Time to get the passengers some protection from the elements.

I'd accidentally bought a Ratio Apex Canopy kit so I put it together and realised it was perfect for my skinny platform as it is held up on centre-posts.

I drilled small holes in the end of the posts

Introduced them to small pieces of wire (cut from paperclips) and then drilled matching holes into the platforms and applied UHU, then stand clear and don't wobble them for a few hours.

Now then, I know that many people would have put the skylights all along one side, however this obviously means that the platform runs north-south so that, thanks to our latitude, we don't have a prevailing direction the sun hits the station except South!

There is a reason for everything.

A nice man on eBay printed off the platform signs for me. Well, he wasn't that nice as he did make me pay for them.

Just to show that the layout doesn't spend all its time in the lounge. The sheep-end of it has 5mm of black neoprene glued to it and so the layout can stand up on end against the bookshelves in the conservatory.

Ignore the other baseboard next to it; that's the TT120 layout I started, but I built it too ruggedly and so I can't pick it up anymore :( I'll be taking that apart at some stage and re-building it - but that's another project...