A should have been railway
The work continues, all the underlay is stuck down and the work of customizing points is underway. This side looks better but is actually further behind. You can see the marks that start the planning for the cattle ramp that…
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As I moved through track alignment, and important consideration is the bridges that break up the scene visually. Peter Denny and Iain Rice are both believers in “framing” a scene, and to that end there are two bridges at Port…
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Port Dinllaen, that is. Here are the 4 platforms based on the Holyhead layout, surrounding a central dock. Plus on one side carriage sidings and a Goods Out warehouse and on the other a Horse Dock and Goods In. The entire…
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The PD goods yard is now in place – the goods shed will be where the red tool box is. Also coming along is the PD MPD as run jointly by the LMR and the LNER.
Near the PD throat there is a complex crossover consisting of a double slip, a single slip, two points/turnouts, and a diamond. This represents a challenge to get right with electofrog points. The diamond’s frogs need to be set to suit…
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Some more progress with PD throat. Underlay down and droppers 90% installed. Once the track is glued down and the brass screws at each board-end are installed and soldered, the board (and the T shaped middle board) will be flipped over for…
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Constructing a timetable is hard work. But you can take quite a bit of the grunt work out of it using spreadsheets. Warning – This is a technical post, so I apologize up front. It assumes you have some basic…
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The rest of the world has a bearing on the timetable of PD – here is a schematic of the entire scheme with distances and timings for express and freight trains. Note that a passenger at PLJ for Afon Wen or…
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First board at PD is being laid out while I wait for the SE Finecast small turntable. The aim is to be able to completely wire up the boards when they are complete from the underneath (invert them with the…
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The points/switches are Peco code 75 Electrofrog. To prepare them for my used as DCC using stall motor (Cobalt) there are some details to be attended to. First place the point on a flat surface – you will be using…
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