7mm Slips

Archie Atkinson

Active Member
I have been following this as I have started building in Scale 7 a particular location in Newcastle which has two double slips and a single slip in close proximity to each other at the entrance of the yard. I am guessing that 1:7 is too big. Anyone know were I could find 1:6 templates. Oh! The next fun bit is that they have to be cobbled over when constructed.
 

Dog Star

Western Thunderer
John,

If modelling track work in the NER area then what might you find in the PW Manual available from the North East Railway Association?
 

Archie Atkinson

Active Member
You need Templot, it will do all the hard work for you,

or these people seem to do something

T7DS6 - 1:6 Double Slip.
Thanks for link Richard. I have 2 double slips and a single en route. They will be the data point on the shunting plank to work from, compromise reasons, for my Newcastle Quayside yard. Got the loco's and the wagons and a track plan. More to be posted later this year grand kids permitting.
 

Dog Star

Western Thunderer
John (@Archie Atkinson) - what progress towards the deep and dirty corners of the Dark Side? (aka - a yard in Tynecassel).

I asked about LNER double slips sometime back because another PW specialist felt that trying to build a 1:6 double slip with B switches was likely to be a bit awkward - so this topic may be of interest to you.
 

Dog Star

Western Thunderer
We need more info about the location of the prototype, hopefully a map - supported by information on the model.

John, (@Archie Atkinson ), step forward and tell all.
 
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richard carr

Western Thunderer
No Newcastle Quayside is completely different from the Tyne commissioners quay, which is much further along the river towards north shields, they are 5 to 8 miles apart.

Newcastle Quayside was accessed off the "quayside branch" that left the ECML at Byker and ran steeply down to the banks of the Tyne accessing the Quayside. The branch itself continued up the river towards Wallsend and I think it eventually joined the branch coming off the Blyth and Tyne that ran to the river through Percy Main.
 

Archie Atkinson

Active Member
Being up for a challenge and spacewise having only a 16' X 3' plank the Quayside branch from the tunnel exit to the end of the electrified end of the yard will fit. Either end of the yard had gates to the Tyne Commisioners lines. Down river the line was bridged over the Ouseburn to a flour mill and other warehouses and going up river the line progressed to a works just under the Tyne Bridge. 2 class ES1 electrics worked the line from Manors Trafalgar Yard and the Quayside by J71 and J72 supplied by Heaton. The lines outside the Quayside yard came under the auspices of the TIC. The line was never connected to the Riverside line from Byker to walker et al. Trains were propelled down to the Quayside from a steeply graded line 1 in 37 and specially adapted brake vans with extra sanding. The tunnel mouths both facing the prevailing wind and therefore a sod to clear of smoke and steam hence the electrics. The steam locos usually hauled back up the branch at the end of the day. Later on after the electrics were decommissioned in 1964 then 04,03 and 08 shutters were used.

I am doing this in Scaleseven after surviving temptation from the Arch Druid and Denizen of the Forest of Dean who said to me something about broad gauge engines would not work on Knockley Gate and that the narrow gauge of Minerva 57s were the future. As a compromise I might get a pannier in the narrow gauge to run on his most druidness' s tracks at our fort nightly sessions. Oh! Another challenge is building my recently acquired Agenoria Avelling loco in Scaleseven but that is for later.

Next time I post then there will be more with references to Quayside info.
 

Dog Star

Western Thunderer
... who said to me something about broad gauge engines would not work on Knockley Gate.
Just remind the F0D wizard that nothing runs on Knockley Gate at the moment...

"... to run on his most druidness' s tracks at our fort nightly sessions..." - is this a nickname for the Pidgeons?
 

Archie Atkinson

Active Member
We need more info about the location of the prototype, hopefully a map - supported by information on the model.

John, (@Archie Atkinson ), step forward and tell all.
Railway Bylines September 2006 had an article. Also Ordnance Survey Scotland have the UK maps on line now . I discovered that the Quayside branch was two separate tunnels. There is an uncovered area after leaving the Quay and then into another tunnel which emerged at Trafalgar Yard. There are a surprising amount of photos available through Colour Rail and others and there was a lot of photos on a website which up to recently were on a modelling site.
 
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