Newchapel Junction 7mm FS
Newchapel Junction is a finescale “O” Gauge layout representing the post-grouping period somewhere in the Yeovil area where the SR and the GWR ran together.
The layout recreates the operation of a busy railway in its heyday with frequent arrivals and departures from the terminus station Newchapel Junction. The locomotives vary from main line express passenger and heavy freight engines to small branch line tank engines of both SR and GWR origin.
The train service on the Main Line consists of passenger and van trains, which leave Newchapel Junction, complete a few laps of the circle and then return for their engines to be turned and run-round for the next trip. Freight trains pull-out of the yard at Newchapel Town, complete a few laps of the circle and then return to the yard for re-marshalling. Near-continuous shunting in the large goods yard means that each freight train has many wagons exchanged before it leaves the yard for its next journey.
The Branch Line service consists of a variety of passenger and van trains leaving Newchapel Junction and making the journey via the single track branch line to the terminus at Sidport Regis. A branch freight also trips between Newchapel Town Yard and Sidport Regis.
The layout is operated from 5 control panels and is entirely semaphore signalled. Moves between Newchapel Junction Station and the circles are controlled by block instruments which also convey train description. Moves between Newchapel Town and Sidport Regis are controlled by electro-mechanical block instruments, with train description given by bell codes. All the signals and points are fully interlocked; those at Newchapel Junction are controlled by a relay operated push-button entrance-exit panel, while Sidport Regis has a mechanically interlocked lever frame.
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