OCTOBER 2012 (History) MINE TRACK LAID & NEW PLANS

The reason we built the hills before we laid the track under them was due to finances. We had to wait until Mr Mayfield could buy more track. if we had held up production until we could afford the track we would get nowhere. So we had a very tricky job of laying the mine track under pre-made hills.




Points are so expensive BUT they really add to the railway.

Lots of points will make wiring up very hard but it means we have to learn more planning and control systems.

We decided that we wanted a track to run into the workshop - so we have added a new point.


Now we have also decided to have two more points on the front to allow us to head shunt and drop off goods trains. Again in the future we can have a 'key' system for the passing loop and we can work out a running sequence including deliveries to the good shed.