Graft and hard work - Track planning in the sunshine

Taking advantage of a nice day and inspired by what I saw on the Continental Garden Trains forum then I got some track out and the proposed bits of decking and played around with a bit.   As always the space seems to get eaten up but it was useful to see how things might look.

It re-inforced that if I'm going to go for a larger curve than radius 2 then I need to buy some of the curves to be able to mock up how they will look in practice.

The curve coming out from behind the mock orange.  Very likely that there will be a lift out section to preserve access to the lawn when operations are not running. 

Considering what sort of siding/station I might get on this side.  Picture below shows the basic single straight passing loop  running across 4 x 500mm boards, although this would suggest that I'll get a bit more straight than the basic 300 mm.