Inglenook Sidings Puzzle

Another classic shunting puzzle based on the real kilham sidings on the alnwick cornhill branch of the north eastern railway ner.

Inglenook sidings puzzle.

I ve looked at various methods for achieving the uncoupling and am hoping to use a method employed on a couple of exhibition layouts i ve seen. The argument for the inglenook is that as it is a very simple track plan with only two switches. The hidden siding or storage area is located towards the back of the layout behind the head shunt. These rules were necessary to increase the challenge.

December 12 2013 by carl arendt. As a puzzle it had very rigid rules on the lengths of the sidings and switch lead. These pages allow you to operate a version of each of my two layouts the skowhegan athens and riverside yard on screen. The trach at the top of the diagram can hold five trucks while the other two sections can hold three each.

The inglenook south shunting puzzle layout features a hidden siding. There are three short tracks connevted to the main line. There may in fact be some modellers who never really look into this shunting puzzle because it may at first sight hardly seem to offer much operational challenge. Possibly the most salient feature of inglenook sidings the classic british shunting puzzle par excellence is its sheer simplicity in terms of track layout.

As with most shunting puzzles the length of the sidings is determined by the operating rules. Model railroad switching puzzle. Remove the lift arm from one end of each wagon and from the loco and have a tuft of grass that lifts the arm as the trucks are pushed over it. In the case of inglenook sidings the longest siding holds 5 wagons while the two others have a capacity of 3 wagons each.

And not surprisingly the grandaddy of all small portable layouts was exactly this kind of layout built in 1926 in england by a r. The shunting puzzle this layout is based on the design called inglenook sidings which combines a seemingly simple layout with a clever design in problem solving. Inglenook sidings created by alan wright 1928 january 2005 is a model railway train shunting puzzle us. The centre siding will eventually go into a mill across the end of the layout hence no buffers required.

It consists of a specific track layout a set of initial conditions a defined goal and rules which must be obeyed while performing the shunting operations. The headshunt allows for the engine plus 3. The hidden siding measures two feet in length so it can accommodate a two carriage multiple unit the longest being the class 15x or 17x traction.