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Hi Gödel
Planning a station layout is so much easier when you have a real station plan to base it on.
One of the compromises is always going to revolve around
1) Train Length
2) platform length
3) storage siding length.
In terms of your aspirations concerning running a 11 coach passenger train, that can stop at the station, may have to give way to it just passing through the station.
On my layout, my station area is approximately 5 meters long, but the longest platform length is about 2.2 meters long )points take up a lot of space!) but it does allow me to run a 9-10 coach train (DRG and Landerbahn coaches where not as long as today's examples) which looks right for the station.
Cheers
John
Planning a station layout is so much easier when you have a real station plan to base it on.
One of the compromises is always going to revolve around
1) Train Length
2) platform length
3) storage siding length.
In terms of your aspirations concerning running a 11 coach passenger train, that can stop at the station, may have to give way to it just passing through the station.
On my layout, my station area is approximately 5 meters long, but the longest platform length is about 2.2 meters long )points take up a lot of space!) but it does allow me to run a 9-10 coach train (DRG and Landerbahn coaches where not as long as today's examples) which looks right for the station.
Cheers
John
