Progress has slowed down mainly due illness and to my other commitments, but that doesn’t mean I’ve been slacking on the Garsdale project.
It has always been my intention to have stackable modules for storage and transport and so to this end I have been working through different ideas to achieve this.

Having gained experience working on the GWRM exchange yard and return loop for our exhibition layout and the need for it to be transportable in a limited allocated space, we developed a removable perspex guard for protection against possible damage from an over enthusiastic public. Basically I’ve ended up with that is best described as a tongue and groove system that will most likely be improved or further adapted as the baseboard modules are built.

The 1830 x 300 x 7 mm panels also will serve as back scene painted panels unless I find a panoramic view of Garsdale in the meantime. So using suitable photos I set out to get a handle on the background perspective and height against topography maps using a myriad of actual photos of views that I will need to interpret. An opposite view can be also achieved due to having two parallel panels on each of the station modules. However originally I planned to have this panel removable and may still do so.