Things that you've never seen on an exhibition layout but would love to see happen?

[OnTheBranchline]

Maybe someone has done this before but it would be really cool to have a 'failed' engine replacement or just an 'engine switch' at a station rather than the locos running straight through or just normally stopping at the station.

[Kylestrome]

A working shunting horse ...

[The White Rabbit]

Re failed engines, I sometimes ran a DMU with a [Thunderbird] loco, simulating a failure. 

 

And I also occasionally ran a DMU with a 'swinger' parcels bogie. I know I'm not the only one to do this but think it's pretty rare. 

[Mallard60022]

Slip Coach.

Phil

[KeithMacdonald]

Burnham-On-Sea railway station.

With the lifeboat that was launched down the railway track along the pier.

https://www.burnham-on-sea.com/news/burnham-based-history-group-announces-programme-of-talks-for-coming-year/

[Dagworth]

1 hour ago, OnTheBranchline said:

Maybe someone has done this before but it would be really cool to have a 'failed' engine replacement or just an 'engine switch' at a station rather than the locos running straight through or just normally stopping at the station.

Dagworth featured loco changes on London to Norwich trains, 86 to 47 and vice versa. My Ipswich layout will have the same but in a model of the prototype location rather than a fictional station.

 

Andi

[Paul H Vigor]

Submerged rail crossing - see Pentewan Railway siding crossing the St Austell River.

[Dave Hunt]

On Bob Essery's Dewsbury we used to change engines in the station. I've also seen a slip coach modelled but can't recall what the layout was called.

 

Dave

[jpendle]

Someone flushing the toilet in a MK1.

 

Probably best appreciated in one of the larger scales 🤢

 

John P

[Hroth]

3 minutes ago, jpendle said:

Someone flushing the toilet in a MK1.

 

Probably best appreciated in one of the larger scales 🤢

 

John P

 

With a bit of hydrogen sulphide mixed into the ejecta?

 

[johnofwessex]

6 minutes ago, jpendle said:

Someone flushing the toilet in a MK1.

 

Probably best appreciated in one of the larger scales 🤢

 

John P

 

Que much froth over the colour................

[OnTheBranchline]

You could what would be really cool? On a modern image layout with various diesels but have a static lorry with a trailer pulling a steam loco (as in transporting to a heritage railway) on the road besides the railway.

[newbryford]

55 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

Slip Coach.

Phil

 

21 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

On Bob Essery's Dewsbury we used to change engines in the station. I've also seen a slip coach modelled but can't recall what the layout was called.

 

Dave

 

Yatton?

[newbryford]

2 hours ago, OnTheBranchline said:

Maybe someone has done this before but it would be really cool to have a 'failed' engine replacement or just an 'engine switch' at a station rather than the locos running straight through or just normally stopping at the station.

 

Used to do regular steam/diesel swaps on railtours on a few layouts in the past.

[TEAMYAKIMA]

3 hours ago, Kylestrome said:

A working shunting horse ...

A member of Twickenham MRC made one many years ago. I think it was G scale and the horse's legs were jointed and actually moved and it was the legs that really dragged the thing along but I only saw it on his demo stand diorama rather than a layout. 

[Dave Hunt]

12 hours ago, newbryford said:

 

 

Yatton?

Could well be but my forgettery (patent Chrisf) isn’t what it used to be.

 

Dave

[Hibelroad]

Slip coaches and banking engines picking up and dropping off trains are easy to do with DCC but you need a very big layout for the action to play out. Servos have allowed several forms of movement to be achieved which were difficult but as always novel things soon become a cliche. 

[Claude_Dreyfus]

There was a working slip coach on a layout back in the 70s. Long Suffren? I seem to recall a Railway Modeller article about it.

[Dunalastair]

Vertical wagon hoist with wagon TTs and capstan shunting in an elevated goods shed with the roof off ...

 

As per 

 

[34theletterbetweenB&D]

A train being divided to enable a faulty vehicle to be set aside.

 

The once familiar sight of the toilet paper blowing about in the wake of a fast train.

 

Working in fog with the detonators.

[Clive Mortimore]

17 hours ago, Kylestrome said:

A working shunting horse ...

If a manufacturer was to make one I bet it will have (insert your least favorite railway here) style of harness so not suitable for my train set.

[St. Simon]

17 hours ago, Kylestrome said:

A working shunting horse ...

 

Hi,

 

Not quite the same, but I've seen a working horse tram layout when I was helping with another layout, we couldn't work out what the noise was until we saw someone banging two coconut shells together and then worked it all out!

 

Simon

[Flying Pig]

16 hours ago, jpendle said:

Someone flushing the toilet in a MK1.

 

Probably best appreciated in one of the larger scales 🤢

 

John P

 

Highly unrealistic - they were always blocked or the water tank was empty.

[Flying Pig]

1 hour ago, Claude_Dreyfus said:

There was a working slip coach on a layout back in the 70s. Long Suffren? I seem to recall a Railway Modeller article about it.

 

Railway of the Month in April 1977 and the slip coach is mentioned.

[C126]

Moving OO figures.

 

Scale rain, and windscreen wipers where necessary.