Mike152

Thank you for all your replies. I'll definitely join the CRA and investigate the various resource literature on offer. For information:- The engine shed point is about a scale 300ft from the signal box and the right hand end sidings point is about a scale 900ft from the signal box.

Thanks Keith. I've updated the plan, hopefully capturing everything. Would there be a telephone or something by the ground signal to arrange for an engine to come back from the turntable? Would it be possible for a train to run past the ground frame sidings, if there is a loco in them already or is that option blocked by the fact they would be in possession of the token to unlock the frame?

Having looked at the Oban line signalling site, I have had a go at signalling the plan, as per below. The ground signals would actually be miniature semaphores in this time period. Would the ground frames be correct for the distances from the signal box or would one or both be controlled by the signal box? Any comments gratefully accepted.

Thanks, that is an iteresting site to know.

I wonder if the experience on this forum can help me please with a signalling plan for this terminus station, which is a fictitious design. It is based on a Caledonian Railway branch, about 1920 era (before Grouping), and is a single line working using a token system. The placing of the Goods/Fish Shed sidings is perhaps not the best position, but it has been taken that there isn't enough room to expand width ways at the left hand end (both in the fictitious place and on the baseboard). Starters on both platforms for departure (or bracket signal), but would there be a bracket signal before the level crossing (heading towards the station) to guard the crossing and also indicate which platform to go into? When an engine runs around the coaches (or goes to the turntable area), it will need to go onto the level crossing. The engine shed point is about a scale 300ft from the signal box and the right hand end sidings point is about a scale 900ft from the signal box. Would a ground frame be used for the sidings on the right hand end, unlocked by the token, or would it be worked direct by the signal box? I seem to remember reading somewhere about token worked ground frame sidings being able to be locked with a train inside, to allow another train to pass by? This would help with the amount of activity that can happen on the layout at the same time, if so. Thanks in advance.