Today I was idly looking at mid-19th century OS maps of Victoria station. Thanks to the National Library of Scotland they are on line and we can make use of our heritage of sound map making. What I found was that it is quite feasible to treat the westernmost end of the station as a single unit and model it as a Minories style layout. It would basically be a single island (peninsular?) platform with tracks either side. Both sides would have an engine release loop as well, these were in the real 1880s Victoria, and -oh joy! - a turntable squeezed in just before the Ecclestone Road bridge. The pointwork is what you'd expect for making both platform roads available to both up and down trains and in the late 19th century there was space for the odd carriage siding and a separate approach from Battersea.