Applying a camber to a tight curve of track on your model railway layout can help improve the realism and operation...
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Applying a camber to a tight curve of track on your model railway layout can help improve the realism and operation...
A well-designed model railway is more than just a collection of tracks and trains: it’s a miniature world that...
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Applying a camber to a tight curve of track on your model railway layout can help improve the realism and operation...
A well-designed model railway is more than just a collection of tracks and trains: it’s a miniature world that...
Mainline Railways was a British model railway brand that operated between 1976 and 1983, introduced by Palitoy, the...
A Wickham Trolley is a small railway maintenance vehicle once widely used across Britain's railways. Built by D...
Wagon turntables were similar in principle to full-size ones used to turn locomotives, they were however smaller and performed a different function.
Wagon turntables were as the name suggests only large enough to accommodate wagons (or other rolling stock with a maximum wheelbase of around 12ft). Their function was to direct wagons to appropriate sidings making them more akin in functionality to turnouts than an actual turntable but requiring much less space.
Because wagon turntables had a reduced diameter, converging tracks would inevitably overlap each other before reaching the bridge (plate as it's known on a wagon turntable) so it was not unusual for tracks that serviced wagon turntables to be placed at right angles to each other.
As wagon sizes increased, the turntables became less able to accommodate them and were displaced in many goods yards by the 1960s in favour of more conventional turnouts.
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