As mentioned in the last post, I'm still fiddling with the trackplan. '3' was definatley my favourite - until I considered changing the orientation of the bottom set of points;

That resulted in this - 'Version 3B'

Whilst fiddling with that one, however, and having a re-read of the A.C Elliott 'Cuckoo Line' book, I noticed from the plan of Hailsham that the Cattle Dock was behind the platform. I still liked the idea of the Engine Shed as a view block though, so after much moving around, I came up with something a little more radical. This one also swaps the 'direction' of the layout - giving passenger services a longer run;

Version 4

This one has also been designed a little more with the 'Jigsaw' in mind - requiring just one joint, on plain track, in the 'track section' (at around the 4' mark), with the sloping downland moved from the rear to the front of the layout. As I've just noticed that I haven't captioned it on the picture, the black box at the top represents livestock pens.

Or, finally, there's this...

Version 4b

Which gives a longer stretch of river again. And having come full circle, I suppose I should pick one, take some photos of items I plan to sell in order to fund the beginnings of the project, then move on from pure planning and think about making a start?