Slattocks Junction - MMRS P4 Layout

No expert, but a humped bridge would fit in with a canal perfectly (unless the canal was running over it )

Hi Craig

 

As Martin says no problem with a hump backed bridge - there are loads of them around by me.

 

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=shirley&sll=52.48377,-2.126308&sspn=0.001109,0.003484&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Shirley,+Solihull,+West+Midlands,+United+Kingdom&ll=52.396953,-1.84875&spn=0.004445,0.013937&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=52.396571,-1.848774&panoid=LbFjg7ThxmUv4E06j201sg&cbp=12,185.65,,0,17.44

 

Cheers

 

Jim

Mmmmmm VERY tasty looking :icon_thumbsup2:

Thanks guys, that's an interesting one Jim as its definitely skewed to the river/canal and therefore the hump is skewed as well.

 

I'll have a look at the bridge I take to the sandwich shop over the canal at Lunchtime. Although its definately not a skew bridge in this case http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=53.394064,-2.373177&spn=0.000521,0.001041&t=h&z=20 (its also hit by a truck each month meaning a lot of its wing walls are replaced but that's a different story!).

Interested to see you're laying track on thin balsa as an underlay?

Interested to see you're laying track on thin balsa as an underlay?

Yes, balsa had been used on the layout before the relaying and it had been down 10 years and worked well (any problems were known track issues hence the rebuild, where the track had been built fine it hadn't moved). As we weren't after sound deadening then cork wasn't really needed although Dick still would have preferred it!

 

With the full height plastic sleepers on the plain line the ballast will be hard enough to negate any movement the cork would allow anyway. We could have stuck straight to ply but the balsa is earlier to tweak and create a shoulder in.