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MAP OF THE ST AGNES RAILWAY - Trevor Gibbs February 2019
Here is how diagramatically I see my layout as being between two major division points with 3 intermediate stations and a branch line. St Agnes and Ridgehaven are the same yard and those two roads act as sidings for Redwood. East St Agnes, Redwood Junction, Banksia and Tea Tree are also "common yards".
OK it requires a bit of imagination to reflect a physical location but I am more concerned with the operations I can replicate and I would hope it has the feel of a railway between two division points rather than a truncated abbreviation of a railway due to the lack of actual size
THE LAYOUT SCHEMATIC - The actual layout (while not quite to scale) looks like this
It runs like this...
ST AGNES - Trains are made to run "Eastbound" through A usually after having crossed an inbound train. To progress to the mainline, it will have to go through B then to E or D,
EAST ST AGNES – is a simple passing siding running between E and D that allows an extra crossing point and allows long trains to run in both directions.
Once out on the outer line which becomes the main, a train will do 10 laps or so before coming to Redwood Junction .
This is the only spot on the line where "local" switching can take place. The physical half lap between "D"and "C" is run before the train "branches off". Trains for Ridgehaven proceed through another 10 laps to Tea Tree ...
Tea Tree - Some trains notably some of the shorter ones out of St Agnes or Ridgehaven, run to Ridgehaven (take your pick) then switches into further "Eastbound" trains which the returning train will cross back from whence they started. Or Eastbound trains can proceed onto Banksia 10 laps further...
BANKSIA is simply a passing siding for all trains etc to provide a stopping point. There is a water tower on the layout where the steam locomotives "take water". The mainline trains then run another 10 laps to Ridgehaven
RIDGEHAVEN - The opposite end of the line. What ever locomotives and cabooses/ vans arrive from St Agnes (B) must return to St Agnes and vice versa. However simulating loads can continue in one direction while empties could travel the other if you had a lot of ore cars for example
Heading back through Redwood Junction, the transfer runs involve the train running into a "cleared" passing siding between B and A, uncoupling and running around the train through C and D before fetching its caboose. There should be cars switched into the middle road between D and A by the local switcher or shunter (depends on your vernacular) while the transfer has been out on the main line. These cars are then returned to St Agnes while the cars "delivered" by the transfer run will be made into the next East Bound run which the transfer train will "cross" on its arrival back at St Agnes.
The next page will give you some idea of what happens in an operating session or sequences of operation.
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