Tramway Connection

The availability of an attractive vintage tram consist from the LR Presse shop prompted me to share my enthusiasm for a small layout, linking the main line and urban transport.

Text and illustrations: François Fontana

LAYOUT TRACKPLAN WITH THE TILLIG LUNA TRACK RANGE. Monochrome postcards from the late XIXth and early XXth centuries are packed with views of tramways running through the streets of French cities, be they large or small! This is just the theme for a small exhibition layout, evoking a lengthy historical period stretching from the Roaring Twenties to the post-WWII baby-boom years. THE TRACKPLAN So as to ensure enough operational interest, the Project features 3 turnouts and a large fiddleyard, in this case a 4-track curved traverser. The layout is an urban tramline terminus built in the courtyard of the local mainline station. A loop siding, with a short headshunt, allows the motor unit to run round its trailer. Two lines originate from this terminus, they come together in the fiddleyard, forming a balloon…

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