Well hoots mon etc! I can't believe that so long has passed that it actually took me a little while to find my way back to my own little blogette (I have a spurious nil entry blog set up by accident, and its not too easy to navigate beyond that one)

any hoo, time has passed and not much has seemingly happened, but its all been great fun. I've wrecked a few settrack points in my search for the elusive 'electro-frog' conversion, and instead, I've changed the parts to code 55 electrofrogs (a lazy mans solution) and reduced the complexity of the points, which gives much-improved running, introduces a difficulty / challenge in the operation of the thing, but helps with the original aim, which was to allow some round and round action while wrestling with the shunting moves in the inside tracks.

I was reading the NRM n gauge project writeup in this months mag, and I have to say that I profoundly disagree with the assertion in there that working on the electrics brings no joy and no apparent progress - I can assure you that after a week or two puzzling over an electrofrog wiring puzzle, to actually get some juice through it and some trains running is an absolute joy! Just think, at this rate in another year or so, I'll be able to progress to ballasting the thing.

Even more exciting though is the fact that I only have 2 set track points left on the trainset now, so possibly I may get them converted successfully, now I have a good number of spares to practice on...

Rolling stock wise, I have to keep telling myself that I WON'T buy a weathered B1...

Oh - and I have to solve the seemingly tricky question of 'what year am I?' when the traction efforts on this bit of east-central Scotland line are a Class 4, a Class 37 and a Class 24, all in BR green. It sure as hell isn't December 1958, which was my original aiming point, and it increasingly doesn't feel like east central scotland either.

previous plan (constructed); followed by Revised Plan (under construction)