Amiens Street Terminus

[BosKonay]

Designed so full length container trains can sit in the sidings, or be shunted in the branch yes

 

Here's the first draft for a 'whitehead inspired' preserved steam depot to go bottom left on the plan...

 

[Kirley]

Awe-inspiring layout –i.e. “so impressive as to make a person feel humble or slightly afraid” at the sight of it.

[BosKonay]

Thanks for your kind words Kirley!

 

At the rate I'm working I doubt it will inspire much awe for a few years yet!

[BabyGM]

Boskonay ,I look forward to seeing the progress of the rest of the layout

[BosKonay]

Latest overview incarnation

 

[BosKonay]

The double track from the through station junction, and the line from the steam/preservation depot, pass under the terminus board, to the fiddle yard.

 

On the right, below the dock branch, will be the other 'end' of the fiddle yard with a reverse loop to allow trains to turn, and maybe a small country station at the low level...

[BosKonay]

(the whitespace behind the steam depot, and in front of the through station on the high level will probably be a semi removal board, with a small town scene)

 

Also means that the Cement Terminal from the original plan is lost somewhat, but might 'evolve' into a dockside terminal

[BosKonay]

Any feedback or obvious errors I can't see for looking at it too much?

 

In operation, I hope to be able to run 3-4 trains on the mainlines, while in the steam depot, engines can be taken off shed and made into trains for heading to the terminus for specials, and there will be lots of shunting fun in the docks, and in preparing trains in the terminus itself...

[201bhoy]

Plan looks great! I see platforms 1 and 2 will be interesting for trainspotting with the new position of the freight sidings! On the subject of the cement terminal, maybe you could work it into the through station, like Tullamore?

[BosKonay]

lol, Certainly will, the pilot will be shunting freight trains in and out of those platforms for pick up by engines out of the shed

 

Good idea on the through station.... there is a little wiggle room there, though I want to avoid the trackwork in that corner getting over complicated

[201bhoy]

It could even just be one siding with a silo... hopefully shouldn't be too hard

[BabyGM]

looking good!

Looking forward for more updates:)

[Kirley]

The double track from the through station junction, and the line from the steam/preservation depot, pass under the terminus board, to the fiddle yard.

 

On the right, below the dock branch, will be the other 'end' of the fiddle yard with a reverse loop to allow trains to turn, and maybe a small country station at the low level...

 

O to have a plan, I thought my layout would just evolve, generic like, but now there are so many things I could have done better if I had just thought ahead! I admire your forward planning –“failing to plan is planning to fail”, I remember hearing somewhere!

[Broithe]

O to have a plan, I thought my layout would just evolve, generic like, but now there are so many things I could have done better if I had just thought ahead! I admire your forward planning –“failing to plan is planning to fail”, I remember hearing somewhere!

 

And General Douglas MacArthur said "Have a good plan, execute it violently, do it today" - although that might not be fully applicable to model railway construction..

[heirflick]

And General Douglas MacArthur said "Have a good plan, execute it violently, do it today" - although that might not be fully applicable to model railway construction..

 

my motto :- 'have a good plan, execute it with passion and if or when i get the time, i will get around to it...hopefully i will still be alive when that happens!!'

[BosKonay]

I tend to have the opposite affliction, years of planning, tweaking changing, back to the drawing board, etc

 

Ideally it does mean by now I know what can fit in the space, how all the wiring will work, and that once I lay it, it 'should' work

[BosKonay]

As a firm believer in measure thrice, cut once, I've 'flipped' the steam / preservation depot and sheds into where the dock was mooted to go.

 

 

 

After some practical evaluation, it makes more sense to have the steamers on the same level as the terminus (otherwise they may not make it up the incline to run specials! ) The shorter trains will also look fine on the 3 foot curves there.

 

It means I can re-do the left hand design now to add a three line under gantry crane dockside terminus with a cement plant to rear !

 

(eventually I may run the risk of actual modelling soon!)

Edited September 10, 2012 by BosKonay

[BosKonay]

The general 'plan' of the preserved depot, from left to right, is two carriage sidings (each long enough for 6-7 coaches, a water/coal/depot crane road, two lines to a loco workshop / shed, and the turntable, allowing stock to 'pose' (some of these roads (if not all) will have sheds over them too.)

 

The big space in the corner can house a town scene and I'm contemplating adding a 5 foot curved platform from the lower curved point back to the mainline, so the DMU fleet can drop off day-trippers...

[201bhoy]

Like the idea of another freight terminal, especially with the idea of a Heljan continent crane (Hopefully!) could you post the latest plan?

[BosKonay]

Will do

Have to finish drawing the freight roads

[Hunslet 102]

Latest overview incarnation

 

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Stephen,the grey area with just the double track main line shown on it,have you anything planned for this area?

[201bhoy]

I was thinking that, maybe a canal or river?

[BosKonay]

The grey box is the stairwell below the attic. The line there will just be a viaduct . There are walls both sides of the grey box.

[Broithe]

The line there will just be a viaduct . There are walls both sides of the grey box.

 

..?

[BosKonay]

Wow!!!

[Broithe]

I'm sure someone could produce an etched brass kit - and you could tell 'her' it's a special feature, specially for her to admire as she ascends the stairs...

[BosKonay]

I'd say that would work allright ;)

[BosKonay]

Small update:

Terminus and yards now have been undercoated in a lovely shade of jet black, in advance of platform installation, ballasting and rail painting (in reverse order!)

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 11, 2012 by BosKonay

[BosKonay]

At times like this your arms feel the full length!

[BosKonay]

Two little bits of updates:

 

1 - IE's new re-gauged MRA's fresh off the boat before a lick of paint

 

 

 

 

[BosKonay]

And the beginning of dummy point motor installation..

 

 

 

 

Anyone know where I might find details on where the AWS / TPWS and various boxes and detectors and thingies 'should' go?

[BosKonay]

From what I am reading I will need TPSW grids (pairs) before the buffers in the terminus and at every signal / platform end...., then again on the mainline at signals and in advance of crossings, etc.

 

Has anyone any good references, or photos of Irish AWS/TPSW stuff?

[BosKonay]

Here is the latest track plan, showing the larger through station and the 'RPSI' Depot

 

[BosKonay]

There is physical space to add back in the dock / cement terminal, but I reckon one thing at a time!

[fitzguttentite]

pm sent