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Hi,

With the upgrading of the old and the laying of a completely new track on the CMES garden railway I thought I would post some photographs of the track work both old and new used.

Three different ways of construction dual gauge using Peco track.





Rather than use dual gauge points a sort of turn table is used which has less problems with the different G1 wheel sets. Photograph of the prototype, the ones in use are all plastic.




The track work for changing sides for the '0' gauge see another thread.



Various track work previously used. A G1 point with no working check rails so most types of G1 wheel sets will pass.




Gauge separation.



Mixed gauge cross-over.



I hope this is found interesting.

Regards Tony.

Really interesting, Tony, thanks. I do like looking at complex trackwork like this (and being somewhat envious of your skills)

Rik

Fantastic Tony. Some of those fittings are clearly made with a high degree of accuracy. Quality work and very interesting.

Andrew

As has been said, interesting work. The real railways are very lucky having only one set of wheel standards to work with.
Grant.

Great work as the others have said - makes my basic track laying look amateur!

Nice engineering.. I love the creativity used to combine all sorts of shapes and sizes which are used to make something odd. It really adds that extra technical look to the track!

Hi,

Thank you for the compliments. Yesterday evening I visited the CMES where work was being carried out on the new raised track and upgrading the original ground level track of their garden railway.

Still being a bit hors de combat I could not contribute a lot so I took some photographs.  I hope they are found interesting.



Some of the existing dual gauge track work.



While wandering around I remembered the first three sets of points I made with two other members.  It must be 35 years ago since they were made

Two are still in use.



The third is in pieces, part of its frog.




Regards Tony.

Nice work Tony!

Did you machine the point and splice rails to form the V ? They are very nice looking turnouts.

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

Did you machine the point and splice rails to form the V ? They are very nice looking turnouts.

Yes, if memory serves the rail is 14lb, after cranking the rail so its web would be at the centre of the apex of the frog then believe it or not it was cut to shape using a hacksaw with its blade turned 90 degrees. It was then finished using a 9" shaping machine. The worst sawing was of the point blades and the cut outs in the running rail. These were machined with the same shaping machine 9" at a time the other end of the rail being held by a series of cup hooks screwed in the workshop ceiling and twine. I cannot remember how or if we formed the wing and check rails it might have been outsourced possibly by a club member that had connections. Having no crow the rails were curved using a hydraulic bottle jack a length of standard gauge railway line and fencing wire, the points took the three of us months to make just one. These points were made in the dim and distant past when the club did not have much cash, fortunately subsequent points have been made commercially.

Regards Tony.

Tony Bird wrote: Thu May 04, 2017 4:14 pm Still being a bit hors de combat I could not contribute a lot so I took some photographs.  I hope they are found interesting.

When I saw you with the camera, I grabbed a spanner and tried to look busy, but I see you were too quick and caught us doing the vital job of standing around watching someone else do the work

Hi Tony,

That's very resourceful. It was a slow painstaking process by the sounds of it but it clearly paid dividends. I'm very impressed.

Andrew