Bickerton gets a new siding

[ge_rik]

The track needs ballasting, but the foam board retaining wall and 3D printed fencing seems to have worked out ok.



Rik

 

[dunnyrail]

Ok Rik, so a new siding and nice attributes but what will its use be? Us who are interested in your operations would like a little more detail please.

 

[ge_rik]

Ok Rik, so a new siding and nice attributes but what will its use be? Us who are interested in your operations would like a little more detail please.

Jon. For now, it will just become a general goods siding. Not decided if a new industry will spring up at Bickerton as yet. Possibilities include a dairy (as per Halesworth on the Southwold), or a furniture factory (giving an excuse for sawn timber to come from Peckforton), or ....... who knows??

Rik

 

[dunnyrail]

Jon. For now, it will just become a general goods siding. Not decided if a new industry will spring up at Bickerton as yet. Possibilities include a dairy (as per Halesworth on the Southwold), or a furniture factory (giving an excuse for sawn timber to come from Peckforton), or ....... who knows??

Rik

Or even a Carriage Siding that was my first thought, ideal space for the odd one or three to strengthen busy workings.

 

[ge_rik]

Now all ballasted and ready to go .....!

How I added another siding to Bickerton Station

Narrow gauge large scale model garden railway. Battery powered, radio controlled locomotives, some Bluetooth. Set in Cheshire UK in 1930s

riksrailway.blogspot.com

Rik

 

[dunnyrail]

Ah first pics appeared to show it at a baseboard edge. Much better now.

 

[lgbmad]

Very impressive if I may say....and I love that fencing.
Kev

 

[ge_rik]

Ah first pics appeared to show it at a baseboard edge. Much better now.

Hi Jon
It's still at the baseboard edge, just taken from a slightly different angle.


I might be able to add another narrow board to the new edge, but it will make reaching over to the rear siding a bit of a stretch.

Rik

 

[dunnyrail]

Ah then perhaps you would loose the utility of the siding. Never a good plan to make access tricky. Perhaps as earlier suggested use it as a Carriage Siding or even where Wagons are placed that need delivering to sidings that are only served by trains returning from Bickerton to the other end of the line. Or those that have been from the other way at single way access sidings? A certain amount of marshalling may be required at Bickerton at times thus the new siding could act as a useful bolt hole to dump wagons whilst doing that marshalling.