Then an idle thought passed through (there being nothing between the ears to stop it). Previously having used road adjacent to the entry road turnout as the loco siding meant that space was always going to be tight for loco support facilities such as a coaling stage and diesel refuelling point (if I ever got around to adding the scenery to the layout). The revision to the goods shed entry direction and conversion of the kick-back road into an ordinary siding had freed up space there. Hmmmm. If I was to reassign that new siding as the loco holding road then that problem was solved, and the previous loco holding road could be better used. In fact it could make up the missing piece of the jigsaw, a carriage siding. That only needed to be long enough to hold a local passenger, say 4 suburbans or a three car DMU. That in turn meant the yard siding nearest the arrival road could be 's' - curved and allow room for a ramp down from the over bridge road that masks the cassette joining point, thereby allowing vehicle access into the goods yard, a weighbridge and associated huts.
So back to Templot and another couple of hours shuffling track. The resultant amended (and final) trackplan is shown below.
Photos 1 to 3 show the three boards, photo 4 shows the whole scenic layout bit (with cassettes on one end). The width will be circa 4 inches deeper as the bolt-on low relief townscape goes on the operating (signal box) side.
The full three track boards are 2.8 metres by 28 cms. Now to complete the turnout timbering and start building....... Nurse! The Screens!.................
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