Parallel Tracks... one climbing away from the other

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CoggesRailway

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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
 
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..
 
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.
 
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Something like this!!!!
One line drops away from the mainline. The other climbs above the mainline to the viaduct.
 
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.
 
I did my incline with Hebel building blocks (see Steves viaduct thread - same thing).
Poor pictures, but to give you an idea:

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Just remember it needs to be at least 1 in 25 to embarrass Gareth when he comes round..... :rolf:
 
Friend of mine has used the GRS walling for his incline .
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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!
 
CoggesRailway said:
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!
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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
 
Here's how I did it on my old line

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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...........
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