Monkton Priors : The Society's new layout.

[John Candy]

Thank you Ralph .... I await any response with interest!

Regards,
John.

[wolfstone]

Hi.
I am not to busy for the forseeable future so would be willing to help with items such as signal construction if materials are supplied. Due to living in the Scottish Highlands not able to do much else.
Tim Dearman

[John Candy]

Hi Tim,

Pleased to have you "on the Team".

Signal construction will be an important aspect since we propose that all signalling and pointwork will be electrically controlled (and possibly digitally inter-locked if the cost is not too high).

I will add you to the member group which is able to "post" to the "reporting" board of the forum.

We are currently assessing the specific signalling requirements and sourcing supplies of parts.

Will keep you "in the loop" via email.

Thanks again.

John.

[Roy]

Hello Tim,

Welcome to the team.  Thanks for volunteering to construct the signals.

Roy

[AllWight]

If you are going to have a long fiddle yard the easier way around the issue of a full traverser is to have a short traverser with multie tracks that can be slid back and forth thus allowing the main route to be connected to each siding or a flexible length of track instead of a point.

Mark

[cabbage]

Another (real world) technique is to have a rotating disc with connections from the fiddle yard to the exit point. Before you laugh the Wehrmacht used this technique to direct ammunition trains to the correct guns on the Siegfried line from the arsenal....

regards

ralph

[John Candy]

Ralph,

I won't laugh, since that had occurred to me but the width required would be excessive for exhibition purposes and I can imagine the rotating "deck" being supported on girders.... or at least substantial angle irons!

Some kind of sector table arrangement had also crossed my mind but the "lead in" from the straight running track to the parallel (fixed) sidings would require some complicated track arrangement on the sector table (although not impossible).

Regards,
John.

[John Candy]

The exhibition layout sponsorship mugs have just arrived....and very smart they look.

Both sides of a single mug are shown (there are not two designs) and at 6.75GBP each, will be available at the AGM and GTG's and other events (assuming any are left)!

All proceeds help towards the cost of the new G3S layout "Monkton Priors".

John.

[wolfstone]

Any chance that the mug may be available by post for those of us remote fromBiggleswade.
Tim

[John Candy]

Tim,

I would like to think so BUT the problem could be getting it to you in one piece.

It would need to be carefully/well packed and even then there is no guarantee the Royal Mail won't try their very best to break it!

These are to be sold by the G3S, so it is for the committee to decide (there .... I just passed the Buck)!

Regards,
John.

[John Candy]

Fresh from the Paintshop........two more lineside/scenic items which you will be able to bid for at the AGM (proceeds go to the Monkton Priors track fund).

The two "grounded" van bodies are of GER Diagram 15 and LSWR (SR D1410) sliding door vans. These are correct scale models and have been made from the same patterns as supplied to Williams Models for the equivalent full van kits.
They are ready to use (cast in resin so suitable for outdoor use) and just need you to "customise" them with notices, weathering, etc., to suit your taste.

Such old vans were used in goods yards and on country station platforms as lamp huts (to store paraffin, wicks, lamps,etc), general parcel stores, tool stores (particularly in Loco depot yards) and to store anything else which required to be "locked up".
I shall not be making any more grounded bodies for sale (at least not to these patterns), so this will be your only opportunity to obtain one.

To re-cap on the items being offered for sale tomorrow (these are all brand new and have been specially constructed over the past two weeks, to provide funds for Monkton Priors):-
LNER Type D pre-cast concrete platelayers hut
LNWR timber coaling stage
Grounded GER van body
Grounded LSWR van body

The LNWR Fogman's huts will now become prizes in a raffle (again to support Monkton Priors) and there will be three (along with other items of "railway interest" as well as non-railway prizes).... so buy raffle tickets and you will have three chances to win a fogman's hut!

Oh....and don't forget to buy the "special edition" coffee mugs (there are plenty of these available at just 6.75GBP each).

John.

[John Candy]

The LNWR fogman's hut models (three of which were taken to the AGM and given as raffle prizes in support of Monkton Priors) attracted a great deal of attention and interest.

As a consequence, I have produced another batch of five and am offering these for sale (again proceeds go to the Society's exhibition track fund) at 15GBP each (collected from a G3S event) or 17GBP to include postage to UK postcodes.

If there is sufficient interest, I am also considering producing a batch of fogman's huts to drawing No. 21 of the  MS&LR (Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Rlwy...later to become the Great Central).
Link to drawing http://www.swithland-signal-works.co.uk/plans/21_Fogmans_Permanent_Shelter.jpg

If you wish to purchase a LNWR hut, please email me admin@g3forum.org.uk .

If interested in the MS&LR(GCR) hut then post a reply to this message.

Thank you.
John Candy
Project Team Leader
(Gauge 3 Society Monkton Priors Exhibition Layout)