Show me your stop blocks! :-)

Pendo Pilot · Post by **Pendo Pilot** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 2:19 pm

Currently after some idea's for stop blocks/bufferstops/track ends (call that what you will). Any home made ones you may have done I would gladly like to see (so I can rob the idea

). In 32mm I have only seen the peco one that frankly looks a bit weedy for my liking. (Not that I have an issue with stop blocks being weak & have possibly never hit one in real life....lalalalalala)

MDLR · Post by **MDLR** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 2:43 pm

I actually had a very simple vertical piece of wood which came up between two sleepers at the end of the siding........... BUT it was securely fixed to the under - track battening and NEVER shifted!!

DolwyddelanLightRail · Post by **DolwyddelanLightRail** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 3:49 pm

Well, usually depends if the mamods are running away!

(Yes this was taken in the days when Britomart used to ran away a lot!)

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 4:25 pm

Is it a jump for a Mamod?!

SLRmidge · Post by **SLRmidge** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 4:49 pm

Lineside Delights made a nice buffer stop kit.......would be fairly easy to copy?

DolwyddelanLightRail · Post by **DolwyddelanLightRail** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 9:48 pm

mhlr wrote:Is it a jump for a Mamod?!

haha, nah i put the big block there cause the loco kept on smashing straight through the stones every now and then when i missed it!

Pendo Pilot · Post by **Pendo Pilot** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 10:15 am

Thanks for the replies there, that lineside delights one does look good. May try & emulate that one.

It needs to go here as the wall behind it is not to be used to stop vehicles by order of the management!

The mamod stop block is awesome, maybe combined with a sand drag before it as well.

DolwyddelanLightRail · Post by **DolwyddelanLightRail** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 5:32 pm

the sand drag sounds like a great idea!

(I may actually use that!

)

pauly · Post by **pauly** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 5:48 pm

get a bit of sany on your mamods cylinders and its as good as dead.

DolwyddelanLightRail · Post by **DolwyddelanLightRail** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 5:58 pm

pauly wrote:get a bit of sany on your mamods cylinders and its as good as dead.

I would just have it as a show thing (i'll use it on the permanent railway) it won't actully be used, (i hope

)

MoelygestLR · Post by **MoelygestLR** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 11:35 pm

For buffers I use LGB things look rubbish but do the job well.

Stop blocks I use these little yellow things seen in the photo above. made so they clip onto the rail and use the chair as a stop so it cant move any further back.

Excellent idea!

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