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Branch Terminus Shunting


Rabs

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Thanks to the very helpful comments Mike the Stationmaster (in this related thread:http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/50382-gwr-branch-terminus-signals-and-services/page__fromsearch__1), I have now arrived at a suitably prototypical signalling and track layout for the Burwood terminus. Now, to plan my uncoupler and sensor locations I need to work out how operations will be done. My guesses below are just that, pure guesses from someone who knows nothing about real railway operations. Anyone is very welcome to put me right on these. Passenger trains are pretty straightforward and I plan to handle them like this:

 

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Where I am less sure is with goods and mixed traffic. My current guess is along these lines:

 

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I think you don't need to use the lower of your two sidings to assemble outbound traffic, if I've understood your plan correctly. Here's my take on it (but I'm no expert!):

1. Train arrives

2. Loco runs around

3. Detaches brake van and places in the run around loop (or at the end of the line)

(Inbound traffic at this stage still coupled to the arrived train)

4. Outbound traffic collected from the sidings and assembled onto the brake van in the loop. There are constraints on the marshalling order, which wagons go where.

5. Inbound traffic collected from the platform line and placed in the sidings as required

6. Loco couples to passenger coach draws runs forward and reverses onto the wagons and vans in the loop to assemble whole train

7. Whole train drawn out then reversed back into platform line ready for departure

 

Good to be thinking early about operations. I'll too look out for Stationmaster's advice.

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