ForeverAutumn

ah the customs, i guess i shall wait and see!

will do that thanks

Hello, i recently ordered the Bachmann Jinty from Rails, i ordered it on May 24th, 2020 and the payment was just taken on June 13th, i live in the US and this is my first time ordering from them, how long would it take to arrive given the current situation? I am hoping to get it soon, but i have no way (to my knowledge) of tracking my order.

Right, much obliged

Good evening, Now one thing i'm inexperienced in,are points, most switches that I have seen around here are manual, in the UK, which switches would usually be controlled via signal box, and which ones are likely to be manuals?

Ah, I see. That's where my trouble was I incorrectly thought the quarry owned the tramway, thank you for clearing that up

The tramway itself will likely be a gradient, consisting of a runaway siding, a bridge, and a road crossing all travelling up in an S shape leading to a quarry if I do the quarry and the tramway at all

If that's the case than could possible exchange sidings be placed into the outskirts of the quarry itself, where an engine takes it from there down the tramway to the terminus

Yes it is Ffarquhar, but I am trying to make it with LMS techniques,

Another question of mine would be if that the Lms wouldn't design a terminus like this would there be any of the big 4 that would be likely to design a station like this? If there is one I could shove this project aside and use the space for an LMS layout or go with this design and change the company, my decision can be swayed as I don't have any British inventory apart from a Hornby Flying Scotsman, an E2, and a couple teaks and trucks

Yes the turnouts will likely end up in different areas this is not final, but is definitely a design I am attempting to go for, the turnouts will probably have a wide radius to prevent derailment and the carriage shed should be about 17-18 inches, the loco shed being about 6-7 inches

A somewhat revised version has been made so that it makes sense, signalbox (on the left) and signals added as suggested by a user in the thread, the quarry line disappears behind some houses, and the line to the left will connect to another baseboard leading to halt, (off the top of my head the halt sorta resembles Newtondale Halt, despite that being an LNER station if I'm not mistaken) knowing me I definitely put the signals in the wrong places, (lack of ever going to the UK will do that to ya)

This is a good idea, however the baseboard was built months ago, the polystyrene was already glued down, and a river was cut on the side area long ways on the board this plan I found used the most space and still had room for some roads and houses.

I will likely do that these are just rough outlines in templots sketchpad that I made

Yes there is water in the quarry, it flows south and flows beside the station.

That makes sense, this I all new to me I don't know how a lot of this works, perhaps the quarry engine will leave trucks in an enchange siding at the quarry then a LMS engine acquires the rolling stock and brings it to a stone cutting facility at the terminus, then it will take it down to the harbor.

The first train of the day is a commuter to the junction, a train that carries the London papers as you say, keeps its coaches in a siding at the junction, the engine will head up from the terminus with a goods presumably, to the junction where it acquires the London papers. The quarry trains will culminate at the stonecutters wharf, they run around and head back up the quarry tramway, an LMS engine then takes the train and heads up the branch to a harbour.

The layout baseboard was constructed awhile ago, I am simply just getting around to using it, it is 8x4 foot, I am definitely gonna expand the board and connect them to the next board as well

Yes thank you, I do use the 4mm to 1 foot system and I do use it

I do have access to both sides and the sheds are a bit big as I do not have experience with the metric system, it is meant to be around 2 and a half feet

I do have access to both sides and the sheds are a bit big as I do not have experience with the metric system, it is meant to be around 2 and a half feet

The quarrymen trains head up the branch to the mainline junction then then they head back down, past the sheds and disappear behind some buildings, the line is the at the top and goes to the right

Yes sheds are for quarry locos as well, the carriage shed fits two suburban coaches, as well as coaches for quarrymen,

For space I have a basement that is 24x40 ft (7.3x12.1m) (excluding stairs and walls), the grid squares represent 150mm I believe, (the metric system is uncharted territory for me) the trains, are stopping passengers and goods from the stone quarry, the signal box I neglected to add to the plan, is meant to be left of the goods shed facing the track the leads into the yard, the two goods sheds, are meant to be operated by different companies, (one for public transport (on the left), the other for private companies (on the right). The run around in the sidings are for stone trains which come in from the front then run around, the engine shed should be no more than 6 inches (152.4mm)

Right, ive found the design I made in templot, Its only slightly outdated, but it should help the light gray square represents a goods shed, the darker blue ones are the station, and goods station, the brown square are coal staithes, the lighter blue is a carriage shed and the black square is an engine shed. The line on the top continues to the right and goes to a stone quarry, the sidings on said line will probably provide for a stonecutter.