I hope no-one gets angry at me. After talking with Nutty, I went ahead and built a small test in the spawn area. I'm trying to find the most efficient way of making a vertical transport with rails while keeping it to a 4x2 footprint for the rails themselves. if anyone skilled with working with rails sees this, could you tell me how I could improve it by looking at what I've constructed? If it can go smaller, that'd be brilliant, but it needs to not hurt the passenger of the cart.
To admin: I will be taking it down as soon as I get some feedback on it. On top of this, it only takes up a relatively small area, so hopefully I haven't overstepped the mark.