Haigh Sidings - Inglenook Shunting Layout - OO Gauge
Hello, I got back into model railways 2 years ago, after a break of around 20 years, with a couple of N gauge layouts (details are on the NGF) but recently I decided to start building a OO gauge shunting puzzle. When I got back into N gauge I started with a shunting puzzle, but was never happy with the hands-free uncoupling; there are a few ways to achieve it in 'N', but none of them are anywhere near 100% reliable, and they're all very fiddly in their own way. I ended up selling that little l
I've moved away from working on the mill for a while, instead concentrating on a little project to control the points. At present, the points are operated by slide switches on the front of the layout. Operating the layout was really satisfying, now that a) the loco is ultra-reliable (due to the large stay alive) and b) the remote uncoupling is working really well. Because of this, and the layout operating in a very 'hands-off' manner, reaching in to switch the points seemed a bit, well, wrong.
