Further thoughts on fiddle yard operation and design, late last night, improved things a little. I have drawn a cleaned up copy which will be easier to interpret. Two turntables have also been added.
Apart from the issue of transferring full and empty stock from one end of the layout to the other, this solves the issues I had with the earlier attempt.
It's still very small overall - just 7ft long by 4ft 6in wide, if you exclude the little projection at the bottom of the f