Good to meet both of you today! After the first hour I was ready to order a skip for the layout, but it did settle down a bit as the day went on. As I may have mentioned, by the time I'd set it up and people were around, I realised that I'd used the wrong trestle on a critical join - Wickes and Aldi trestles look the same, but aren't quite! There was an unsightly baseboard gap and derailment issues with some of the stock crossing the join.

Tomorrow I will take it down, shuffle the trestles and re-assemble - hopefully that will cure matters. I will also be running BR stock tomorrow, as a contrast to today's GWR stuff.

Much better day - the trestle swap worked, the stock mostly performed well, with only a slight misalignment issue causing occasional problems for the prairie. And the layout has a provisional booking for 2011!

Glad you enjoyed the layout, Bad Rabbit - nice to chat as well. No, I didn't go for the Deano - contented myself with a couple more 12T vans, remarkably restrained by my standards.

Very nice Barry. I can see the track plan being transported to seafront Cornwall, with the station set above the promenade on a wall / cliff... got me thinking

Cheers!

I've done very little to it since June other than begin to add some cosmetic point rodding, which is both fiddly and mind-numbingly tedious. I don't think it will go out again until next spring/summer so there is no great rush to get things done.

Hi BT. Well I keep returning here, I've said it before but there is something about this design that is really ingenious. And I can't get over how fast you've built it!

I hope you find the box with the detail items, I know how frustrating that can be - I spent an hour yesterday looking for my toolbox!