Shunters Yard

[Irishrailwaymodeller]

Hi

Nice

I am at moment building a shunting yard

but the thing with your type of track plan,  it looks ok 

But

when the engine comes in from the wide world, it arrives engine first !

but with no runaround it cant get round the wagons to depart Engine first

 

 

rgds

Mike

 

Mike, see above fiddle-yard now added allowing engine to be turned by hand off-stage etc. rgds, Gerry

[Mike-Greg]

Hi

 

been some time to answer  ( sorry but been kind of away )

anyway i am doing a small goods yard shunting plank

 

3 industries and a run round

 

scenic area is  83cm  38cm

built in fiddle control area 38x38 cm

 

progress is slow due to time constraints and life 

 

 

[Mike-Greg]

Hi

 

Just a couple of pics

not so good  used my phone to take them

 

mike

[Irishrailwaymodeller]

Hi

 

Just a couple of pics

not so good  used my phone to take them

 

mike

 

Very nice. Are you planning to exhibit the layout?

[Mike-G]

Hi

 

Not so easy

I live south of France

not much in the way of opportunity here to show,   and UK is a bit far 

even buying stuff is a 600 KM drive there and back

and as its UK outline  e*mail is the only shop i have

mind you the one i use is good,  place an order and it here in 3 days normaly

this layout so far is made out of odds and sods in my many scrap boxes,   track is a mixture of Hornby and Peco

Points are Hornby dead frog,  08 passes ok  but the 0-4-0 (smoky Joe) is a waste of time

wired as DCC , Hornby Elite/Rail Master  and Hornby point decoder

Layout is called  Mill Lane

 

rgds

Mike

[Irishrailwaymodeller]

Recent work includes a wiring upgrade including a separate 12-volt DC supply for the lighting:

[Irishrailwaymodeller]

SY gets an "Express Parcels" railcar to augment its goods traffic handling capacity. A nice model from Dapol and I have fitted a Mr Soundguy DCC sound chip for extra exhibition/play value!

[Irishrailwaymodeller]

SY's shunter 6407 now gets a helping hand from 0-6-0 saddle tank loco 1364:

[Irishrailwaymodeller]

Shunters Yard is now equipped with remotely hand-operated lighted semaphore signals and dummy ground signals:

 

[Irishrailwaymodeller]

Shunters Yard is being repainted in GWR colours starting with a renovated signal box gifted by a friend:

[Irishrailwaymodeller]

A couple of shots of "Shunters Yard" in its new GWR livery:

Edited September 28, 2020 by Irishrailwaymodeller

[Keith Addenbrooke]

Just catching up on my reading, so first time I’ve seen the Signal Box and repaint.  I do like the way this layout fits in the different elements, and I enjoy the video.  Thanks for sharing them.
After a lot of looking around I bought a Ratio Goods Shed like the one here as it looked the part for a project I had in mind, but in the end decided it was just too big for my space, so have just sold it on (although it still shows in some of my plans) -  which I mention really to show how well yours fits such a compact layout.

[Irishrailwaymodeller]

On 04/11/2020 at 08:32, Keith Addenbrooke said:

Just catching up on my reading, so first time I’ve seen the Signal Box and repaint.  I do like the way this layout fits in the different elements, and I enjoy the video.  Thanks for sharing them.
After a lot of looking around I bought a Ratio Goods Shed like the one here as it looked the part for a project I had in mind, but in the end decided it was just too big for my space, so have just sold it on (although it still shows in some of my plans) -  which I mention really to show how well yours fits such a compact layout.

 

Thanks Keith. I recently also replaced the insulfrog 3-way point with an electrofrog model to better enable short wheel-base locos to potter around the layout without stalling! I fitted two Gaugemaster aouto-frog circuits to automatically control the polarity...