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RobinofLoxley

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  1. Welcome Tim. Mdf isnt a recommended material for making baseboards, most here will vote for good quality plywood, minimum 9mm thick. It will help anyone suggesting a plan, if you could possibly find a location that interests you to make it the basis of a model. When you talk about messing up, what track planning software if any have you tried? Era is basically 'Blue Diesel' , is that correct? With the restricted space did you consider a smaller scale, do you already have OO stock?
  2. 'Branch Line Terminii of the GWR, volume 2', by Paul Karau has some photos that show the loading bank, in the section about Princetown. There isn't any relevant description or text in it, though. There are drawings of the buildings, without dimensions, but there is no mention there of the bank, I suppose because it's not a building.
  3. This kind of question usually appears when there is an operating problem, and people start looking for some kind of fault.
  4. I walked the entire length once during a service hiatus took 20 mins to do the circuit.
  5. I thought the Eurostar platforms at Cheriton were longer??
  6. The most significant practical problem to me is access at the top left; the loop there needs a hatch, wide enough for shoulders to get through, where the sidings are on the latest plan. A similar problem with the turntable exists on the right. Very complex to build, especially with the split board requirement. I have doubts about how well this will operate; can you export from your drawing package to Trainplayer, so you can see if it works.
  7. I have a layout with this sort of structure but my sections in the area A-A' and B-B' are both long enough by design to be switchable so that is what I have done. I used one AR1 and one LS450 (not sure about the number there). The AR1 was harder to set up but neither has failed since introduction.
  8. I have a loft space of similar size and i have platforms which can take 5 x Mk1 coaches plus a loco in the Terminus style stations that I have, and 6 x in the intermediate station. This is with the platforms being some inches longer than the trains, and allowing a station pilot to remove the coach rake without fouling any turnouts. With this pattern the whole layout appears to be decently proportional but I probably wont know that until the layout is fully populated with buildings and other miscellaneous things.
  9. OK but the station tracks and the loop 'below' don't line up..
  10. The first revision certainly works, but I can't see how the revision with an upper level works at all. Have you done any work on gradients? You also need to recognise access. You cant reach top right or left to fix a stall or derailment and have put objects in the way of access hatches that would be needed in the baseboards. Most people reckon on a human reach limit of 80-90cm.
  11. I operated 36 SEEP motors with one CDU through a bank of switches. Noisy, broke a couple of turnouts too
  12. I've been working my way round the terminus stations looking for examples. Often there are additional complexities caused by the presence of additional sidings, but if these are ignored so you look at the trackwork of the platform access lines only, examples can be found. The other point is that one line might divide creating a fourth platform but this doesn't alter the route used by arriving or departing trains at all. An example of this would be Lowestoft central, which has extra pointwork taking lines across the main lines to goods sidings on both sides of them, including access to the harbour. It has a spur protected by a trap point. There are four platforms, two of which are common access (probably the smaller was parcels or milk) so really it's 3 line access and the turnout pattern follows my definition. I havnt checked the real layout on the ground, only the signal box diagram so far. (1967 signal box diagram)
  13. Of course you are right i had a complete brain fade moment there
  14. There are surely two reverse loops, but the line that crosses the centre of the layout is common to both, so provided the polarity of that track section is changed at the right time, and that will depend on the position of the turnouts at each end of that section, there won't be any issue. If you are happy that you understand the electrics well enough to use frog juicers then do; personally if I wanted to change track polarity I would use the device dedicated for the purpose, namely a reversing module.
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