Changelog:

• 2/12/21 - Initial Draft
• 3/12/21 - Removal of throat options
• 15/12/21 - Removal of track standards discussion from this entry

Overall View

Minories is a small urban terminus layout designed by Cyril Freezer to promote TT Gauge, the arrangement of two facing branch crossovers permitting simultaneous arrival and departure to the station, and ensuring they must only navigate one reverse curve. My layout is a fairly as-wrote Minories, the only concession to originality being the additional departure-only platform 1.

The baseboards consist of two 4'6 x 18" station boards shown below, two 45 degree corner boards, and a 4' traverser as a section of main line and fiddle yard. The overall footprint is an 8' x 13'6" L-shape:

Track Plan v2.1 - Updated 15/12/21

From top to bottom - Pilot locomotive shed, P1, 2, 3 4.

With reference to the track plan, P1 (top) was originally drawn as a dock. While @t-b-g does make an excellent point that the dock's use as a non-platform location to store stock is lost - but i am considering the operation of my prototype inspiration, where there are a number of operational kinks that can be adopted to mitigate against losing the unique appearance:

• The original station had distinct arrivals (P4, bottom) and departures (P1, top) platforms.
• The shorter platform siding (P3) already has a carriage dock, leading to the cab stand on the other side of P4
• In later years the station effectively dedicated the two inner platforms (P2 and P3) for newspaper and parcels traffic.
• None of these are particularly evident on the track plan apart from the departure-only P1, but I hope will make up for the unique look of the dock siding.