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I would welcome some advice on the three tracks leading towards the engine shed. In reality would this have been a viable track layout for engines to/from the shed , and also for the loading/unloading of wagons etc.
 I have room to extend the width of the layout to include goods sheds, coal yard etc if needed.
Cheers 🍻

Hi John

The track that ends in the engine shed is probably not viable as it diverges from a running line - that is a line on which trains run at normal speeds.  The loops - more properly (probably) called running loops would be useful for the reception and dispatch of trains but they too are running lines and therefore would not be safe for parking wagons that would then be loaded/unloaded.

If it is your intention to have a loop line in this direction and then some sidings, have a look at the arrangement that existed at Lincoln Central.  The loop line around the back of the platform had a run-round and the sidings involved setting back from this loop.

It was an idea I was going to use for a time - here is a section of my proposed station showing the arrangement;



The main lines are green and the loop lines are pink at the top.  The arrangement is complicated by the crossings that give access from the loops to both up and down lines but ignore this.

Here is the prototype plan showing that the sidings (lower right) were used for, amongst other things, cattle.


Turning the loco shed siding around so that it is accessed in a trailing direction off the outer loop and you will be on safer ground

Hope that helps

Barry

BarryMany thanks for your comments. I will definitely consider your advice. Regarding the Lincoln track plan, can you point me in the direction of a source for viewing old track layout drawings .
Cheers

Hi John

To be honest, I tend to use Google and click on the "Images" tab.  There are a lot of industruious people out there who have captured plans and made them accessible.

Over the years I have become somewhat fascinated with track plans so I collect them whenever I can.  Magazines and books often contain them - I don't really concentrate on any one UK pre-grouping company because the Board of Trade had to approve everything.  I take the view that, generally, most companies would have tended towards the same track formations and certainly they followed the same rules.

Barry

Great, I'll have a brew ☕️ and hit Google.

Hi John,

Having a small engine shed  on a mainline through station is I think a bit strange. Where there was one it usually functioned  as the shed for a branchline that terminated at the station. Kingham shed for example was there to serve 2 branchlines that terminated there.

From the track plans I have seen most sheds on through mainlines were located someway from the station. Banbury or Oxford for example. They were usually quite big.

Nigel

I'm no expert, but Faversahm - my home town - is a mainline through station (in fact a junction, the line divided into two, one to Ramsgate, the other to Dover.  It had a small coachworks and a small engine shed, both within walking distance of the station. They still exist, although in disrepair now.
Michael

JohnMay;I replied to your other post regarding the design of a yard. I'm hoping that this is the same topic, just in another post.

Regards