I have to say the combination of trams / road vehicles / cyclist all on the move is pretty impressive.

Just a thought: As I was watching that clip I really wanted to hear the sound of the trams (the gong / the motors / maybe the conductor's bell) ... and it made me wonder whether you've thought of some ambient soundtrack to play when exhibiting? It could perhaps be mixed with the echo of a motorist's horn or sound of a passing motorbus?

It may not work in an exhibition space because of so much background noise of course ... it was just a thought that occured to me

Never really thought about sound, I'll be honest and say I can't see me doing it because I do find some dcc sound really irritates me at exhibitions and doing something repetitive would drive me barmy, but it's certainly food for thought.

Wow! What a fantastic looking layout. It has been a while since I have seen anything from this blog, but the layout has come along a treat. The scenery looks superb as do the trams, and as for the moving cyclist that is just amazing.

 Hopefully one day I will get to see this at a show.

Thanks for your kind comments fellas......appreciated! We're out and about quite a bit in the future and with plenty more invites to be sorted out (we had more than a few at Peterborough).Our next outing is for the Merseyside MRS show at the end of October. http://www.merseysidemrs.co.uk/events15.htm, then Lincoln and District tail end of Feb http://ladmrc.wix.com/ladmrc 

Good to see this at Peterborough - a nice variety of trams in service

Having been inspired by your cyclist (as above!) I have gone and bought a starter kit from Magnorail...

I note that the road surface needs to be no more than 0.5mm thick for the magnets to work, and so I wondered what you used for your running surface?

Any help appreciated.

Half mill card! For the cyclist circuit I installed the track as per the Magnorail instructions, but I then built up the area round the flexible track with ply and finished any gaps with car body filler, I was 'worried' that the card might take a bang in transit somewhere so wanted a solid surface to attach the card to. The hardest part for me was blending the card road surface into the plaster that I use for the rest of the other road surfaces, if you look very closely you'll probably be able to see a join (or if my eyesight is on the way, not too closely!). I attached the card using copydex then should anything go wrong it should/was fairly easy to change....I changed it once during build but since then haven't had to touch it. Round the back I made an inspection hatch from 20 thou black plasticard, so I could access the chain and motor should I need to, the plasticard was lightly sanded to provide enough friction for the cyclist to work, at first it screeched a bit but that went fairly quickly. One other thing I found was that the gears on the motor wanted to rise up a bit when in motion, this could be because the hatch isn't very wide, so I used a length of brass strip screwed through the plasticard to keep them in position), it's just mounted on top of the plasticard hatch. Again I copydexed the hatch down as it's easy to remove and replace that way. To smooth the transition out between road and hatch I use a couple of strips of Tamiya masking tape, generally that works fine but occasionally the cyclist may dislodge and end up on one magnet. Hope that helps and more than happy to help if you have any other queries......