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Re: UK Reddifest Train Layout
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:21:35 GMT
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message
news:FrJE10.92G@lugnet.com...
> Is british proto practice typically to use pairs of tracks? US practice
> sometimes uses only a single track (which puts platforms on both sides of • the
> train, sometimes a handy thing.
In the Netherlands practically every station has the layout
'platform'-'track to east' - 'track to west'-'platform' (replace east and
west by north and south depening on station's orientation). Even Utrecht
Central Station has some 18 passenger platforms and about 38 tracks in this
kind of layout.
Check out Erik Brok's typical dutch railway station:
http://homepages.svc.fcj.hvu.nl/brok/legomind/models/index.htm
Also a picture of a 'Koploper' -train at Utrecht CS. I couldn't find a good
overview picture of the station :-(
http://www.inn.nl/~ajwkam/rail/4050.htm
--
Frank Buiting
Visit the LEGO Lexicon: http://members.chello.nl/~f.buiting/lego/
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| (...) That large station rocks! The paired station tracks with the large platforms are neato. The platforms may be a bit wide, but using the large pieces is the only way to go, the mind boggles at the number of gray plates and bricks that would be (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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