Three bits of plan from RMWeb show some ideas. However, I wonder whether loop would be better as second loco spur, or as the parcels depot.
Perhaps better operationally, but I feel that it does lose a little of its big-city image. The strength of Minories is using basic pointwork to give a visually interesting and complex station throat. If you like making track, how about the layout below. Somehow this looks better than in the Freezer original, perhaps as the layout itself is longer, so the proportions still look long and thin. A neat way of getting four platforms, but I miss the loco spur.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the design, in a group of MRC members looking for a new project thought they would try to recreate the plan closely as possible but to aim for a high standard using modern modelling techniques. Built in EM gauge, the layout is a little larger than the Freezer original, to allow for the larger radius points needed in 18mm gauge. The site is here. The layout:. Whilst the over-bridges are ideal scenic breaks and joint-coverers, we have avoided the middle hinge device to allow for a deeper back scene, more accurate alignment and to make the boards more manoeuvrable.
The baseboards are mainly plywood with some softwood to strengthen the corners. There is a 6-road traverser fiddle yard built from heavy duty filing cabinet sliders and more ply, which allows for a wide variety of trains. Operation is conventional DC control with Kaydee buckeye couplings. Don't be put off - they have some good ideas and they mean well - I just hope you've got a thick skin.
Main thing is to enjoy your hobby - and it's surprising what new skills you can acquire over time. Phil, welcome to the AR forum! Have all the smelly and grimy stuff on the "wrong" side of the tracks. Since there's no turntable at Great Deane are they running tank engines on that branch? I'll muck a bit with your plan. Just for kicks.
OK, here we go I moved a few things. One item that I noticed after I moved the Cattle Dock and added the slaughter house on yet another saw-back track Hmmmm where to put it without hindering the through traffic is the question? While I was at it I also straightend some of the squiggles that looked a bit tight. I doubt that they would add a double slip for that run-around track, but back to back turnouts, even the shortest ones take up too much room. So that's my excuse for that one, BTW that goes for that curved turnout, too.
A bit more fudging was required at the brewery, but not enough to impede the beer production. And that's that on this one! Phil, I'm taking a different approach than HJ. I'm assuming you know the general points of what you want and are looking for ways to improve it, if possible.
One general comment first: Learn the existence of and applications for the Curved and Round Lines. If you click a line, it will select it. It will also bring up some useful items on the Ribbon, above. The Curved line gives you a rounded effect at each corner where you drop a control point. The Round line gives you a much smoother and a greater radius curve at each point.
These are really useful around curves in roads, stream, rivers, hills, etc. There are also a great number of superfluous points on your lines. I've removed a few and set some others as Round, but far, far from all of them have been dealt with. I leave that little job to you. As soon as I'm done with the modification, I'll post it to this message. I've already made some mods in the area of the station throat at Great Deane.
I agree with some of HJ's reservations about saw-by's and such, I just haven't engineered my way around them, yet. Update: "I'm not keen on the very tight radii, but given the constraints I've set myself, I see no alternative. You may not want to use them, but they are there. In this case, with severely limited space, the alternative is there to trade down to N scale.
I dare say that you would find much of what you want by doing that. Phil, After thinking about it a bit more it dawned on me that your set-up, as far as operations go, is really one station great Deane where the incoming double main splits into two single track lines and it is the start of a branchline to Upper Deane.
To make the single track lines less monotonous one could add a hidden siding loop under Little Deane as a layover point for the trains.
What I also added is a crossover at the LH side of Great Deane to a reach the upper line b to allow engines to run-around their train if they terminate at Great Deane the branchline trains c to be able to change from the upper single track line to the lower and then over to the industrial tracks.
All of it without any sawing back and forth prior to getting to the industrial tracks. BTW by rearranging the track just slightly I managed to get the radii of the hidden loop under Little Deane to 18"and 20". Author: Freezer, C. Publisher: Haynes Publishing Gauge Model Railway - Minories Part 2. Feb 17, — One of my favourite C. Freezer plans! Upload a Thing!
Customize a Thing. Download All Files. Select a Collection. Post by NEvans » Fri Apr 06, pm. Post by Daniel11 » Sat Apr 07, am. Quick links. C J Freezer Digital Plans Any questions about designing a model railway layout or problems with track work. I want to make a layout using a mixture plans from his books "Layout for various locations" and "60 Layout for small locations" Thanks. Regards Daniel Staverton Junction - A preserved railway in a fictional location.
Complete with Harbour, Mainline station with branch line connection and extensive loco depot.
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