Couple of shots looking back up the layout toward the station and goods yard. They're shot in ambient light so a bit fuzzy, since I haven't added the lighting rig over this module yet - it'll make access to the rear a bit tricky once I do, so I've held off for the time being.

The platforms are the removable ones that I built last year, and - touch wood - they seem to be holding up well. Both needed a little tweaking in the days after construction but they seem nice and stable now and although I've made provision to fix them down, so far it's not been necessary. Soon I'll be adding some DCC Concepts lamps which will be arranged so that they can be plugged and unplugged from the underboard wiring without too much hassle, allowing the platforms to be lifted and swapped in their entirety.

The bridge is the Ratio one and obviously not a GWR model but painted as such. I struggled with it a bit - perhaps it was me but I ended up being unsure of the location of the some of the elements and therefore had to do quite a bit of remedial work by the time I got to the roof, splicing in plastic card fillets to hide joins. It all came good in the end though but it was a lot more work than the lovely old Hornby plastic GWR bridge I used to have.

The goods yard is very simple with just two sidings, the longer of which feeds the goods shed adjacent to the platform. As per the rest of the structures, the goods shed will be removable and interchangeable with different models such as the actual shed at Shillingstone. My intention is that it'll be seated on a piece of card or foamcore covering quite a large area of the yard, with each shed having its own similar base, rather than the sheds just resting on fixed ground, but we'll have to see how that goes. Obviously the footprint of each shed will be different so I can't bed them in as I would normally.The shed in these pictures is the one off my old layout which is built from a card kit which I believe is of Midland Railway origin. It's quite a large shed but not, I hope, disproportionately so. I've already replaced the doors with ones that look more like a GWR building, and I'd like to replace the flat card roof with one with a bit more relief. Hopefully it won't look too out of place in the end.

The cattle dock just visible to the right will be also be removable. In the current plan the footprint it occupies will be swapped with a large provender store made from three of the Ratio kits.

Cheers and thanks for reading.