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Beasts - start with a prototype - musings


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This started out as Spawd Bone Lane on RMW3, now will be an occasional thoughts on working with prototype locations to make them suitable for modelling...

 

SPAWD BONE LANE

From the middle English ???spaldbone??™ ??“ shoulder bone ??“ a name suggested by the contours of the lane. Spawd Bone Lane was originally the southern boundary of the early field system and following the extension of the South Field became a headland lying within that field.

 

from http://www.knottingley.org/history/spencer/knottingley-place-names13.htm

 

Knottingley East - a simple but interesting prototype.

The track plan is very simple consisting of 3 points and a trap there is a portacabin which supervises the level crossing but requires a release from Ferrybridge Power box before the gates can be opened.

 

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The chord is bi-directional, the down main is signalled for wrong line moves but I have never seen one.

 

To the left, off the area under consideration, local services terminate and shunt forward, on the up line towards the signal to the right, on the prototype there is just enough room for a 4 vehicle unit, 2 X 158s maximum, they then reverse and head back to form the next service, this can be either using the chord (there are connections off scene) or the down main line. Coal trains (loaded and empty) pass through on the main lines and also use the chord in both directions.

My thoughts for this plan are to assume there is a cross country type passenger service on the main lines, a further infrequent local one on the chord and use a bigger variety of freight, the terminating locals will still be shunting around.

 

Some recent photos of the area.

 

A 144 reverses as described, the whippets live behind the hedge to the left.

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A further reversal, looking the opposite way, showing the units using the chord.

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And again

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The Shanks 66522 passes on the "mini haul" - Petroleum coke in HIAs (empty in this direction) - as a unit awaits a clear road.

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And 66625 brings a loaded "mini" off the chord.

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Another prototype location, this time more complicated than the last, although there are only 2 running lines. One long siding, 3 loops and a pair of lines off to a colliery add to the interest

 

 

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This is Sudforth Lane - some shots

 

http://railshots.fotopic.net/p42405261.html

 

http://www.johnskipsey.fotopic.net/p56462844.html

 

http://railshots.fotopic.net/p57109589.html

 

The proposed modelled area is as below.

 

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Aerial view

 

http://tinyurl.com/yjzv3fh

 

A simplified version of Sudforth Lane which retains the overall "feel" but means it fits in less space.

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  • RMweb Gold

I was at Knottingley a couple of weeks back and it still looks to be a suitable basis for a prototype - might be time to resurrect this idea when the dark nights return.

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