Covid free today. Yip f***ng ee! Ok lads, I have decided to rip up the old section of trackwork. The 1st radius curves were doing my head in. Only my 1970s class 37 and coaches would run on it so that was never going to do long term. None of the CIE stuff would be able to get to the station. This is the new track plan I am going with. The outer loop is 3rd radius (505 mm) and the inner is 2nd radius (438mm). The goods yard behind the platforms is a bit all over the place and probably never existed in real life. I was attempting to get as long a train as I could down each run of track while travelling to the engine shed at the back. Sorry if none of this is making sense. Basically, I am trying to make the longest possible "parking spaces" while letting other trains pass by. I am open to any expert suggestions here. Nothing written in stone yet. Oh, and I am looking for suggestions for a new station building. Something in stone and only one story, as it will be at the front of the layout, so I dont want to block out whats behind. Images please or even a nudge in the right direction would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Jaysus! Dunno how that came out sideways. Anybody know how to rotate it.? Anyway you get the general idea. Everything in red is staying as it is. The old inside loop did indeed turn out to be 1st radius(371mm) (I wasn,t sure before, thought it might be slightly smaller). But in digging out old boxes to store trains ahead of destruction work , I discovered this track. So Lima did have their own track geometery....360mm radius curve.
And finally for now.....While deconstructing the old layout this little hamlet popped up down the other end. Looks like Patrick Davey had an hour to kill