87101 Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Hi everyone I have left a welcome message in the welcome section. Well this was my garden railway. I say was as its currently in the process of being dismantled due to circumstances beyond my control. I thought however as a fitting tribute to the project I would share it on here. As a brief introduction heres some video's R34bjgrUcfc gObvQw3JFAs gEMh6db2_JM w67G3pzItLQ G2a3HS45W8k JrY94mk7WV4 BnSig9zgRuM 11U9Kv6KHc0 This was the last running session ciUpYluMbK8 I will post some more details soon. Merry Christmas everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ba14eagle Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Ive only had time so far to watch the first 3 videos, but what a fantastic railway. I see your trackbed construction techniques have been very similar to my own - I only wish I had had the inspiration to have taken more photos during the construction process. So sad to think that this railway is no more, but thank you very much for sharing it with us and heres hoping that you will be building another one soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87101 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 Ok im supposed to be hoovering the living room whilst the mrs is out ....... This was my old layout. The heatherburn railway is my 00 gauge garden railway and is an out and back design. Trains start their journey from Heatherburn St Davids station. This is located in the garage and is based on all the best bits from London termini. The platforms have brick archways running the length of them with glass sided walkways along the top. The archways kind of give the platforms a Kings Cross look about them. Blue LEDs have been fitted under the walkways to give a bit of accent lighting. http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/sd1.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/sd3.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/stdavids-1.jpg' alt='URL>'> The overall roof is based on St Pancres while the hotel and walkways are from Liverpool Street. Moving on then... over the entrance to the station is the bus station. This will form part of a shopping centre and will be of a 1980's design when completed... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/busstation.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/OHLE2.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/wires1.jpg' alt='URL>'> After passing under the road bridge we pass the carrage washing plant. This is built from balsa, card and some brushes that were in a box of track I got off ebay! On the opisit side of the track from the washing plant will be the signal box based loosley on the one at Manchester Picadilly. http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/approch.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/wash1.jpg' alt='URL>'> After the washing plant the line splits, straight on to the garden or left to the TMD before passing under another road bridge. When designing the railway I thought it would be a good idea to incorparate a loop indoors for testing. This also gives access to the TMD and 'works' This loop also enables trains to efectively 'bypass' the terminus and return to the garden when the railway is in continius run mode(sit outdoors with a cold drink and watch the trains go by mode!) Returning to our journey the other side of the bridge is the parcels depot... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/parcels3.jpg' alt='URL>'> Now we move on to the canal section. Here a transport museum is being devloped around the old canal area.... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/bridge1-1.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/bridge2-1.jpg' alt='URL>'> After crossing the canal we pass the old signal box then we are joined by the branch line and the return loop line to the garden.... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/lights1.jpg' alt='URL>'> I have already mentioned the TMD so heres some pics before we move on to the outdoor section. http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/shed1.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/tmdworks.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/tmd2.jpg' alt='URL>'> The TMD has two parts. First is the inspection shed that is mainly for the branch DMU's while the other half is the main works. This will eventualy have a working crane installed sometime in the future! And that concludes the inside section more to follow later...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87101 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 The orignal plan for the garden railway was a single track oval around the lawn and rockery. However why go to all the hassell of building a track base for one line when not much more effort is required for a two track set up. So an idea was born that kind of grew a bit!! The devlopment of the railway went hand in hand with the remodeling of the back garden. The first section to be built was the loop around the rockery. Work on this started back in Oct 2006. First a trench was dug about a foot deep. Then concrete was poured in and old block pavers were set into the concrete whilst it was still wet. To secure the track I was going to use rubbercrete as mentioned in model rail however two things happened. One I found getting the ingrediants difficult and two whilst on a trip to B&Q for some more building materials I found some rubber paving slabs! These are designed for use on kids play areas and looked like they would take track pins ok. Two were bought for the grand total of �7 each and taken home for experimentation purposes! The rubber pavers were sawn up into smaler strips then cemented to the track base. The gaps were then filled in with mortar then the track was pinned to the rubber strips using long panel pins. For balast the track had a sloppy mortar mix poured over it and then brushed into place. When dry the rails were sawn into 12" sections. This was for two reasons