Things have slowed up rather recently, in part down to spending more time working on modelling stock after getting rather carried away working on Clan Line, coupled with the lack of a non acidic flux.

I have been making progress on track building, with the majority of the exactoscale track for the mainline built and ready to glue down. Unfortunately lack of said flux is rather holding things up at the moment, so I guess I really aught to get on and order some (I wish I had remembered this at Warley!) Want to wait for the non acidic stuff so as to hopefully prevent the rust problems I experienced before at soldered joints (given that all of the Colin Craig stuff is of soldered construction.)

All of the track feeds for the E29 Sleepers are going to be soldered onto the underside of the rail (1 feed on the 6 inch length and 2 feeds on the yard lengths), for the wooden sleeper track I will use Jim SW's method that is described else where on the forum.

I really need to make a start on thinking what buildings I will go with,

For the 2 bridges I plan on finding something suitable in the 'Bridges for Modellers' book, these will probably feature one arch and one girder to add a bit of interest, and will be built with the stone block style thats quite common in West Devon / East Cornwall.

Still undecided on how I will do the platforms, mostly as a result from indecision as to whether this is an ex GW or ex SR station, if its the former I suspect I will go with brick construction (Wills), for the latter maybe concrete (peco). need to do a lot more research on methods of platform construction first though having had some poor results in the past.

The same indecision is also stopping me from deciding upon a foot bridge, though I suspect it will have to be a scratch build job given its design (using the same format as Botley where one end of the bridge continues across to join with a higher level road.)

Finally there is the choice of buildings for the area that falls outside of the challenge. I have a few ideas here, making a much more urban environment to suit a busy station, a part finished model of March Mills retail park from Plymouth is one option I quite like the idea of reusing, maybe in combination with some office buildings. the viewing side will be grass (implied to be fields), with the station located out of town. There will also be a small station carpark.