With fascia boards attached and armed with a rough template of the station platform, I could now start to plot the locations of both the engine and carriage sheds in preparation for the last bit of track laying.
The footprint was worked out as 85mm x 60mm. There's no particular reason for this other than it was the width of the gunpowder store and the length of the Dolgoch style station building that's still yet to find a home. The length crucially offered exactly what I was wanting, which is simply a shed long enough to reasonably stable either Skarloey or Rheneas. The gunpowder store and office are in place to check the clearance for the planned for carriage shed.
Clearances checked, dimensions were then planned for the carriage shed, again using the Dolgoch style station as a basis footprint wise. Again, I only really need it to hold one whole Brown Marshall/Lancaster coach at most, so it's quite a nice size. Still slightly on the fence as to the finish for it, I'm half tempted to do a Manx Northern 'Ramsey style' carriage shed and have it made from corrugated iron just to do something visually different with what would be a set of well known arrangement of buildings.
Laying in the dummy siding for the carriage shed also presented a nice challenge: Making a fake point. Nothing too spectacular here, simply cutting a piece of flex track at a diagonal so it can curve into the powered running line, and the carefully bending and filing odd pieces of rail to shape to give a rough representation of another point blade and check rails. All the time Skarloey was on standby to check clearances on the inside of the rails, having the longest fixed wheels base of the current fleet.
And in a short amount of time, all the track for Corri-Llyn is down. Already at this early stage with no scenery it's quite relaxing just to run the odd engine round. And of course it has the added bonus of them getting to get a good run in. Everyone wins!
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