Steam here!

What do you all think? For a 1st time?

Weathered semaphore signal, ground signal, a static trap point, ground frame lever and point rodding.

Note the royal mail van and the base marks the spot for the TPO Hornby (mail bag catcher).

Hi Everyone just asking what's the best way of displaying the signals for the branch line entrances and the mainline.

Would I need I need a overhead ratio gantry?

I don't mind using ratio signals,

Would I be right reading left to right, the signals would be.

Run round loop = home signal

Main platform = home signal

Bay platform = home signal

Steam mpd = home signal

Goods yard = ground signal

Mainline = distant signal

For the opposite direction (trains coming towards the camera) = home signal

Outside main line tunnel will be home signal

Any help would be much appreciated.

I've also come up with a name now for both my stations.

Branch line terminus: "Carltonholme"

Mainline station:

"Sierraton"

Goods yard sidings X 4 purpose:

Coal merchants

Goods shed

Dairy

Fuel depot

A brief History of fictional railway how it was all formed.

"Carltonholme" was originally a single platform with a loco release and a siding behind the only platform serving as a coal merchants (where the bay platform is now).

Thanks to the industrial revolution, there was a huge increase of rail transport for both passengers and freight.

The station was behind the times, it could not cope with 1 X platform and 1 X siding alone.

It was causing delays, deadlines for business wasn't getting met, there were back logs of problems, trains being late, passengers being late for work, poor storage for wagons and to add more problems the main focus was on the secoundary branchline which work had only just begun.

The decision was made to abandon the project of a second branch line and instead turn the track that had already been laid and ballasted into a siding (for storage and shunting puposes) and to focus on "Carltonholme".

With the focus all on "Carltonholme" devolping( enlarging) to meet with the nearby businesses that were booming.

The problems were dwindling down, it became a major hub, to see all sorts of trade, specials for horse racing Derbys, near farms, fresh milk for the working families and the nearby communities needing the coal for their homes and working lives.

A fish industry nearby greatly depending on the railway to transport it fish as soon as possible to ensure the fish still arrived fresh.

Not to mention it was just 2 miles short of reaching the coast, due to the poor and unstable terrains this was the furthest the line got.

The other end (the end of the line).

Left to right:

Short storage siding (can hold 1 X br mk1 coach or 3 X 7 plank wagons)

End of the main platform I will place a water crane down this end of the main platform due to lack of space at the other end.

The bay platform will either have one down this end or the other end.

(Both platforms each have an isolating switch which have come in handy).

Due to lack of space I have put the cattle dock on the bay platform.

The steam MPD headshunt (a bit tight behind the cattledock, there is space on both sides for all locos assigned for branch line work. For operational interest, I have made it longer than originally intended. This is so I can deliver  1 X coal wagon to the shed behind example: LMS black 5.

Just in front of the cattle dock, a short storage siding, this can be used for stabling a second loco or mpd related wagons or a small crane, Oxford Rail will be bringing one out and I'm thinking of making this its siding, I just haven't decided yet.

Next to the shed head shunt is coal merchants and finally to the very far right is the goods shed, with the base of a Peco crane just slightly in front.

I've also weathered the rails giving a rusty affect and used cinders for the shed head shunt and coal merchants, I've also weathered the bottom half of the lorry to give it the impression its used a lot and that there is a healthy demand for coal and coke.

There are also Peco pl-11 surface point motors all wired and working down this end.

Top half of branch line goods yards and station entrances/ exits.

Left to right:

Dairy ( unfinished) storage (2 X 6 wheel tankers).

(There will be a fence sepeeating the dairy from the fuel depot).

Fuel depot (unfinished) (3 X 4 Wheel tankers, might be able to mix and match some 6 wheel fuel tankers).

Small steam Mpd (unfinished)

Please note: There will a fence between the bay platform track and the steam mpd, with a gate and barrow crossing on the track to get equipment to the front and back of the shed. (This is to give a reassurance of the safety side of things).

Bay platform (platform 2)

Main Platform (Platform 1)

Run round loop.

Note: The Peco pl-11 surface point motors all wired and working.

The platform ends and the adjoining footbridge to the road bridge.

Just a quick question regarding semaphore/ ground signals how do I go about positioning the end of the platforms? Also what signals would I need.

For the main four tracks for the two bridge portals behind the footbridge reading left to right.

Steam mpd

Bay Platform (platform 2 can hold 3 br Mk1s, for with a bit of interest).

