Thanks for the kind comments, I really appreciate it. A lot of the stuff I’ve tried just didn’t feel right, which is why it’s taken me so long. The same was happening with the retaining walls. I didn’t like the way the buildings just sat in front of it and went nowhere, hence disassembling the earlier bridge and making two arches. At the Doncaster show I saw a nice Metcalfe engine shed with corrugated roof, and talking to the exhibitor he pointed me in the right direction. I’ll be trying it on one of the yard offices but the plasticard has worked fine for the gates. I’ve cut the full gates and then added panels of different sizes for interest. They were painted green, add it to the list of mistakes, then repainted light grey which looked a lot better. A wash of Agrax Earthshade followed, and then I began to scratch some off for variety. By chance, the green started to show through in places. I think the same might now happen to the gantry before the pipe work is added.The panelling over the top is a scalescenes printout. Now just capping stones along the top of the pillars, some weathering powder and regaining down some of the hard standings will see this part through.

I’m trying the telegraph poles to add a bit of height along the front.

Thanks for looking.

Charlie