Tytton Hall Yard
Tytton Hall Yard isn’t based on any real location or area of the country. This is to enable us to run everything and anything. It is a continuous run layout 16ft long by 8ft wide.
The mainline has four tracks entering at one end and reduces to two tracks before crossing a viaduct. Below the viaduct is the yard. This is a coal loading facility mainly loading MGR wagons. Due to a weak bridge on this line the number of wagons are reduced.
The layout is DCC operated with the mainline fiddle yard point work worked by switches. The yard point work is operated by a DCC accessory decoder. The club chose the Lenz system as at the time it was either this or the Digitrax system.
The layout has successfully attended a number of the clubs own shows and is at the final stage of construction. Various improvements have been made since the layout’s first showing at the 2007 exhibition. Most radical of which has been the relaying of the fiddle yard point work with a larger minimum radius employed following running issues.
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New N Gauge Layout
We went through a period where a large number of Junior Members joined the club. Now most of these have gone and those who remain have allowed us to strip their layout back to it's bare boards.
This blank baseboard is now becoming our new N Gauge Club layout. The trackplan is based on Andover but slightly modified.
The layout attended our 2015 show in part finished form. Since then it has been decided to give it a rewire which is well underway. The scenery has much progress also including countryside areas and a town scene. the station also has seen much work.
The Test Track
The test track runs around the outside of the clubroom. It has facilities for running HO/OO gauge and 009/N gauge. There is also the option for running DCC equipped locos.
The outer loop is laid with curves generous enough to allow the running of kit built locos and is controlled by an H&M controller. There are two loops equipped for DCC one of which is able to be switched back to analogue.
The Club has also spent a long time creating a 00 gauge 3rd rail circuit. This is Flexi track with a Z gauge rail laid in the centre for electrical Pickup. However it proved to be too fragile dispite the improvement in running it provided.
The club provides a facility for running 3 rail loco’s. We've laid a loop of tillig track which is actually dual OO gauge and N gauge. This has been proved to be suitable for three rail pickup and provides a second N gauge circuit alongside the loop of N gauge currently available for use.
The O gauge Test track is now a complete loop and up and running. The track is controlled by a gauge master controller and has a passing loop with electrically operated points.
Feel free to bring your own locomotives and rolling stock to run on our test track.