After a bit of a scratch about with Anyrail on the other half's PC, and then a bit of a quick doodle in Photoshop, this is the first bit of the local project...

It's not going to be that big, just a 2x1' area, with a small train (either loco + coach, or loco + 2 or 3 wagons) scuttling in from the L/H side to the station/goods (black blocks on the right), and then disappearing out the way it came with the loco at the back to propel 'up the mountain' (as they used to on the local rack railways here).

The light grey is the bounds of the board, with the large chunk of dark grey being the 'rock', the blue being a drainage culvert to deflect water from the top of the tunnel with an overbridge (well, not really a bridge, just a drain tube under the tracks), and the brown is just going to be a vehicle point for road...

I suppose this could be more of a running diorama than anything, but under 'guidance' of the other half, it is going to be build in a way that it can be extended both left and right, and with having a look at some of the operations in the area, it could also be used as part of a through line for all sorts of traffic (including 37's on engineering!), with the line up the mountain going off on what would be on the other side of the left tunnel.

The actual trackplan, if you could call it that, is a small permanent way yard that was just north of Monistrol de Montserrat when they were building the new rack railway back in 2003, and the station and goods shed is based on a place called Cal Vidal (which is handy, as it's only half hour on Shank's Pony to get there for doing measures and things), a photo on Panoramio can be found here. To the left side of the picture is the main station building/waiting room and platform, to the centre, is the station master's cottage, and the thing on the right side of that, which looks like a pallet is the loco crew platform. In total, the site is no longer than 35 metres in length (that was including goods siding to the rear!).

Construction wise, it's going to be carved insulation sheet on a floating shelf, with stud wall rendering to create the stone effect, and painted up in water based paints to get the streaks of the rock (still don't know whether I'm going to go with the grey volcanic of the mountain of Montserrat, or the bright pink that is more common down in the river valley), with the buildings and bridge facias being card built, the bridge base being RC aircraft ply, and the overhead catenary scratch built out of plasticard.

Any ideas or comments greatly appreciated!