As mentioned in the WOYWB thread I have updated the plan for Bow Creek which I'll have to stop doing as it'll never get started !
Drawn to a scale of 1:10 it gave me a much more accurate plan for plotting the P & C work and also the buildings which so far are all based on London prototypes sourced from old photo's and drawings accumulated over the years since the inception of the project. There are still some gaps to fill mainly background features and buildings in low relief.
Basically the track plan is a double track circuit and within that is a small terminus station, marshalling yard which serves the wharf and goods yard and a partially modelled junction station on the viaduct.
The line it's self is very loosely based on the London & Blackwall Railway ( now 1946, LNER ), the LMS have running powers over the line due to it connections to the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway and also the North London ( ex LNWR), as it did do in reality, and use this to gain access to the docks branch that creates a junction at the terminus station throat. On the layout this dock is off scene cassettes ( top right on the plan), the junction disguises the fact that it forms the continues circuit back round to the junction station. The idea of this circuit is to have the ability to test run stock but also to just sit watch it running when not operating in a prototypical manner.
The terminus is based on that which existed at Blackwall, indeed the station building will be based on that prototype for which I have some drawings and various photo's that will enable me to produce a fairly accurate model if not precise. The loco shed is based on Spitalfields otherwise known as Bethnal Green. No drawings exist as far as I know so I have drawn a deduced version from what photos are available.
This shed is for the shunters and pilot loco serving the yard but also there for topping up the passenger loco's that will run in and out of the station, again loosely, the yard is based on Canning Town wharf which acted as a small marshalling yard for the ex GER/ East India Docks warehouse access being gained by the short branch running round over the steel bridge and along the tramway to the wharf.
Apart from the Import/Export shed I have added a bonded warehouse and a general goods shed, once again loosely based on the shed at Devonshire Street ( lower right on the plan, unless you've turned it upside down
). This was out of the ordinary as the loading bank fronted the road with the yard gated entrance to the side.
The junction station here is on the high level viaduct, common in the East London area. This is based on a cross between Bethnal Green and Stepney East with the signal box from there also.
Looking at the plan you'll notice parts of the circuit looking as if it's running through the back quarters of some buildings but the layout level is set quite high, the marshalling yard is set at 1325mm ht. ( approx. 4'-4" ) so if you study the plan and visualise the scene at this height you'll notice that the various buildings etc. act as view blockers because you will be looking at the sides of them and not down on them as if in a helicopter !.
For instance looking at the engineering works, far left, standing viewing the entrance from the level crossing you will see the main line, set at 30-40mm above the yard level, disappear behind the works with our human field of vision disguising the fact that the line has curved around in a semi circle to gain the viaduct on the other side of the layout.
With the terminus station, this is backed by a scale 18ft. wall, as was the prototype, so all you will see at the back of the station is the upper warehouse floors and roofs. From this you'll also notice that the docks branch disappears as it enters under the road bridge thus deceiving our viewing eye that it in fact curves around the back of the station to form part of the continuous circuit.
I'll post again soon about other details, stock and the types of trains envisaged for the layout.
Col.
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I'd almost forgotten what it looked like 
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