Canute Road Quay is by its nature a pretty simple layout and therefore operation is kept reasonably simple, although being DC control not DCC control there still seems a reasonable number of wires involved! I have allowed for four track sections being the left hand headhunt and run around loop, the right hand head shunt, […]
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Controlling Interests #11 Operation of Canute Road Quay #1
Posted in Canute Road Quay, Controlling Interests, tagged Canute Road Quay, Electronic track cleaner, Gaugemaster, hand held controller, high Frequency Track Cleaner, Southern, Southern Railway, Wheel Cleaning on March 17, 2018| 1 Comment »
Controlling Interests #10 – more on turning tables, Fisherton Sarum’s turntable is replaced
Posted in Controlling Interests, Exhibitions, Fisherton Sarum, tagged Fisherton Sarum, Flexible Beam Coupling, Merg turntable controller, Peco turntable, RS Components, Southern, Southern Region on August 28, 2017| 7 Comments »
Wear and tear occurs on anything mechanical over time and model railways are no exception, especially when subjected to the rigors (and occasionally operator error) of exhibiting for hours on end at shows. One of the focal points on Fisherton Sarum is of course the turntable which during an exhibition seems to be pretty much […]
Controlling Interests #9 Operating from the front
Posted in Controlling Interests, Exhibitions, Fisherton Sarum, General, HW&DMRS, tagged Fisherton Sarum, High Wycombe and District MRS, Hornby Magazine, Southern, Southern Railway, Southern Region, The Great Electric Train Show, Worthing MRC on August 18, 2015| 7 Comments »
As with any layout the old adage says “it is never finished” this is true of Fisherton Sarum. Regularly after operating the layout at an exhibition, more often or not in the pub over a pint, ideas for modifications / ‘improvements’ are suggested by the operating team (usually a combination of Mark and Roger…), some more […]
Controlling Interests #8 Uncoupling the ash wagon
Posted in Controlling Interests, Fisherton Sarum, tagged Dingham, Electromagnet uncoupling, Fisherton Sarum, Salisbury, Southern, Southern Railway, tension lock auto uncoupling on May 3, 2014| 3 Comments »
Following the success of the installation of a ‘Dingham’ electromagnet for uncoupling the box van delivering spare parts to the shed stores siding as detailed in my Controlling Interests #6 post, I have now added an additional Dingham’ electromagnet for also uncoupling the ash wagon next to the workers clearing the ashpits. As with the box van […]
Controlling Interests #7 Fiddle Yard exit power
Posted in Controlling Interests, Fisherton Sarum, General, tagged Fisherton Sarum, Southern, Southern Railway on February 23, 2014| 2 Comments »
Although I have been exhibiting Fisherton Sarum since November 2006 feedback from my operating team has resulted in suggestions and ideas for ways to continually improve the way we operate and exhibit. The main and largest change to date was as reported in my Controlling interests #1 post that added a third controller to enable independent up and […]
Controlling interests #6 uncoupling the box van
Posted in Controlling Interests, Fisherton Sarum, General, HW&DMRS, tagged Dingham, Electromagnet uncoupling, Fisherton Sarum, High Wycombe and District MRS, Salisbury, Southern, Southern Railway, tension lock auto uncoupling on June 15, 2013| 4 Comments »
One of the regular operational movements when operating Fisherton Sarum is to bring the 12t box van of spare parts and shed consumables, that has arrived from Eastliegh works, to the shed stores located in the water tower building at its own unloading platform. Just as at Salisbury this involves a shunt across the turntable. […]
Controlling Interests #5-xtra Turning Tables the movie…
Posted in Controlling Interests, Fisherton Sarum, General, HW&DMRS, tagged Fisherton Sarum, High Wycombe and District MRS, HWDMRS, Merg turntable controller, model electronic railway group, Southern, Southern Railway on May 16, 2013| 3 Comments »
My recent Controlling Interests #5 recent modifications completed…and working post included an update on the Model Railway Electronic Group (MERG) turntable control unit that with the grateful help of fellow HWDMRS member Mark Riddoch I am now using to drive the turntable on Fisherton Sarum. The purpose of this #5-xtra post is to demonstrate how the operation now looks via […]
Controlling Interests #5 recent modifications completed…and working
Posted in Controlling Interests, Exhibitions, Fisherton Sarum, General, HW&DMRS, tagged Fisherton Sarum, High Wycombe and District MRS, Hornby Magazine, Merg, Merg turntable controller, Model Railway Electronic Group, Model Signal Engineering, Southern, Southern Railway on May 15, 2013| 5 Comments »
In my previous Controlling Interest posts I have discussed changes being made to a number of layout control items on Fisherton Sarum. For the last number of weeks the layout has been set up in its entirety at my local Model Railway Society , the High Wycombe and District MRS (whom have a nice new website also worth […]
Controlling Interests #4 looking to ‘turnout’ inprovements
Posted in Controlling Interests, Fisherton Sarum, tagged Cobalt Point Motors, Cobalt slow acting turnout motors, Fisherton Sarum, Improviong Peco Points.improving Peco tunouts, Peco, slow acting turnout motors, Southern, Southern Railway on June 3, 2012| Leave a Comment »
One the benefits of recently changing to slow acting ‘stall’ type point motors as per my Controlling Interests #3 post, where I describe my fitting of DCC Concepts Cobalt slow acting motors, is that the unprototypical spring and spring housing in the middle of the Peco turnout is no longer needed, removal of this certainly improves the […]
Controlling Interests #3 it will ‘turnout’ ok in the end
Posted in Controlling Interests, Fisherton Sarum, tagged Cobalt Point Motors, Cobalt slow acting turnout motors, Fisherton Sarum, point control, SEEP point motors, slow acting turnout motors, Southern, Southern Railway, turnout operation on May 14, 2012| 4 Comments »
When I first built Fisherton Sarum I made the decision to use SEEP solenoid point motors to control the turnouts, this was partly due to being familiar with solenoid motors at the time and partially due to cost. In hindsight from both a visual and reliability perspective a mistake. It has become apparent after a […]
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