Opinions Please

Thanks Jim, 1 minute I'll see what I can do.

Still a bit too wide, I think you could knock a third off that walkway.

See this again, this is quite a wide walkway as they go:img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/Motorman/24072005001.jpg

Yes, just right. Don't forget to bring the current rails up to the boards though.

Jim, I love that picture, did you take it on a camera or your phone? A high-res version would be really good. I just like the symmetry of the trains.

Cheers David, yes it was taken with my phone as I didn't have my camera with me. It was taken at around 04.30 (the only time you will see that many trains in the depot) on a summer morning, and I'm just about to bring the first train out.

Looks way out in a billard-table-flat land suddenly encounting the Tyrolean Alps to me, DS . Anyway...

Your track spacing is uncommonly generous. Try 11' 2".

Your turnout lead looks far too short, particularly for a facing turnout. Try a dimension between 98' and 104'.

Is that an unelectrified disused platform the turnout is leading to? Whatever it is, looks like it needs a trailing connection as well, via a single slip.

The ground disc looks a bit 'non-LT' to me, and should be on the other side of its track.

On the right-hand track, the positive conductor rail would terminate (and swap over to the other rail) before reaching the platform ramp, unless you're doing an early days District or Metropolitan.

Love the girder bridge, but the supports look a tad skinny for that application.

Russ

Click here, and go to District Motorman's pic of the entrance to Ealing Common depot at night. That one's an 'outside' slip, and would suit your existing geometry better. In this case, the lead length for the trailing turnout would be more in the region of 57' to 63', with the flat diamond crossing vees at say 1:6.5 to 1:7.5, and the facing connection vees near to 1:4.5.

Russ

img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/chili_peanuts/pointwork.jpg

is this what you meant Russ (excuse the diabolical attempt, I'm no good with gradients or anything )

A couple of other observations.
On LU lines speed restriction boards are edged in black, not red.
The "Six foot", the gap beteeen the running lines looks too generous for LU standards, it could do with being squeezed together a bit.
The Positive rail on the right hand platform needs to change sides, you wouldn't see a positive rail on the platform edge side of a normal platform.

JN (sorry don't know your name) you have come to my rescue! I can build the route but I can't build the stuff to make it authentic, have you got MSN, maybe we could work together as I need quite a few bits for it.

Thanks.

That reminds me of the first time I took my depot track competence at Northfields. The trainer asked me to step into the six foot between two roads so I did. I then got a complete rollicking of him in front of everyone because it can't be considered a place of safety. I guess you get treated like that by a protection master... ;D