Here in the East Midlands it has been a very cold day, the frost not abating all day. 54 years ago, in the South West, was a very different cold day – a blizzard, during which the last rites of the Launceston Branch were enacted.
A few photos of my part constructed WR BLT, which has been closed today in advance of yet another house move (the fourth in ten years) – that’s the excuse for slow progress.

Hopefully (now that I've reduced the filesize), the image shows a two foot wide baseboard with an extra six inches to the left, occupied by the cereal packet mock up of a retaining wall, road and terrace. This is going to be a real terrace from Launceston, other buildings are / will be from St Just, Mousehole and Plymouth.
The shed and water tower arrangement is from St Ives. Currently only the platform and the track under 4569 are in commission. I am changing the crude double slip for a newer, finer one using rail rather than bent triangular sections. To the right is the dockside, with work ongoing on the “correct” colour for concrete. There are also two rails for a dockside crane. Front centre is the guts of a Hornby operating unloading accessory, under rebuild into a china clay end tippler. It will be getting a building to hide the fact that I don’t want to attempt to build a working end tipping hoist!
In the distance the line passes through the first two of a series of tunnels through red sandstone and along a sea wall (recycled from an earlier Dawlish inspired section of layout).