Definitely a night off the buildings tonight, both meself and my eyes very tired!

Time to veg-out with the laptop and think what to actually make this stuff into...

as mentioned before Cromdale and Blacksboat have simple-ish track layouts, they are both through stations though with the resulatant waste in fiddleyard space.

I remember also a thread on the old forum by Neil Ripley (Rippers) titled a '1001 layouts I'm not going to build' !There was a plan for a minimalist version of Banff on there- titled 'Banffish', it looks quite interesting though I dont think 4 tracks running into a single fiddleyard is something which appeals... There is a version of the real Banff in the Modelling Scotland's Railways book by Ian Futers I think something in between the two might work, it is of course a terminus too, the only downside is a very substantial station house which I am NOT building

- but maybe there is a case for 'mixed & matched' buildings.

Other useful points are the fact that it held one into BR blue era, as captured here

-if only in a freight capacity

Very basic templot version:

Banff.pdf

Main factors:

* simplified passenger platform as per prototype (- this has no points so laid in easitrack can look good but also be used to test N gauge stock prior to conversion. )

* small goods yard to test coupling/uncoupling

* straight and curved points

* third point (and front most) siding could be lost if doesn't seem suitable later without detracting from the other factors listed above.

Scenic thoughts to follow, but I do like the trainshed and cliff straight behind it