Well, have done a fair bit more but it doesn't really look it. Most of what I have done has been rewiring and point instalation.

I got four more points and motors installed. Went to buy some more Tillig flexi track from the Orient Express stand at the Caulfield show when I was there the other week but they had forgotten to bring the flexi track with them. Ended up buying some points and motors instead. Have them all installed and connected up now. There we go; that's 300 bucks there. Doesn't look it really, does it? We're looking at the bit in the top left.

Installed the ECoS detector. Took the opportunity to tidy up my wiring at the same time. Went fairly smoothly but has made me have a bit of a rethink on the decoders I buy from here on. What has prompted this is that the ECoS detector has 4 ports which will show the loco in the block if the loco is railcom enabled. Initially I thought this was great , and still do, but what I then went on to notice was that very few decoders actually have railcom. In many I am finding that the railcom enabled box is disabled and astonishly this includes the ESU ones which have been provided to loco manufacturers for factory pre-instals. I have tried writing 46 to cv 29 but it won't take, I'm guessing because the decoder doesn't have railcom at all. This seems to include the Loksound 3.5 which are quite recent. My problem is that this seems to be the bulk of my stock. If I'd stayed with Lenz Gold instead of installing sound in them all I wouldn't have this issue now. The ones which seem fine are the loksound 4's. I've now been doing a stock take of locos to see how many actually have functional railcom and it's not much, five so far! So good that there's a new feature but not good that very few decoders respond to it. I did notice something on the ESU forum today which mentioned a product you can add to an existing decoder to allow railcom to identify the loco. Couldn't see anything on ESU's website about it though but I'll keep an eye out as I'll need a few of those.

I was tending towards the Zimo decoders but am now convinced that there is a use for Railcom so will be heading back to ESU in future. I like the feature which shows which railcom enabled loco is on the section. Ideally I'd like to see a version of the ECoS detector which showed which loco was in every single block.

I'd been looking at buffer stops and have decided to go with these Weinert ones. They're brass and dear but quite good. Most of the other options I had tried were a but flimsy or didn't really fulfil their purpose well. I'll go with these ones I think.

This shows the trackplan and where I am up to so far. Still have to joing up some of these points as I'm out of flexi track.

To the top left will be a service yard for coaling, sand water etc. This is the space I have for it. Not sure how many points I'll need but will get a few as it's always loco storage.

Still juggling buildings and looking for the best arrangement. I've settled on a big square after the main gate and before the cathedral.

This bit on front of the main gate is causing me the most grief as it's an odd shape, triangular because the tracks are branching out up towards the station building. What I've got at the moment is the backs of the buildings facing the tracks and the fronts looking towards the main gate. Still not happy with this and not sure where to go.

I'll keep at it and see where it ends up. Overall view here showing how it looks looking east.

So just waiting to get some flexi track to close the gaps between the points and create more storage space. Need more points to expand the service yard and add more lines to the station and do the rear shuttle lines. I also need to get onto the backdrops as they will need to go in next so plenty to do.