Not much progress here, to be honest - or at least nothing yet worth pointing a camera at - but at least one of the two removable platforms is beginning to look a bit more of a piece with the rest of the scene, having had some painting and weathering treatment:

I did the platform top using Wills paving sheets, which were joined together with a lot of trimming, filling and sanding. I use nothing more clever than a pair of chunky kitchen-type scissors to cut Wills sheets as the newer plastic (not the old brittle type) is soft enough to be easily worked this way. Any fine trimming can be done with a craft knife and sanding tools, but the scissors will get the main work done.

I painted the top surface with Humbrol grey primer (a pretty useful shade, I find) and then worked over that with Mig weathering solution to bring out the detail in the paving, before sanding back almost to bare plastic. The other platform will get the same treatment but I'm still not quite done with the top surfacing and the addition of the removable lamps.

Elsewhere, I've added a few feet of Wills point rodding, about which I have mixed feelings - see my comments in the thread on that product. It's OK but probably overscale and the design isn't the easiest to work with, in my view. But it's not too bad, I suppose and I certainly don't think it will look worse than my earlier efforts at scratchbuilding point rodding. The view here isn't the best but you can probably make out the rodding running along the far side of the tracks.

To cure the problem of the exit hole in the backscene looking too dark, I added a small fluorescent tube to the outside of the module. At the moment it's a bit too bright, but I can fix that by mounting it a bit higher or adding a baffle or two.

That's about it for this update, but for now here's a shot of a Castle sweeping through the station. I thought I might get away with not adding a finish to the inside wall of that platform face, but evidently it will have to be done. And on that subject, I might make them both stone, rather than brick, faced, although I'm a bit undecided, reasoning that the platforms might plausibly have been rebuilt later than the stone station buildings. Or would they naturally have used stone, if that was what was available at the time the station was built?

Cheers, and thanks for reading.