Penrice09 Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Was there any Branch Line Terminus that used a small turntable as part of the run round loop, it seems agreat space saver for micro layouts? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted June 9, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 9, 2012 Bembridge on the Isle of Wight. Photo of model here: http://www.bembridgeheritage.org.uk/heritage_centre.html You will see it's half sector plate, half turnout. Perhaps they couldn't decide. You are right it does make sense from a space point of view so if you do freelance rather than prototype you will need to represent a site so cramped that they had to do it. In most cases rural land being cheap, and a point being cheaper than a turntable, they would have gone with economics - hence all the run-rounds. You haven't said what era you intend to model - I think you will find more examples in pre-grouping times but it's not really an area of study for me so no doubt others will help. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cromptonnut Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Can't quite remember the name of it but I'm sure someone posted about a terminus in Wales recently with that arrangement too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium phil-b259 Posted June 9, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 9, 2012 North Woolwich in London also had this arangement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SquireBev Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 If memory serves, the Ravenglass and Eskdale has a similar arrangement. Edit: Yep, look here: https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=54.395146,-3.274159&spn=0.000885,0.00284&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=54.395146,-3.274159&panoid=e9_HXCYSmBmn2g3pY6ZhIg&cbp=12,358,,0,15.72 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Can't think of any with a turntable as you've drawn, but Moor Street had two traversers - pix about half way down http://www.warwicksh.../moorstreet.htm And a track plan for Moor Street showing the traversers from here - http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/stat_2.htm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cromptonnut Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 It probably doesn't count but the Beer Heights Light Railway at the Peco factory in Devon has one too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Not a prototype, but my layout has a traverser hidden under an overall roof to save space. The rest of the run round is assumed to be behind the backscene. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
swampy Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Rothbury ( about as rural as you can get ) also had this arrangement at the end of the platform. It seems to match your plan exactly. See here.. http://www.rothbury....ion Fendley.jpg and here... http://www.rothbury....n Turntable.jpg all taken from here... http://www.rothbury....ges/Railway.htm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
66C Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Was there any Branch Line Terminus that used a small turntable as part of the run round loop, it seems agreat space saver for micro layouts? Rothbury in Northumberland. Regards. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Information (and pic and plan) or Rothbury here - http://www.disused-s...ury/index.shtml Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
burgundy Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 The original layout of Seaford in Sussex fits the bill. Best wishes Eric Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium chris-shay Posted June 9, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 9, 2012 Another candidate is Alston in Northumberland - certainly in 4' 81/2" days but I can't recall if there is there one now? See link below for some excellent info and a trackplan.... http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/a/alston/index.shtml Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted June 9, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 9, 2012 Not quite as your plan, but the Harborne Branch used to end with a turntable beyond the platform. The date of recovery is sometimes given as 1942 and others give 1947. I don't know which is correct, but there was an LMS Traffic Committee Minute in 1947 referring to relocating it to Llandovery. http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/lnwrh2184.htm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 I think this depends on the era you want to represent. In pre-grouping days both Newquay and Ramsgate Harbour had this arrangement, although neither could be called "micro". As others have said, BLT's don't get much simpler than Bembridge, and a number of more recent narrow gauge/ miniature railways use it. Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted June 9, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 9, 2012 It probably doesn't count but the Beer Heights Light Railway at the Peco factory in Devon has one too As does the Longleat Railway and the Lappa Valley Railway in Cornwall. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katier Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Withernsea is another one.... in later years it swapped to a more conventional point based solution though as more tank engines served the line ( although ironically it's RA enabled any loco to be used due to the complete lack of gradients and bridges) and, more importantly, the turntable was a typical early NER one.......... and too short for later locos'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porco Rosso Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 There were also sector plates as in Sheerness Dockyard, or traversers at the end of platforms at Birmingham Moor Street, for example. Turntables at the end of platforms has certainly been done before on model railways. I well remember one many years ago. At the exhibition I attended, a group of experts was standing around tut-tutting the concept, insisting that such an arrangement would never have existed. The layout owner produced a folder with several photographs of real life examples - some of which are listed above. The experts retired looking very embarrassed - one of those priceless exhibition moments! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
micknich2003 Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Attached signalling plan of Withernsea and also part of "White Plan" showing turntable. Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Bembridge on the Isle of Wight. Like this ?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
£1.38 Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Waterford on the Waterford and Tramore line in Ireland had a nice plan. All the locos were tanks, as far as I remember, so even odder perhaps in some people's eyes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penrice09 Posted June 9, 2012 Author Share Posted June 9, 2012 Thanks to one and all for the many replies, much to read and think about, thanks again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katier Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Thanks for putting the plan up, shows the size of the turntable which supports what I said 48'6" - fine for something like a NER M1 or Q or 3CC but even a R1 (D21) was probably too long, let alone anything bigger!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Belgian Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 I believe Ventnor Town on the Isle of Wight had a small turntable at the end of the line serving two platform roads and a loop in its early days, later replaced by a pair of turnouts. JE Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
signalmaintainer Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Bembridge on the Isle of Wight. Photo of model here: http://www.bembridge...age_centre.html And here's a link to the S Scale Model Railway Society pages and the layout "Stroudley Green." Southern based on Brading on the Isle of Wight: http://www.s-scale.org.uk/gallery17.htm. Quite a nice model railway and a tempting design to tackle in P4, S or even 7mm! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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