Hornby O-gauge track layout

Autumn 2017 to Spring 2018

'Dumbbell' with sidings inside one loop and 'branch line' with run-around siding connected via a reversing triangle

Storage sidings at bookshelves end of lounge

Total running track about 100 feet (plus sidings). Scaled up this is over 1,300 yards.
So a train starting from the branch line terminus, doing a full circuit of the dumbbell and running back to the
branch line terminus had completed nearly 2,600 scale yards, which is approximately one-and-a-half miles.
The clockwork motors required winding several times…

 

 

 

 

the hidden storage siding

 

 

taken before triangular junction added

 

The 'quarry end'