Assessing the "earthquake" damage
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In my last post I said that my layout had suffered something comparable to an earthquake. Yesterday I managed to have it lifted off the floor and placed on its trestles and set about assessing the damage. One street lamp damaged, the station platform illumination does not come on, one station building had lost a chimney pot, some of the columns supporting the ramp up to the bridge had broken away from their bases, two under floor point motors had become disengaged from the track and one track joint had come apart. The whole ramp did not come apart because one of the columns is attached to the baseboard with a screw and the track base is also attached to the column head with a screw. The chimney pot and the split track joint were easily repaired. The point motors have required lifting of the track and one has already been refitted. This operation led me to realise that there were substantial length of track that had not been held down to the baseboard, so this will be done.
To test the track integrity I got out my Class 150 DMU which suffers from mysterious derailment (mentioned before and subject of a Forum thread) and managed to close the wide back-to-back measurement of the offending pair of wheels to an acceptable dimension. This test revealed the split rail connection mentioned above, but the machine continued to derail under the specific conditions. A close inspection showed that the derailment occurs at the joint between a straight and a turnout. There is no obvious reason why this should happen, but since I have had to lift the track in this area to reengage the other affected point motor I will see if relaying the track cures the fault.
I add a picture of the take-up roller as it is now. The motor was pulled away from its support.
Finally a question: is the Regional Railways Sprinter livery BR or post-privatization?
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