Really looking good Pete. Hope it is all going well. How much track have you laid so far?

All the best,
Chris.

Hi Pete.

Further to my comments elsewhere, here is my take on the sidings. It's a bit scrappy but I was talking on the phone as I was doing it.

Best wishes,
Chris.

C'mon guys!  Not everyone has access to the beta versions 

I can't open your files 

Pete

And ditto on the sorry! I'll repost mine as soon as I get a chance. Or perhaps post a jpg and you can tell me if it's worth redoing  'the old-fashioned way'

Hi Pete.

Sorry, the grey bit is the headshunt and the short grey bit a loco storage road. To use that system you would need to have an isolated section big enough to hold a loco at the end of the headshunt. Even better would be to have the other end just going back onto the mainline via a crossover. Still, it appears to be too late so it is a bit academic.

Incidentally, I learned teh had way as, on my layout, the sidings are at the wrong end of the station. If I use this as a pattern for my N scale layout I will build it all the other way round.

All the best,
Chris.

Interesting. And better. But worse- there is little if any use of height settings, so it's hard to figure out what is where in a 3D sense.

Anyway, I think I would take the Blue/Green Line Railway and extend it underneath the entire upper-right area of the layout in the form of a hidden staging yard. That way, passenger ttrains could disappear into the tunnel and new ones appear. Here's the jpg I made-

Yes, I looked. Also interesting. And I wasn't necessarily advocating putting anything below base level, but you can always build "base level" 10 or 15 cm's ABOVE a 'basement' level . The intention was to give the passenger trains a place to 'go to' and 'come from'.

Hi Pete.

First, I have a question here for David. If you look at the bottom right where the mauve and orange tracks straighten out to go to the top of the layout, you will see that the tracks don't quite line up. I had the same problem on my own layout and only resolved it by using a short bit of flex track instead of the actual rigid track. Is there any way that Pete could have drawn this and for teh program to have eased these two ends togehter (e.g. to have a section continue right across the break)?

A couple of comments for you Pete. I suggest adding a single turnout at the left end of the headshunt with, 165mm of straight off it to act as a loco holding spur (and safety overshoot). The two turnouts could be controlled as a pair but basically it is to stop a runaway train from running onto the main line as another train is passing.

Also, you could move the sidings to the left as there is no need for such a long headshunt — which would make them more accessible — and add an uncoupler at each end of the headshunt. A possible arrangement is attached.

All the best,
Chris.