Name: Flarefield Metro Depot
Type: Metro Depot
Standard: B (120mm)
Dimensions: 2 modules, each 150cm x 100cm
Constructed: TBA
Lighting: Viessmann
Main building capacity: Seven four-car metro trains
Maintenance building capacity: Three work cars
Signals: 4
Switches: 10
Description
After the final end station Windmill Stream the line continues to Flarefield Metro Depot. This depot/yard area will have housing for a total of seven metro trains. It will also include a maintenance building with room for all the work cars and some freight wagons.
The idea is to have the large buildings connected side-by-side and have a return loop inside this area hidden from view, so that the train enter's the building from track 1 and comes out of track 8. Tracks 2 to 7 will serve as storage tracks only. Thus, visually one can only see a metro train entering the depot and after a while, another train comes out from the yard and enters the main line.
The maintenance area has its own building and three separate tracks to store work cars. Additionally an extra track runs beside the building, ending in a stopper at the far end of the module. This area will have asphalt over it and is used to store some freight wagons, bulldozers and trucks. The metro depot also includes an office building and a parking lot.
I will use the actual metro depot area as inspiration for this module and plan to build the same kind of buildings used there. The name too comes from the real yard area in Helsinki Metro, which is situated in a place called "Roihupelto", literally Flarefield in english.
Track Plan
Top:
Module 1 with the switches. Connects directly to Windmill Stream with Standard B.
Left:
Module 2 with the storage buildings. The partly transparent tracks represent areas with asphalt laid over the track roadbed.
A see-through view of Module 2 showing how the return loop is hidden from view and goes partly inside the maintenance building.
From here we can see that the tracks leading to the maintenance building are a lot shorter than what could be imagined looking at the previous picture. However, they still are long enough to completely house a single work car etc.
Also shown here is how the actual storage tracks for the metro trains in the main building curve towards the maintenance building out-of-view. This is to maximize the storage space available.
Module 1 with the switches. Connects directly to Windmill Stream with Standard B.
Left:
Module 2 with the storage buildings. The partly transparent tracks represent areas with asphalt laid over the track roadbed.
A see-through view of Module 2 showing how the return loop is hidden from view and goes partly inside the maintenance building.
From here we can see that the tracks leading to the maintenance building are a lot shorter than what could be imagined looking at the previous picture. However, they still are long enough to completely house a single work car etc.
Also shown here is how the actual storage tracks for the metro trains in the main building curve towards the maintenance building out-of-view. This is to maximize the storage space available.
Back to: Windmill Stream
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