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Southbridge, my first depot


Clive Mortimore

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Many years before I built Pig Lane I had this little layout. Southbridge was built on the same 6 ft 6 ins by 1 ft 7 ins cupboard side as Pig Lane was later mounted on. 

 

The track work was SMP coper clad kits. The points were opperated by a J&M point lever frame.The point system worked very well but following a flat move where I had to cut the base board in two it was never the same. I brought a second lever frame for one board and it did not set up as well as the first had done.

 

The layout itself was not that well designed compared to my later depots. I had intended for the fuel point to be in the centre of the two lines going diagonally across the depot. I did not leave enough room so they ended up on dead end roads which is not common. All the little huts were experiments in making my own buildings. They all disappeared over time. It was where I experimented with using 4 inch isolating sections on the sidings where locos would be stored. 4 inches being a shunter, 8 inches a Sulzer Bo-Bo and 12 inches a Type 4. So any combination of locos could be parked in the sidings. This was the 1980s and the nearest to DCC was Hornby Zero 1.

 

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The fuel points were scratch built based on LMR practice.

 

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The engine shed, a wee bit nondescript.

 

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One of my pet hates with model loco depots, fuel tanks that hold less fuel than the train that delivers the diesel to the depot. At least I had a means of unloading the fuel.

 

Thanks for viewing this old bird.

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Good collection of green diesels you have.... :sungum:

Hi "66"

 

Cheers. They were my 80s locos, I still have most of them. The hymek has been sold and one of the Joueff 40s has been scraped. Both were slimed down but the split headcode one was dropped and broke into many bits and after being in a box for years was dumped.

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Guest Dave.C

 

 It was where I experimented with using 4 inch isolating sections on the sidings where locos would be stored. 4 inches being a shunter, 8 inches a Sulzer Bo-Bo and 12 inches a Type 4. So any combination of locos could be parked in the sidings. 

Was the experiment a success? 

 

I have DCC but am seriously thinking of sticking with DC on my new around the loft 'big & simple' project. I assume you simply had a row of 'on-off' switches for one side of the track.

 

Thanks

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One of my pet hates with model loco depots, fuel tanks that hold less fuel than the train that delivers the diesel to the depot. At least I had a means of unloading the fuel.

 

Thanks for viewing this old bird.

Don't know why I hadn't looked at this layout thread before, Clive.  

That's a good point about depot fuel capacity and I remember you saying somewhere else about how they are rarely on dead-end sidings to avoid forming a queue of locos(?).

 

I like your touch with the remains of the turntable pit - a feature I've only seen here and on Wibdenshaw (where the edge of the layout goes through the pit!).

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