Hello all, Does anyone know of a good online resource for trackplans of UK stations? I'm looking for a compact urban terminus that can handle six Mk1s and a
4-6-0, ex-LMS (pref. ex-MR). I have about 11' to play with in 4mm to include storage. What stations might fit the bill and which ones might have online plans? Books are difficult to come by here in rural Ireland, even through the library and finances are a little tight, so I don't want to buy anumber of books to find out that they don't hae the info I'm looking for. Any help would be greatly appreciated,
TIA, Del.
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Adrian
I don't know of any sites which cover that sort of thing.
However, the following book should help. It's due to be published any day now for a very reasonable £12ish (not yet fixed).
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I'll be having a copy!
Adrian
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Jingle Bunt
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Unfortunately not yet :-/
I bought one of those books 'Railway Track Diagrams - 3 - Great Western' mistaking it for an OS type book of track 'plans' whereas it, like the one in the URL above, is actually a book of 'schematic diagrams' akin to those in signal boxes and nothing like an OS map 'plan' which is what I was after.
Your best bet is to look at model layouts on-line, especially those with detailed track plans of their own for ideas. You'll never fit a scale station layout into 11' in 4mm including storage if 6MK1's = 6 foot-ish +
10" for the loco leaving 4' and a bit for storage and a run-in to the station?!?!? (11' square or an 11 foot shelf?!?!)
At £1.60 each
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60 Plans for Small Locations & Trackplans for various locations are a good starting point for ideas, helping you 'see' what can fit into what space.
A few URL's of layouts with track plans (just after I typed that I went to my 'Favourites' in I.E. and most no longer work :-/ so only a few to get you started)
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13'6" inc. storage
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11'x3' (turn off sound before going here ;o) sorry Dave)
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Click on 'Layouts' for ideas
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and how you really need 51' and a bit in 4mm
HTH All the best
Flingel Bells
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kim
Del the Obscure wrote:-
This is the book you want:-
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I can recommend it without hesitation. It is also available in many public libraries but annoyingly was stolen from mine.
(kim)
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Alex Bell
I dont know about on-line plans (though you can get rough ideas of actual sites from
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- the free to view maps are the OS 6" series from the 19th century, but you really need the 25" maps for track detail at the time the surveyor passed by; these are available for a price for various dates, but it would be cheaper to see if the location, if "urban", was covered by the Godfrey Edition reprints, depending on dates).
As a guide to location of actual ex-Midland (not LTSR) passenger termini, here is a list by type with number of platforms. Most of the branchlines would not meet your specification, but I give them for completeness. 1950s trackplans ie track layout and basic signalling, is available for most of these locations in various volumes of the John Swift Collection, published by the Signalling Record Society, and for 1920s as strip diagrams (not signalling) in Gough's Midland Chronology. All would need some compromise
4-track London St Pancras 7 Leeds Wellington 6 Bradford Forster Sq 6 Morecambe Promenade 4
2-track Heysham Harbour 3 Swansea St Thomas 2 Bath Green Park 2 Northampton MR 2 Sutton in Ashfield 2 Buxton MR 2 Rotherham Westgate 1 Branchline (single track) Grassington 2 Oxenhope 1 Yeadon 1 Barnoldswick 1 Leicester West Bridge 1 Ilkeston Town 1 Ripley 1 Higham Ferrers 1 Heath Park Halt 1 [Hemel Hempstead] Stroud 1 Nailsworth 1 Dursley 1 Thornbury 1 Brynamman 1?
Alex.
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
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Del The Obscure
Jingle Bunt tortured innocent electrons to declare:
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Jingle Bunt
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Those electrons got wot they deserved! :o]
Ah ha! 11'x8' makes things alot easier than a 11' shelf or 11'x4' layout! :o)
You're still prolly gonna have to make use of large radius curves to get a 'realistic' (scale or almost scale) type station plan onto the frame/board tho'. The book suggested by kim ~ "AN HISTORICAL SURVEY OF SELECTED LMS STATIONS VOLUME ONE: Layouts and Illustrations" might be your best bet for actual 'plans' ... I think you'd find the 'Track Diagram' books slightly disappointing (and almost useless as I did :-/ (unless you're a signal box freak :-o )).
GL & HF!
All the best Merry Ho Ho
Flingel Bells
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