YEOVIL MODEL RAILWAY GROUP - SOUTH JUNCTION
Scale 4mm.:1ft. 18.2mm. (EM gauge)
SEE US AT YEOVILTON ON THE 12th & 13th June 2010
South Junction is available for Exhibitions
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"South Junction" is a stretch of mainline "somewhere in England". A deliberate strategy as it is a club layout which has to run stock from a variety of regions. By and large the stock is post Nationalisation and pre 1965, but don't hold us to this.
An oval was chosen so that the layout could also double as a test track, its most common use these days. As originally built and as a result of the space available at the time, both up and down line fiddle yards were within the oval. This gave certain operating constraints, so when the opportunity arose a fiddle yard was added to the outside. As a result of a showing at the NEC Birmingham, the fiddle yard has undergone further revision. This being the third and final version.
The track-work is mostly Ratio, with a little Peco Individulay. All the point-work on the scenic side is ply sleeper and rivet construction. The remainder is copper clad sleeper. Point control is through PFM/Fulgarex motors. Track control is by Gaugemaster.
Looking from the front the tracks emerge from tunnel mouths and pass across a viaduct. Just after the viaduct there is a entrance to a small goods yard. Further along the lines diverge at "South Junction" and disappear into further tunnels. From the end of the viaduct on wards the line-side industry increases in density toward the imagined town. There is no station on the layout. It is considered to be out of sight the other side of the tunnels. This was a choice to assist with the anonymity of location; railway architecture readily locates a railway. Nevertheless the one item of railway building is the necessary signal box at the junction.
Signalling has never really happened on the layout. No one in the Group has this as a particular interest. We all seem to be loco builders. We do have a plan of what the signalling should be and kits of the appropriate signals were distributed among the members. But in several years nothing has materialised. Watching the trains go by is much more fun!
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