Loading transporter wagons?

[danny]

You might like to see this on you tube  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyrKbpIdDwk which is my take on a transporter wagon. The standard gauge wagon is built to 18.83mm gauge using a 'High Level kit' fly shunter chassis [appears not available at the moment. This is a test track which worked perfectly but once fitted on the layout didn't work properly. the transporter wagon is drawn from plans in the book on the L&M by Robert Gratton but using inside frame bogies to allow greater rotation of the bogie

Yes, that's largely the system I'm using, only with bogies from Locos n Stuff to motorise the wagons. Can I ask what it was about it that didn't work on the actual layout? The only difference on mine is the use of overhead wire locos, allowing the transporter to receive power for the standard gauge wagon through the NG running rails.

On a related note, I'm wondering whether it's realistic for me to have a fan of two or three sidings where only one of them has a standard gauge section at the end. Continental lines with lots of transporters available seemed to keep them on the transporters for loading/unloading, but normal L&M practice seems to have been to unload the wagon onto the standard gauge track, and therefore required all such sidings (other than the creamery where tank wagons were loaded on the transporters) to have standard gauge sections at the end.