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Plate 161:  Building a locomotive service yard, Part 27:  a point motor has been mated with a point for sub-surface installation
(This plate added OCT 2003)

In this view, the track assembly for the service yard has been turned rightside-up. You can see the four mounting tabs of a Hornby R8014 Mark 2 point motor sticking up through the four matching slots at the ends of the long sleepers under the point blades.