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Point Motors for Garden Layouts.
Any suggestions for suitable point motors for garden layouts please? I generally use PECO point motors for exhibition layouts, but don't think they would be suitable for outdoor use mounted underneath baseboards. I am concerned about water getting in, causing short circuits and corrosion. I don't have any problem with surface mounted motors as this is not going to be my usual fine scale modelling (it's really an excuse to give my locos a good run!). I'm using analogue not DCC.
Many thanks,
Gary
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Thanks for the advice both of you. I will try the Garden Railways Forum. Unfortunately, I cannot avoid having some of the pointwork out in the open and quite a distance away from the operating area. I had been wondering about the PECO P-11 surface mounting point motors. The baseboards a quite thick, 3 layers of 18mm marine ply laminated with boat builders adhesive, so any under baseboard types would need long operating rods. The Conrad point motors looked promising as they are more or less sealed pre-wired units, but are very hard to get hold of these days.
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My GT3 has just arrived from KR models- It's a thing of beauty, did anyone else get one?
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My GT3 has just arrived from KR models- It's a thing of beauty, did anyone else get one?
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I bought a Comet Kit etched brass Merchant Navy Class chassis with the idea of building 21C1 Channel Packet in original conditional with the "widows peak". I bought the wheels from Markits and started scratch building the body from plasticard. That was many years ago! Of course Hornby brought theirs out! I might build it as an austerity Merchant Navy. Bulleid designed it and they made a wooden mock up of it, but they never built any!
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My GT3 has just arrived from KR models- It's a thing of beauty, did anyone else get one?
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Yes I've got Channel Packet too, recently obtained Hornby East Asiatic Company in Blue livery. A couple of rebuilt merchant navies, Winston Churchill. Blackmore Vale and Fighter Pilot and a couple whose names I cannot remember. I just like Bulleid locomotives. They are so different! Unfortunately we cannot run them on Crystal Palace High Level, they won't fit on the turntable!
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My GT3 has just arrived from KR models- It's a thing of beauty, did anyone else get one?
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Errrr? Pass! Strictly speaking, I'm a Southern Railway/SECR modeller. I do have a rake of BR Mark 1s in crimson and cream. When I finally get the garden layout finished, it will look fantastic running on that. I cannot find an excuse to run it on Crystal Palace High Level! The station closed in 1954 and GT3 wasn't built until 1961! Still, there is always artistic licence!
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My GT3 has just arrived from KR models- It's a thing of beauty, did anyone else get one?
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Hi Phil.
Just came across your name while trawling across the RM website regarding the viaduct layout built for what was then the British Railways Property. The layout was built by us at the Southwark Model Railway Club, consisting of 3 baseboards depicting a double track viaduct showing scenes in Victorian times, the 1960/70 and refurbished arches. The layout was built to fit into a trailer into which the public could walk around with two hidden loops at each end so that a train could go backwards and forwards. The trailer was usually accompanied by a person dressed up as a smiley railway arch known as "Andy Arches".
The layout came back to us when Railtrack took over and found they didn't need it any more. We had to move to a new clubroom just over two years ago, so we ended up selling the layout to a family in Bexleyheath who plan to make it into a loft layout. We had started to build a fourth board incorporating a canal (loosely based on the Surrey canal at Deptford. I do have some photographs that I took of the layout over the years. I'll try and see if I can find them for you.
All the best,
Gary
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I Phil,
Please find attached (if I've done it correctly! I'm still pretty new to this website) of some photographs I took of our Andy Arches layout (as it became known). The photographs were taken prior to the layout being put onto our club's website for the purpose of selling. We did an exhibition at Bexleyheath a couple of years ago when someone inquired about the layout and bought it. Unfortunately, due to moving to a new clubroom, we didn't have the storage space for it. We had hoped to extend the layout into a large oval continuous run, loosely based on the London to Greenwich line with a representation of Spa Road station and Deptford station and possibly the lift bridge at Deptford Creek. But it never happened!
All the best!
Gary
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