Inglenook Sidings
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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.
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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The track is based on Kilham Sidings, on the Alnwick-Cornhill branch of the North Eastern Railway (NER).[http://www.wymann.info/ShuntingPuzzles/sw-inglenook.html wymann.info], Inglenook sidings Shunting puzzles, Adrian Wymann. 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:
- Form a train of 5 wagons selected at random of a specific order from the 8 wagons.[http://www.wymann.info/ShuntingPuzzles/Inglenook/inglenook-rules.html wymann.info], Inglenook sidings, Rules & Operation shunting puzzles, Adrian Wymann.
See also
- Timesaver, another shunting puzzle
References
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External links
- [http://www.carendt.com/micro-layout-design-gallery/inglenook-designs/ Inglenook Designs - Carendt.com] - Small Inglenook Layout Designs (inspiration).
- [http://www.wymann.info/ShuntingPuzzles/sw-inglenook.html Model Railways Shunting Puzzles - Inglenook Sidings] - A full description of the puzzle.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303184103/http://www.tafweb-trainz.co.uk/inglenook.html TaFWeb - Inglenook Sidings] - Includes a downloadable Inglenook Sidings layout for Trainz.
- [https://beaver.games/shunting/ Beaver Games : Inglenook Shunting] - An online JavaScript based Inglenook game.
- [https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07970 Inglenook Shunting Puzzles] - A mathematical analysis of the solvability of Inglenook puzzles.
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