Baseboard Construction

I've always thought of myself as fairly handy, but if there is one model railway task I have come to loathe it is baseboard construction. With that in mind I have happily outsourced the problem to Grainge and Hodder. They offer custom sizes in addition to those on their website, and so as per the Layout Plan entry, I have ordered them there - they are 100mm tall, 400mm wide (except the station boards, which are 450mm). I've built a traverser in the past, but having it arranged for me to just snap together is making me excited rather than dreading it!

I note that as of yet I've paid for but not recieved the boards (ETA: January)

Approach Viaduct or Embankment Considerations

One of the characteristics of modular baseboard layout design I've found is how flat everything looks, and so to that end I have requested the fabrication of some offset connectors to drop the curved boards down 100mm below the level of the others. This will allow me to build up an embankment, viaduct, etc. and get some Z-axis variation going on.

For a London-based layout I'm inclined to think that a viaduct would make the most sense, but something in my heart suggests that a windswept embankment may be more fitting for somewhere north of the Peak District? TBC!

Embankment and retaining wall at Mirfield