COOMBE WHARF by Frank
Warren
Layout footprint:- 10 feet x 1 foot 6 inches
Exhibition footprint- 12 feet x 4 feet
THE INSPIRATION: Mike Ball's Ferring layout,
Littlehampton,
Kingston Wharf Shoreham.
THE TIME: One hundred years ago, 1903
THE PLACE: The Sussex coast at the mouth of Ferring Rife, Ordnance
Survey grid
reference TQ 091016
THE TRAFFIC: In - Baltic Timber, Tyneside Coal, Normandy Dairy
Products, Out
- English Wool, Furniture, Maritime Supplies
The track diagram uses B6 switches and minimum
radius of
1420mm (4'6").
The layout is 10 feet by 18 inches, on 3 baseboards, designed to fit in
my study
and be carried in an average sized car, with baseboards legs, controls
and
rolling stock.
This layout has been designed using the TRAX computer programme which
is
supplied with the book "Wiring The Layout" by Jeff Geary , published
by KRB Publishing.
In operating mode four track feeds are controlled by levers 1,2, 10
& 11 on
the ends of the panel, while the two signals control the routing of
power when
trains run to or from the fiddle yard.
The fiddle yard is behind the warehouse, and the control panel, on a
flexible
lead, hangs beneath the baseboards. Operation can be from either side
of the
layout There will be potential for two backscenes, one for each side as
required.
Originally built as the Coombe Wharf Tramway, the line has recently
been taken
on by the LB&SCR, so both industrial locomotives and Stroudley and
Billinton
designs may be seen. The branch is worked as One Engine In Steam, the
only
signals control a level crossing not
included on this display.
Other features not finally fixed are a wagon turntable, timber derrick,
mobile
steam crane, and tidal effect at the quay.
24 August 2003
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