Branch Line - Roundy, roundy with some shunting

Just checked and it was 20th October that I ripped up platform 2 :shock:

I've lost count of how many times I've gone to put the new platform in, only to find I'd missed a little patch when redoing the ballast.

At last, today, it's glueing as I type.







 


Ed

:pathead

:Happy

Looking good Ed. :thumbs I take it that the position the platform is in, will be its final resting place…?  :lol: 

Cheers, Gary.

Damn right it is Gary :lol:

I've tried putting the planned wall up against the back of platform 2, to separate the station area from the line running down the embankment.



Think the clearances are too tight :thud


The card wall is 4mm thick with the coping stones (7mm) protruding about 1.5mm each side.



Don't think a fence along the back of the platform would provide enough of a scenic 'break' to make the station look separate from the embankment line.

Would a thin styrene wall be possible, rigid enough ?

Any ideas?


Ed







 

G`day Ed,

Based on my platform build……check your longest loco….preferably something with stuff hanging down at the front…..cylinders, ladders a buffer beam????….and check it on the bend coming into the platform. The straight section will be fine…..you`ll get away with minimal clearance there, but the curve is where you will get any problems.

A thin styrene wall may look too thin. Could you achieve your clearances on the track side of the platform, and allow your wall to rise up and sit on top of the platform, thereby allowing you to have a thick wall even though it will intrude into the platform a little.??

:cheers  Gormo

[user=1224]gormo[/user] wrote:

G`day Ed,

 Could you achieve your clearances on the track side of the platform, and allow your wall to rise up and sit on top of the platform, thereby allowing you to have a thick wall even though it will intrude into the platform a little.??

:cheers  Gormo

Good idea Gormo and I must admit I hadn't thought of that, but……

the platform is only 30mm wide and a OLE mast of 4-5mm has to go on the side where the wall is, to allow a 26-25mm gap (6') gap on the passenger side.

Who said modernisation was a good idea



Ed

Then again, this may work for you…


Build teh main part of the wall atop of the platform, but run the brick paper down the back. This will give the impression of a larger, much more solid wall. It is a similar concept that I used for the small retaining wall on Industry Lane.

Cheers, Gary.

Talk about a quart in a pint pot.

Added an OLE mast.

What if the mast was built into the wall.?????
:hmm

Gormo

Bit of a compromise.

Quick mock-up with 2mm greycard and Metcalfe stone sheet (approx 0.2mm).

Not a very good picture taken yesterday afternoon, but it shows the larger clearance.



I could put Metcalfe sheet on the platform side as suggested above, which should solve the problem regarding the OLE mast :thumbs



Ed

Hi Ed, a good solution, but I think anything other than a low/medium wall at the back of the platform side would look a bit out of place. Looking at your earlier pictures I am not sure you need to "screen" off the cutting line. I am thinking along the lines of Sandy station, whereby the old Cambridge to Bedford line ran along the back of the East Coast Mainline and shared platform 3 of Sandy station, before turing away on its own course.

Bob

Hi Bob

It'll be about 50mm, same as the old one.

The line down the embankment has nothing really to do with the station, in my imaginary world it's miles away.

All about trying to get a quart in a pint pot again.

If I didn't run the line from the station round the board, trains would only travel three feet between leaving the station and arriving at the fiddle yard, and I'd get very bored, very quickly



Ed

 

Slightly better picture.



Metcalf stone sheet only on the first section so far.

Going to run the wall all the way down the back of the platform.



It's all just loose at the moment, just to get an idea of what it looks like.

Getting pictures under the fluorescents is a bit of a nightmare with very little natural light coming in.

View from the garage door towards the roundabout leading to the M11.



Cold, damp and miserable.

Ed
 

Try taking pictures without the flash - you may get better results?

Bob

Tried it Bob.

Been OK in the past, but it's just too dark outside.

My cheap little digital can't focus :sad:


Ed

G`day Ed,

Does your digital camera have a Macro setting??????…….it`s ideal for those close up pics.

It looks like winter is outside your door there……no time to be in the garage I would think.

Have you considered not using the wall but rather using the platform as an island platform and or if not an island as such, you could  run a picket fence along the back edge. I know you`ve mentioned before you thought a fence would not be enough of a scenic break, but I can`t quite justify the wall in my head, however you have the big picture in your head and maybe all will be revealed when it`s complete.?


Cheers

Gormo

[user=1224]gormo[/user] wrote:

G`day Ed,


Have you considered not using the wall but rather using the platform as an island platform

Think the passengers would be asking for their money back Gormo

Leave  Latton fields on platform 2, run round the loop ( about 15 feet) and  then arrive back at the other side of the same platform :???:




It's the old quart in a pint pot syndrome again.

Ed

Yes You`re right there Ed,
The scenic route……..the passengers would be experiencing dejavu.
The wall it must be……to wall or not to wall….that is the question….and the answer is …..wall
Cheers
Gormo

Seeing the track plan it does make sense to have some sort of scenic divide - given the space available, a wall does appear to be the only solution.

Bob