P4 track for ex-NER Branch questions

Hi.

Dad's working on his new layout, which this time will be in P4. It's a fictitious ex-NER country branch line station, and when it's eventually finished it will boast a single track viaduct which will probably be based on the one that was at Sandsend (or possibly Staithes). Trackwork will be Exactoscale and turnouts will be their A7 kits.

I'm not sure exactly what pattern to use on the plain track. We have a copy of North Eastern Record Volume 1, and that gives interesting details of NER practice. However, the layout will be set around 1935 and it seems possible that the LNER would probably have renewed the track by then.

The chairs we currently have are three hole S1 ones (ref. 4CH 101A) which are apparently OK for LNER, but the NER used four hole chairs (Exactoscale's 4 hole MR/LMS chairs with ref. 4CH 103A appear a reasonable match to the diagram in North Eastern Record).

Is it be likely that the LNER would've used the three hole chairs on renewal and changed the sleeper spacings from whatever the NER would've used? I know most of the viewing public probably wouldn't notice but it'd be nice to get it right.

Hope someone can help, and thanks in advance!

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Graham Thurlwell
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You could try asking on lner-list at yahoogroups, where you might get a better-informed answer.

My feeeling is that the sleeper spacings would only have been changed if the trackwork was pre-built elsewhere (pointwork, and plain track on major routes). Other renewals would have been built from pre-drilled sleepers, chairs and rail, and assembled in situ. I also think that the PWay department would have used 4-hole chairs until stocks were exhausted and only then used this nasty modern 3-hole rubbish ;-)

Tim

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Tim Illingworth

I can barely see sleeper chairs let alone how many holes they have :o))))

(kim)

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kim

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