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Delph - Progress with point rodding (at last!)

Dave Holt

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It's been quite a while since I last posted anything about Delph (or should I say "Holt"). This is mainly because there's been precious little progress in recent weeks, partly due to the warm weather making work on the layout an unattractive proposition but mainly because I've been shying away from what seemed like a difficult and fiddly task. Needless to say, when I actually knuckled down to it, it proved much less of a problem than I had anticipated.

Anyway, a concerted effort over the past week has seen good progress and it now only remains to do the facing point lock (which straddles two base-boards) and the cranks outside the signal box.

Here are some shots showing the main rodding run, complete with compensators, and the arrangements to get the rods across the entrance to the mill siding.

First, the main rodding runs. In the second photo, the hole in the base-board is for the starter signal to plug in.

 

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And here, the rods pass under the track into the mill siding, seen from each side. An Alex Jackson uncoupling magnet can be seen under the middle rod.

 

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Dave Holt

Thanks for the kind comments and a special thank you to Keith for all your help with signalling and rodding arrangements. Without that I would have struggled to produce a convincing arrangement.

I'm planning to do the FPL fouling bar next. Do either of you (or anyone else) know the typical spacing of the bar pivot supports for ex-LNWR/early LMS bars? The Ambis etch has them in every sleeper bay but that seems rather excessive, especially for a 50 or 60 foot bar.

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Hi Dave, a couple of weeks Robin and I were looking at a photo of a FPL fouling bar in some track work near Barrow Road.  It looked to be a similar length to yours and seemed to have pivot supports every other sleeper.  However, in some cases it was every third sleeper.  I'm sure a message to Robin would get you a copy of the picture.

 

Morgan

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barrowroad

Hi Dave,

All looking very good. As Morgan says I have been looking at the locking/treadle bar on Barrow Road and have some photos of the same which I will send to you - away from the house at present. From the photo the bar looks to be 45ft+ long , although the full length is not shown in the photo I have. Keith tells me that the usual length for a Mk1 coach is 40ft although lines which conveyed 70ft ex GWR coaches would be longer. I have contacted Martin Wynne for information but have not yet had a reply. I have fabricated a bar using brass 'T' section bar soldered onto some Exactoscale brass Bridge Chairs to represent the supports - not strictly correct but they do enable the 'T' bar to stand upright and when painted will hardly notice. The bottom edge of the bar seems to rest at the level of the top of the chair bolts. The operating levers are pivoted and have been described to me as similar to bicycle pedal cranks. In my photo there are 13 in view on the 45ft length shown in the photo. Some are positioned between adjacent sleepers whilst others are at one or two sleeper intervals. Photos to follow in PM. Hope this helps,

 

Robin

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Gravy Train

Hi Dave,

thought to look in to see how your layout is progressing and must say, looking superb, point rodding looks very intricate :-)

cheers

Peter

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