Still playing around with ideas for my new layout.
I've got space at one end of around 6'x2' to which I can allocate additional space of 6 - 8' x 1' (18" dropping to 1' or thereabouts) approx running off one of the long sides to make a "T".
Question is, what to do with it?
I do have a turntable I'd like to use so I was thinking of a compactish MPD ... 4 road shed, coaling stage, ash, space for a breakdown train and a couple of "spare sidings", that was plan "A", however then I thought of a revised track layout for my main station to which I could add the turntable as part of a minor engine servicing facility leaving the space above for some form of industrial works/sidings ... question is what?
Gasworks ... coal, tar, acid, naphtha and coke traffic ... plenty of variety ... Builders yard (s) ... coal, bricks, stone, limestone, tiles, pipes, sand .. again plenty of variety ... Military/navel ... bit of a cliché but an excuse to run a few "exotic" types together with more mundane stock but the area's a bit small unless I pretend that most of the depot/base is just out of view Engineering works ... coal/coke, various bolster wagons, metals etc ...
To be set up so that I can run two periods interchangeably ... 1930s and early BR/green diesels without to many anachronisms. Location will be 'up North'.
Anyway, back to the point of this post ... anyone got any better ideas/comments on my choices based on the space available?
Wagon repair works? Small Docks?