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Slow, but steady, progress is the order of the day at the moment. When time is tight for working on the layout I tend to get tools and materials out, and leave them out. Then, at the next session, the same happens, until you’re knee deep in clutter. So, in my latest session I have taken time out to have a good tidy up, but while I was doing it I did get some thinking time…
A Freightliner Class 66 passes through Peak Forest on the 24/08/06. In the background you can see the quarry’s resident shunters parked up on their siding. © Chris Beaumont
…I got to thinking that the Overdale Quarry loading facility could do with a siding, as a stabling point for shunters. Not unlike the siding at Peak Forest in Derbyshire, featured above. It would also act as a storage area for ‘cripple’ wagons, or perhaps even a snowplough. A fuel wagon wouldn’t be out of place either.
The proposed new siding marked in purple on the photo and the trackplan.
It occurred to me that where I have just laid the new point work, there is just enough room to squeeze in a siding.
New Peco SL-E91 turnout inserted into the trackplan
I’ve got plenty of these small Peco SL-E91 code 100 turnouts left over from the earlier layout attempts and one of these is just what I need for the new siding.
Overview of how the new siding fits into the trackplan.
