Trenholme Junction Track Plan

Trenholme Junction layout plan

Notes 

There has many requests, made from the comments on the YouTube channel, for a track plan of Trenholme Junction. In the past I resisted the temptation to produce one. I didn't start off with a track plan when I built the layout. There was a list of features the layout would include and these were on a simple list.

I wanted people to travel the trains and take the journeys, just like I did when I was a child. Each time I was asked, I answered, ride the trains, especially the DMU cab rides and you would discover the routes and places.

Imagine my surprise when somebody wrote to me and said he had done just that AND he'd drawn a track plan based on many hours taking the journeys'. When Dave Bernard sent me the plan I was even more astonished that it was probably about 90% accurate. There has been some adjustments made and the plan is what is available here. Its not dead to scale, but then it doesn't have to be, the components in the right places is more important.

For those of you who have read the rest of this blog, some bits will be repeated, sorry about that.

There are two large ovals, each four roads wide, one on the lower level and one on the upper. The passenger roads are the inner pair on the lower level and the outer pair on the upper. There are five stations, two on the lower and three on the upper. Two tunnels connect the levels together together with a long incline which can be seen in full, over 40 feet long. 
There are Marshalling Yards on each level, the lower can store 400 wagons plus another 100 in the reception dispatch road.  

Stations

None of the stations are named, this is deliberate. I wanted representative types of stations on the layout, not actual replicas of the real thing. Reference to each one by geographical location, 'Main' being the exception.

The Main Station (lower) has five full length platform faces and two bay platforms, one at the north end and one at the south. The full length platforms can accommodate eighteen coach trains. There is a station avoidance road to the west which allows trains to pass through the station through to the branch without passing the platforms.
The carriage sidings are situated to the west and south sides of the station. 

The North Station (upper) is has the most complicated junction and is the branch end. The curved platforms serve the passenger carrying through roads and the straight platform is the termination of the branch. Provision has been made for the branch to continue into the next room where a terminus on the scale of Whitby Town was intended to be built. Single track would continue from the end of this station and a double track from the lower level under the station would join the new terminus. It's unlikely this terminus will be built.

The West Station (upper) has two through roads and a bay platform. The bay platform can be accessed only from the south junction and the train has to reverse direction to continue its journey. The run round loop is also the head shunt for the pit sidings. 

The East Station (upper) is both a through station for the main line and also has one platform face on the branch line. The branch line platform face also serves as the head shunt for the upper marshalling yard.

The South East Station (lower) is very similar to South Bank where I grew up and has two main line platform faces. I added a bay to one end to give more operational possibilities.

Layout Plan 

The plan is free to copy or download and if you wish, you may use any part of it. 
Do please bear in mind to attribute the work of producing the plan to Dave Bernard (who is an English teacher in Bolivia) and add my link (below) to any article you publish using any of the information. 

Link:- https://www.youtube.com/user/dougattrenholmebar

The plan has been produced using Anyrail5 which can be downloaded free of charge and allows you to view it, however, to modify it you will need to purchase a licence.

David has used some components in the track plan for convenience and it should noted that all track on the 'real' layout is Peco Streamline Code 100. The points (switches) are a mixture of both insulfrog and electrofrog. He used a minimum radius of three feet for the curves, this adds a neatness to the drawing, maybe some of the real ones are a little tighter.   

To download the picture - no software to view required click this link:-

https://www.btcloud.bt.com/?shareObject=60fbfca8-8a42-6e95-c136-686ee1acec05

To download the Anyrail5 file click this link:-

https://www.btcloud.bt.com/?shareObject=6f88e3e2-ade4-e831-b873-7308ed405a01


Thank you David for a superb job. Doug

  

A joint effort 

I have this idea. 

Most people are daunted by the size of the task building a full model railway or don't have the space. 

I thought of making up a specification for a say 3 or 4 foot by 18 inches baseboard which could be joined to another of the same specification and ask as many people who would care to build one (or more) sections and join them together and then filming the end result from on board the trains. 

I intend to build my next layout on this basis and am wondering if anybody would be interested in the idea of a multiple person project. 

There would have to be rules, in order to make something coherent, but it would give those who don't have space or time to build a full layout a contribution to what could be something really good.

Each of the sections could be a discrete diorama, say  a wood yard, a station, a marshalling yard or simply a section with a model of your own house. It would have to be wired for DCC (part of the specification). Each section would require a 'scenic break' to allow the passage from each section.

A small size would allow the section to be built on the kitchen table.

Its an idea anyway, just wonder if anybody out there would be interested......