Over the last week, a team at Barrowmore, led by Richard and comprising Kevin Bays, Mike Rapson and Phil Sutton, set about laying some additional roads at one end of the staging yard. The first project was to add three terminating sidings off yard track East 1. These are long enough to hold a full length coal train and, with East 1 used as a clear through track, will allow for trains to be backed in and pulled out as required – essentially adding three tracks to the eastbound staging. The new switches were connected to Digikeijs boards.
Later in the week, a decision was taken to lengthen two westbound tracks on the outside of the yard. Richard and Kevin lengthened yard track West 17 all the way round to just before the scenic section and track West 16 through to join slightly earlier. Whilst not adding extra tracks, the extra space available with multiple occupancy on each track is equivalent to two extra tracks. The two terminating tracks for passenger trains were also repositioned as shown:
Dave Faulkner has subsequently programmed the changes into Big Bear.