the first to allow for expansion as there is no give in the sleepers and secondly the noise of rolling stock over the joints is mint! Link wires were then soldered across the joints and the completed track section was sprayed with red car primer. The final thing was to seal the whole lot with thompsons water seal. I now had a track base that could be walked on and washed down using a hose pipe. Pictures of this early construction can be found in the gallerys on the heatherburn website. Moving on... Once the track bed was finished the rockery was built. One thing I wanted was a tunnel through the rockery so a branch line was conceved to allow this. The tunnel itself was constructed from some 6" dia drain pipe. The track is carried through the tunnel on a base made from some electrical trunking lid supported on 'contiblocks'. Skaledale portals were used at each end. As the track is supported about an inch from the base drainage is no problem. The tunnel slopes towards the pond at one end and any excess water simply runs under the raised trackbed and out into the pond. The branch crosses the pond on a bridge made from drain pipe and runs into the terminus at Cobblers Hall more of which later. The second section to be built outdoors was the section around the lawn. By the time I had come to this section I had been made redundent so it was done 'on the cheep'. Origanaly the line(a three track formation at this point)dropped down towards the front of the garden. Burnhill Bank as it came to be known proved to be a disaster as the gradent was too steep! About this time the railway had evolved to include the garage in the design mainly due to me moving the greenhouse out of the way. Origanaly the garage was to provide storage of stock and somewhere to build some automated storage sidings. Work started indoors using some old doors as baseboards but I was never realy happy with the design. I would like to bring mr RJR in at this point! As most will remember last summer was a bit WET to say the least. Watching John move his modeling indoors to the shed gave me the answer I was looking for. So the layout in its present form was born. As the origanal section was practialy bomb proof it was kept along with the branch line however the troublesome burnhill bank would go along with the work started in the garage. This was easer said than done however as it left me with a double track main line with one end 9" above the other! The answer was found in a peco track plans book. I found a layout that was an out and back design with the return loop under the terminus. So my double track line became a very large single line dogbone with the terminus, TMD, etc on the top section and the return loop incorparating the storage sidings underneath. The garage is linked to the garden section via a breeze block wall. The wall is actualy two walls one higher than the other and will eventualy be painted dark blue once I've finished rendering it. The track on the top of the wall is fastened to 9mm plywood sheet whilst the lower lines are fixed to rubber blocks as per the origanal build. The rest of the track base is made from treated deck board. This blends in quite well with the decking and handrails. At this point I would like to thank my wife Rachel for alowing me to rebuild the garden. Even she addmitted the other week how the railway has blended in quite well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87101 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 Ok let our journey around the railway continue.... The railway enters and exits the garage on two levels. These are positioned one in front of the other. As we move outdoors the railway is a three track formation up/down main and branch. http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/track6.jpg' alt='URL>'> The first station down the line from St Davids is Byerley Parkway. This has two island platforms and will eventualy have the station buildings built over possably based on Birmingham international. http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/park2.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/parkway.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/parkwaya.jpg' alt='URL>'> Note the last picture there of the express on the lower level returning to the lower level of the garage. Parkway station has four platform one for the branch one for the down line and two for up trains. This will allow trains to be held before moving to the indoor section. OK after parkway station we move onto what was proberly one of the hardest sections to build. I have already mentioned burnhill bank. Heres some pics taken after the track was removed for reuse in the garage before the base was broken up.... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/trackbed.jpg' alt='URL>'> This was replaced with this....... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/via17.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/via18.jpg' alt='URL>'> The viaducts were built from concrete with polycarb sheeting for the sides. The construction of these is was well documented on the TVGR forum and although the forum is no longer going I may still have the thread backed up on my hard drive somewhere. I will post it up if I find it ! Trains leaving parkway first pass the signal box before moving out onto the viaduct section. This section is still being worked on along with the new rockery behind. After crossing the second three arch viaduct we pass Woodham station. http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/via16.jpg' alt='URL>'> This was the first station to be devloped and features LED lighting of the station area and signal box... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/ch2.jpg' alt='URL>'> At Woodham the branch line enters the station before crossing a short viaduct that leads into the tunnel through the rockery. After crossing the pond the branch terminus at Cobblers Hall is reached.... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/update2.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/ch1.