Davidl66

Could you not shuffle things around a bit at the steam end and do something like this at Leamington Spa.

From - https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrls2200.htm

That's a very similar plan to my small layout, Lowry Lane.

Mine is 4 feet by 18 inches with built in Inglenook puzzle and kick back siding for a factory/mill facility, peco code 100 track with medium radius points and a three way.
I haven't added any cassettes or fiddle yard(s) [yet] but plenty of time can be spent shunting as it is. 

Have fun with your build

Cards and cash are accepted for entry - £6 adults, children free.

Food and drinks are cards only.

Cherwell School, Marston Ferry Road, Oxford, OX2 7EE

Sunday 17th September between 10:30 and 16:00

Free parking - Wheelchair Friendly

Layouts include:

Abbots Morton A OO layout representing one of the proposed lines from Broom Junction to Worcester.

Bremen A HO continental tram layout.

Bossington A OO layout of a small GWR terminus built back in 1966.

Carterton Built by Chris Chewter from Hornby: A Model World Series 1, is a OO representation of this wayside halt on the Fairford branch line.

City Basin Goods An N gauge layout representing a goods and marshalling yard.

Cromarty A small branch line terminus in N.

Cynon Valley A modular layout inspired by a wartime evacuation to Mountain Ash in Wales constructed in N gauge

Edrom Built in N, this layout represents Edrom station on the Berwickshire line between Duns and Chirnside in the Scottish Borders.

Exebridge Featured in Hornby: A Model World Series 2, built in 3mm scale, this layout represents a small West Country cross country railway line based around the River Exe.

Five Elms An exquisite representation a motive power depot in OO

Freshwater 2mm scale layout of the terminus of the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway on the Isle of Wight.

Kreuzweg A Swiss metre gauge layout in HOm

Lammas Lane London Underground in N

Memory Lane A Hornby Dublo 3 rail layout showing model railways of times gone by.

Randolphs Yard A small shunting yard in OO

Rain Folly An N gauge layout set on a rainy day.

Tetsudo-Sankei Japanese Z scale layout

The Snake Bend The ever impressive Snake Bend N gauge 2mm layout, providing kids and adults alike with the opportunity to take charge of one of these impressive American trains.

Trifoulou Z scale metre gauge

William Street Yard A small marshalling yard set somewhere just off the GWR main line between Reading and Didcot between 1947 and 1953 in OO

As always, please note that layouts and attractions are subject to availability and last-minute changes may occur.

The usual selection of traders will also be available for you to purchase supplies for your next project, plus representation of clubs and organisations in the area.

The following organisations  will be attending this year’s exhibition:

Oxford Bus Museum

Didcot Railway Centre

Oxford Railway Society

Network Rail

IPMS Wallingford

Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway

Pendon Museum

We also have the following traders confirmed:

Crane Garden Buildings

Squires Model and Craft Tools

Orwell Models

Coastal DCC

N Cresswell Model Railways

Transport Treasury

Saddle Tank Books

White Horse Brewery

You could use aluminum angle in a way similar to folk making cassettes

 

Hope you have some new hacksaw blades ...

With regards to "Currently deciding which to attempt first out of signal installation, rail painting or ballasting. ".

My layout is at the "track laid and electrics installed" stage, whilst I am doing lots of running to iron out any track or electrical problems I have been painting the rails. I figured if I had to lift anything to fix a problem then it wouldn't be a job wasted.  I don't have any signals planned at the moment, but if I did then I would install those before ballasting.

I have a similar track plan and highish density of buildings in a small space 48" x 18" , a bit larger than your new layout.

The sidings and head shunts comply with an "Inglenook". I do not yet have any fiddle yard but can shunt quite happily without.

I have it now. Thanks.

The November 2021 issue of BRM does not appear to be available on Readly, the last edition I can see is October.

Is it no longer going to be provided on that platform (pun intended) ?

I agree with the alignment comment. Slackening the screws holding the point motor to the baseboard slightly so the seep has a bit of play in it may help.

The 64' stock is all I could find on Anyrail User Objects, it would be better to use 57' passenger stock, Railcars and Autocoaches (of course the OP doesn't tell us the period).

The amount of stock shown on the plan is simply to help visualise the space.

A single siding could be brought off the loop entrance for some additional storage, an engine shed could be a kick back off that siding as seen at Shipston on Stour - https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrss3104.htm

Maybe something like this .... (not sure what has happened to the geometry, maybe something is not quite straight)

( I really ought to get on with some work! )

If you swapped the points at the entrance to the station you may just be able to run round two MK 1 coaches.

Shifting the plan so the first point is closer to the edge you get more space for the station building

Something like this may work, it might be a bit cramped. Board is 54" x 12 ", some fiddling around may be required to get clearances correct

Medium, code 100 Peco streamline points.

Station building, Signal box and Goods Shed are Metcalfe.

Engine Shed is Dapol. 

Water crane is Hornby

Mk1 coach in the bay platform

Jinty at the 'depot'

Pannier running round a guards van

Just wanted to round this topic off with an update. The power supply I am using is an HP one from an old laptop so my guess is that it is suitably regulated.

The power supply is working and I see no side effects on the DR4018. Setting up a small route in JMRI to switch crossovers works well with the default delay of 250ms between triggering outputs.

Thanks again for the help.

Thank you for that. I have been using ADS-8fx but I broke one of the outputs when I was dabbling with frog polarity and suffered a short. I know the DR4018 does not have any frog polarity facility. I have been doing the polarity from the switch on the seep motors or using  Gaugemaster DCC80s. I did have pairs of points for crossings being controlled from a single ADS-8fx output but realise I cannot do that with the DR4018. I am controlling everything from JMRI via DCC++ and was going to insert a short wait between the crossing point changes.

I have just purchased a DR4018 to drive 8x PECO and Seep solenoid point motors. I understand that, for best performance, I should use a power supply external to the DCC bus and that the range documented in the manual is 12-18V DC or 12-18V AC, 3 amp max draw.

I have an old power supply lurking around which is 18.5V 3.5A DC output. Could this be used safely with the DR4018 or is the extra 0.5V going to break it?

Thanks folks

Hi,

I am unable to access the jmri.org site. It tells me the following ....

This site can’t be reached

jmri.org took too long to respond.

I have tried this from 3 different devices on two different networks (home and work) ... it worked from both previously (maybe 6 months ago)

Is anyone else seeing this issue?

Thanks