Yes it does come as a it of a surprise to me but I have managed to create a traverser from a few bits of would and absolutely no experience of such things! As much research as possible from the wonderful internet has helped.

As you might be able to tell , I am rather pleased with myself!. It slides freely but positively, seems to be strong and is not too heavy. I used a ply sandwich for the ends the same as the other boards but made up a timber 'L' beam for the longitudinal edge which seems to be holding things together well. The table sits on another pair of 'L' beams to keep that flat.

Have to put track on it now of course and work out exactly how I am going to put a turntable on the end but a 10 pack DVD box is a prime candidate at the moment.

Have also just got a CDU unit for the other fiddle yard and a points direction indicator unit which is again a new departure for me so shall have lots of fun getting that to work.

Really do need to work out exactly what I am going to regarding control panels. I do know that I want one at each end that is capable of doing everything so that it will be possible to operate on my own if need be. My current thinking is that I won't have any inter baseboard connectors as such but each base board will go directly to a central base unit which should make it easier to mimic the controls at each end.

Got a very busy weekend ahead so probably won't be much progress for a few days but am pretty happy with what I have achieved this week and very glad that the saw dust everywhere phase is now over!