Well although I have been quiet for a couple of months after an initial frenetic burst of blogging, I haven't been idle. The main thing that your comments regarding my proposal for the first section of the new layout triggered was a complete and total rethink. (You know who you are!!!) And I must say, I am glad that I posted because my previous idea would not have fitted into the general scheme of things.

Okay, I hear you ask, now what is he planning? The answer is simple - an industrial scene, what else. The tiny, 1' 3" by 4' baseboard has been constructed, complete with legs and I am about to begin work on the entirely fictitious (probably!) 'Dudley Coal Tar Distillers' which will fit perfectly into the general scheme of things; I even know where on the proposed layout it will fit. Why a Coal Tar Distillery? Well its a visually interesting industry with a range of different goods wagons required to service it and there is a war on after all, so its products will be very much in demand.

The general schematic is attached and all comments are welcome.