4mm Dublingham Goods Station - wagon control

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I've finally got round to sorting out my long dormant website and adding my layout projects to it. It's primary purpose is to be an electronic layout leaflet board that I can point exhibition managers to. I've already got the printed leaflets on the layout itself, so this adds an extra means of communication.

model railways by Tony Harris – model railways for exhibition

Tony

 

[76043]

The next show for Dublingham is the Tonbridge MRC show on 21st February, this will be the 22nd show it's been too.

Exhibition | Tonbridge Model Railway Club

Details about Tonbridge Model Railway Club annual exhibition

www.tonbridgemrc.com

Tony

 

[AJC]

Great - should be there (probably with an over-excited six-year-old).

Adam

 

[76043]

Great - should be there (probably with an over-excited six-year-old).

Adam

Great, please say hello Adam.

 

[chigley]

hopefully be there

 

[simond]

I'm a definite maybe,,,

 

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Tonbridge went well, layout ran faultlessly as is usual if all the cleaning is done in advance. My mini hoover seems to help picking up all the debris from the track rubber.

Tonbridge is a really good show with a great selection of smaller layouts. Nice to see Simon @simond and Ken @chigley

Here's a shot of the calm before the doors opened. Was very busy.



Tony

 

[simond]

Tony,

Good to catch up again, and the layout was running well! That 8F took me back a few decades!

cheers
Simon

 

[chigley]

nice to see you again Tony

 

[76043]

The next thing for Dublingham will be simulating wagon control, I've run the trains to a timetable since day one, but not simulated wagon control within those trains. It will add an extra dimension to the operating of the layout and will likely double the time it takes to operate the full sequence. Adding and removing wagons within the train will make the operation more realistic.

This document is my first piece of research into the subject, which discusses how goods depots should make sure they have the appropriate wagon for the next 24 hours.



Obviously the Americans got wagon control sewn up eons ago, one option for this is to use some software to generate random wagon control lists.

SwitchList | Southern Pacific in San Jose

www.vasonabranch.com

Switchlist can do this, I've programmed it previously but now have a greater understanding of how it might work in an exhibition setting.

I'd be interested to know if anyone has seen a layout do this in the UK before to see how they may have got on.
Tony
Tony