I have now built the last three wooden chunks of my new railway.

As you can see the front face of the boards bulges out by 12" so the total depth at the left end is 3'6". Because is this is more than a comfortable arms length the six feet of boards at the left end is split into two boards longitudinally, so the front part can be removed to allow work to be done on the back part.

The curvy bit at the front involved quite a lot of extra woodwork, but rather than explain, I would refer you to the photograph below if you are interested in how I built it.

I've had some very kind comments on my woodwork, but I am not a highly skilled woodworker at all, just a DIY level type. In view of this I'm very pleased to find that i've built baseboards that are very flat at trackbed level and extremely sturdy. Fortunately I don't need to keep carrying them around, as they are heavy.

I'm not going to start tracklaying until I've triple checked levels, alignments etc, and added alignment dowels to the ends of each board. I've tried hard to anticipate where all the point motors are going, although Sod's law usually means there is something you haven't planned for.

As you might notice from the bits of music gear, my railway room (garden shed) also serves as a band practise room. My band is desparate for me to get something running on the railway, so we can play trains before playing music.......