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@Pete the Elaner @The Johnster thank you both. I know what I am looking for in the layout I am just curious as to what others might put into the space and see their ideas.

Hi All, I’m always curious about what else could be created in the space I have. I’m modelling 1970s to modern day, South East London/Kent what would have been Network Southeast to Southeastern Railways. Mainly EMUs with some freight. This is what I have planned my “layout on” but have been flexible. I have put a blank plan of my loft boards and would love to know what other people might get into the space with the above ideas.

Thanks for this. The entrance is in the Bottom left that is a removable section. I think I have worked out the design now as have made it that both lines are able to go "off scene" and then they become 1 line for the helix down into the lower fiddle yard.

basically a good way to add a diverging line and a goods/yard of some kind in the upper area of the picture.

Hi, I have come back to my layout after a while away. I am working on one half of my layout. It’s 00 gauge and is to be set from the 80s to modern day in southeast London, so looking at dmus and emus mainly, but with some scenic freight aswell. I have a medium size straight roughly 3m down one side of my layout that I would like to use to create the look that the “mainline” goes off scene and onto my helix and then my “branch line” stays to the back of the scene and carries on to the smaller station at the side of the layout. I was possibly thinking of there being a “storage yard” or “line maintenance depot” on the front of the board so there would be lines coming off the line and down to the front of the board too. I did have my head set on the helix at the right end of my layout however I am happy to change this to make it work for layout. I have attached a basic drawing of my layout. The station at the bottom is already laid. The outer line is the clockwise “down” and the inner is the anticlockwise “up”. I hope this makes sense to someone. Thanks

I think I am happy with how the layout feels now. The current gives me a good range of main line and branch line operations. agreed with the ideas about the MUs on the helix.

Definitely looking forward to using flexitrack to get this part of the layout set and giving it a more open feel to the set first half of the layout!

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I have done some work today on the design. Thanks to @DCB for the idea of getting a larger branch station on the opposite side of the layout. I’m hoping to add the headshunt idea next to points for the helix but just need to work the best way to do it.

I have very little running stock at the moment so I will be building by stock around what works for the layout to an extent.

@DCBthis does solve all the issues with getting down line trains back onto the layout from the FY. Not sure if I would have the space for that points layout but we shall see.

@DCB I like the idea of this but worry how much it covers the helix so I couldn’t do any maintenance if needed.

I think this is what I am thinking off. I originally had a smaller 2 platform station with a small yard off to the side for maintenance trains in my head a little like what is around the Hither Green area of the mainline. I have put a picture of Hither Green below do you think a smaller version of this could work with the addition of the maintenance yard! Ignoring the diverging red line!

Hi, thanks for your reply, and very sorry to hear about your father. However I have already built the station area so that is fixed in stone. It is based on Orpington so I know how I want it to feel.

John thanks for this. I totally understand what you mean. I have done some drawings to hopefully help. The idea is that the top left sidings are a small EMU sidings for the branch line / slow services coming into the station from “London” (off layout). The top 3 platforms 3,4&5 are fed from these and are the lines running slow/stopping services to London. platforms 1&2 are the mainline UP/DOWN services to London / the South coast, these trains would be stored at loco depots nearer their destinations or the larger depots on the network. Ideally there would be 2 more lines coming out of the station which would be slow UP/Down lines but I didn’t have space for this as I wanted some scenic space too. the diamonds you mention are all double slips so have the ability to open the upper platforms to main loops. with the help on this forum I am now going to rework the lower part of the layout to make it a bit more interesting - he says fingers crossed. I was never overly pleased with this area of the design hence why I started with the station area first. hope this helps h