Hornby Virtual Railway 2 and curved points R8074 & R8075

[Oscar]

Hi,

Could someone please help me. I don’t know if I trying to do the
impossible, if I still haven’t chosen the right track combination or
if Hornby Virtual Railway 2 is just a pile of junk.

I want to make a double oval track, the outer oval using radius 3
curves with an inner oval using radius 2 curves. Fine no problems
there that works, then what I wanted to do was join the two ovals
together using the curved points. Now please visualise in front of
you two ovals of track with the curves at the left and right hand
ends.

What I’d like to do is use curved point R8075 in place of the 1st rad
3 curve at the top right hand end of the outer oval and join to a
R8074 on the inner rad 2 oval. I’d like the train to be able to run
trains clockwise from the outer track onto the inner track.

My problem is no matter what track combinations I use, I can’t get the
ovals to meet up again. I can just about get them to join up, but
when I work around the ovals they are misaligned.

Can somebody please put me out of my misery, I’ve been trying on and
off for days to do this and it’s driving me nuts.

Thanks

Oscar

[Just zis Guy, you know?]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 05:38:54 -0800 (PST), Oscar
<a_h_...@hotmail.com> said in
<106186a4-f325-488d...@s9g2000prg.googlegroups.com>:

>Could someone please help me. I don’t know if I trying to do the
>impossible, if I still haven’t chosen the right track combination or
>if Hornby Virtual Railway 2 is just a pile of junk.

The latter. I have canned it.

Guy
--
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

"To every complex problem there is a solution which is
simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken

[Wolf Kirchmeir]

Download and print:

http://static.hornby.com/files/track-geometry-2008-425.pdf

You'll see that

a) the R8075 goes on the R2 curve, and the R80745 on the R3 -- IOW, you
have it backwards; and
b) you need filler pieces (short curves) to make it work.

Hornby's website is a pain to navigate. You'd think that the link to
this page would be on every page displaying track pieces. I had to
search on "track geometry" to find it. Bah!

I have no experience with HVR.

HTH

--
Wolf Kirchmeir

[Oscar]

Download and print:

http://static.hornby.com/files/track-geometry-2008-425.pdf

You'll see that

a) the R8075 goes on the R2 curve, and the R80745 on the R3 -- IOW,
you
have it backwards; and
b) you need filler pieces (short curves) to make it work.
Hornby's website is a pain to navigate. You'd think that the link to
this page would be on every page displaying track pieces. I had to
search on "track geometry" to find it. Bah!

I have no experience with HVR.

HTH

Wolf Kirchmeir

Thanks, sorry should have said I've seen that and got it to work. But
it's not what I wanted to do. I'd like to run from the 3rd radius
oval on to the 2nd radius oval not the other way around as this
shows. I'm guessing then it can't be done.

Oscar

[simon]

"Oscar" <a_h_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ee5d18e3-85fd-4fbf...@s9g2000prg.googlegroups.com...

Mirror image of that - something like it in the track plans book (10th ed p
29), something like
r607
r643
r8074
r643 r606
r607 r8075

Could send an email with proper diag.

Cheers,
Simon