The more observant amoungst you will have realised that I use Anyrail to do my basic design and Trax 3 to produce the point templates. I've used the package that's best for the task in progress.

The first two photographs are the template sheets that I will cut up and attach to my work board to construct the actual points, more correctly called turnouts.

The photograph below, is of a sheet laid out to check that the proposed handing of the points would work to produce the desired track layout. It was a very useful process and I discovered my initial thoughts were incorrect. Better to discover a mistake at this point than after point construction is complete!

I'm going to leave the decision about the exact length of the loop until track laying stage. This is because I'm going to adjust the distance between tracks to a minimum, to give the layout a more spacious feel.

I hopefully will have the time to start construction next week. My eyesight is now getting back to normal, following my operation.

Julie