Windjabbers Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Here goes... These are my first thoughts on a shunting plank that i'm planning on building. It's about 6ft by 20ins and will use Peco code 75 Track. I (hope) I’ve come up with a fairly neutral design which can be used by the range of stock I’ve got from the 1950’s to the 1980’s. Would welcome any comments. Best Wishes David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sn Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Ooh that's nice! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 It has a lot going for it. Could be made very visually interesting and good to operate. At a practical, real-railway operating, level, a few questions: - crane(s)? - have carts and lorries got room to turn round? - weigh-bridge for road vehicles? - coal ....... It was the biggest single traffic; is it handled elsewhere? - what is that goods platform used for? ("Nothing much, these days." Might be a valid answer, because by the 1950s, a lot was moving over to road transport). To make it really work, you probably need to invent a "back story" for the town, so that you know what industries it might serve. Is it largely boxes of pre-packaged sausages outwards, or bales of imported wool inwards, or ......... Kevin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
puck Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Looks a bit like this on Ebay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/00-gauge-layout-/172137263656?hash=item28142e3228:g:Q1IAAOSwv9hW4YBF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windjabbers Posted March 18, 2016 Author Share Posted March 18, 2016 It has a lot going for it. Could be made very visually interesting and good to operate. At a practical, real-railway operating, level, a few questions: - crane(s)? - have carts and lorries got room to turn round? - weigh-bridge for road vehicles? - coal ....... It was the biggest single traffic; is it handled elsewhere? - what is that goods platform used for? ("Nothing much, these days." Might be a valid answer, because by the 1950s, a lot was moving over to road transport). To make it really work, you probably need to invent a "back story" for the town, so that you know what industries it might serve. Is it largely boxes of pre-packaged sausages outwards, or bales of imported wool inwards, or ......... Kevin thanks Some good points for me to mull over there. Best Wishes David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windjabbers Posted March 18, 2016 Author Share Posted March 18, 2016 Looks a bit like this on Ebay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/00-gauge-layout-/172137263656?hash=item28142e3228:g:Q1IAAOSwv9hW4YBF Well that is just typical, ive spent ages working on this!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 I agree that it looks to have good potential for some urban modelling as well as shunting. Small locos and short wheelbase wagoins would probably work better. I can see that it can be shunted self contained as it is, do you intend to add a fiddle yard, or cassettes to feed trains in? I agree with Kevin, some history for the yard will help bring it to life. To me the goods platform looks like it may once long ago have been a passenger station, perhaps another railway company also opened a station in the town and after a merger this station closed but was kept open for goods?. When I first saw it I thought of Hamworthy Goods in Dorset, that was originally built as a passenger station but very early on the station closed. There are other passenger stations that later closed and became a goods depot Weston-super-Mare (1866 station), Barnstaple Victoria, Chard GW, and Wells Somerset. cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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