Operation of Jersey railways

For more information on the operation of Jersey railways click the link below.

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/941/entry-11384-st-ouen-jnwr-%E2%80%93-when-is-a-level-crossing-not-a-level-crossing/

Layout Planning II - Back

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1283/entry-11355-st-ouen-jnwr-layout-planning-ii/

Layout Mockup - Forward

To view the layout mockup, click on the link below.

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1283/entry-11391-st-owen-jnwr-layout-mockup/

Prototype Research

Once the initial design had been done on the track layout, and the siding lengths had been checked, using a full size printout, from Templot, work on the sequence could begin.

Research in the Jersey Archive and the archive of the States of Jersey, the island parliament produced a passenger timetable. Unfortunately archive visitors are not permitted to photograph material. You can get a photograph, via the office at a cost of £40 per page.

Not having that amount of money, I sketched the timetable into my sketchbook, and from that produced a printed version using Open Office. I had obtained scraps of information about goods traffic and using this information from many sources, including the above archives the goods trains were added.

To load the completed timetable click on the link below.

Timetable.doc

I have included a track plan of Pont Marquat, which was built up from various scraps of information from various sources.

A drawing of the track plan of St Ouen, obtained from, an appendix of, the Jersey North Western Act held in the States of Jersey Archive. Because of the fee, I copy this into my sketchbook and produced the final drawing using Corel Draw.

The completed sequence is show below.

Runaround procedures at St Ouen

The link below points to a animation showing how run around will be achieved on St Ouen.

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/941/entry-11358-st-ouen-jnwr-running-around-a-passenger-train/

The next stage is to check the sequence using the full size print out, models, and cassettes to see if it works.

Lisa