Peter Kazmierczak

I think annotated drawings would help explain various features So many books talk about details on a loco, but don't state what one is supposed to be looking at.

I like your idea of a low-level goods yard, with the passenger station on a viaduct. A very common set-up, but rarely modelled.

A few thoughts:

• I assume there are hidden sidings beneath the station, but how do you access them to set up trains?
• I like the spacious feel to the goods facilities. That's a really good feature.
• There seems to be no run-round loop in the yard, so will there be a lot of propelling movements in and out? You could put a crossover at the end of the two parallel lines on the right.
• Does the layout continue to the left? Is there a fiddle yard or storage cassettes there?

Regards,

Peter

Do you have a plan of the whole layout please?

PS Don't forget a trap point at the exit from the milk dock, protecting the passenger running lines.

That looks much better. Tandem (3-way) turnouts not a good idea in a station throat. Yes, I know Kings Cross has (or had) examples, but best not in model form.

Like the way the train engine would propel out the ECS - very prototypical in a situation such as this. I assume the actual run-round is offstage on the left.