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  1. Orion
    I see from your layout posts that you are modelling broad gauge. Would you like me to adjust the gauge to 17.5mm on my plan? (it is 16.5mm gauge at the moment)
  2. Orion
    31.1 inches. I used the standard NMRA HO settings for the distance between track centres.
  3. Orion
    ..and a more elegant version
  4. Orion
    Here's a quick drawing in Templot Not quite as elegant as you requested, but easier to draw quickly. Just print it out to scale. Dimensions in mm
  5. Orion
    The 1977 OS map of Saunderton shows a largish works building just where one should be on the opening post's photo. Since demolished and largely replaced by modern housing.
  6. Orion
    Four standard gauge bogies were built for this class. Commonwealth Railways in Australia has standard gauge lines too. see https://www.derbysulzers.com/australiabrcw.html
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    Fundamentally, the Pilot Scheme itself was seriously flawed. There was a gross underestimate of the power and speed required for a modern railway. Engine sizes and power developed rapidly in the late 1950s and the 1960s. The conclusions of a full trial period would likely have been irrelevant and out of date even before they were published.
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    Notts & Derby trams ran over the Nottingham system into the city. They had a long interurban line thro Eastwood, Heanor to Ripley. Same owners as Mansfield.
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    Just in case ur not aware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansfield_and_District_Light_Railways could easily have got to Rufford
  10. Orion
    Bath Green Park? Manchester Exchange? Liverpool Exchange in LMS/BR days?
  11. Orion
    U can make mine more of a Y by curving it. Dead easy in Templot. I have done it for U in the attached. It's a slightly neater version of my earlier one. I have been playing around with it in a different gauge. Hope it all still fits Ur max size OK Hay001.box
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    U could make that a lot smoother without losing anything much e.g. this quick mod I knocked up in a few minutes. Much nicer if you put in the running line as a nice smooth curve and only then modify to include pointwork, rather than do things one bit at a time and adding the bits together like a jigsaw puzzle. A lot of things just didn't line up properly in plan in the very first post, for example Hay001.box
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    There's one in Derbyshire too In a village called Earl Sterndale
  14. Orion

    French Minories

    Orion replied to Doric's topic in Layout topics

    Already comprehensively covered in another Minories topic
  15. Orion
    Apologies, there was a retaining wall, but the cutting was cut back by making the retaining wall deeper - see the before and after maps here (1883 at the top and 1920 below) If you look to the left of the signal box on the lower map you can see the line of the original retaining wall still present.
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    Looking at maps, there was originally a cutting at that spot with just 2 tracks. I guess the cutting was widened by building the retaining wall later on, to make room for a shunting spur
  17. Orion
    I appreciate, as most people agree, that this project is unrealistic. I bet the Victorians wouldn't have seen it that way though. Oh for the spirit of Brunel and Stephenson!
  18. Orion
    St Pancras for me.
  19. Orion
    LNER Quad-art suburban coaches and Sentinel Railcars - 2mm and 4mm versions ought to do well, and 7mm for the railcar
  20. Orion
    Many thanks for all the photos. When you get to the end, we shall all be at a loose end. Maybe you could just start again in a slightly random order and see if anyone notices. Maybe some of the experts will come to different conclusions. It could be fun Seriously - thanks very much, even for showing them just the once!
  21. Orion
    ....and here is a link containing 2 videos - one even includes the operation inside the signal cabin. http://www.paris-unplugged.com/2011/05/1984-bastille-de-la-gare-lopera.html
  22. Orion
    There is an interesting link about the Bastille line here http://histoire.trains-en-vadrouille.com/viewtopic.php?t=34295 and a number of photos here http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=90134546@N00&q=bastille
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    The British obsession with avoiding facing points may make the Bastille layout look slightly wrong for this side of the channel? A mirror image of the track layout gives less facing points in both directions, if my quick calculations are correct - largely due to the reversal of the first crossover at the entrance to the station throat, which all trains have to pass through.
  24. Orion
    But if you put an overbridge between the platforms and the scissors crossover, like Margate Sands, the scissors need only exist in your imagination.
  25. Orion
    It was changed before WW1 as the original timber platforms were decaying. There are photos in the Middleton Press book "Finsbury Park to Alexandra Palace", showing it in original form. Also a sketch here
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