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Richard Mawer

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I have now laid the track for the hidden storage loops that represent the rest of my line to the west, joining up with the Oxford to Banbury line somewhere near Kings Sutton.

 

 

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The gradient down from Newton Purcell comes in near left (yet to have the track laid). The continuous run goes off to the far left. It then goes round the room and comes in near right. The lines to and from the storage loops are off to the far right.

 

 

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With the continuous run in the bottom of the shot, this is the entrance pointwork. For reason to do with angles and lenses, the curves look mighty sharp, but they are not. The ones at the bottom are the first superelevated ones from my last posting.

 

Please note that there are a maximum of 4 points for any line. I know my CDU will fire 4 peco surface mount motors at once. These will be operated via a diode matrix just like on MK1. The motors and micro switches for frog power have to go in.

 

 

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On MK1 I only had 6 loops. I have increased that to 10. I've bought more locos and stock! The line on the far left is the return line after the dumbell. The two on the right are the continuous run. The loops and return will be hidden under a hill with a deep sided cutting down to the continuous run lines which are on show. The scenery above the loops will be lightweight and hinged to allow emergency access.

 

The loops will be wired as (finally) worked out on MK1. There are early blog entries detailing that.

 

 

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The exit points for the loops, leading into the dumbell and then back out. The return line is clear at the top of the photo and the continous run at the bottom. Again there are a maximum of 4 points per route. Route select both in and out will be by rotary switch with a push button to fire the CDU.

 

Rich

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Silver Sidelines

It is looking good, very neat and tidy.  I like the look of the double junction.  Are they Peco Diamonds.

 

Regards

 

Ray

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Richard Mawer

Hi. Yes Peco code 100. Medium radius closest to the camera. "Long" curved points furthest away. I thought of trying to bend the diamonds like Grantham (on thisite - very impressive results from peco track!), but I was happy enough with the end result.

 

Thanks for your support and help with all this.

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