StaffsOatcake Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Thanks Chris and Keith, B305 in now book marked I'm in S-O-T so GWR preservation round here is a rare ). Faza Not in my house it ain't. SR stuff ain't so common though Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingsignalman Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 Well, in view of there being a loco shed in the yard I would have a shunt signal to stop locos trundling out of the headshunt when 10 is reverse. Not sure what the Western would have done but in ex LMs territory it would most likely just lock 10 and with 10N could pull off both 9 and the new one together so the shunter could play around in the yard without bothering the Bobby. Regards Keith As the signal box is on the other side of the line from the loco shed, moves from the headshunt would have been controlled by a wave of the hand from the signalman (providing he wasn't busy sorting out the parcels at the station). The LNWR especially, of the LMS constituents, were very parsimonious when it came to providing shunt signals; the others weren't much better! What, I think, Mike is after is the GW habit of working the slip connection in the double slip by a seperate lever with another disc reading from the goods yard to the mainline. The blades of the double slip that would take you from the headshunt to either the loop or the goods yard would stay handworked however. I hope that reads OK my main computer is very sick at the moment so I can't draw a sketch and scan it in to post it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted February 4, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 4, 2010 As the signal box is on the other side of the line from the loco shed, moves from the headshunt would have been controlled by a wave of the hand from the signalman (providing he wasn't busy sorting out the parcels at the station). The LNWR especially, of the LMS constituents, were very parsimonious when it came to providing shunt signals; the others weren't much better! And the GWR could be equally tight fisted at a quiet terminus like that - far simpler and cheaper to have people looking out for their own moves and lsistening to what the signalman had to say/shout. As drawn by Flying Signalman is very much what would have been done by the GWR - subject to the comment below What, I think, Mike is after is the GW habit of working the slip connection in the double slip by a seperate lever with another disc reading from the goods yard to the mainline. The blades of the double slip that would take you from the headshunt to either the loop or the goods yard would stay handworked however. Indeed so - that would be very typical of GW practice (probably even with the second disc selected by the lie of those points dependng on the date when it was designed and installed). Another feature - again depending on date of installation - is that the disc reading out of the yard might have been a double disc, top disc to teh headshunt, lower one out to the mainline. But GW practice did change over the years so oit's not an essential. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wogga Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 Hiya folks, I posted a layout idea in the layout section a few weeks ago, and with the help of forum members it was tweaked etc (then completley redesigned after all of that), however I'm still stuck with what signals go where... Lol The finished idea is completley unprototypical, but hey, it looks fun It's nothing special, just the standard newby N gauge GWR terminus, thinking medium sized town. Anybody able to help? The turntable (before anyone asks), is purely because I want to run some larger locos on it (Farish Castle for example) and from what I've seen they don't have means of adding a front coupling easily. Faza what did you do your excellent plan drawing with, please do not say your a professional artist/CAD user. Regards Pete Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faza Posted February 12, 2010 Author Share Posted February 12, 2010 Not in my house it ain't. SR stuff ain't so common though Lol. Where abouts in Stoke are you? Wouldn't mind some opinions on what the Alsager club is like... Faza what did you do your excellent plan drawing with, please do not say your a professional artist/CAD user. Regards Pete No mate, I'm actually a Blackberry specialist for a mobile network. Lol. Cheers for the compliment though I use a program called Anyrail (the free version), then export it as a paint file to edit the building etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wogga Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Cheers Faza thats great, i'll be right behind you re signalling knowledge it's a bit of a minefield. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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