Tfl Training Layout

JonathanJ said:
This video...


... has a few shots at the end of TfL's in-house training layout, which AFAIK uses modified G scale track to represent the underground's 4 rail system (can't tell you the brand) and USA trains power trucks under the single car "trains".

J.
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Quite interesting but left me wanting more about the Model Railway. There is some more footage on this link, you will need to scroll down the page a way to find it:-

https://www.londonreconnections.com/2010/west-ashfield-part-1-models-great-and-small/

As in many training Railways it just majors on the Trains and the means of Controlling them with little scenery except that which is Operationally required.

The Lancs and Yorks one is perhaps one of the most famous and is now preserved at York Railway Museum. This gives demo's on certain days and is well worth a look. I visited it when it was still being used for Training at Manchester Vic back when working for BR. It had at that time become a little run down and LGB Track had been used to replace original L&Y built Pointwork. These days it has all been repaired and is in superb cindition. Though there are occasional visiting Trains that are not original L&Y Models, but so what it all looks great.
 
What a well made video! Those two have real a real sparkle about the way they present and interview others. As has already been said, it left me wanting more of the model railway though. Guess the All Stations crew are not really into models?

I would love to know how the model operates... Are those yellow joiners really section gaps? The signalling looks amazing too and the use of G scale track says loads about the robustness and durability of our chosen scale.

Thanks for sharing!

James
 
Looks like LGB points and motors are used on the training layout?

What a great job to have....
 
Anybody notice the name of the station on the model train layout ? - Hobbs End. Now, anybody remember the name of the station featured in "Quatermass and the Pit" ? That's right.............Another nice detail. Those two should be hired to front a mainstream railway enthusiast "completist" program on mainstream TV. Great fun. Max
 
dunnyrail said:
The Lancs and Yorks one is perhaps one of the most famous and is now preserved at York Railway Museum. This gives demo's on certain days and is well worth a look. I visited it when it was still being used for Training at Manchester Vic back when working for BR. It had at that time become a little run down and LGB Track had been used to replace original L&Y built Pointwork. These days it has all been repaired and is in superb cindition. Though there are occasional visiting Trains that are not original L&Y Models, but so what it all looks great.
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The L&Y layout has a page on the NRM site giving at little info and dates/times of demonstrations. There's also a video and from the footage it looks rather as though one of TfL's training units has sneaked north. There might also have been one of the Dickie Christmas sets, but I didn't look to closely..

http://www.nrm.org.uk/planavisit/events/signallingdemo

J.
 
The Royal Engineers used a tin-plate 0-guage railway at Longmoor to teach signalling - I'm sure someone can find a piccie of that :rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
PhilP said:
Hmmm...
Might explain Dick and the biggest little railway?? :think::think:
:rofl::rofl::rofl:
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Nah, if he'd been there he would have learnt to do it properly :nod::nod::nod:

RE's cover a fairly wide spectrum - engineering (as in un-civil civils) mechanical (building) electrical (building) and playing trains, building bridges etc etc so as an RE, Col Richard Cranium may never have seen the railway building / driving element of the Corps.

REME do mechanical and electrical fighting equipment (as opposed to buildings)
 
dunnyrail said:
Quite interesting but left me wanting more about the Model Railway. There is some more footage on this link, you will need to scroll down the page a way to find it:-

https://www.londonreconnections.com/2010/west-ashfield-part-1-models-great-and-small/

As in many training Railways it just majors on the Trains and the means of Controlling them with little scenery except that which is Operationally required.

The Lancs and Yorks one is perhaps one of the most famous and is now preserved at York Railway Museum. This gives demo's on certain days and is well worth a look. I visited it when it was still being used for Training at Manchester Vic back when working for BR. It had at that time become a little run down and LGB Track had been used to replace original L&Y built Pointwork. These days it has all been repaired and is in superb cindition. Though there are occasional visiting Trains that are not original L&Y Models, but so what it all looks great.
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When I was doing my driver training course (mp12) at Crewe in 1988, We had a day at the Man Vic signalling school on the L & Y layout, I seem to remember it had a ridiculous operating voltage (110v?) and we controlled the trains using old "blue square" DMU throttles!!
 
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