Martin Wynne.
  • The Plug Track functions are experimental and still being developed.

    For an updated overview of this project see this topic.   For some practical modelling aspects of using Plug Track see Building 3D Track.

    The assumption is that you have your own machines on which to experiment, or helpful friends with machines. Please do not send Templot files to commercial laser cutting or 3D printing firms while this project is still experimental, because the results are unpredictable and possibly wasteful.

    Some pages of this and other topics include contributions from members who are creating and posting their own CAD designs for 3D printing and laser-cutting. Do not confuse them with Templot's own exported CAD files. All files derived from Templot are © Martin Wynne.

Salfords Quays

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An interesting, albeit large, prototype, especially for those who prefer freight movements. My interest came about after discussing the L&Y station "New Barns Junction" which was at the end of the branch from Windsor Bridge. Originally trains from the L&Y ran throughto the rear of the warehouses at Dock 8...you can just see them peeping out on the right of the screenshot. These were truncated and terminated when "The Grid" was built, along with the opening of Dock 9.

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On the left hand side are the Manchester Ship Canal Company sidings, and to the right, those of the L&Y, with the MSC running freight to the warehouses on Dock 8 and 9.

At its peak, the MSC had 75 locomotives, 2700 wagons and 230 miles of track.

Ian
 
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Ian,
I have long memories of Salford Quays and the Trafford Park complex as we use to ride our bikes round there when I was very young. I remember falling off a few times when the bike wheel got caught in the inset railway track. Pity I didn't have access to a camera in those days - my vague memories are getting dimmer all the time.

Talking of industrial estates like Trafford Park it always makes me groan when you see signs these days directing people to "xxxx Industrial Estate" as it turns out to be just a pile of storage units and a constant buzz of delivery trucks. In the good old days they used to actually make things.......

You will ned some helpers if you are taking on a layout based on this :D

Rob
 
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