Confident that the main scenic board is more or less finished to plan, my thoughts wandered onto the other one.
Just as a reminder, here's the overall plan, with the next scenic board at top left. It's much smaller than the first one, but that was the logical way to split the layout up, both for trackwork and scenic reasons.
On the plan, I have only drawn the scenic bit for this new baseboard. There will have to be a short straight piece of track beyond the s
Having had enough of decorating for the day, I started fiddling with a fiddle yard design. This one is based on the original, but bigger to allow roads of 600mm in length. Potentially, I have to allow for a loco at each end of the train - the one bringing a train in and the one taking it back out again, so 600mm is not too generous.
The basic design is a 5 road sector plate connecting with up to 15 static sidings and 2 through roads. The extra lines in the sector plate area on the di