Looking at the photo from above in the last blog made me realize I might have a lot of scenery to do at the front of the layout. This got me thinking (does any one remember Alan Dare's layout in the April and June 1981 editions of the Railway Modeller?). His layout was a freight only branch with a disused passenger station.
On the layout I could add another track at the front (number 1 on the attached diagram), along with a platform. An extra fiddle yard could be added at point A, thus creating a through line on the new passenger line.The passenger service could be a couple of DMUs plying their trade from left to right of the layout, and back again. As a variation I could use the station as a terminal station and any traffic travelling towards point A would be freight only. Any freight that travels as a through service, such as a pickup service, would need to be vans, tankers or covered vehicles. If 16t coal or hopper wagons are used loaded wagons would travel from the main fiddle yard to the fiddle yard at A, and empties would travel in the opposite direction. The other option with open wagons would be to have removable loads if possible. This is assuming the main yard where all the freights come from will be the direction from the main fiddle yard. This would certainly bring some variation to the operation of the layout.
The line marked B on the diagram is accessible from the sector plate C within the transit shed. Unloading would therefore take place off-scene.
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