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« Reply #45 on: September 07, 2024, 19:34:31 »

How long is the new platform going to be?

The sharp curve to the right will make dispatch far from ideal.

It'll be about 85m and only for the branch trains. 
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« Reply #46 on: September 18, 2024, 13:58:21 »

How long is the new platform going to be?

The sharp curve to the right will make dispatch far from ideal.

It'll be about 85m and only for the branch trains. 

Will the points be further out (to future proof a later extension) or immediately after the platform?
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« Reply #47 on: September 19, 2024, 07:15:49 »

They'll need to be beyond the platform in order to allow trains in and out while a longer train is stabled in the existing platform.
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« Reply #48 on: September 19, 2024, 13:27:49 »

They'll need to be beyond the platform in order to allow trains in and out while a longer train is stabled in the existing platform.

Thanks - I now realise my question was badly-phrased.  Embarrassed

I meant will the points be at the end of the "long"/current platform or further out?

 
 
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« Reply #49 on: September 19, 2024, 16:37:35 »

They'll need to be beyond the platform in order to allow trains in and out while a longer train is stabled in the existing platform.

Thanks - I now realise my question was badly-phrased.  Embarrassed

I meant will the points be at the end of the "long"/current platform or further out?

 
 

Not sure on that one I'm afraid, although even if it is next to the end of the platform, there's still plenty of room for extension.
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