April 13th

The 2 x point motors arrived today -thank you to the good people at Hattons- :-) I'll be fitting them this weekend, and then pressing on with track laying (I am planning to fix the track methodically, starting at one curved section and working my way round to the starting point). It seems like a good idea to me...
I've just placed one motor where it will be sited and it looks fine, it doesn't even seem to need the digging into the cork underlay that was predicted. But there's a world of difference between placing a thing and fitting it so that it works! We'll see.
As it is, it is already obvious that a bit of jigging of track plan will be needed further down the track (see pic.) as the Peco point motor will never fit there! Either way it is placed, it impinges on a curve. That's where the methodical track laying comes into play: this part of track is only hand-pinned down, and can be easily re-positioned.