Getting fun out of our layouts
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Hintock Operating Part Three - Shunting a Model Railway
and I suggest you copy what you want before the website is deleted.
Ron
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Now I've finally started a model railway…I've inherited another…
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Brian
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Have a look at some working timetables (not passenger times) to get an idea of how the prototype worked.
Run timetable sessions using a fast clock.
Add a market day special/local hunt special/horse racing special.
Run a royal train.
Add a farm move.
Add another siding. Common event in WW2.
Lift a siding (common any time).
Add a private siding.
Add a narrow gauge interchange
Have some random locomotive failures so that the timetable has to be modified.
Have some random hot axle boxes. As above.
If you haven't already done so, start some kit/scratch building.Plastic, brass, wood.
Ditto weathering.
Ditto airbrushing.
Book a course in weathering, brass model soldering, foliage/tree making.
Try dead rail (battery/radio controlled).
Build a plank in another scale/finescale.
If OO build a plank in EM or P4 (you will probably never finish).
Like The Q I am also more interested in getting there. I have yet to see a layout that was actually finished. In fact, just like the prototype.
Nigel
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Enjoy your journey Mark, no matter where it takes you.
Bill
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At 6'4'', Bill is a tall chap, then again, when horizontal he is rather long and people often used to trip over him! . . . and so a nickname was born :)
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I also spend a lot of time wargaming. Love the building, painting, planning but some times find playing the game a chore. Not always but I never see painting up soldiers as a chore.
I have no wish to start a "railways vs wargames" debate.
Just thought it was odd that the two hobbies are opposed when it comes to what constitutes fun.
Probably just me.
B
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Oh well back to the asylum
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