It's been ages since my last update, there has been some work but nothing much that looks like it's moved forward so I haven't posted. First loop (up lines) finished and today I added all the up loops, (Fast, Slow, Goods and Siding) through the station and a few lines in the storage / marshalling area. Cobalts all wired up and so are the PM42 Power Districts and 2 x BDL168 occupancy detectors. It all works with Train Controller but I haven't yet wired up the point motors to the DAC20.

The track on the right (Storage Sidings) will take a 10 coach train with loco as will the main platforms of the station. There'll be 12 or so storage sidings when it's done.

This is the current trackplan showing the occupancy sections. When locos are profiled I can get them to stop automatically within 1cm of where I want them to stop (using Traincontroller) so I only need one section (occupancy sensor) per block.

Also something else i've been trying out is weathering. Still a long way to go, but these seem to have come out OK.

I hadn't weathered the chassis on this 21T hopper.

With some down time from work over Christmas i'm looking forward to getting a lot more done. Better go and find the missus.