Here's a rough plan:
- Specs:
- The exit from the throat and the turnouts there are on a 6' radius, narrowing transitionally to 3'5" at the entrance to the traverser. However, the biggest pinch point is the left hand exit of the tandem turnout, which has a radius of 3'.
- My standard train length is 3'6" to account for a tender loco, station pilot loco, and five six wheeled coaches with a little breathing room.
- My platform clearance and traverser road length is nominally 4'
- I am looking primarily to run 19th century locomotives and six wheeled coaches on this layout. A longest fixed wheelbase 0-6-0 is 32mm + 29mm on a tender goods loco. I would plan to use cleminson underframes for the 6w coaches
The traverser is exactly 4' long and butts up into the corner of the room, so cannot be moved.
I would dearly like to avoid having the platform lines running parallel with the layout borders, but at this point I'm just not sure whether realistically with appropriate gauge widening it will be a non-issue with the stock I am running? This will be traversed by all shunting moves from the arrivals platform into the departures road, and all shunting moves into the goods yard - so it's important that it works properly within the scope of the layout.
I have made a version of the layout which adheres to a 4' radius on all the pointwork, but now almost every single turnout is a Y of some form, and it no longer fits in the space I have available
I am happy to get some track laid to these radii and try it out myself when I have accumulated the relevant stock, though if someone has material experience that can avoid the wait and the hours spent to do that, I would gladly appreciated it. Any thoughts or opinions gladly taken.
Many thanks,
William