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Bristol Barrow Road - 20ft WorkshopTurntable Update

barrowroad

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Since my last entry I have made the majority of the track situated at the rear of the roundhouse. This trackwork is quite interesting as it not only links the two 20ft turntables but gives access to the workshop at 90deg to the turntables. Two spurs off turntable 4 run alongside the boiler house and were used for storage of withdrawn engines [Pugs 51218 & 51217 together with Johnson 3F 43444 are known to have been on these tracks]. Turntable 2 gives access to the water softening plant [ wagons were positioned to take the sludge ] whilst the extension to the wheel drop road leads to a 12ft turntable which was used to enable movement of loco driving wheels to the workshop wheel lathe via turntable 4.

The track to the water softening plant proved an interesting challenge as it crosses the wheel drop road on the level. The method I used was to solder rail directly to thin pcb board whilst scribing the board to ensure each rail is insulated!

I used a similar method to construct the interlaced track to the two boiler house sidings. Only one of these will be wired up as the other was only used to house one wagon for the boiler house itself.

 

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44805 on the wheel drop road - note the track to the water softening plantcrossing under the front bogie.

 

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Wheel drop road to lower left; turntable 2 nearest the shed. I have included the remains of the track from the removed turntables 1 and 3.

 

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The track to the water softening plant crossing the wheel drop road

 

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The two tracks to the boiler house sidings.

 

Peter Harvey is producing a P4 version of his 12ft wagon turntable etch for me which will be positioned at the junction of the two tracks in the bottom right of photo 2.

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Dave Holt

Robin,

 

Looks a very interesting feature. Also look forward to the next opportunity to view progress!

 

Meanwhile, I'm bogged down with ballasting, but now on the last board, so there is light!

 

Dave.

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Norton961

Excellent work.

Interesting that 44805 has a 2B shed code which is Oxley but the bufferbeam says Saltley! The Black 5 has probably worked in with a Holiday special.

 

David

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barrowroad

Jeff,

I moved house to Tewkesbury in December 2014 and and in the process of building a large shed to house Bristol Barrow Road in an extended form. My intention is to convert the layout into a 30ft x 15ft continuous run with a fiddle yard feeding trains on the main line running past the shed complex. Scenic breaks at each end will be Lawrence Hill bridge to the north and Days Road bridge to the south at the rear of the shed. Today [25th Feb] the foundations fro the shed are nearly complete.

I'm afraid you'll have to be patient:)

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