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Well it's 7 weeks to the YMRG Open Day and Yeovil Town needs to impress. Progress to date is that the scenic areas of the layout are now almost complete and Automatic running applied to 3/4 of t...
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area of layout, often concealed, where
trains can be made up manually etc.
/glossary/134.htm
Operation of
trains through relay banks, etc, without human.
/glossary/303.htm
A turnout or point which faces oncoming
trains.
/glossary/2955.htm
A vehicle with a heavy chassis and handbrake for loose-coupled
trains, or with a brake valve for continously-braked
trains. The guard travelled in the brake van in order to operate the brake to ...
/glossary/2924.htm
Passenger carriages, some with underfloor engines and Driving cabs, which are designed to couple together with others of similar type and be under the control of one driver. A separate locomotiv...
/glossary/724.htm
Not some kind of fight at the Yeovil Town layout but a new bit of kit that will help the viewer and user experience.
Yes, guessed right, it's a vacuum cleaner. Much under rated we are fin...
/blog/yeovil-town/the-sucker-punch.htm
From experience, I can safely say "It is better to spend 10 months planning a layout and 10 weeks building it than the other way around!"
Why, well given time and discussion with other mode...
/modelling/planning-the-layout.htm
A track formation which permits
trains to travel over a crossing in more than one direction; a complicated device.
/glossary/323.htm
track for goods
trains leading into (but stopping at) station for handling parcels, mails and so on.
/glossary/172.htm
Automation on a railway allows us to run the same train on the same track at the same speed in the same way many times. We all know the Murphy's law that states a train will run 19 times with no...
/blog/yeovil-town/3365.htm
A locomotive assigned to assist heavy
trains up inclines - often known on the railway as "banks" - by pushing from the rear.
/glossary/2919.htm
A single trailing point blade set into a siding or loop track to derail wagons to prevent runaways or
trains which have passed a signal at danger (see spad) from fouling a running line, by derailing t...
/glossary/2933.htm
An isolated section used to hold
trains in hidden loops, etc. Hertz, the measurement of frequency; in practice, the number of cycles per second.
/glossary/332.htm
A device intended to amplify the low current DCC electrical signals transmitted by the command station for the purpose of providing high current DCC signals with sufficient power to operate model trai...
/glossary/478.htm