Cuckmere
00, Southern Railway/British Railways (Southern), 1 @ 8 feet
Background
Passenger Goods
Station Yard
Siding Woody's
Bailey's
Panoramas Fiddle
Yard
Passenger
The passenger train comes on scene
Passes the ground frame
Pulls into the platform
and stops
The train backs up to give clearance to run round
The loco pulls forward to start running round
The loco back passed the train
Squeezes past the cattle van
Couples up
Then pushes the coaches back to the platform
While the passengers get on board the cattle van is shunted to the middle siding
The passenger train returns to the junction
In model terms it returns to the fiddle yard
Goods
The goods arrives
Runs round
Pushes the train
to the platform
The loco collects the out bound coal and cattle wagons
then it collects the out bound lime wagon - out bound wagons are left on the
goods siding
The in bound coal wagons and break van are moved to the central siding.
The coal wagons are left by the coal merchant and the break van uncoupled
The inbound lime wagon is moved to the goods siding
In bound wagons are moved to the gravel works.
Out bound wagons are collected from the gravel works
The loco runs round [again!]
The out bound train is moved to the platform
The out bound gravel wagons are left on the central siding as there isn't room
in the train.
The goods departs
and returns to the fiddle yard.
Station
An oddity there is no good shed. Smalls are handled on the platform stored in
the white van
and arrive/depart via the gate by the white van hence the aggregate to support
trucks.
Yard Siding
The centre siding serves Bailey's coal merchant and is used as storage.
Woody's the local garage
Bailey's coal merchant
Panoramas
Fiddle Yard
The end of the run round is also used as a private siding for the sand & gravel
works.