Help wanted with location of signals

[MeirionGwril]

The attached draft plan is for a museum site with working goods yard, and roundhouse with heritage steam locos (all GB practice).  I assume full signals will be needed to protect the goods yard entrance and the station loop (at the right hand side), and the other end of the loop at the left hand side leading from the turntable. Would ground signals be all that's needed for the carriage sidings and goods yard sidings? Any suggestions as to location, and type (e.g. could you have a gantry signal to protect both the platform loop and the goods yard entrance on one signal post?) I'm also assuming that no distance signals are needed as they'd be off-layout.

The signals will be powered and run off a DCC system so suggestions at to recommended upper quadrant models for 00 gauge would be appreciated.

Plan_00_2021_v2.pdf

[The Stationmaster]

Well you could do it with no signals at all and work it quite realistically and legitimately from a few ground frames that would just handle the running line connections.  But museum sites tend to like having signals so you  could have some although it would  help by knowing which Company's signalling practice you would like to follow.  

 

But standing that aside the simplest way of doing the job is tp havea Home Sognal at the first points an icomong train will reach with a double disc ground signal alongside it.  The semaphore Home Signal would read t theplatform, the upper disc would read to th runround loop/carriah ge shed and the lower disc would read to the goods shed area.  There would be a semaphore Starting Signal from the platform.   you then need a few single ground discs - one  reading towards the loop at the engine release points leading to the runround loop, one at the exit from the runround loop, one at the exit from the carriage sidings, and one at the exit from the goods yard etc sidings.  And that's it.

 

What you also need - and dummy representations will do perfectly well - are trap points protecting the running line from any errant movements out of the runround loop, the carriage sidings, and the goods shed etc sidings 

[MeirionGwril]

Many thanks Mike - that's been a great help

[Nick Holliday]

Wouldn't Health and Safety require some means of controlling the public access to the car park through the goods yard?  Perhaps not moving signals, but lots of signage as a minimum.

[The Stationmaster]

1 hour ago, Nick Holliday said:

Wouldn't Health and Safety require some means of controlling the public access to the car park through the goods yard?  Perhaps not moving signals, but lots of signage as a minimum.

Yes - but nothing to do with signalling merely some means of ensuring people don't crss if movements are taking place such as stewards with moveable barriers etc.  Basically a visitor safety thing and not a signalling issue.

[MeirionGwril]

some wee 00 gauge folk with flags will be strategically placed ...