Gosh! six months have flashed by since I last made an entry here.

Partly this is due to a serious attempt to cut back on time at the key-board in favour of time in the workshop but partly too to becoming very involved in other things not of importance here.

OK then, what's been happening at 'The Tank'?

In the entry 7thMay, there were two pics. showing that the track was down. On the left-hand side of the first pic can be seen the home made, hand-operated point levers with a standard 'V3' limit switch to switch the polarity of the crossing (frog if you prefer ). These were to prove to be unacceptable;- not because they were unreliable but as I progressed to running trains I kept setting the double slip incorrectly, ending up in the wrong siding or, worse still in the fourfoot!

I have a double slip on one of my S4 shunting planks but that layout has an illuminated mimic track diagram which clearly shows the route you have set.

Accordingly I decided that this EM layout should also have an illuminated mimic and the fitted point levers were unable to cope with that. More about those later but in the next entry I'll talk about the conversion of locos and stock; not sure when but I'll find time-honest!