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Rob R

Rob R

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All packed up ready for Trowland"s first stop on the 2026 world tour to help celabrate the S Scale Model Railway Society's 80th year.
The main event is at Railex in a couple of months time but for now we are Ally Pally bound.
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Feel free to drop in to stand L39.
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Heacham

Heacham

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Rob R said:
All set, long, slow drag through the nether regions of that there London town and now awaiting food at the hotel. Far too knackered to explore the local locals.
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I will have to look out for it when I go on Sunday. As a GER and M&GN modeller I've always loved this layout, well to be honest loved every layout Trevor made. He was such a nice chap always willing to chat and pass on advice.

Hope to see you Sunday

Simon
 
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Bob Essex

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Although it looks good in photos there is nothing to compare seeing it for real which I was lucky enough to do a few years back now. As has been said the standard is very high as with all Trevor did. The only thing that has always puzzled me a bit is why the quay line is a kickback off the siding. I realise it probably kept the trackwork simpler but never got around to asking if this was the reason.

Bob
 
PaulRhB

PaulRhB

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Lovely layout, what’s more the operating was top notch too and the locos ran beautifully. Came back a couple of times and only just discovered the thread.
 

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SandyBrook

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Just wondering, how prototypical is that siding with points heel to heel? it would solve a problem for me but would like to feel it “might be right”
 
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SandyBrook

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JimG said:
Google "Barry Slip".

Jim
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Thanks Jim, I’ll have a look. I’ve always thought of a Barry slip as two points overlaid ( similar to a normal slip but with no straight across path for one route) . It’s the two points being side by side that made me wonder as I need that extra bit of displacement between the frogs
 
JimG

JimG

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SandyBrook said:
Thanks Jim, I’ll have a look. I’ve always thought of a Barry slip as two points overlaid ( similar to a normal slip but with no straight across path for one route) . It’s the two points being side by side that made me wonder as I need that extra bit of displacement between the frogs
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I would have thought that any placement of two turnouts "on top of each other" could be termed a Barry slip. The "normal" Barry slip has the switch blades inside the crossings but Trevor's one has the switch blades just outside the crossings. Maybe we need a distinction of "Inside Barry Slip" and "Outside Barry Slip". Maybe Martin Wynne will be along shortly to confirm. :) I think it was he who thought up the term "Barry Slip" to describe the formation. :)

I might have been the inspiration for the formation. About ten or so years ago I was asked to make the trackwork for the late Charles Vier, another SSMRS member. (Les Bevis-Smith was actually building the layout). I included an "inside" Barry slip in Charles' trackwork to make a change. John Holden, another SSMRS member saw the formation and liked the idea and included one in the layout he was building. It could be that Trevor Nunn was also influenced since I think he was building Trowland about that time. But Trevor was a free thinker and I've no doubt that an "outside" Barry slip was his own idea. :)

Jim.
 
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