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/CH1-1.jpg' alt='URL>'> The main lines leave the branch line at Woodham and run behind the station on an embankment before passing under a bridge cast in mortar. This is the most scenic section of line mainly due to it also being the origanal first section and the garden has had a year to grow back! http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/garden2.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/garden1-1.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/garden3.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/garden4.jpg' alt='URL>'> After running behind the rockery the main line runs under the approch to Cobblers Hall and into Lakeside station..... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/lakeside2.jpg' alt='URL>'> At this point I would like to mention the CCTV! That's right CCTV. In a previous life I was a CCTV engineer and aquired a few bits and pieces that have found their way on to the railway. As you can see in the next two pics miniture cameras have been installed at both parkway and lakeside stations....... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/stations1.jpg' alt='URL>'> These cameras feed live pictures back to monitors situated above the control position in the garage... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/cctv.jpg' alt='URL>'> Eventualy the railway will be run like the real thing with trains departing and arriving at St Davids. From St Davids to Parkway control is from the garage hence the camera at parkway. Trains will then be driven by either a second opperator or the automated system to Lakeside where an automatic control system will take over control to the automated storage storage sidings on the lower level. Trains will then return by running back up the garden to the upper level area. I have calcuated that the actual scale mileage of this run is about 4.7 miles! From lakeside the track crosses the path on a wooden bridge before curving onto the lower wall and the run back to the garage. Hopefully this will give a rough idea of the layout and its eventual opperation. Test trains have only been running the full length of the railway for a few weeks now and a few modifications have had to be made to make it more reliable. It would be nice to get it to a point of having an open day sometime ....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87101 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 Forgot to mention about the dockside area! This is at the end of the branch line that starts beside the parcels depot. This addition to the heatherburn 'empire' will be a future project and so far I have managed to resist working on. The only work that has been done on this section is to install the scalescenes dock walling...... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/docks1.jpg' alt='URL>'> The branch will have a scotish feel to it with large logo 37's in control. At the back of the dock area will be a station with a run round loop. For the building I quite like the look of the new station building from scalescenes. This will blend in perfectly with the rest of the layout. Access to the station/dock area will be through a small tunnel that will help to discuise the gradient linking it to the main layout. Another area not mentioned is situated behind the TMD. This is a small oil terminal again a scalescenes kit using an old paint pot as a base. http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/tank1.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/tank2.jpg' alt='URL>'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87101 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 This weekend has seen me stuck on call so this has ment spending the weekend working on the railway waiting for the phone to ring. I decided that it was about time I finished off some of the work on the indoor section. Another reason was so I could take a few pics and send them to scalescenes. Anyway work has concentrated on the canal area. For starters I thought something was missing from the area. One cardboard tube some card, double sided tape and brick paper and I made myself a blue peter chimney! The only problem is that it looks great on the layout but I can't fit it in any of the pics!! Heres my best attempts including a Fred Dimnah shot from the top..... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/chimey.jpg' alt='URL>'> The black cable sticking out of the top is for the red flashing light. The other main features finished off are the road bridge and second warehouse. The warehouse has had a glass porch added to make it look like it's been converted to flats. The road bridge has had the parapet walls finished of and work has now started on the embankments on the other side....... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/bridge1-2.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/bridge2-2.jpg' alt='URL>'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87101 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 After some careful thought I have had a rethink about the area behind the canal scene. Origanaly there was going to be a viaduct linking the canal area to the TMD. This was to allow access to the lower level storage sidings. However I have decided to do a bit of remoddeling. The viaduct has been removed and a hill is to take its place. This will eventualy have some houses built on it and possably another warehouse and will provide the perfect backdrop to the canal section. I have mocked up the new section with some old laminate flooring peices and scrap wood and placed some hornby houses on top. Now the canal looks like its at the bottom of a hill with the town behind. Watch this space..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87101 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 First heres some dodgy pics of the area to be rebuilt...... