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Plate 99: Installing a Hornby point motor
(This plate added OCT 2003)
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In this view, the right-hand point (American usage: switch) on the upper level has been fitted with a Hornby
R8014 Mark 2 double-coil point motor. This is a "surface mounted" point motor (American usage: switch machine), meaning that the point motor is installed above the roadbed alongside the point, to which it can
be connected by a sliding arm.
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The purpose of a point motor is to provide electrical remote control operation for points on a layout. In this view,
the point motor has not yet been electrically connected. However, it has been mechanically connected
to the point by means of a sliding arm (the sliding arm is visible between the point motor and the point).
The sliding arm is in the retracted position, thereby having pulled the moving rails of the point
so that a train entering from the left will travel onto the curved track.
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