I wanted to share a small collection of images from this thread:  (with special thanks to those who contributed.)

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/162153-input-ideas-on-planning-a-timetable-and-creating-a-location/page/1/#comments

And the layout, fictitious though it be, now sits on the North Coast of Kent. 

For some, it's "Reculver" - a real place, developed beyond its actual status by the power of imagination to a relatively busy wharf, with industry and modest tourism.

For me, it's Dent-de-Lion - a fictitious location occupying almost exactly the same spot.  Named for a local medieval landowner - and some say, smuggler.

Here, to help give the layout some locational gravitas are the maps which developed over the course of the thread:

This final image is the most like the way I see the layout being situated.

With the input from many others, the station has connections to London Victoria, Charing Cross and Cannon Street, all stations on the North Kent Coast, plus Canterbury West, Ashford, Maidstone East, Dover Priory, Margate and all points in-between.