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/town1.jpg' alt='URL>'> I managed to get some points at the weekend from a model show at locomotion in shildon. I still need to get them laid first before work can proceed on the remodeling however I did manage to build the scalescenes small station kit last night..... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/docks1-1.jpg' alt='URL>'> This will eventualy be used on the dock area that will be known as albert dock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87101 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 Managed to fit in a bit more modelling this weekend. A while back I downloaded some scalescenes houses to use as a back drop for the railway. After much 'kit bashing' here’s the result......... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/houses1.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/houses2.jpg' alt='URL>'> The pipe sticking out of the roof on the end house is actually the gas pipe that goes to the boiler on the other side of the garage hence the houses to disguise it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87101 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 Not much time for modeling over the past couple of weeks mainly due to me doing some long overdue work to the railway room(garage) I have recently been given a load of old laminate flooring that has been used to cover the ceiling and walls. Other work has seen construction of some 'built in' shelving over the railway under which has been installed some lighting for the layout. The row of scalescenes houses has been joined by another row of smaller houses along the back of the railway. Work has started of the alteration of the middle section. I have fitted a piece of chipboard along the edge of the rear baseboard that will support the new board with the houses on. This has had some holes cut in it to allow access to the lower storage sidings. With the fitting of the chipboard the opportunity has been taken to widen the cutting and install a roadway leading down to the washing plant. Here's a few pic's......... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/houses3.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/houses4.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/houses5.jpg' alt='URL>'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87101 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 As I hav'nt posted any pic's recently here's one taken last night of my RTC coach conversion ...... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/rtc8.jpg' alt='URL>'> Well apart from finishing off my model of Prometheus, yesterday was spent fitting the point motors to the lower storage sidings. These were wired first before fitting using six core alarm cable. The cables have all been brought back to the operating relays mounted on the top of the lower baseboard. This is where the headaches began!! The lower sidings will be operated automaticly using reed switches to opperate the point motors via a bank of relays. I have done this previously with an old N gauge layout sucessfully however with this layout I hit a big problem. As there are only three sidings I only have to switch four points. Great thought I, reed switch switches a double pole relay that fires two point motors at each end of the siding. So I wired up the motors to the relays and hey presto it did'nt work! I found that switching two points together even with power via a CDU they were sticking. Worse still when I looked at the track plan I had two of the points the wrong way round! I will try and explain... With three sidings normaly there are two points at each end that would operate in pairs. So lets say that point a is at one end of the siding and point b is at the other. The next siding would have point c at one end and point d at the other. So switching a+b together would allow either train 1 or 2 access to the main line. Similer by switching c+d would allow either train 2 or 3 access. Now my problem is that my storage sidings are curved and the point work has to fit in the available space. After I had walked away from the layout had a cup of tea then returned I relised that instead of the train reaching point a first before point c I had infact got point c before point a. Confused. I WAS!! Anyway to get the sidings to work as intended I had to switch the points one at a time in a logical sequence. So eight relays have been used each one switching just one point in one direction. Now to control them I installed eight reed switches in the track. Two in track A three in track B and three in track C all six inches apart. Problem solved! Now that I had all the point switching working as intended I hit another snag. As the layout will be operated as an out and back some of the push pull trains will end up running the wrong way round when the reach the sidings. So magnets will have to be fitted to the underside of the DVT's as well as the locos. This is where the 'fun' begins. So to prevent the magnet at the back of the train from operating the reed switches I have used another couple of relays to form a 'latching' circuit. Now on entering the sidings the leading vehicle will 'latch on' the relay that switches the common to all the control reed switches. The points will then operate as normal as the train passes over the switches. On leaving the sidings the train operates another reed switch that resets the 'latch circuit' so disabling the rest of the switches before the other end of the train passes over them. I can also use this latching circuit to switch the power off to the track entering the garage thus protecting the sidings from 'unauthorised'access! Todays problem is how to control the power to the trains in the sidings. Normaly I would leave a length of rail isolated and switch the power on and off but with push pull working and with the power car on my APT in the centre of the train I have to switch off the whole siding. So it's off for a cuppa while a plan devlopes......