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Passengers - to have or not to have? Layout name: Marsh Lane Sidings


RobboPetes

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Looking at the photo from above in the last blog made me realize I might have a lot of scenery to do at the front of the layout. This got me thinking (does any one remember Alan Dare's layout in the April and June 1981 editions of the Railway Modeller?). His layout was a freight only branch with a disused passenger station.

 

On the layout I could add another track at the front (number 1 on the attached diagram), along with a platform. An extra fiddle yard could be added at point A, thus creating a through line on the new passenger line.The passenger service could be a couple of DMUs plying their trade from left to right of the layout, and back again. As a variation I could use the station as a terminal station and any traffic travelling towards point A would be freight only. Any freight that travels as a through service, such as a pickup service, would need to be vans, tankers or covered vehicles. If 16t coal or hopper wagons are used loaded wagons would travel from the main fiddle yard to the fiddle yard at A, and empties would travel in the opposite direction. The other option with open wagons would be to have removable loads if possible. This is assuming the main yard where all the freights come from will be the direction from the main fiddle yard. This would certainly bring some variation to the operation of the layout.

 

The line marked B on the diagram is accessible from the sector plate C within the transit shed. Unloading would therefore take place off-scene.

 

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Hi Robert,

 

I personally prefer a bit of space at the front of a layout so that you look over or through things rather than stand with your nose on the fence so to speak.

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I agree with Linthorpe, less is more. However, as a thought why not keep the line (1), but have it abandoned and overgrown. It might give you that sense of space and deriliction.

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Thanks for the comments. As a thought, I could have the derelict platform with the track lifted? Saying that, I could do away with line 1 and push the platform up on to the run-round loop. By changing the point from left hand to right hand would make the platform road the old main line - albeit now a terminal road. Certainly food for thought.

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