Scalefour Forum

Thank you Noel, I will follow up those suggestions. And thank you Ted, that does make sense. I think I will perhaps do some experimenting and see what works best, or perhaps even just well enough, for me. **writes note to self.. Better hurry up and make that test plank too....** :D Final question fo...

All vac braked bogie coaches were fitted with an independent brake cylinder for each bogie, these were usually arranged diagonally opposite to each other, with gas tanks or battery boxes in the spaces directly opposite. Secondary springing tends to be a personal thing. Some people think they are th...

Thank you Noel - I stand corrected!

So if there were indeed two brake pots, do I presume that the second V hangar was just past the centre line of the coach (i.e. between the centreline and the gas cylinder on the opposite side to the vacuum cylinder)?

The brake pull rod to the bogies had to be on the centre line of the coach (think about it). So the inn v-hanger was placed on a longitudinal stringer on the opposite side of the coach to the v-hanger on the solebar. This arrangement was universal for vacuumed braked coaches. See the plan of a six-...

Hi all, I have been voraciously exploring this Forum for a couple of months, learning loads in the process, so thank you all for creating such a wonderful resource. And while I have made the odd post already, this is my first topic, so I better start by introducing myself. I have been away from mode...

Wow Brian I hadn't come across that. What an amazing resource! It's possibly not quite yet what I need as I suspect things will have moved on in terms of rail weight, and therefore sleeper size/spacing in the 18-19 years from the 1895 drawings of plain track, but that is a very helpful step forward!...

Thank you Martin I will have a look at that. Just need to nail down what the numbers are first...!

All the best

Neil

Thank you Peter, yes I had spotted that feature in Templot. What I am still not yet certain of is which settings to put into it!

Best wishes

Neil

Talk about reviving a very old topic, but... Lionel, did you get to the bottom of this please? I also plan a pre Great War Furness Railway layout, and have come across conflicting information about the track used. Counting sleepers on photos of FR PWay from the right era suggests 12, 13 or 14 sleepe...

Thank you Noel I thought so. But the terms kept switching depending on who was posting!

From another newcomer.. I feel I learned from this too. But.. One small confusion. At some points in this thread there was reference to W Irons. At others Axleguards. The RCH drawings that Tim produced suggest that they might be one and the same. Or maybe not. Can someone clear this up for me please...

Some good idea there! The old Furness railmotor was, I understand, built into a house near the foot of the incline at Kirkby in Furness and apparently it is there to this day..

Absolutely - blink and you miss it at both ends, especially the north which is a somewhat desolate spot! There was a piece in a local paper a few years ago about a local shepherd up there who was trying to dry washable nappies outside in midwinter, taking them back in a solid sheet of ice! Just a th...

I don't get up the valley as often as I would like but it is a gorgeous part of the world and only the relatively isolated position, narrow road, and the lack of a lake somewhere along there prevent it from being a tourist honeypot! Had there been a railway, that would have opened it up in a way it ...

Glad to see you're moving forward after the blow of the flood! This thread was one of the first that I read right through after I joined the Society just over a month ago, because I live pretty close to Ulpha, and the Furness Railway is my particular area of interest - your thread flagged up on a se...

Hi David, Thought that must be the case. Begs the question about protecting the entrance to the section in that direction should a loco need to run round a train in that direction, but rules are made to be broken (or the existence of the push back siding from platform 2, plus the arrangement of the ...

Wow - that is quite something!
Two questions - which I presume are prototypical in origin, but there doesn't seem to be an advanced starter heading towards Cambridge, and I am also curious about what looks on our signal diagram like a secondary arm/doll on the only starter in that direction?