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We seem to be taking over Chapeltown loop - should we start a new thread?

First comment Do you really NEED to know what is inside your van? Surely you are delivering (in the first place) a wagon to be loaded. Once it is loaded, it has to go on its way asap. For example,Mr Shopkeeper in Hintock orders 100 boxes of biscuits from Huntly and Palmer( they eat a lot of biscuits in Hintock) H&P need a van which they request from the local SM.(car order)He happens to have a suitable van in his yard which he arranges to be shunted to H&P. They load ( Car order in Hold- it takes a day to load) End of day car order card moved from Hold to Pickup. Next shunting trip away it goes away with its car order Earle Hackett is a prolific writer and presenter on this subject. His treatment of open wagons ( he models operations, set in the edge of the Applachians area) uses Load cards instead of car order cards. Taking a leaf out of John Flann's book , I could see that system being used for rakes of wagons ie one Load card for the rake- eg a NCB coal mine rakes of 10 wagons which are kept in their rakes always. Glad someone is interested in operating using something that is close to real life.Keep the discussion going please

Glad to hear all of that. Chapeltown Loop is the closest I have seen to US operating practice (read universal practice- quite a lot of layouts here use it) Have you seen the car orders without numbers site? quite interesting concept- a supply a wagon on demand system. Cheers

any sign of operations commencing once again?