Tiny inglenook - setting?

[puffernutter]

Further to my previous post, I decided to bite the bullet and start laying track - I've worked out that with a sector plate headshunt I can fit a 3-2-2 inglenook into 3'6 x 8" with a bit of space all around. I think the best way to truncate the tracks to put some plausibility into me shunting 2-cars at a time would be halves of vans stuck to the skyboard. My original thought was to have it be the back end of a larger freight yard, like so:

 

 

I like this, but I wanted to pool the great opinions here and see what else we could come up with!

 

Another thought I had would be modelling the inside of a depot, with wooden plank platforms, dirt rather than ballast, etc. with hanging rafters and whatnot. What else can we brainstorm for my micro inglenook setting?

 

Era-wise I'm still looking at the mid 70's at the moment.

 

Cheers!

[puffernutter]

Bought a Heljan blue 33 (£42 from Hattons) and some kits so my era is now cemented.

 

I think that a blue brick-lined cutting would make most sense, like the warren of tracks and bridges on ground-level between London Bridge and New Cross. Skewed girder bridge covering the exit, and a small depot platform in a corner of Bricklayers Arms.

 

Any other ideas?

[shortliner]

Another alternative that I have used on an Inglenook, is an artic backed up across inset tracks into an open doorway at the far end of the building, effectively blocking further progress along the rails

[puffernutter]

That's a great idea, but I think it's more suited to the US with their predominance of LCL freight.

 

Anyway, it looks like I've painted myself into a corner enough that no setting other than a semi-urban freight yard makes sense - not that that's a particularly bad thing!

 

I'm seeing a goods shed with a closed door blocking the near turnout spur, and the half-van on the far side.

[Etched Pixels]

That's a great idea, but I think it's more suited to the US with their predominance of LCL freight.

 

Anyway, it looks like I've painted myself into a corner enough that no setting other than a semi-urban freight yard makes sense - not that that's a particularly bad thing!

 

I'm seeing a goods shed with a closed door blocking the near turnout spur, and the half-van on the far side.

 

Boot Lane Goods simply has one of the sidings going off the other end through a shed with closeable doors. If I've got space I can plug a second fiddle track on that and add/remove wagon loads. If not the doors can be shut. I got the idea from a layout on carendt.us where one of the sidings ended going under a set of security gates. You can imagine the same for example outside an MOD base with a small unloading area and secure access are beyond that isn't usually used (until you build the extension/second fiddle)

 

(or how about the Bluebell railway tip clearance project ... you can end with a pile of landfill and an excavator)

 

Alan