Colin Parks wrote:Hi Kelly,
Interesting track plan and most ingenious of you to fit everything in! Having studied the plan, two questions occur to me: Is this a single track line? How does a train access the bay platform? Perhaps reversing the trailing crossover for a facing one (at the 4-5ft mark) would help.
All the best,
Colin
Hi Colin,
9ft was the limit on length imposed by storage/space to erect at home, hence the curve to form an L. It is however being planned with future expansion in mind. To fit it all in, the station hadn't to be angled and curved a bit, to lessen the effect of the 3ftx5ft curved lines.
Effectively it is single track as far as passenger usage [as Shepperton is, with the second platform never really used for most of the time other than for storage/stabling].
More information about the location it is based upon is here.
As can be seen from this photo the second platform was never used due to the line being stopped there (the original plan was to extend towards Weymouth iirc).
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/07/81/1078117_cd15272b.jpg
The bay platform isn't for passenger use, it is parcels/goods only. So goods traffics has to set back (as per prototype from Natalie's research).
There is a carriage siding on the right that units access via the crossover.