Monday 19 September 2011

Meeting Sunday 18th September 2011

This weekend Anderton returned from its Summer vacation on the sun-kissed shores of Birmingham. Whilst away Allen and Andy had done some tweaking, including sorting out the uncoupling magnets.


New turntable/fiddle yard

Andy has made a new fiddle yard/turntable for the Station end of the layout. It is made from 3mm MDF, so is very light weight, but sturdy. There are 3 tracks on the turntable, each split into 2 sections.


We connected the fiddle yard and added an end board to hide it. The main line onto the turntable connects with the rear, station line of the layout, so the fiddle yard is aligned to the back edge of the layout and leaves a place for the operator working the timber-branch to stand.

Andy and Allen connect the new fiddle yard

Then we noticed that the front line of the turn table could be extended to link up with the rear timber branch. This means we can drive loaded wagons of rough-sawn logs into the timber buildings, unload off scene and bring out planed boards.


The rearmost timber branch runs through to the yard

The two rear timber-yard lines were raised and re-layed. The rearmost one runs sinuously through to the new fiddle yard; the middle line tries to run parallel to it.

So the track layout is finally completed...... until the next meeting!