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Claverton Engineering - The Plan

Burkitt

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Virtual concept model of the design, created in Sketchup

 

Claverton Engineering is my planned 0-16.5 narrow gauge micro layout. My slow progress to date has been covered in various parts of old RMweb, but I thought I'd do a recap at the beginning of this blog which will hopefully feature more rapid developments in the near future.

 

It will depict a small corner of a heavy mechanical engineering works, partly inspired by the Bruce Peebles & Co. Ltd. works in Edinburgh, which built the never used electric locos for the unbuilt Portmadoc, Beddgelert and South Snowdon Railway and had its own electrified internal railway system. Inspiration also comes from the Hellingly Hospital Railway, with the loco currently under construction based on a narrow gauge version of the one used in that line. The name comes from Claverton Down, on which the University of Bath where I am currently studying is built.

 

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Track plan using RCL templates. Only Y points are used to fit the plan in the smallest possible space

 

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Track plan with rolling stock to check clearances and siding lengths. They appear a bit generous here, but turned out much tighter in reality

 

The layout is based on the classic Timesaver shunting puzzle, and fits on two A3 sized boards to make it easily transportable. At each end the tracks will run to the board edge, to permit use of a cassette-type fiddle yard or future extensions. Track geometry is based on the Roy C Link 14mm gauge sectional trackwork, scaled up to 16.5mm gauge. Tram-style overhead wires will be fitted, although I am undecided as to whether they should be operational or cosmetic.

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I like this design in 3D. Did you also consider a power station? An easier option might be a loco along the lines of the L&Y battery loco with its pantograph for recharging,

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Burkitt

A power station could be interesting - Greenwich had a rather nice electrified narrow gauge railway, for example. They have a rather limited variety of traffic though - coal, coal and more coal - which I think would reduce the operation and visual interest of the model a bit. Using a "battery" loco would be simpler, but I really like the idea of overhead wires, even if they are somewhat complicated.

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persistent_bodger

Lovely work, the track is superb, I think I might have to have ago for my 2010 project

 

all the best with the layout, keep up the good work

 

T

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