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Don't forget the ones with loudspeakers on top.

I believe that space used to be a turntable, hard to imagine what use that space would have now.

Would work with an end on layout though...

I think that works, just assume there is a junction off to the right that requires the bracket signal. No signal required for a passenger train to pass the point left to right but you could have a ground signal where the two sidings become one to control freight movements out onto the running line.

I've come to believe the absolute essence of Minories is the joining of turnout to straight, so elegant, so simple.

Back in the 70s I seem to remember metallic interior fittings on public transport like window surrounds, table edges and ashtrays covered in a grey film and smelling of snot. What was that?

So much elegance seems to come from using this simple combination, for example Victoria Park Such a simple substitution, turnout to straight, and the trainset look is gone. It's the essence of the Minories throat isn't it.

Somewhere else the council caused more damage than the Luftwaffe! Thanks for this, always wondered how the photos in my Welshpool and Llanfair book (70s, red softcover) joined up.

Interesting, so there is a signal clearing implication. Also, keeping it neutral on any am/pm tidal flow, isn't it optimal to prioritise arrivals from a single-directional 2 track approach into a 2 or more platform terminus? Up to a point at least, until all platforms are occupied, thus marginally favouring the facing then trailing arrangement on arrival?

On a more general point, a two-track approach to a terminus generally has both trailing and facing crossovers, but does the order matter? Is it relative priority of arrivals and departures that sets the order, clearance of signalling blocks, minimising facing point moves, or nothing in particular just site constraints? The top would seem to prioritise departures in terms of track occupancy, the bottom to prioritise arrivals. The top has two facing moves per arrival/departure, the bottom has three facing moves.

Multiple fatalities and at least 50 injured after Amtrak hits dump truck on public crossing and derails COMPLETELY near Kansas City with 243 people onboard: Terrified passengers escape out of smashed windows https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10958473/Multiple-people-feared-dead-Amtrak-derailment-near-Kansas-City.html

Makes me wonder if one of those Hornby tunnels exists in reality.

This would be around 1982 when I got into hanging around Birmingham city centre instead of morning lectures. On the train in I fell in with some commuters who met up in the buffet, one of whom ran a record shop and was telling me about this bloke Jed who worked in the other shop who knew all the train and bus timetables, they all seemed to know him. I'm pretty sure I bought some records from him, Inferno/Tempest at the far end of Corporation Street near the Law Courts. So I didn't know him from trains but just around and had forgotten his name until now. Anyway, I was glad to see him last year getting off a bus on Colmore Row but sad to hear he's now left us.

Jed! I think I know who you mean, a long haired bloke in an overcoat. Worked in a record shop, either Inferno or the other one, Tempest. Saw him sometime in the last year and it took me right back.

I often got on an intercity held at Five Ways for New Street.

I notice that section seems to have a path constructed along it now. All the old factories are gone too. Maybe I should go for a walk, or just remember it as it was. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cross+St,+Wolverhampton/@52.5817403,-2.1079053,499m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x48709be92d895d3d:0x56d047bb19b23882!8m2!3d52.5822116!4d-2.1072683 I remember the line extending southeast to terminate behind some chain link fencing on the north side of the A41 Bilston Road in the early 80s

The remains of the WR Birmingham to Wolverhampton line were always intriguing. By the early 80s Snow Hill was flattened but some signs remained. There was the rubbish-strewn line heading north from Smethwick West, the other end crossed over if you ever found yourself on services diverted over the Perry Barr triangle, and behind a factory at Monmore Green some low-sided bogie wagons rotting on the line as it approached Wolverhampton Low Level.

Early 70s I remember a primary school trip to a museum in Birmingham, the T Rex certainly rings a bell, and on the return journey on a bus down Great Charles Street Queensway the massive broken hulk of Snow Hill station rearing up above the road. I wasn't sure what I'd seen for years but it stuck in my mind. Around the same time a trip with my mum and her friend to Birmingham city centre, which seemed to be all brightly coloured lighted subways. Also looking up from New Street station seeing a large red neon sign saying 'Bull Ring'. There was a sparse sophistication to coloured light installations back then, what little was there really stood out, it was modern.

On a hill road up from Llanfihangel Rhydithon, one mile southeast of Dolau on the Heart of Wales line

How about a fiddle yard that mimics a Minories, ie: the loco does not get turned, the loco does change set. Train fully arrives into loop from left, loco detaches then attaches to and propels a previously detached set around the loop until it clears the points (either remains on the loop for immediate despatch or stacks up in the sidings for tidal flow), train exits left Would be interesting to connect it up to a Minories to see if there are synergies.

As long as there is a straight longer than your longest vehicle there is no reverse curve.

I think a most basic rule is to only signal movements that are expected to happen.

A Minories based upon the concept for Bastille (posted elsewhere in this thread, that looked something like this) The stacked parallelograms give maximum separation between arrivals and departures whereas Buckingham seems to give minimal separation, with just about everything conflicting except departures platform 1 and 2

It's effectively one giant double slip, looks like some sort of analogue of the double parallelogram 'Bastille' version of Minories