= used as passanger (arrival and departures) perhaps the odd van delivery and for horses.

This will also be used be used for shunting/ storing freight every now and again.

Main Platform (platform 1 can hold up to 4 br mk1s, 5 with a bit of interest, can also be used for horses).

Run round loop.

Please note:

Dairy and fuel depot in the background.

Any help is much appreciated.

Across the top.

The unfinished roadbridge (spanning 3 arches) that seperates the branchline and mainline.

Hi everyone and welcome back to the railway (the layout that I'm building).

I've been working on a few things and I thought it overdue for a layout update.

1st off the far corner of the main run round loops.

I have now added a windmill and added grass and painted the near surroundings.

 Hi everyone just a quick question here, regarding the type of signal needed for leaving the siding to join the main line.

I'll be using the brown patch between the fencing and the bit of white card sticking out from under, the track.

(Signals I'll be using, semaphore= Hornby.

Ground signal= either springside or ratio

Ground frames= wills kits).

Would it be any of the following three?

Semaphore home or distant?

Ground signal?

Ground frame?

Thanks.

Then I'll be able to finish of this area including the Hornby mail bag post (the mail bag that would be put on the arm of the pole ready for the tpo to come past and catch the mail bag as it passes).

I'll also include later on a track plan of the Branch line station and its facilities.

(The other part of the layout).

Aire Head, Harlequin, thank you both very much, I will contacting the moderator/moderators to transfer this to the "Layout Topics" within the next few minutes.

Fingers cross it goes smoothly.

Hi Alexholt, thank you for the kind comment.

The headboards are from 247developments, can be found through google or ebay.

EBay= oo gauge headboards.

Hope this helps.

Hi Harlequin, I've recently joined rmweb and wasn't sure which forum, catagory to put this in. Any ideas or suggestions?

Would you also know how to move this across to a different catagory (the appropiate catagory)?

Examples of detail I add to locos.

Real coal, headlamps, vac pipes and if the loco is for expresses, headboard as well.

Here we see BR 9F no: 92220 "Evening Star" posing before pulling the "Pines Express."

Also Ex-LNER A4 no: 60023 "Golden Eagle" posing before pulling "The Elizabethan."

 The main run round loops plus the main mpd, track is still all loose. (Haven't decided to stick with yet).

Level crossing is at the early stages.

The road bridge to the very top left is there to seperate branch line from main line.

Proposed fictional 2nd branchline that just became a long siding ideal for shunting/storing. (Little diorama not finished.

Hi, RMWEB members,

I've been reading various forums on here for a while and I have decided to join.

I have been working on my first proper layout oo gauge (Analogue), its a freelance (I run anything that interests, History, presevation, era, livery, role tital, location etc).

Where possible I try to run realistic trains and rolling stock.

(What I have available).

Example:

SECR (livery) H class & SECR (ivery) birdcage coaches.

LMS Princess Coronation class & LMS coaches.

British Rail 9F and mk1 coaches.

All locos and rolling stock I'm interested in are ready to run (RTR) and in pristine condition, weathering  locos and rolling stock, its just not for me.

How ever I do use weathering for other things on the layout.

Where possible with time permitting, I add detail to my locos, I also change the slimline tension lock coupling for Hornby R8267 medium couplings (just a preferable choice from experience). I found it easier to couple up on corners, using the Hornby R8267 medium couplings.

I also use Hornby R8220 NEM pocket close couplings for fixed rakes of my coaches providing there is a NEM pocket.

All track is code 100, all points are peco and are train set track, due to space.

Inside the inner loop = main MPD site.

Outer Loop = long storage siding (to show a fictional secoundary branchline that ended up just being a long siding, big enough to hold 3 mk1 coaches.

The main branchline due to space limitations I have had to imcorpoate 3 road bridges over the entrance.

The main run around loops (main line) for 2nd and 3rd radius curves in length:

Equates to Hornby track :

8 X R600 + 8 X R607 (Inner loop)

8 X R600 + 8 X R609 (outer loop)

(Please note)!

Both loops are indivually controlled and are isolated. Between both set of crossovers.

I also have a branchline section to the bottom left currently developing.

The layout if you can picture it in your head.

L Shape= now rotate 90° clockwise.

To give you more of an understanding of the shape.

I will add photos later on and when I can.

I haven't chosen the two station names yet ( I'm not sure what to call them).

The layout is at the very early stages and will continue to develop over time.

Thank you for your interest.