Gerlos will be mothballed soon. Why, you might ask?

1. Gerlos has too many compromises

2. The fiddle yard will be virtually in-accessible once the scenery is applied

3. A loft conversion will give me a huge amount more space

4. I really want to run my RhB stuff as well

Originally I was going just move the layout into converted loft (during construction as it's easier) and then remedy just parts one and two. However that doesn't address the complete lack of depth.

Item 4 give another head ache as I'd like to have an interchange station, I couldn't work out for the life of me how to add this to the layout in a realistic (or even a semi-realistic) way... It would look like a real kludge!

So it seems to me that perhaps, the best thing would be simply to carefully strip the board back to bare timber and start again.

I have already started the conceptual planning and will be starting a new blog for it soon...