Hey Simon. Enjoyed your video. The way I am dealing with the 'isolation' issue is to only power the escape road. This means each of the tracks on the traverser are only live when aligned to the escape road. No chance of accidentally running one of the end.
This sounds like a good idea. We are probably going to redesign the traverser a bit fairly soon as it has become a bit unreliable, so we might try this. How did you transfer power from the escape road to the road in the traverser?
if you're running diesels a nifty trick is to have another smaller traverser at the front of the large one big enough to hold your largest loco. This is used to return the stock with a fresh loco, you then drive the original loco onto the small traverser so it's ready to return on the next train. Both small and big traverser move seperately to align locos to any stock you want.
@@SimonsTrainAdventures if that's peaked your interest, how about the new Hornby 7000 series decoders and battery powered dcc locos, no track power. No track to clean, no dodgy stalls on iffy points, no reversing loop control modules, no wheels to clean, ect, ect.
Excellent question. At the moment, yes. But when the rest of the railway is built we do plan to include a reversing loop and a turntable with the idea being that trains will return to the traverser facing the other way after a running session.
Hello Simon, very well done on getting the Traverser working. I am looking at making one myself. I was wondering if you could advise where you purchased the Traverser rails from?
Thanks for watching! We used heavy duty drawer runners from Wickes to mount the traverser, with a section of aluminium angle at each end to guide the movement. The tracks mounted on top are standard Peco code 100 flexitrack. We bought a large quantity of this second hand on eBay years ago and it has kept us going ever since. These are the drawer runners we used: www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Heavy-Duty-Drawer-Slide---450mm-Pack-of-2/p/103524 We are planning to do some more work on the traverser as the changing temperature and humidity in the shed means the rail heights have gone out of alignment. We'll be doing a video about this soon. Hope that's helpful.
Hi Simon how are u ok mate u do a rally good job on UA-cam keep up there good work on UA-cam keep up there good work on UA-cam hove a good evening and I hop u are ok
Hey Simon. Enjoyed your video. The way I am dealing with the 'isolation' issue is to only power the escape road. This means each of the tracks on the traverser are only live when aligned to the escape road. No chance of accidentally running one of the end.
This sounds like a good idea. We are probably going to redesign the traverser a bit fairly soon as it has become a bit unreliable, so we might try this. How did you transfer power from the escape road to the road in the traverser?
if you're running diesels a nifty trick is to have another smaller traverser at the front of the large one big enough to hold your largest loco. This is used to return the stock with a fresh loco, you then drive the original loco onto the small traverser so it's ready to return on the next train. Both small and big traverser move seperately to align locos to any stock you want.
Ooh interesting.
@@SimonsTrainAdventures if that's peaked your interest, how about the new Hornby 7000 series decoders and battery powered dcc locos, no track power. No track to clean, no dodgy stalls on iffy points, no reversing loop control modules, no wheels to clean, ect, ect.
Hi. Is the only way to return the trains to the transverser by reversing?
Excellent question. At the moment, yes. But when the rest of the railway is built we do plan to include a reversing loop and a turntable with the idea being that trains will return to the traverser facing the other way after a running session.
Thanks for the answer Simons dad. I’m looking for a video showing the actual plan.
@@redvalley9 We haven't made a video with the track plan in it yet, but good suggestion. We'll try and include one in the next video.
Hello Simon, very well done on getting the Traverser working. I am looking at making one myself. I was wondering if you could advise where you purchased the Traverser rails from?
Thanks for watching! We used heavy duty drawer runners from Wickes to mount the traverser, with a section of aluminium angle at each end to guide the movement. The tracks mounted on top are standard Peco code 100 flexitrack. We bought a large quantity of this second hand on eBay years ago and it has kept us going ever since.
These are the drawer runners we used: www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Heavy-Duty-Drawer-Slide---450mm-Pack-of-2/p/103524
We are planning to do some more work on the traverser as the changing temperature and humidity in the shed means the rail heights have gone out of alignment. We'll be doing a video about this soon.
Hope that's helpful.
@@SimonsTrainAdventures Thanks for coming back to me. I'll take a look at those. Thanks Tim
Hi Simon how are u ok mate u do a rally good job on UA-cam keep up there good work on UA-cam keep up there good work on UA-cam hove a good evening and I hop u are ok
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Real traversers existed at Swindon, now exists at Didcot, even seen them in Denmark.
We’ve seen the ones at Didcot and Swindon but never been to Denmark.
I was lucky enough to be in Copenhagen for work and there was a beer festival which i obviously needed to attend and it was in an old railway shed
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