Colliery 8-track gravity-fed loader. Pithead to left

Colliery 8-track gravity-fed loader. Pithead to left

A colliery heapstead containing NG tracks to store loaded and empty skips,and 4 tumblers to dump loaded skips onto screens located over the intersection with the heapstead of the lower picking belt shed. The interactive industry outputs are 'small' coal, 'best' coal and stone. There are no defined industry inputs.

There are 7 loading roads and one bypass road passing under the building. Each loading road can load strings of up to 4 wagons one at a time under the loader shed located at the remote end of the picking-belt shed. 2 roads are labled 'Sm' (small), 1 road as 'St' (stone) and 4 roads as 'B'(best). Small and best coal and stone is produced jointly. Therefore if the industry process is to continue, all 3 outputs must be loaded into wagons. Best coal is produced at 4 times the rate of small coal and 8 times the rate of stone.

Gravity loading of wagons is under script control. The user of this asset must ensure that the empty sidings are kept supplied with empty wagons and the full sidings are cleared before they fill with loaded wagons. The industry process will stop if these conditions are not met.

Also important when placing this asset on a route, is the provision of appropriately-graded empty and full sidings to connect to the 8 fixed tracks. An outline of what is required is given in a separate User Manual issued with this asset.

For this model variation, when looking downgrade along the loading roads, the pithead is to the right.

Colliery 8-track gravity-fed loader. Pithead to left
• 8-track gravity loader_pithead to left.im 283.97KB
• colliery_gravity_loader_v28_8-road_config.gs 123.39KB
• config.txt 13.74KB
• conveyor_walls_2.jpg 10.29KB
• conveyor_walls_2.texture.txt 39 bytes
• corrugated_iron_1.texture.txt 40 bytes
• corrugated_iron_1.tga 193.04KB
• corugated_metal_2.bmp 96.05KB
• corugated_metal_2.texture.txt 40 bytes
• door.texture.txt 27 bytes
• door.tga 25.04KB
• hessian_1-silver.texture.txt 50 bytes
• hessian_1.tga 49.04KB
• pitheadenclosurefloor.im 876 bytes
• pitheadenclosureroof.im 884 bytes
• signs-signs.texture.txt 45 bytes
• signs.tga 64.02KB
• silver.bmp 48.05KB
• tarnished_metal_2.jpg 3.14KB
• tarnished_metal_2.texture.txt 40 bytes
• thumbnail.jpg 38.00KB
• wood_planks_1.texture.txt 36 bytes
• wood_planks_1.tga 192.04KB