SandyBrook
Active Member
Thanks again Jim, basic idea is just what I needed anyway and GWR provenance nice to have!
S Trowland Tales
- Thread starter Rob R
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Barry might date from the 1880s, if we assume it is the Barry Railway, which used this formation around ...Barry. There is a reference on the Welsh Railways Research Circle forum and this is a quotation from member Rhobat Bryn.How old is Barry?
'The Barry used a few of them, especially around sidings. Gladstone Sidings in Barry Docks had four sequences of them across multiple tracks. If you have Cooke's Track Layout Diagrams Section 44B, they can be found on pages 51 and 52. Also there was a sequence of four slips at Barry Station running across the Bay line, the Up and Down Relief lines into the Engine Shed, to be found on page 45.'
There is also a picture of some in Newport Docks on this site (photo from Sandy Croall) https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/93181-barry-slips-at-not-barry/
The essence of the design seems to be a sequence of sidings all fed from a single entry road, which are then duplicated, using the same entry road, but in the opposite direction.
Presumably the GWR started using the term after the grouping when they came across them.
Joe's Garage
Western Thunderer
Some lovely photos Rob, Simon and Paul. A collective thank you.
Trevor's legacy lives on...
Cheers Julian
Trevor's legacy lives on...
Cheers Julian
Joe's Garage
Western Thunderer
I was perusing the old YouTube the other day and came across a feature on the Ally Pally show.
Trowland got a very short clip but what lovely slow movement Rob. I kept reminding to view again, so much better that the bigger layouts with modern wagons after modern wagons ( whoops did I say that!)
Thank layout is safe in your hands, I wish I still lived in White Hart Lane, it was only a short walk. I remember a pub nearby, the Starting Gate or something like that. More than likely a wine bar or something silly now.
Cheers Julian
Trowland got a very short clip but what lovely slow movement Rob. I kept reminding to view again, so much better that the bigger layouts with modern wagons after modern wagons ( whoops did I say that!)
Thank layout is safe in your hands, I wish I still lived in White Hart Lane, it was only a short walk. I remember a pub nearby, the Starting Gate or something like that. More than likely a wine bar or something silly now.
Cheers Julian
Rob R
Western Thunderer
Possibly for the first time, Trowland and East Lynn will be out together.
Railex is the venue and they will accompanied by Blakey Rigg and Arcadia as the SSMRS celebrates it's 80th birthday.
If you are visiting please come and have a chat, if you are really lucky and we are bored with operating (any time after 10.30 Saturday) you might get a controlller thrust into your hands.
Rob
(Hon Sec SSMRS)
Railex is the venue and they will accompanied by Blakey Rigg and Arcadia as the SSMRS celebrates it's 80th birthday.
If you are visiting please come and have a chat, if you are really lucky and we are bored with operating (any time after 10.30 Saturday) you might get a controlller thrust into your hands.
Rob
(Hon Sec SSMRS)