THE WAVERLEY ROUTE 1952
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Carlisle (England) to Edinburgh (Scotland) via Galashiels, and 
Branches.

This simulation attempts as accurately as possible to depict this line 
as it was in 1952, four years into Nationalisation. It was opened by 
the North British Railway in 1849 as far as Hawick, and extended to 
Carlisle in 1862. It became part of the London and North Eastern 
Railway in 1923, and British Railways in 1948.

The line was called the 'Waverley Route' because it runs through the 
countryside immortalised by Sir Walter Scott and his 'Waverley' novels.

Apart from a small power resignalling scheme installed at Galashiels in 
1936, and a few other minor changes made to reflect changing traffic 
requirements, the line and its branches remained in essence a 
nineteenth century railway up to its final closure in January 1969.

As with my GSE1 simulation, I have tried to capture the atmosphere of 
the line in this layout. It's a very different railway - no regular 
interval passenger services, lots of freight, and an interesting 
network of lines.

Route Mileages of simulation (from WTT):

Edinburgh - Carlisle                         98 miles  330 yards
Hardengreen Jn. - Peebles - Kilnknowe Jn.    36 miles  506 yards 
Peebles East - Peebles West                   0 miles 1386 yards
Fountainhall - Lauder                        10 miles  726 yards
Selkirk Jn. - Selkirk                         6 miles  264 yards
Kelso Jn. - Carham                           16 miles  264 yards
Roxburgh Jn. - Jedburgh                       7 miles  176 yards
Riccarton Jn. - Kielder Forest                8 miles  440 yards
Riddings Jn. - Langholm                       7 miles  176 yards
Longtown Jn. - Gretna NB                      3 miles  374 yards

TOTAL ROUTE MILEAGE                         193 miles 1122 yards

APPROXIMATE TRACK MILEAGE                   350 miles

The train service is fairly prototypical, and I've managed to squeeze 
in all of the 1952 WTT trains, and the sample I've checked run 
reasonably well to time. I've also had to put a few extra, balancing 
services. There just aren't enough spare hours to get things absolutely 
right.

Because of the size of the simulation, most of the station layouts are 
simplified.

Once again I have also had to resort to a number of dodges to make the 
simulation work, which include:

 - Non-prototype loops and turnbacks at terminals.

 - Speed limited running loops instead of refuge sidings, to allow 
passenger trains to pass the much slower freights. Note how I have used 
the signalling system to allow this to work.

 - Active yards. Note how certain freights shunt some of the yards en 
route (St. Boswells and Stobs Camp 'Up' direction, and Hawick 'Down' 
Direction). Alternating switches were used here.

I've put together some hints and tips for BAHN in my WWW site.
http://homepages.enterprise.net/iainlogan/

In addition, I have added 'dummy' services on the West Coast Main Line 
from Carlisle to Gretna Jn. and between Edinburgh Waverley West and 
Haymarket tunnels. This latter section was deliberately put in for the 
benefit of US users, who, if they have visited Edinburgh, have almost 
certainly seen the real life line at the bottom of Princes Street 
Gardens.

I am putting this layout on as 'Shareware' - I have spent more hours 
than I care to mention doing the necessary research and then putting it 
together, and it would be nice to get some small return for my efforts. 
If you get as much pleasure from it as I've had making it, please send 
a cheque for US $8.00 or UK 5.00, or equivalent, to me at the address 
below. My sincere thanks in anticipation.

GLOSSARY/EXPLANATION OF TERMS

Goods Trains                     Freight trains
Points                           Switches
Shunting                         Switching

Up and Down directions (Forgive my cynicism in what follows)

According to the powers that be, London is the centre of the Universe, 
and therefore on a higher plane of existence than anywhere else. At 
some time in the nineteenth century, it was decreed, no doubt by some 
bureaucrat or politician* that the direction of all trains would be 
'UP' towards London and 'DOWN' towards anywhere else, thus reflecting 
London's unique status both socially and in every other respect. Cynics 
like myself would have suggested he do the job properly and move London 
to the North Pole, thus making sense of the whole issue!

This simplistic approach may be all very well with a simple radial 
network, but as a result of this nonsense, Britain's highly complex 
railway system is the most confusing in the world, not least to the 
staff themselves, who like railway folk all over the world, do their 
best!

Doesn't it sound daft when I state that most of the time all up trains 
run down the screen and all down trains run up it? Selkirk branch 
trains run up to Galashiels, but the section between Selkirk Jn. Points 
and Galashiels uses the Down Line.

As if this were not enough, London works to a different set of rules 
than the rest of the UK. London's Underground typefies this. Their 
lines are defined by direction of travel, eg Northbound/ Southbound 
etc.

And they wonder why we Scots want devolution!

* - Safe in the knowledge that he would never be called to account for 
the consequences of his decisions. Not only that, he's immortal, if our 
government's present policies on railways are anything to go by.

Layout  1995 Iain W. Logan

Special thanks to Bruce McCartney.

 Bibliography:
 BR Scottish Region Working Timetable ('W') 15th September 1952
 BR ScR Sectional Appendix Section 1 East Oct 1960
 The Railway to Langholm - R.B. McCartney 1991
 North British Album - A.A. Maclean, Ian Allan 1974
 The Waverley Route - N. Caplan, Ian Allan 1985
 Border Country Branch Line Album - N. Caplan, Ian Allan 1981
 Rails Across the Border - A.J. Mullay, PSL 1990
 Waverley - R. Siviter, Kingfisher 1988
 British Railways Past and Present - Sanders and Hodgins No.9 SE Scotland 1991/1993
 Railway Junction Diagrams 1914, reprinted Ian Allan
 Various OS Maps
 LNER, BR and Signalling Record Society track diagrams loaned by Bruce McCartney.

 Iain Logan,
 2, Frances Street,
 LANGHOLM
 Dumfriesshire
 Scotland

 +44 13873 81046
 iainlogan@enterprise.net
 http://homepages.enterprise.net/iainlogan
