Goulburn Model Railway Club

Back from a good running night at the Gouburn Model Railway Club. The club is located in the old staff rooms at the south end of the Goulburn roundhouse and heritage center. They have running nights from 2 till late every Friday and some Sundays. Working bee's usually of a Tuesday. Visitors and guests are always welcome.
With work progressing slowly on the home front going to the Friday night running sessions is always good fun. Sadly with much renovation work still to be done on the building the club only has the compact version of the layout set up. The clubs exhibition layout Bineabeen has been on many exhibitions previously. Then when the original owners put it up for sale the Goulburn club purchased it to use for exhibitions and to replace the aging Argyle layout. Sadly after having gone to several shows it is now temporally suspended from traveling. After sustaining some major damage in transport to and from Malkarra show this year. This included damage to several sections of track and breakage of the main control panel for the fiddle yard points. The track work has been fixed but half the yard points are currently still under manual operation.
The Bineabeen layout consists of a 10 road fiddle yard with dual track mainline for continuous running. once on the main scenic section of the layout this expands from the "up" and "down" mainlines into quad track running allowing slow goods to be held and passed by faster trains. through the island platform. As well as this there is a solely dedicated loop line servicing the wheat silos. This design can allow up to 8 stabled trains in the fiddle yard,  2 in goods lines, 1 in the wheat loop  and 2 running trains. As you can imagine it dose require a bit of practice to maintain smooth operation with so many available trains.


 So to start things off here is a shot looking up the fiddle yard.

Coming out of the south end of the fiddle yard and towards the platform

The main view from the south end at Binabeen station onto the wheat silo.

Passed the wheat silos and onto the north end of Binabeen yard.

Then the yards come to an end and return to the fiddle yard under the bridge.

 From the opposite side now looking from the north end of the Fiddle yard to the road bridge and the main line beyond.

In the up coming months Bineabeen should be extended back to its full length and the other smaller layout the club owns set up and brought up to running standard. I will have more on these as it happens.