ST PATRICK, FRENCH 0e

 
The layout is unusual as it is designed to operate with British
(00, 0n16.5, & Gn15), American (0n30), and French (0e) stock.
Please follow links to photos of the layout and stock.

 Passenger train   Mixed train with goods    Mixed train with coal    Coal train

Panoramas    Track plan

 Background    St Patrick is a French layout inspired by Augustenthal on the meter gauge Kreis Altenaer Eisenbahn {KAE}. The KAE was built as three separate lines Altena–Lüdenscheid (15km) in 1887, Werdoh-Augustenthal (10Km) in 1887, and Schalksmühle–Halver (10Km) in 1888. In 1905 the Werdoh-Augustenthal line was extended 6Km to Lüdenscheid and in 1925 a 2.5Km spur was built from Augustenthal to the Plate steel works at Brüninghausen. In 1955 passenger services were withdrawn from the Werdohl-Lüdenscheid line. Augustenthal became a terminus till 1967 when goods services were withdrawn. Prototypically the only goods facility is a loading dock. The major changes are an exchange siding has been added to the station to handle mine traffic, the spur runs to a mine, and is worked by a loco provided by the mining company.

Passenger traffic is surprisingly heavy with at its peak thirteen trains a day (some mixed). The mine is the main source of goods shipping coal and receiving pit props and this & that. The second source of traffic is logs. There's some general goods normally moved by mixed train. Two to three goods trains are run daily.

Passenger train

The passenger train arrives,

The loco runs round.

Couples on (above) and departs (below).


Mixed train with goods

The train arrives

Stops at the buffers

Runs round

Collects the out bound vans and drops off the in bound vans

Couples the out bound vans to the train (above) and the train departs (below).


Mixed train with coal

The train arrives

The loco runs round.

Moves the out bound wagons to the loop and leaves the in bound wagons on the exchange siding.

The out bound wagons are coupled to the train (above) which departs (below).


Coal train

The colliery loco picks up the inbound wagons (above) and leaves the out bound wagons (below).


Panoramas   












Track plan

Station


Fiddle Yard