ozcyclops Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 Hi all, my interest is in track and complicated pointwork, and unusual track design. I wonder, what is the most unusual or complex trackwork you have seen? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 there is already a thread like this https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/95609-unusual-pw-configurations-thread-both-real-and-model/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siphon208 Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 Chester used to have a large "double scissors" crossover between platforms 2 and 4, for splitting/joining trains during the Birkenhead to Paddington era- cant find any pics of it though! The only example I've seen up here...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted June 20, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 20, 2019 4 minutes ago, Siphon208 said: Chester used to have a large "double scissors" crossover between platforms 2 and 4, for splitting/joining trains during the Birkenhead to Paddington era- cant find any pics of it though! The only example I've seen up here...... But hardly 'unusual' as such an arrangement could be found at a number of GWR stations - Oxford, Gloucester, Worcester Shrub Hill, Birmingham Snow Hill, Wolverhampton, Newton Abbot, Newport, Pontypool Road, and shrewsbury Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trog Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 There were once two scissors crossovers at Rugby one each side of the island platform, so as to allow two trains to use the double length platforms, without them having to depart in the same order as they arrived. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted June 20, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 20, 2019 http://www.deborahirwin.plus.com/E.C.M.L/E C M L/archive_postcards_newcastle_diam.htm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 Limerick Junction, of course, had a scissors crossover at the mid point of a single very long platform - so arranged that all main line trains had to run past this and back into the platform, often face to face with a train heading in the opposite direction ! .......... they modified the layout to allow direct access many years ago and now they're actually building a second platform ! ( The Waterford to Limerick line crosses on the flat just north of the station so 'The Junction' is served by reversing into or out of a bay platform behind the main one ..... and even that's a simplification of the original arrangement where separate bays were used for to or from Limerick trains.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejstubbs Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 (edited) On 17/06/2019 at 07:22, sir douglas said: there is already a thread like this And since you posted that, this thread has accumulated five more posts on the subject. Thus proving that a significant proportion of forum users don't read most of even a trivially short thread. Sigh... Edited June 20, 2019 by ejstubbs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 Cambridge had a scissors-crossover on the single through platform. This split the platform in two, with each half being further divided into two. Quail gives capacity of 1/1a as 12 coaches, and 4/4a as eleven. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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