A typical day on the tramways.
The brick sheet used is Superquik pasted onto the foam board with a glue sick, concrete lintels and bases are cereal box card, the roof is in the process of being finished off with Wills corrugated iron.
The space between the shed and the office features the former substation that used to serve the depot and the line to the Racecourse and the Ammo factory, The original rotary converter installed when the depot was isolated from the main system inside has been mothballed and the space is used by maintenance as a store. This was made up from leftovers from the Ammo Factory building, a Metcalfe Warehouse kit.
The substation/stores
Depot signage has either been scanned from books or sourced from the internet, resized in windows word then printed out on office paper.
Here are few more photos in and around the new depot shed.
4MPH in the yard.
Carring out from the sheds.
About to enter service.
Road 3 at the rear of the shed,
the entry/exit point of rolling stock for the layout
The whole depot lends itself to an inglenook shunting puzzle, which means that in order to run a tram from the back of the shed, one has to shuffle and shunt trams in and out and try not block the traffic out the front of the depot for any extended period of time. some trams are sent over the crossover to the Ammo Factory to hide for a few moments, others provide 'double shunts' at the depot entry, all in all fun and thinking all round.
Now for the fun part, the overhead.
From under the roof at the end of the layout.
Glenn.
