I should have arranged something special for my fiftieth 'post', but progress is neither so orderly nor inspiring, so here are just a few more pictures and words as a few more steps forward are taken.  Thanks to Grandad's Train Shop of Selby getting a bag of ballast to the Post Office at 09.05 on a Monday morning Recorded Delivery for me, I spent last weekend doing more gluing, and this weekend painting the ballast and making a milk-discharge siding.

The viaduct walls have been detached, of course.

After the shambles of the goods yard, I have not ballasted the points, and can not achieve the shade of 1970's station track dirt wished, but I can try more washes of differing shades over the next few weeks until I get bored.  With some of the ballast becoming un-glued when painting, I spent the 'drying time' knocking up a hard-standing out of card for the milk-discharge siding.  More surprises trying to mix a concrete colour of 'pale grey with a yellow tint', adding yellow turning the grey a green hue.  I assume the black pigment is really dark blue.

I made a low wooden fence out of drink stirrers beside the milk siding, as even in the happy-go-lucky 1970's there must have been some protection for milk personnel from a 'shuttered third-rail' alongside for the passenger platform.  I kept it low, so figures can be seen.  Mention of the third rail means composing a new shopping list of drill-bit, insulation pots for every fourth sleeper, and Code 60 PECO flat-bottom rail.

I was also going to try and find some card and wet-&-dry paper in town, for a platform surface, but decided to leave that for another pay-day.  Until then, here are a few more photographs.

The '71' pretending to be a '74' Electro-Diesel arrives to collect the empties.  In the background, a Hornby 2-BIL waits to depart south for Tilling.  It was the latter's first time out of the box after purchasing two years ago, so I did not have the courage to couple the coaches together properly; please excuse the incorrect gap.

The milk siding from what will be the station platform.  A small shed to house pumping equipment is intended to sit behind the left-hand buffer-stop.

Two more shots of the loco.  No prizes for guessing I find them oddly handsome.  Only now do I see I should have spent more time painting the 'insides' of the brick parapets.  Another job to add to the list...