Platforms.......
The first move was to lay a line of 60thou sheets of Plastikard against the sleepers. All were overlapped slightly and then scored with a knife....
After removing the parts behind the score lines, the sheets were butted-glued together along with scraps underneath to strengthen the joints...
I then set a compass and dragged the point along the rail while a pencil marked the Plastikard....
Cutting along the pencil line, the excess was trimmed off.....
One platform top now completed.
The pencil lines denote the back of the platform and 11ft and 9ft 6ins from the front platform edge. Then a waiting room was used to give me other vital dimensions....
The platform will be 11ft wide, a dimension I came across when measuring up Carrog...
Following those pencil lines, the excess Plastikard removed. There will be an additional 24ft long platform ramp at each end...
This is the other end. The headshunt behind the station will serve an end-loading facility and short platform. There will be no rear entrance to the station building. Passengers will use a gateway to gain access to the platform and then use the door to the booking office. In this, I am copying Trevor Station on the Llangollen line....