So I have added a new storage area to my layout consisting of 11 storage tracks.

I am trying to make it look like a train yard, not a station, and I am wondering what the prototype yards would use for signals to release trains from such a storage yard.

Initially I was not going to add signals at all (because of the enormous expense of signals and controllers) as there is a minimum of 22 signals needed. However,
I have come up with a way of making economical signal controllers as RemoteSign devices and I was thinking of designing and printing a whole bunch of the dwarf Sh signals using my 3D printer.

But then I had the nasty thought that such a yard may have used Hp signals instead which will be more difficult to print. Controlling the signals is the same, just making signals on a pole and getting wires threaded presents additional challenges. It may also look kind of strange having 2 rows of 11 signals on masts in a yard.

So does anyone know how the prototype does this. If there is a large set of parallel tracks in a storage yard, does each track have a Sh or an Hp signal at each end? (or both!)

In my case, once a train leaves a siding it goes off on its way and will join the mainline. i.e. trains will not be leaving the siding on a shunting maneuver, rather it will be setting off for some destination beyond the limits of the yard.

Now I could extend the yard limits to where I have an Hp signal before the trains get onto the mainline. This would mean that the trains can leave the sidings as a shunting movement and then get an Hp1 signal to carry on. Is that legitimate?

Wonderful thanks, that looks like exactly the type of configuration I hoped they may use....

Somehow I imagined you would be the one who would come up with the appropriate picture.. how do you find these images?

yes Jean, as I said I am planning on making the dwarf version.
I will be switching them over wifi from my control software. No track power involved at all!