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Offline Bones  
#1 Posted : 30 January 2020 02:21:48(UTC)
Bones

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I was watching some video's as we always do and noticed a slight difference about track milage/klm postings

In Germany they mark them from the main junction not from Berlin the capital

I only figured this out while watching a video
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Offline DaleSchultz  
#2 Posted : 30 January 2020 04:31:34(UTC)
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The origins used could be anywhere...

Here are mine: https://cabin-layout.mixmox.com/2016/11/distances-markers.html

Note that when a track get a new alignment one can even get discontinuities.
Dale
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Offline kimballthurlow  
#3 Posted : 30 January 2020 07:24:14(UTC)
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I think a few trackside or signal post signs on the layout really make a difference, as Dale shows.
And less is often more. Just a hint of the railway complexity.

There is a website with many useful German railroad signs.
A few of these placed selectively on the layout create the relevant atmosphere .

http://www.sh1.org/eisenbahn/snzs.htm
At the bottom of this page is a link to an Index with other German signs.
Here is an example used at end of catenary to warn the driver he is about to run out of electricity.

Halt - no juice.

Kimball
HO Scale - Märklin (ep II-III and VI, C Track, digital) - 2 rail HO (Queensland Australia, UK, USA) - 3 rail OO (English Hornby Dublo) - old clockwork O gauge - Live Steam 90mm (3.1/2 inch) gauge.
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Offline Tom Jessop  
#4 Posted : 30 January 2020 20:43:17(UTC)
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NSW milage / Kms were / are measured from the buffers on platform 1 at Central Station , there is also a brass marker on the external wall of the platform building . A strange condition exists at the top of Tumulla bank west of Bathurst where the 1/2 & mile/ km pegs are about 2 meters apart due to changes in track realingments .


Cheers Tom in Oz .
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Offline Jimmy Thompson  
#5 Posted : 31 January 2020 13:25:05(UTC)
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And I think (mind you, I think a lot of strange things at times) that I saw somewhere, and it may have been more prevalent in the earlier epoches, that a station could be an intermediate station on one line, a start point for a branch line, and a terminus for another, resulting in 3 different mile posts (including 0,0). Confused

Jimmy
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Offline LongHairedDavid  
#6 Posted : 31 January 2020 14:33:23(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: DaleSchultz Go to Quoted Post
The origins used could be anywhere...

Here are mine: https://cabin-layout.mixmox.com/2016/11/distances-markers.html

Note that when a track get a new alignment one can even get discontinuities.


What would I use if I don't have catenary?
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Offline Jimmy Thompson  
#7 Posted : 31 January 2020 16:40:51(UTC)
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They can be put on a post like this:

https://commons.wikimedi...stein_bei_Mindelheim.jpg

a bit of styrene strip, perhaps, I would think they need not be too tall...

Jimmy
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Offline DaleSchultz  
#8 Posted : 31 January 2020 16:47:57(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: LongHairedDavid Go to Quoted Post


What would I use if I don't have catenary?


I have a page on exactly that!
https://cabin-layout.mixmox.com/2016/11/small-signs.html
Dale
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Arrival and Departure signs: https://remotesign.mixmox.com
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Offline LongHairedDavid  
#9 Posted : 31 January 2020 17:53:33(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: DaleSchultz Go to Quoted Post
Originally Posted by: LongHairedDavid Go to Quoted Post


What would I use if I don't have catenary?


I have a page on exactly that!
https://cabin-layout.mixmox.com/2016/11/small-signs.html


Thank you. I will have a go.
Long Haired David
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A mystified Maerklin Newbie
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Offline Bones  
#10 Posted : 07 March 2020 09:18:31(UTC)
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Well that's close enough all main roads are measured from the capital city GPO and also from local post office and I learnt this while driving a taxi

In country areas the address 1350 White Cross Rd, Bathurst meant the house or whatever was 1.350 Klm from the town

Also some street's or roads have continuous numbering Botany Road is an example

However going along the pacific motorway they stop and start at the boundary of each suburb





Originally Posted by: Tom Jessop Go to Quoted Post



NSW milage / Kms were / are measured from the buffers on platform 1 at Central Station , there is also a brass marker on the external wall of the platform building . A strange condition exists at the top of Tumulla bank west of Bathurst where the 1/2 & mile/ km pegs are about 2 meters apart due to changes in track realingments .


Cheers Tom in Oz .


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Offline Bondijohn  
#11 Posted : 26 March 2020 22:53:02(UTC)
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Since 1788. Before the GPO in Martin Place the road distance was measured from an obelisk in Macquarie Place, near Circular Quay.

All stay well.

Kind Regards,

John
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Offline jvuye  
#12 Posted : 27 March 2020 00:03:54(UTC)
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Interesting discussion.
In France, all the milepost "0" of all the major lines are starting in Paris.
Not that the capital tried to position itself as the center of the world (even though some people here in France believe that...Wink RollEyes )
It's simply because France had several large railroad companies, crossing France in a star configuration
NORD, EST, PLM (Paris Lyon Méditerranée), Ouest , PO (Paris Orléans), MIDI and ETAT

Just before WW II they were all united under the newly created SNCF, but the original mileposts remained)
Jacques Vuye aka Dr.Eisenbahn
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Offline PeFu  
#13 Posted : 27 March 2020 07:14:34(UTC)
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Here’s a source (in German) describing ”streckenkilometer” in Germany, Switzerland and Austria):

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streckenkilometer
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