Eleanor Street Fuelling & Stabling Point

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Morning,

 

Taken advantage over the weekend of the cold weather and being semi housebound due to the snow (dog walks aside), to plough on with the laying of track for a little loco depot 'plank' type layout.

 

Plan on using mostly proprietary RTP items - Bachmann servicing shed / Hornby retaining walls to create a little fuelling / stabling point. Backscene in low relief include an already decorated Ten Commandments 'railway workshop' pack bought at Wigan last week.

 

Loco stock ranges from 03 / 08 shunters, a couple of 25's, 37's, 47's, 50's & a 57. More 37's & a 57 on the way due to special editions from the usual suspects of Rail Exclusive and Kernow and the Class 37 Group 37 003.

 

Only 3 lines - a fiddle yard access / egress capable of taking one loco leading to a point and tanker discharge road. Point also leads to facing 3 way point and fuel road nr. 1. This feeds as a headshunt into servicing shed road nr. 1 and via a second point to road nr. 2, which then acts as a headshunt to fuel road nr. 2 - highly improbable in real life, but works in terms of loco movements.

 

The setting is a former coal yard which was re-configured in the early 60's to deal with the fuelling and light servicing of mainline locos from a nearby yard and also maintain a small fleet of shunters. Periods modelled, mood dependent, will be BR late 70's & early 80's blue / mid eighties LL blue / Sectorisation and finally up to date with DRS / EWS / WCRC 37's or FGW 57's. Depending upon how successful the project turns out, the fiddle road may well be extended to a second plank of the same size, thereby allowing a small freight facility and the shuffling of one or two wagons and bogie parcels / newspaper stock.