Episode 3 - Adventures in Refinement 1
I've been working on refining the track plan for the terminus station and I think I'm just about there (famous last words...)
The terminus has also gained a name.
And so, gentle reader, I give you St Catherine's Bay (pronounced Cathereen):
- Goods Shed
- Goods Yard
- Goods Yard
- Locomotive release runaround
- Passenger platform
- Passenger platform
- Locomotive release runaround/van storage
- Passenger platform
- Passenger platform
- Carriage siding
- Carriage siding & Motorail loading
- Fish loading shed
- Goods yard headshunt
- Milk loading shed
- Goods departure siding
With no apologies, St Catherine's Bay is based on a shortened and single-line fed Bournemouth West. I love Bournemouth West and I'm delighted to be able to incorporate a station derived from it on one of my layouts. I'm hoping to emulate the colours of the area in the ballast, ground cover, platform canopies, etc.
I've moved the locomotive shed on the other side of the approach line, to hopefully help give the impression that space is at a premium at the front of the layout, where the light green will be quite a steep slope. The terrain will rise quite steeply on the engine shed side as well, with the area carved out of the hillside for the locomotive facilities, the approach line being on a ledge. I tried having the arrangement flipped, with the turntable on the left of the formation, as per Kyle of Lochalsh, but the geometry wouldn't fit.
Permanent Way will be British Finescale Code 40 Finetrax.
Buildings initially at least will be refined Metcalfe Settle & Carlisle kits just to get something down, and then later I'd like to go back and design my own etched building kits a la Severn Models.
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