Again it's been a while. Faced with some delays imposed by being the now ex, and brief, owner of a Vauxhall Zafira, things got a tad hectic. Peace and a certain amount harmony now reigns. I ran out of pullies rather quicker than expected so the remaining wires still await fitting, but the barrow crossings and path between are now complete. More ballasting and gluing is done too. More of the construction clutter has moved along making things look a lot more stationy.

The siding, formerly with it's strip of orange down the middle, has received attention. This is the Dry Siding where for, well, gosh, several minutes now, vans and so on get processed. At the very end, where the platform will widen to meet it, will be the parcels bay. For reasons unknown but to the few Soddingham has retained a busy parcels operation. This has nothing whatsoever to with me liking the 'Express Parcels' blue liveried fish vans (SPV?)  of course.

The ground along this track is raised, or rather over time has become raised, to rail level. I found a photo of such a siding with fork-lifts (very old ones!) around and concluded it looked nice - so I'm having one. Hence the clay went in the 4ft, to just below flange level. Plan A (yet another one) was to use cork to outside the 4ft, as the rail height is pretty much exactly two corks. As can be seen in the rather blurry photo the cork I've got absolutely refuses to not be a roll. So I had to glue it still rolled to the sleepers, on top of the layer that has all the junk on it trying to keep it flat. Slightly to my surprise when dry I was able to apply glue and flatten it, again with anything heavy to hand holding it down - without it even cracking (don't go there). The other side, you can sort of see in a couple of the photos, the gap between rail and platform wall has been clayed with my sexy new grey DAS clay. Exciting!

So here's some photo's with the above featuring in them. It's so much nicer with the camera being able to get shots from 'impossible' angles.