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Length of points - branch line and goods yard


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I appreciate model points / turnouts are considerably shorter than in real life but are the points used on the run-round loop at a branch line terminus / the passing loop at an intermediate station and to give access a good yards longer than the points used in the goods yard itself if there was no space constraints within good yard itself?

 

I am particularly interested in the design of good yards serving a decent size (market) town operated by the Great Northern / Midland / LNWR that (could of) survived until the 1960s or 1970s.  The layout will be 4mm / OO.

 

 

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Usually the size of the turnout is determined by the minimum radius that the locomotives and rolling stock are permitted to negotiate, thus run round turnouts may be larger than yard turnouts, so that larger engines can haul passenger trains, whilst a short wheelbased 0-6-0 or 0-4-0 will typically be used to shunt wagons which might get round 3 or 4 chain curves. obviously if speed needs to be taken into account then this will increase the size of the turnouts.

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