No.79 The Main Junction – a Different Perspective.

Following on from my last Post I am showing some more pictures of the Main Junction Station concentrating on the ‘through’ tracks that form the Mainline.

The Main Junction – overview with two Bachmann Scots in the centre two way road

To help locate the pictures I have turned the track plan presented in my last post from the vertical to the horizontal.

The Main Junction – not to scale

The preferred through routes I have labelled as Up and Down Main.

First some trains passing on the Down Main.


Hornby Princess Royal on Bachmann Mk1s approaching on Down Main







Bachmann Class 20s on fitted freight passing on the Down Main

Now some trains on the Up Main.

Bachmann Super D approaching on the Up Main






The latest arrival from Bachmann with a ‘Parcels’ at the Up Main

When playing trains I think it helps to have lots of places to store whole trains. These arrangements are not unlike the UK railway system in the 1950s and early 60s when there were lots of relief lines and loops to hold slow trains hence allowing faster trains to speed past.

The track layout at the Main Junction Station is deliberately flexible. Should the Up Main or the Down Main be blocked by a train stopped at the platform, then the centre road can be used as a relief (for either direction). Importantly the centre tracks can also be used for terminating trains – approaching from either direction.

In addition there is also a long siding parallel with the Down Main which can be used to hold a complete goods train.




Bachmann DMU terminating in the Centre Road, note the Bachmann Super D on Goods set back into the Goods Relief Siding
Bachmann DMU departing at the south end in front of a cattle train held on the Up Main

A few more views of trains leaving the south end of the station.

Bachmann Super D on Goods leaving on the Centre Road
Bachmann Class 20s on goods about to leave on the Centre Road

Finally another view of a train approaching on the Up Main.
Princess Royal approaching on the Up Main after a trip round the Reversing Loop

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