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Simplified somewhat, but hopefully all the bits are in the right places now:

Managed to fit this in as well.

It will be a single board, but quite lightweight due to using craftfoam (https://www.panelsystems.co.uk/product/craftfoam-blue) with a pine frame. Unfortunately not as the table doubles up as a wargames table and has lots of stuff stored underneath.

It's remarkably similar to Crymmych Arms.

The baseboard is coming out at 130*200 at the moment. I do need the layout to sit on top of a 6x4 table, which I already have in my room. The alternative would be a 14' * 18" shelf that I could fit on some racking, but I didn't want to commit to an end-to-end layout at the present time.

I spent a bit of time looking at other track layouts on the Cadi Bach and Crymmych Arms (http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/c/crymmych_arms/index.shtml) had curved mileage sidings with a headshunt, so I've taken inspiration from this. It also looks quite similar to Phil's idea. I moved the weighbridge to the other side of the level crossing where it can be at the entrance to the goods yard, which frees up some space to keep the mileage sidings in the bottom half of the board. The slightly skewed track just adds interest. I will copy Neil's idea about building the cattle dock longer and narrower, which is roughly the size of the area indicated below.

That's really useful info, thanks.

I'm probably going to stick with this (subject to seeing the track laid out on the baseboard) - I just made the sidings a tad longer:

Thanks, I will try this later to see how it looks. That's a really good idea. I've not built the kit yet (I was going to build it last night but fortunately didn't get round to it).

More or less going with Phil's suggestion, apart from keeping the cattle dock on the goods yard side. I also like the idea of the goods shed road being right up against the back of the station platform, so have moved the goods shed right a bit and the crane is now on the left. Not sure if adding two storage sidings is going too far, but I think it looks OK.

Looks like the one then! If I build that and Neil finishes Newcastle Emlyn, we can exhibit together!

This is a good picture of the station:

Thanks Neil, that's good to know. I think I need to throw some track down and see how all this looks on a board as it can be difficult gauging distance and scale on a 2D plan. I have all the wood I need now to make my baseboard, so will start on that later today (have to start tiling the kitchen first, though ).

More fiddling, but I don't think veering off into the centre of the board is all that great. I haven't seen sidings angled off like that on the plans I've looked at. Diss does have a couple of parallel tracks that veer off at an approx. 10° angle, but the sidings still end up parallel to the other sidings and the main lines.

I don't want to extend too much into the center, so how about this?

Reduced the length of the coal siding a bit and removed the shunt signal from the private siding.

Thanks for the update, Neil. I know it's difficult finding the time to spend on hobby projects.

That's good, Phil, thanks. I didn't want to encroach too far into the middle of the board, but like the idea of the goods shed being near the station. However, I added a mileage siding directly behind the platform, then the goods siding behind that. Not too bothered about a cattle dock, so have removed that for now. Getting some reasonable wagon capacity on the layout now, although I only have 26 wagons (at the moment).

Thanks, I did wonder if that would be a possibility. I like the idea

The mileage siding will hold 11 wagons (I assumed 9cm per wagon), so that's not far off the capacity of some of the other stations on the Cardi Bach. Rhydowen had a capacity of 13, Crymmych Arms 12 and 14 (two sidings), but Cardigan had 26 and 27.

I was looking at a signalling diagram of Boncath and the distants were just over 800 yards from the box in each direction, which is around 10m in 1/76 scale. I will stick them in the garden

How's this? I also added a yard crane - the stations with goods sheds along the Cardi Bach had cranes. So I need to look out for a suitable crossing keepers house.

Thanks John, how's this?

The small building to the right of the station building was a parcels shed according to the book "Branch Lines to Pembroke and Cardigan". In the same book, they state that the signal box had 16 levers.

Moved the goods shed to the other siding, added a cattle dock, removed the large coal merchant building. Moved the signal box to the end of the other platform (just so the steps line up with the platform ramp):