"Y"...in the smallest possible space for C track?
How about 24630 + 24977

Thanx - will try it; pity I can't view your image!
Joe

That's odd. Here's a link to the pic in case that makes it show: http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/8131/wye.png

Here's an alternative using the three-way turnout. It's a bit more compact and the geometry is exact, but it perhaps doesn't look as natural. The little spur is only good for storing a single short wagon.

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Count | Description
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1 | Märklin C-Track 24071 Straight 70.8mm
1 | Märklin C-Track 24115 Curved R1=360mm 15°
2 | Märklin C-Track 24130 Curved R1=360mm 30°
2 | Märklin C-Track 24188 Straight 188.3mm
4 | Märklin C-Track 24206 Curved R2=437.5mm 5.7°
1 | Märklin C-Track 24611 Left Turnout 188.3mm R2=437.5mm 24.3°
1 | Märklin C-Track 24612 Right Turnout 188.3mm R2=437.5mm 24.3°
1 | Märklin C-Track 24630 3-way Turnout 188.3mm R2=437.5mm 24.3°
1 | Märklin C-Track 24977 Bumper 77.5mm
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Hi all,
Wye's are very rare in Europe,...

Dr D

Hi,

Dan's solution (post immediately befor this one) appears to be the same as Marklin's, which shows up in many of their track or layout manuals as below. Dan has one entrance as a double slip, but the geometry is the same as a 24611 turnout.

I have tried this set and it works well, it still requires a reasonable amount of space. I guess a turntable would take up similar, though more expensive.



regards
Kimball

likewise in the real world. Turntables are a lot more expensive & involved than a simple wye. However, in mountainous terrain with limited suitable track terrain, a turntable may be the way (e.g., the Silverton Railroad in Colorado USA had the Guston Turntable - also referred to as the Corkscrew Gulch Turntable - below Red Mountain Pass).

On my layout, I have a narrow mining "spur" and the wye is perfect there - makes for a lot of operational fun.

There was one at the bottom of the old Steam Loco Shed yard in Cape Town many years ago - I remember how "huge" it was; was quite awesome seeing the locos coming down the line, with the fireman leaping out to change the points in time before the driver went hurtling off without him!
Dunno if I will have the space tho....mmmmmm......about that room in the roof???
Thanx, Joe

This is what I did yesterday.

It´s not small but maybe serves as inspiration. It´s a double track wye with right-hand traffic. Because of the complicated track work, signals should be added to allow only 1 train at a time. This wye is quite big though (1800*1150). BTW, I pass a single-track wye almost every day. I havent´t seen one elsewhere in Sweden but here.

Link to the wye

If you click on "karta" you can see the map instead of the satelite-picture.

Thanks for pointing out those sites Mike. Does anyone know if the elevated wye at Zurich end across the river or is that a tunnel? I can't tell from the top down picture. It would make an interesting model subject with the tracks elevating and then crossing the river.

Darren

Joe, get yourself a wintrak cd and it will make your life heaps easier.
also, in oodnadatta, which was a station on the old "Ghan" route, is wye and it was great. National Rail had a stock yard at the end of it, and it was also used in floods to turn the Ghan around.

I worked there for a short period in my younger years. nothing like seeing a loko from both sides and watching all its mechanics on show in such a short space.

hope yours is as much fun.