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Keeping on the right tracks …

… the development of a model railway requiring peaceful coexistence in the utility room.

The point of the diagram …

Layout diagram in 3 sections on A4 sheet

… is to connect points to the switches.

Note that “=” and “x” represent a double slip crossover between the pink and black tracks at that point.

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Signal drivers …

16 signal driver relays in two Ferrero Rocher plastic boxes

… bipolar along single wires to grounded LED signals connected back to back.

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Signal failure …

unpainted 3 aspect colour light signal approximately 00 scale with red at the top in error

… when I made this prototype over ten years ago, a colleague pointed out that “red” is normally placed at the bottom of the three lights. Until I took the photograph, I had forgotten.

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Trouble at mill …

00 scale windmill motorised inside with unpainted background

… could do with some paint on the wall.

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Night vision

Model railway lifting bridge across French windows to garden
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And the world said:

Not sure we need a vision of what goes on in your head 😂😂😂😂

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The tracks go on …

Footbridge over track

… if we raise the bridge.

Otherwise the back garden would be inaccessible.

Turning an articulated vehicle here is a problem as well. Reversing back to the depot would solve it, but that road section hasn’t been constructed.

Predictive text is having a hard time in this blog …

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Impractical redefined

I’m told …

Poundland articulated vehicle

can’t be persuaded through this road junction …

Access route into level crossing

So how am I going to deliver to the store in the station?

Not a problem …

… there is no store in the station and the vehicle has driven straight on past.

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Helping hands

Retort stand in the form of helping hands

It might be a retort stand, but nothing is what it seems.

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O Tannenbaum!

Christmas tree in Cathedral Square
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