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GNRi1959
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Colin, glad you brought it up. I have used Cork on four layouts in the past and after all the care and attention I paid in chamfering the shoulder, there was little reduction in sound transmission. However, the noise is that of a moving train and to be honest sounds good.
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Your diagram was most interesting and offers ideas that will help. I presume the magnets are for uncoupling? Can these be used on Dapol type wagons for this purpose? Thank you for sharing David.
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I’m at a fairly important part of my layout where I have laid my track, fitted all insulated railjoiners and droppers and I’m now underneath thinking about connections and where everything should go. I don’t envisage wanting to display it at a model Railway show just yet but l have made it in two sections, bolted together with 3” bolts, washers and wing nuts. What is the best way of connecting cable under the boards, with a view to quickly separating them if it does need to be moved.
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David, I looks really interesting and well thought out. Good luck with it.
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Bit of track laid today but not fixed, wired temporarily and ready to test loco. Runs pretty well too. 20211107_161329.mp4
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Even though I have a good supply of point motors, I am seriously considering mechanical point control. Has anyone used DCC Manual Point controls, expensive but looks great.
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Thanks, the track is cut but just sitting there loose. I came across around ten Gaugemaster point motors and CDU so I suppose the next step will be to paint the baseboards before I lay the track. Don't think I'll lay any Cork, there was no ballast shoulder I'm aware of at Fintona.
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All previous discussions on Fintona will now be posted here as Fintona Station has been born. This morning I laid out my track, based very closely to new drawings I obtained during the week. My only sacrifice being the shortening of a siding, which will only be used to conceal the line emerging from my fiddle yard, as recommended by Galteemore.
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I used DAS modelling class on Omagh Goods Yard but I brush the baseboard with pva first and it was fine
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Looks good but I'm happy to settle for a few points in the FY. Have you used cork? I don’t think Fintona has much of a ballast shoulder, the horse had everything trampled under foot.
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Absolutely brilliant, thanks for sharing. I wanted to ask, where my single line disappears into the fiddle yard, is it common practice to run a series of points off this line to form the fiddle yard.
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What's the scene on the other side of the viewing area, in the fiddle yard?
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Thank you so much, that works really well.
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Great idea, I think there is a goods store I can use, what do your actual opening look like them, if you don’t mind
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What work around is there when your fiddle yard is accessed by a bridge or tunnel when the prototype doesn't have one.
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A copy arrived in the post this morning, I’ve been so busy I didn’t even get a chance to open it - such is retirement!
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I managed to get to our local library this morning and the Local History department were kind enough to allow me to copy an ordnance survey map showing the track layout clearly. It is similar to those shown here already, though it doesn’t show the curvature of the goods platform. I managed to set out a track drawing from this using grids to get my proportions correct and it seems to be a good do-able project.
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Omagh station was still standing in 1972, I used to go through the station, walking between the platforms. There were still signs fixed to different parts of the buildings. As you say, vandals were better behaved back then.
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I printed a lof of stuff for Norman Johnson when he was writing the book on Fintona. One of a series of negatives were taken on 1st October, the day after closure. An old friend from Omagh, Ken Donald, sadly not with us any longer, helped push the tram out of the station area to couple up to the loco that took it away to Belfast.
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Three days before the tram was taken to Belfast 28th Sept. 1957
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I’ve been looking at many similar views in my collection and on line. I have noted the curved platform and track work to the left and the siding in the foreground (right) which became obsolete and overgrown.(above) Some further details here, with some track lifted and ‘Dicks’ timber home when he’s resting between shifts.
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I thought I would start a new discussion on Fintona as I have great interest in trying to create its workings in a small shunting layout. Although I have had much assistance (off forum) from JB, I wanted to tease out the actual track plan. Norman Johnston’s diagram is good in terms of an illustration, however, the actual track plan is different in many aspects. This plan, though not very clear, shows some detail.
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Are fiddle yards normally concealed at the front or is that for exhibition only?
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I want to make the most of my new shunting layout. What is the best system of remote uncoupling of wagons and coupling system that I need to employ.
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Here is the baseboard, almost complete. I have marked a rough pencil guideline on top and hope to order track soon. The fiddle yard section is 700mm and the remainder 1.8mts.
