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Platform extension

Barry Ten

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Last night I tackled one of those inessential but niggling jobs that I'd been meaning to look at for a while, which was to extend the up platform a bit.

 

Here's a before shot:

 

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And here's the slightly lengthened platform, which has now been brought forward a bit:

 

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Sorry about the difference in display size; the forum seems to handle images differently if they've been linked to from elsewhere, as
opposed to just uploaded.

 

I cut the old platform back at the point where the ramp commenced, then spliced in a new section and a revised ramp. The new platform end
has to taper quite a lot to fit into the available space, but not unrealistically so, I think. This doesn't buy that much extra length, about half
a coach's worth, but it's just enough to enable a 4 coach train to be accommodated at the platform without the locomotive and leading coach
being beyond the platform limit, and now a 5 coach train doesn't look silly. Longer trains still can't be accommodated but that was true of
many country stations as well.

 

Having done this, I reckon the platform ramp on the other side of the lines could benefit from being tapered as well, with the rear boundary fence
being skewed closer to the tracks. Although normally one likes platforms to be as wide as possible, I think in this case narrowing it a bit will
help with the illusion of greater length.

 

cheers!

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This is my favourite view of the layout. I can't get enough of it :-) The new taper of the platform doesn't look wrong I think.

 

I personally prefer the display of linked-in photos, as it uses the width of the blog much better. 

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Barry Ten
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Thanks, Mikkel. I'm pleased with this view as well. There's not a vast amount to do at this end of the layout really, besides adding a water crane to the end of the platform. I'd resisted before because it would have blocked one of the sight-lines to the station, but with the platform being slightly longer now, it's not so critical.

 

I also may need to revisit the location of the cattle dock, as it's proven highly vulnerable to damage in the place where it is now; I've snapped and re-glued the fences about three times already! If I move it closer to the three-way point, it'll be a bit safer, I think.

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