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87101 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 Yesterday I went to the steam gala at shildon and ended up spending more that I intended to!! I did however come away with a bag of points for the layout, two lima mk3 pullmans and some realy nice prints of some paintings that will look great on the wall in the 'railway room'. Most of the points will be used on the Albert dock branch however three have been used to finish of the approch to st Davids station. Now that the trackwork is complete the rest of the catenery can be added. Talking of pullmans a while back I got a set of names and numbers for the mk3 pullmans off ebay. Does anyone know what pullmans Lima produced as I wanted to use the names not available in RTR? The control system for the storage sidings is still causing me headaches. I can get the trains to run in sequence ok it's the disabling of the reed switches for the power that are doing my head in. After spending a couple of days on this I decided to do some other work on the layout so a couple of tins of stone effect paint were aquired for 'balasting' outside...... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/balast.jpg' alt='URL>'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87101 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 I mentioned in my last post the Albert dock branch. This is a self contained 'mini' layout located on the opiset side of the garage behind the door. The layout is joined to the main garden layout via an incline running down to the parcels depot. Last night I layed all the track in the dock area todays job wiring it up! Here's some pics of the work in progress. Note the track decending under the road bridge (the headshunt is actualy level)............ http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/albert3.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/albert4.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/albert5.jpg' alt='URL>'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87101 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 Managed to get a bit further forward with the automated control side after almost a week of head scratching. Now at last I have the system working 'almost' as it should with just a few 'minor' mods to do mainly the repositioning of three reed switches. I also have some reeds to fit outdoors to fully control the sidings. The operation is now as follows. Three complete trains are held in the sidings. An aproching train will now trigger the system as it leaves Lakeside station. This will set the first train in motion and this will pass the incoming train as they are both on the lower wall section between the garage and the garden. The incoming train will take the place of the one just departed and in the process set the points and track power ready for the next train in the sequence to depart. Again the sequence is repeated with the incoming train setting the outgoing train in motion. As a fail safe I will be modifying the track supply to the incoming line so that the power is kept off untill the sidings ahead are clear to accept the incoming train. So far the system has used eight relays to control the point motors, three relays that latch in turn controling what siding is powered, a further three relays that actualy switch the power to the track (controled by the previous three), two relays wired as a latch that enable/disable the reed switches thus preventing triggering by the loco/dvt at the rear of the train, three relays doing the same function with the power selection reed switches and finaly another three that take care of the exit control. CONFUSED. Now you can see why it's taken a week to get this thing working!! I still have to add the relays for the fail safe modification and signaling but for now it works perfectly. I will take some pics at the weekend when i've finished tidying up the wiring but as for a wiring diagram DONT GO THERE!! On a lighter note thanks to HP st Davids station now has a backscene in place. I first printed off the sky. This took 28 sheets of A4 paper. I found that setting the printer to photo paper but putting good quality 'normal' paper in the printer gave the best result. After sticking up the sky I then printed off some buildings. These were then cut round with a knife and stuck onto the sky background. The buildings have been positioned slightly higher that normal to emphersise that the platform level is actualy below street level. Now that the backscene is in place work can finaly start of the overall roof. Another job done has been the painting of the wall section leading up to the garden. This has realy brought out the track balast effect that was sprayed last week. The 'new' railway room (formaly the garage!) is starting to come together now with the instalation of the insulation up in the roof (try saying that quickly after a few!). Today I got some frames for the prints I bought last weekend and these look realy cool now they are hanging up. As tomorrow is the last 'quiet' day of our holiday we have decided to go to Morcombe for the day so any pics of the updates will proberly be taken on saturday and uploaded sat night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87101 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 Ok guys here's some pics as promised....... First up is st Davids with the new backscenes taking shape. Note that the buildings have been set higher than usual due to the station platforms being below street level. I was'nt quite sure about the buildings on the arch section at first but then when I looked again through a section of overall roof the efect is quite convincing! http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/stdavids1-2.jpg' alt='URL>'> Next up is the previous weeks 'headache'. The wiring is still to be tidyed up when the other 'additions' have been added. The top pic shows the 'mimic' display for the system. This was an after thought left over from all the teathing problems. The box is proberly about 2"x4" with the diagram produced on the PC. This shows the switching of the points, the siding in