Much of today has been spent working on the working hopper system. It's very much a bodged, cobbled together system that developed as I worked on it. It's a fairly simple idea. Coal or ore (or whatever) will be poured into a receptacle behind the backscene which is then tipped into the wagons through a tube and... Well, I think the picture illustrates the idea well enough.

Overall, how does the layout look? Like this.

Looking like a layout and now looking "bare". The structures need staircase and walkways and pipework and suchlike. The yard needs clutter, like the porta-loo's and skips. Some wire fencing would be good too. You know what they say. The last 10% of a layout takes 90% of the time.