ginger j Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Hello all, Another one of my numerous ideas in Anyrail. This time it's a small harbour on the Southern/South Western coast of England, sometime in the early '70s. Overall size is 7' by 18" and the fiddlestick is a sector plate hidden behind the Fuel Siding. Motive power would be a varity of 0-6-0 and 0-4-0 locomotives including BR 03/08, industrial tanks and maybe a few ex-BR tank steam locomotives. Points are mostly Peco 00 gauge code 100 set track, with some streamline code 100 flex track. I just want to check on here if this is a feasible and 'prototypical' plan Many thanks in advance, GJ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kris Posted June 15, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 15, 2014 Really needs some form of run round, possibly going through the loco siding. You also might want to date it 10 years earlier to give more traffic variety. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginger j Posted June 15, 2014 Author Share Posted June 15, 2014 I was thinking of using two locomotives for shunting but I'll have a quick edit in Anyrail and have a look. GJ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 By the early 1970s a fuel depot with 4 wheeled tanks is a possible traffic, but you would probably want to substitute something like cement in presflos or scrap in 16t minerals for the fish and timber traffic. I am thinking of dock/harbourside/quay locations that received rail traffic into the 1970s in the south/south west, Hayle, Gloucester Docks, Weymouth, Hamworthy spring to mind, cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginger j Posted June 15, 2014 Author Share Posted June 15, 2014 Well I've tried to add a run around...how does this look? The loop is by necessity cramped and there will be a fair bit of shuffling involved... The main reason i opted for a 1970's setting was purely because I happen to have a BR Blue 03 and this project would be built on the cheap. You're probably right about the traffic Kevin, I just thought of fish/timber start with. Of course, once suitable stock would be amassed the layout could have a switch of era every now or then......When about did fish cease to be carried on Southern rails? GJ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maunsel Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Watchet (GWR - I know) still had timber traffic up to the late 1970's early 1980's - just no rail traffic! If traffic was from small coasters then grain could be an option. Another traffic could be newsprint. Sand, gravel and building aggregates might also be possibilities. I think fish traffic died out in the mid 1960's, (Beeching withdrew from the fish traffic in 1964) but the Southern wasn't big in fish traffic compared to the other Big Four. The North Sea was the main source for this traffic. Considering the layout and the run round - it's still a bit tricky. Could the crossing be replaced by a double slip or two wyes? Maybe by replacing the bridge with a single track one and shortening the right hand sidings? After all bridges would be expensive bits of hardware - especially a lifting or swing bridge. The plan has many similarities with that of "Littleport" by Giles Barnabe (one of my all time favourites) , see half way down page:- http://www.carendt.com/scrapbook/page57/index.html Good luck Eric Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginger j Posted June 15, 2014 Author Share Posted June 15, 2014 Yup, Littleport was a major inspiration source for the plan. I'll have an attempt at your suggestions to see how it works. Thanks for all the replies, GJ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginger j Posted June 15, 2014 Author Share Posted June 15, 2014 Following from Maunsel's (Eric) suggestion I present Lyttle Mark 3! Main changes include: Relocation of the river to beside the Maritime Fuel siding, Replacement of the crossing with a Slip to form part of the new runaround, slight shortening of the sidings on the RH side serving the warehouse and Timber (?) Merchant . The layout *could* be relocated to either ER/SR/WR depending on preference according to traffic flows. The option is also there to switch eras. What do people think of the new plan? GJ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maunsel Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Yes, I like it. It's more "relaxed" around the middle (in fact - a lot like me!). I'm just wondering about how to disguise where the river hits the FY. Maybe a road girder bridge? Or curving it around the backscene low relief building - or under a building like in Lincoln:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Street,_Lincoln#mediaviewer/File:High_Street_Bridge_on_Lincoln_High_Street.jpg Looking good! Eric Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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