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The Midland was the first to introduce traffic control - presumably this alone had a huge impact on economics, without significant capital investment.

Even when information is as accurate and comprehensive as we might wish, we still have to factor in competence of the person doing the modelling. Let's not criticise what is an invaluable resource. In good hands, it is extremely useful. In the wrong hands, even good information is of little use.

Other inaccuracies include deliberate ones, like military installations. These were left as blanks on maps until the inter-war years - and sometimes much later. It seems unlikely to me that we could ever get a totally accurate picture of what a station was like. Builders don't always follow drawings accurately. Even doing a survey of a current station today, there will usually be angles difficult or impossible to access, or something to obstruct a photo. To make a model, we have to be prepared to make compromises and guesses to fill in the gaps. Striving for the perfect model may mean, in the end, that it just never gets built.

Dudley was a very interesting interface - or if you like picturesque, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and the Forest of Dean

Older wagons can always be parked in sidings. You don't have to run them all the time.

If the 3D printing is not reliable, you could try making the centres slightly undersize and build a jig to get the wheel centre (based on the axle hole) and tyre concentric. Use adhesive to fill the gap.

£12 a kit sounds very reasonable. Will there be just one type, or several of different lengths?

It would be nice to have an idea of what stock will run on it. I suspect some wheel flanges might be too deep. Mind you, at only £4 for a metre of track it might be worth a try anyway.

Just a very small point, but the Jersey Eastern Railway 0-4-2 tank locomotives were built by Kitson. Nice idea though, all the same

Not so much the price as the title here

A very crude "Minories" -type design I did a while ago. The grey bits show ways it could be expanded, including a 4-platform station option, with no added length. Quite crude compared with some of the ones seen so far. It would almost certainly have to be built with hand-made track, I guess. Maybe one for the folks who have mastered Templot?

It is nice to see another P4 layout utilising the Minories theme - good job you are not all using the original name or things could have got very confusing Clive, your development of Minories is very interesting. I am no expert, but having followed comments about the need for parallel running into and out of platforms, could I suggest a further refinement for the possible benefit of others - no criticism intended? The addition of a couple more points could allow a little more freedom of movement without much loss of platform space. The double slip could then be a single slip.

Browsing through Scaleforum, this seems to be the main thread.

Many thanks for the timetable. I assume you have seen the 1914 Sunday TT on Wikepedia? - only one way though. Yes, I noticed the pattern - also that within the 5 departures they leave in order of furthest distance before the first stop, with the slowest train just reaching its destination before the next fast train gets there. Quite how you could operate such an intensive service in model form without a team of helpers, I don't know!

More like OTT than OT Seriously, that is an amazing piece of work!

This looks incredibly complicated - certainly far from a simple case of trains departing and returning on public services as I had naively expected. The number of empty stock movements is quite large. It would be very interesting to see what the full daily timetable looked like.

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............ or the diesel era with 2 and 3 car DMUs

Applying the Bastille model to a through station may be invalid - some of the platforms are likely to be uni-directional to avoid conflicting movements in a through station.

This has been a very interesting subject, even if it has strayed far from the original query. Having viewed it up to now as a guest, I just joined RMWeb so I could make a small contribution. My strong impression is that track plans were rarely elegant on the real thing - especially at places where the station had been substantially expanded to cope with additional traffic. Some, like Euston, were a complete mess. It was rare to have the opportunity to completely remodel a station's trackwork in the steam era. Many were modified in a fairly higgledy-piggledy way. St Enoch was effectively 2 stations side by side, so could be reduced by a third or so for modelling purposes without losing the atmosphere of the original. It would still be very large though. The northern-most 2 platforms (platforms 1 and 2) would make an interesting model in themselves. They appear to have been designed for 2 trains to use each platform without impeding each other - a feature rarely modelled. Here is an extract of the signal and track plan from around 1900. Whilst large termini are exciting to contemplate, they require a huge amount of effort to operate - far more in the realm of a group than an individual - especially in the steam era, when there would be lots of light engine movements on top of the service itself. Even platforms one and two on their own would require a lot of concentrated effort to work realistically.