Planning
Railway curves are generally too large a radius to draw with a compass, so what used to be done was to have a set of "Set squares" with radii from 25mm to 1000mm in increments of 25mm. Amongst other things, the point of the compass would be off the page, if not off the table.
Read more about this topic: Minimum Railway Curve Radius
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