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Night Train
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You can clip my ticket any day, Speicher!Speicher said:Does anyone want a replica Ticket Inspector from Severn Valley Railway, with Track Safety Certificate, complete with hat, badge, and ticket clipper, and the key to unlock doors?
Unfortunately it is a full size replica so it depends a bit of the size of your passengers.
Due to the lateness of the hour last night and being stood up on a date and having consumed too much coffee, I woke up for lunch today.
Just checked my Ebay and I seem to be watching a lot of tank engines and diesel shunters!When I was a kid, one of my little shunters was too high geared for pulling slow goods trains, it was the fastest loco on my set up! I ended up dismantling it and using the chassis for a much better role. I took an old Airfix kit of the space shuttle and cut it up a bit and it turned out to be the right size to make my very own bullet train. It just needed extending with a bit of old coach and a second bogie underneath.
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col
Legendary Member
Speicher said:Does anyone want a replica Ticket Inspector from Severn Valley Railway, with Track Safety Certificate, complete with hat, and badge,
Unfortunately it is a full size replica so it depends a bit of the size of your passengers.
Thanks for the offer, but I think Ill be getting a personilsed hat off my mickey taking family before long
Night Train said:You can clip my ticket any day, Speicher!
Due to the lateness of the hour last night and being stood up on a date and having consumed too much coffee, I woke up for lunch today.Just checked my Ebay and I seem to be watching a lot of tank engines and diesel shunters!
When I was a kid, one of my little shunters was too high geared for pulling slow goods trains, it was the fastest loco on my set up! I ended up dismantling it and using the chassis for a much better role. I took an old Airfix kit of the space shuttle and cut it up a bit and it turned out to be the right size to make my very own bullet train. It just needed extending with a bit of old coach and a second bogie underneath.
Bullet Train
Space Shuttle
You seem very handy in the modelling side too, Ill definitely be pestering with questions in the future
Night Train
Maker of Things
Once the track is laid and powered up the engines will be chuff chuffed too.col said:but Im chuffed with things so far.
It may be worth building in sets of points on the outside of the curves to allow a future expansion off the board onto an extension board, extending the straights so to speak. You will need to ensure the pints have the right radius curve to fit the curves on the track. IIRC Hornby track came in numbers 1, 2 and 3 radius curves and the points were number 2 radius. If you add a half length curve to the curve of the points then it is the same length as a standard curved track.
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col
Legendary Member
Night Train said:Once the track is laid and powered up the engines will be chuff chuffed too.
It may be worth building in sets of points on the outside of the curves to allow a future expansion off the board onto an extension board, extending the straights so to speak. You will need to ensure the pints have the right radius curve to fit the curves on the track. IIRC Hornby track came in numbers 1, 2 and 3 radius curves and the points were number 2 radius. If you add a half length curve to the curve of the points then it is the same length as a standard curved track.
Thanks NT, but the actual design Im following has this already on one curve, so I can extend later. Im placing the set in such a way so that when i do extend it goes along the wall in an L shape, what I havnt figured out yet is how to get this extention to return to the main set up, as I dont want to go right round but to return the way i went out in the first place?
Night Train
Maker of Things
Do you mean where the engine shed is? (top right on the layout image you posted)
You can go off and return but you generally don't run two directions on the same track so would have to return on a seperate track. You can run off the board onto a long straight and then a loop that returns close and parallel to the straight. It can then link back to the siding adjacent to the engine shed.
Alternatively you can have bi-directional running with some polarity switches and a track isolator. Run a straight from the engine shed off the track and to the 'end of the line' You can add points and sidings there to have two platforms and to allow the engine to move to the 'back' of the train and pull with backwards running. On the return the track can have points to join the sidings adjacent to the engine shed to continue around the track. However your engine is now facing backwards. This is a triangular turning which you can get on real railways to allow engines to turn about face. However, on model railways it has problems as it crosses, and reverses, polarity on the track. This is why you will need polarity switches and track isolators.
You can go off and return but you generally don't run two directions on the same track so would have to return on a seperate track. You can run off the board onto a long straight and then a loop that returns close and parallel to the straight. It can then link back to the siding adjacent to the engine shed.
Alternatively you can have bi-directional running with some polarity switches and a track isolator. Run a straight from the engine shed off the track and to the 'end of the line' You can add points and sidings there to have two platforms and to allow the engine to move to the 'back' of the train and pull with backwards running. On the return the track can have points to join the sidings adjacent to the engine shed to continue around the track. However your engine is now facing backwards. This is a triangular turning which you can get on real railways to allow engines to turn about face. However, on model railways it has problems as it crosses, and reverses, polarity on the track. This is why you will need polarity switches and track isolators.
