Looking at the pictures below, it should be reasonably obvious that the title of this blog post translates to something like "Pages from My Sketchbook" or something close.
Here we have no less than 4 versions of a possible layout to build for the small layout workshop.
This was probably the first version I came up with and it shows a very linear "tuning fork" design. Where a loco brings out either a vee skip loaded with waste to be tipped at a chute in the front there or a flat wagon loaded with a large piece of slate could be lifted by crane onto another wagon below at the end of the siding. Two working features in a few square feet? My goodness how would I fit it all in?
The second design is something a little simpler. Only one working feature. The tipping vee skip. But with this one you would be able to watch the loco and wagon cone towards you out of the mine entrance before curving away to tip the skip in front of your eyes. Rear to front motion instead of the more usual side to side motion we are so used to seeing.
The third would be much the same as number two except a bit more linear.
The final one is a little different. It still has the vee skip tipping like in the second sketch. But this time a loco and flat wagon loaded with a lump of slate would head straight into a finishing shop. I like all the designs. Some more than others. So I don't quite know which to choose yet. Perhaps it will be another slightly different concept yet.Any ideas and thoughts gratefully received.
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