Class 08 Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Hi everyone, I've just designed this new yard and i want everyone's opinion please. Photo will follow soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Chrissaf Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Looks quite attractive from an artistic point of view... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 /media/tinymce_upload/05fb835cc1e8cbbf9fd30ef44834863a.jpgI would suggest one more set of points and change it to look like the lower one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDS Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 I would also remove the cross-overs (I stopped using mine due to Loco's keep stopping on them) but I would replace the (red) cross over in LC&DR's diagram with a set of points as well as extending the bottom siding as he has done. This would give you 5 sidings, instead of the 4 on your track layout. I don't think you can have too many sidings. (I have 16 and I am looking at adding more). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Class 08 Posted March 30, 2017 Author Share Posted March 30, 2017 I've just posted another 2 pictures, just waiting for them to show. One is a slight change and second is where it would be going. Please excuse the mess :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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2e0dtoeric Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 I'm with LC. Remove that X-over into the siding, and have a much longer siding instead! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 The extra section using the diamond crossing is unnecessary as already pointed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2e0dtoeric Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 That looks ok.Suggestion - paint the boards underneath the 'fly-overs' flat black, so they look more gloomy and natural, and paint the 'outside' boards a mix of greens and browns, to look like natural ground, rather than African desert - until you get around to doing the decorating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Class 08 Posted April 4, 2017 Author Share Posted April 4, 2017 @2e0dtoeric I will eventually, thanks for the advice. I wanted to get all the track right before i do anything else. I've got a massive amount of work to do on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 Move the set of points feeding the four sidings, the one between the two white ish blocks of wood, to the right then the sidings can be longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St1ngr4y Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 To be prototypical, I would have thought there should be access both in and out of the yard in both clockwise and anticlockwise directions. The way you have it at the moment, for a departing train to go clockwise, it would have to reverse out over the crossover on the main line, top left, then continue clockwise aroung the loop. Similarly, a departing train going anticlockwise, would have to reverse onto the main line at the right hand end of the yard, before continuing anticlockwise. This is where space can be saved by using a single slip point at each end.Ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St1ngr4y Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 /media/tinymce_upload/88bcb334b305c90fd90ab0c894a022d8.pngWhat LC&DR had drawn was a large single slip. I've just made it smaller, and added another at the "east" end of the yard.Ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Class 08 Posted April 5, 2017 Author Share Posted April 5, 2017 Out of view I will have express points bringing the locos back to the correct track. I've got another idea which is one long siding, as well as 3 shorter one's. I'll post the picture up, it may take a while to load up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LCDR Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 Looks much better. If you wanted to be prototypical you should reverse the two crossovers. Trains in the UK usually travel on the left like cars do on roads.(Except on the Ffestiniog Railway). Your picture above shows that the point with the diamond crossing, is a right hander, the point at the other is a left hander. Ideally a real track layout would be the other way round. This is so trains arriving have to reverse in, and trains departing go off straight away. It all revolves around the fear of facing points, when in Victorian times there were a number of horrible accidents when points were not properly locked in the correct position and many people lost their lives in derailments when a train hit them at speed. Nowadays points are fitted with efficient locks so it doesn't matter any more. but the railway infrastructure rarely changed and old practices remained in use for years and years./media/tinymce_upload/6c0405a685ec301f7639235c8e667250.jpgThis is a schematic of a simple siding connection to a double track railway, which was typical of hundreds of stations up and down the country. The two crossovers allow the locomotive of a train from both directions to run round its train before or after serving the siding depending on which way it needed to go. Facing points WERE sometimes used (one location that immediately comes to mind was Crabtree Sidings between Belvedere and Erith) but these needed much more complicated signalling and facing point locks, which were expensive. None of the points in the diagram above required facing point locks and a ground signal was the most complicated signal required, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
81F Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 My mainline station only has one facing point which leads into a goods loop. I find this adds a great deal of operational interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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