Good Evening everyone,

I have autism and struggling to understand something.

I have a twin track layout.

I'm a UK guy running continental trains so what direction should my trains run clockwise or anticlockwise?

I heard continental trains run anticlockwise but is that the inner or outer loop?

Thank you for any advice

Hi Deano

To try and answer your question. I have recently viewed your YouTube video of 17 April discussing the cost of wood.

Presumably you are sitting next to the front of the layout. If you put down two tracks parallel to the edge of the baseboard, on the track nearest the edge of the baseboard the trains should run from left to right. The trains on the inner track should run right to left.

That’s the general rule of course in stations or passing loops or single track branch lines you may have some bidirectional lines but your main running lines should follow the above.

Hope this helps
Adrian

Aaaaaarrrrrrrgggghhhh

No wonder there are so many train crashes in Europe. Why don't you all sit down a just pick a side to drive upon?

My layout has mostly a French design,
so my trains are mostly running at left and the signals are also placed on the left side.

Some parts are "single line" so no matters, I can also move the turnouts for some run on the right side.

And I still enjoy running my german trains this way,
just imagining I am close to the border just before the infrastucture allowing trains to change sides...



Best Regards
Joël

I have never thought about this and run my locos any way I like to see them go. Although I have thought about the signals being in the right or wrong side of the track. Anyway as Jean says its just fun and it is not essential that everything should be correct. At present I have Preisers waiting on a platform wondering if their train will be going in the direction they want to go.

Thank you that's so helpful 😊