About last october The st Margrets and Dimchurch lost use of its storage facility, namely the dinning room, Something to do with Christmas Dinner and family coming, i dont know !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway plans were submited and approved, Favours cashed in for materials, Weather was dry, building commenced and one week later the move was made.... complete with power, light, heat, and lots of lovely shelves,
TA DA.....
Yes i know the leanto needs finishing but it was an adition during construction and i ran our of shiplap
It is now i must point out that I had been entirly happy with the "Railway" and had built in a hatch for trains to run in and out but as my Line was single track due to the presents of a Bl.....dy great tree stump and trains run in one direction only, The single track into the shed ment reversing trains onto the mainline, and this bugged me all winter, spending hours working out different ways to over come the problem
In the end I kept returning to the same conclusion i had to have a double track on my top loop and a pair of points to switch to the inside as soon as a train left the shed Which ment ripping up everthing that was there before
So putting it off no longer Yesterday and today have seen a total redesign and guess what its a lot better unfortunatly it means i had to use Rad 2 curves for the inner loop so the mallet is stuck on the outside but a price worth paying i think
Still got all the wiring to redo for the isolating sections and of course now the top bit is different and trains run in opersite directions the rest of the railway needs altering to suit more on that another time in the mean time here are so photos of the Shed
And heres one to finish its the new layout of the station and the proposed platforms with red arrows showing the direction of travel
The twoway arrow top left goes around the top bend but also to and from the shed so trains have pass onto the inner loop pronto
The bottom left arrow goes down onto the bottom loop return via left hand track
The two way arrow on the right is now a branch line especaily for the Flying purple burger that will be on its way from Gizzy that will shuttle back and forth from its own platform down to the house and back
Lets hope the pictures load ok
Tony
Anyway plans were submited and approved, Favours cashed in for materials, Weather was dry, building commenced and one week later the move was made.... complete with power, light, heat, and lots of lovely shelves,
TA DA.....
Yes i know the leanto needs finishing but it was an adition during construction and i ran our of shiplap
It is now i must point out that I had been entirly happy with the "Railway" and had built in a hatch for trains to run in and out but as my Line was single track due to the presents of a Bl.....dy great tree stump and trains run in one direction only, The single track into the shed ment reversing trains onto the mainline, and this bugged me all winter, spending hours working out different ways to over come the problem
In the end I kept returning to the same conclusion i had to have a double track on my top loop and a pair of points to switch to the inside as soon as a train left the shed Which ment ripping up everthing that was there before
So putting it off no longer Yesterday and today have seen a total redesign and guess what its a lot better unfortunatly it means i had to use Rad 2 curves for the inner loop so the mallet is stuck on the outside but a price worth paying i think
Still got all the wiring to redo for the isolating sections and of course now the top bit is different and trains run in opersite directions the rest of the railway needs altering to suit more on that another time in the mean time here are so photos of the Shed
And heres one to finish its the new layout of the station and the proposed platforms with red arrows showing the direction of travel
The twoway arrow top left goes around the top bend but also to and from the shed so trains have pass onto the inner loop pronto
The bottom left arrow goes down onto the bottom loop return via left hand track
The two way arrow on the right is now a branch line especaily for the Flying purple burger that will be on its way from Gizzy that will shuttle back and forth from its own platform down to the house and back
Lets hope the pictures load ok
Tony
