Hiring a skip seemed to make sense for this year's clearout of our sideway. It was that or 20 round trips in the Rover to the local tip. It was during the "topping our" ceremony, where in a Pythonesque moment I was trying to cram one last item on to the teetering pile inside the skip that I saw this shelving unit through new eyes.

http://www.focusdiy.co.uk/Payless/Payless-5-Tier-Shelving-Unit/invt/252707

Disassembling it to see if it would fit into ths skip, the shelves looked as if, with a layer of cork, they'd make suitable baseboards for my son's N gauge layout that will slide under his bed.

A few days later, a second thought occured as I was constructing the platforms for Highworth. Yep, taking the shelves apart each of the slats was a near perfect height and width to act as rigid formers for the platforms.

Topped off with mounting board and with plaform sides from a Metcalfe kit they are starting to look the part. Photos to follow....