I really need help.

Progress in the loft has finally started to get under way, pics below. Just putting some hard board up to cover the bricks and be a basic sky wall but another backscene will probably cover it anyway. Dabbled for a while weather to use plasterboard or hardboard but decided upon hard board. If it warps I'll just have to redo it!

Now whilst we are doing the loft I can't do a layout, that goes without saying, but in the mean time after reading Ian Rice's 2 books on trackbuilding and revising the S4 digest sheets I've decided to do a bit of track building; something which will probably be a bit too hard and thus I'm likely to make a pigs ear of it. However, It's a formation planned on the layout in the previus post (Top right of Station left of bridge) so if I make a success of it I can install it sometime probably. If I make a balls up then it'll be good practice to learn from. It's a B7L and single slip to match with straight 60FT sections. The plan in Anyrail in the previus post has a 1/8 Single slip but I'd like to use a 1/7 to shave a bit of space and get a slightly longer bottom platform. So far it seems to be lining up fine with tracks parallel etc. This is where I need help.......

1) Am I correct in thinking the parallel tracks inbetween platforms would be minimum width? I'd like it this way as I like the look, plus would that be ok on 46 and 48" curves either side?

2) Going with above idea I have to get the slip very close to the turnout resulting in the frogs having a smooch. No problem for building (he says), but how in the world am I supposed to keep them seperated for electrical breaks? Electrics is an area where I'm not that great even though I've read up alot on it. Any ideas? :shock:

3) Also should you always use a slip/diamond of matching frog angle to adjacient points? I don't know, but have done it here.

Note: If I do build it then I'm not sure weather I'll carefull peel the formation off the paper or just cut around the paper and use that to lay giving added strength and reducing breakage risk. I've read both methods are used.