Parallel Tracks... one climbing away from the other

[CoggesRailway]

Hi all,

has anyone done this or similar - mine will end up leaving the mainline and crossing a lowish viaduct.

I am just after photos or ideas on what faces the vertical face or bank that grows between the tracks and what people have used to build their grades?

Ian

 

[steve parberry]

Happens all the time in the real world of railway.

Best example i can think of is just south of welling garden city where the line rises about 15' to meet a set of switches for the flyover.

There are lots of other examples i am sure but its the first one i can think of..

 

[duncan1_9_8_4]

iv just completed mine, il post some pictures later tonight. my avoiding line raises from the main line. i just dug down deeper than the main, along the route where i wanted the avoider to go. then i just shuttered it up and filled with cement, smoothing off to the gradient i required, simple as. then just screwed the track down and ballasted it.

 

[CoggesRailway]

Yeh pictures would be good!

 

[casey jones snr]

Something like this!!!!
One line drops away from the mainline. The other climbs above the mainline to the viaduct.

 

[CoggesRailway]

just like that thanks! any more detail you can give me on that facing or cladding you have on the one clibing up to the viaduct? I like the plants on the "drop away" pic.

 

[duncan1_9_8_4]

here is mine, i just need to clad it with some jig stones i have. but blurrrrrry.

 

[korm kormsen]

do you mean ideas like these?

 

[pugwash]

I did my incline with Hebel building blocks (see Steves viaduct thread - same thing).
Poor pictures, but to give you an idea:

 

[CoggesRailway]

Thanks chaps!

 

[whatlep]

Just remember it needs to be at least 1 in 25 to embarrass Gareth when he comes round.....

 

[Richie]

Friend of mine has used the GRS walling for his incline .

 

[Spule 4]

Sometimes, it was very subtle.....

http://www.stillgelegt.de/frbb/frbb-2.htm

 

[CoggesRailway]

Richie : I think you may have solved this for me- looks awesome!
Whatlep : How did you know what I was thinking? Yes The pootank has made me realise that having a brunelian loop is a tad boring ( there still will be one r5 level loop )
Spule: love old stuff like that- but afraid I can't understand the captions!

 

[Richie]

Richie : I think you may have solved this for me- looks awesome!
Whatlep : How did you know what I was thinking? Yes The pootank has made me realise that having a brunelian loop is a tad boring ( there still will be one r5 level loop )
Spule: love old stuff like that- but afraid I can't understand the captions!

Hi Cogges
With the walling my friend has just got some from Back2Bay6 made by Cain Howley heres their web site . The walling looks much better than the GRS .
http://www.cainhowleystructures.co.uk/index.html

 

[flyingsignalman]

Here's how I did it on my old line

 

[minimans]

Curving down to the station...........I also have a parallel track out of shot in the foreground but don't have a picture of it here at work. It has a slope with trees and ground cover...........