Inglenook Sidings

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Inglenook Sidings
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Spur holds 3 wagons
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plus the locomotive
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Sidings hold 3 wagons each
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Long siding holds 5 wagons
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Inglenook Sidings, created by Alan Wright (1928 - January 2005), is a model railway train shunting puzzle. It consists of a specific track layout, a set of initial conditions, a defined goal, and rules which must be obeyed while performing the shunting operations.

Contents

More broadly, in model railway usage inglenook may refer to a track layout (or portion thereof) that is based on or resembles the Inglenook Sidings puzzle.

Details

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An O-14 Inglenook plan

The track is based on Kilham Sidings, on the Alnwick-Cornhill branch of the North Eastern Railway (NER). [1] The sidings should be able to accommodate 5, 3, and 3 wagons, the leading spur accommodating 3 wagons and the locomotive. For the original version of the puzzle there are 8 wagons in the sidings, the rule being:

See also

References

  1. wymann.info, Inglenook sidings Shunting puzzles, Adrian Wymann.
  2. wymann.info, Inglenook sidings, Rules & Operation shunting puzzles, Adrian Wymann.