Complete, that is, except for the signal control units and their local 12v DC power supply units, which I haven't got, yet.

After months of putting it off, I finally knuckled down to wiring up the station throat board with its numerous turnouts and diamond crossing - by far the most complex in terms of electrics. Photos below show the under board wiring on this board.

However, methodical work and constant continuity testing seems to have paid off as only very minor re-work was required. One heart stopping moment occurred when, having more-or-less finished, I realised I'd run a great bundle of wires right over the space reserved for a signal sevo motor, despite having remembered to keep the area free from electrical track droppers. Fortunately, I was able to divert the offending wires by cutting a slot in part of the base-board support rib, as shown below. It looks a bit odd, but the prospect of having to modify the whole bundle of wires was just over facing! Originally, the wires just ran along the bottom of the member with the lightening holes.

Once completed, I checked track feed continuity with a small meter and then conected the power feed from the control panel. In order to do this, all the boards have to be connected as the panel feeds into the station end board and the track power is passed alonf the boards to the oposite end where it connects to the track. Initial power up showed that some of the point position LED's and several point motors needed their polarity swapping - a simple job. Otherwise, my methodical approach seems to have paid off as everything works as intended. This was confirmed by running locos over all tracks on the throad board in both DC and DCC modes from both the main panel and yard controller sockets. I did find that on DC, the loco ran the opposite direction to the switch on y hand-held Pentroller, so the track feeds from the panel and facia sockets have been reversed.

The test session is shown below. A general view of the boards connected together, two standing on edge and the station throat board flat so locos can be run and a shot of the control panel with the point LED's illuminated.

These tests also confirmed that the sharply curved route into the mill siding can be negotiated by a variety of locos, without any shorting. My Stanier 2-6-4 tank and WD 2-8-0 are seen on the board. The WD is on the curved siding link.

Not everything was perfect and a few minor (I hope) issues need to be resolved.

1) Both my Ivatt and BR Cl 2 2-6-2 tanks derailed their rear trucks on the point blades when reversing out of the mill siding. With the cross-over reversed, the trucks went up the head shunt whilst the driving wheels took the correct route over the cross-over. Might havr too strong side control springs on the trucks.

2)Neither end of the double slip is thowing over properly. The springy operating wire on the Tortoise motors isn't stiff enough to move two sets of blades with the required travel. Hopefully, this can be solved with some thicker steel wire. I believe that 7 mm modellers do this with Tortoises, so if anyone knows the details. I'd be very pleased to receive advice.