operation and the status of the track supplies in and out of the system. These are indicated using bi coloured leds with green for power on and red for power off. So the example in the pic shows the points set for siding 1 while the red led shows that the relays for the track power have been switched. The bi colour led at the top is showing green meaning that the track supply is on to the section leaving the sidings this will turn red when the power is switched off. The bottom bi colour still needs wiring in. http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/control.jpg' alt='URL>'> This is the mess controling everything. Starting at the left are three relays controling the exit routine. The three smaller relays behind them control the failsafe of the reed switches for the track supply selection. This moves nicley on to the next three relays on the right. These form a three way latch and control the three relays mounted above them that switch the track power. Continuing right we have the eight relays that switch the point motors. These are double pole single throw relays where one set of contacts fires the point motors while the other set is used to switch the other controls. Above this bank of relays are two small relays that enable/disable the reed switches to prevent triggering by the loco/dvt on the back of the train. On the end is the CDU powering the point motors while the strip of termanal block is for the switch contacts on the point motors themselves. These are used for the 'mimic' panel. Here's the pics that I got last week now framed up along with some pics taken of the outside wall section........ http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/pics.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/wall1-2.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/wall2-2.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/wall3-2.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/wall4-1.jpg' alt='URL>'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87101 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 With sunny weather this afternoon I decided to install the outside reed switches for the automated storage sidings. Well one thing lead to another and.......... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/parkwaynight.jpg' alt='URL>'> .......I made a start on the outside catenery! This is the north end of Parkway station where I have installed two later style supports between the platforms. These were quite easy to make using old lengths of rail for the masts and small brass rod for the headspans. The big diffrence with these supports is the experemental use of jewelmaking beads for insulators. I will add the construction of these to the catenery thread when I make the next lot for the south end of the station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87101 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 Well today I got a bit side tracked again. I started off by painting the OHLE that I built yesterday then I started trying to make the hornby platforms look better. I had already painted the tops matt black a while back but they were still lacking somthing. So the edging stones were painted with a stone colour and a white line added to the edge. Then I added a yellow warning line down one side. The subways were then painted along with the small waiting room. When dry I used a strip of brass as a straight edge and scored some lines across the stones along the length of the platform. I also scored some brickwork on the walls around the subway entrances. The supporting walls of the platforms were given a coat of brick red along with the wall behind the station then the brush found its way on to the rails........ http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/parkway1.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/parkway2.jpg' alt='URL>'> I then decided that somthing was missing........... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/parkway3.jpg' alt='URL>'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87101 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 A few more pics... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/bob5.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/bob3.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/bob4.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/bob1.jpg' alt='URL>'> http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/bob2.jpg' alt='URL>'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87101 Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 Tonight I decided to temporaly wire in the signals at Byerley Parkway station......... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x216/87101/signals1-1.jpg' alt='URL>'> The red on the left is for the branch to Cobblers Hall. This line will be bi directional so should be fun wiring that one up! The green on the right is for the down main line. This signal is switched via the automatic station stop system that I built earler in the year. However as the system has only two outputs red/green I need to modify it to work the yellow aspect. Im going to wire it so that instead of showing red all the time it will now display yellow untill a train leaves the garage. On entering the wall section the train will trigger a latch that will change the yellow to red. The train will then approch the red signal as before at the end of the platform. The timer is then activated via a reed switch. This kills the track power for a pre set time. After about thirty seconds the timer changes the signal to green whilst also switching the power back on. The train then departs and resets the timer system that puts the signal back to red. I will be fitting another signal further down the line so I can use the reed switch for that signal to also reset the latch changing the red back to yellow. Sounds ok in theory just have to fit the extra switches and see if it works! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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