For the back ground see Clavering Hundreds Loop
Manuden Station Fox Feeds
Shunting Fox Feeds Shunting the aggregate spur
Panoramas of the layout Layout under construction
A Bubble Car arrives
And is crossed by an oil train
Steel coil train passes through Manuden
Please note for space reasons trains are shorter than prototypical
Fox Feeds Ltd are the local feed merchants (see https://www.foxfeeds.com for details)
They receive wagons of feed at a warehouse and hard standage.
The hard standage has receive more details.
A class 08 and a van of feed arrives from Bishop Stortford
Fox Feeds Ltd was chosen as the stations industry to give some shunting - how ever implausible!
The 08 uncouples
And zigzags to the hard standing.
It collects the outbound (empty wagon)
And Zigzags back to the loop
It collects the inbound (full wagon) and zigzags back to the hard standage with the inbound wagon
It leaves the inbound wagon by the hard standage
Picks up the outbound wagon and heads back to Bishop Stortford
Fox Feeds single slip tiebar broke so was replaced with a double slip which make operation more flexible.
A class 08 picks up wagons from the siding
Pulls them to the loop and runs round
Then pushes the wagons up the spur
