Just like buses, you wait ages for a blog entry and then another one comes along rather sooner than expected!

I've been doing some woodworking over the last few days and now have a completed baseboard with track base on it. I've added a few pictures to show how it looks at the moment and if you look at the pictures of the layout plan, you can see how it will all work.

Next job is to buy the track for which I'm going to use SMP with phosphor bronze rail and their point kits. While I wait for the bits to be delivered I will get on with some more work on locos so you may have to wait a bit for another entry, but you never know, there may even be another one just round the corner, rather like a bus!

This shows the layout from the opposite end to the fiddle yard. In time, I can add another board at this end and then the single track (to the left of the track base) can continue to another fiddle yard giving 8 feet of scenic run.

This view is from the front of the layout and shows the space I have to model the river going under the bridge.

This end of the layout is where the fiddle yard will be. It is intended that the fiddle yard will be a sector plate that will have one fixed track to allow for shunting but will also accommodate cassettes so that trains can be changed. The idea's in my mind - I've yet to sort out exactly how to build it. Once I've done that, I'll post another entry.

I hope you like the pictures - if you have any questions, please feel free to ask away.

Phil