TT Scale. The Ideal Scale.

still nothing. can you do a different format image?

Really? I can see it. Anyway...

Well, if you remove the loop at the end of the staging as in CSD's example, you can shift the whole staging down and open up space in the middle. Then, widen the top area down into the open space and add a small industry there. Terrible pic but:

Or maybe this...

^^^ Idiot ^^^

Here's a better representation of what I meant:

Running locomotives from depot through the countryside to the other side of the layout to hook up with cars doesn't look like an improvement.

Just quickly - funny to see these innovative attempts to alter my original attached jpegs. I will re-consider the duck-under option as a result. The layout was done with Anyrail; there is an anyrail forum where people post their plans and because everyone has the software alterations can be suggested more easily than with the jpeg paintjobs and grafitti - e.g. "CSD was here" - LOL

Yes, been getting some feedback on the anyrail forum alongside the feedback received here.

More generally, I am doing research into German dead-end stations, looking at Kiel, Hamburg Altona, Wiesbaden and Bad Harzburg as sources of inspiration. Of course, the dead-end station (kopfbahnhof) fits with my original point-to-loop design. Much to think about, and I expect to take some time to get to a version two of the overall layout.

Maybe along the way I will explore and post elsewhere on the this TT forum. Maybe some photos of models that no one else has posted on :)

Juup

dileTTante wrote:Running locomotives from depot through the countryside to the other side of the layout to hook up with cars doesn't look like an improvement.

True true.....perhaps use it as a small passenger station instead of a depot?