So far my blog contained pretty much the layout and it's ancillary items as they were when I was last Railway modelling back in the late 1990's. Over the last couple of days I have been tidying the 2 station boards up, and getting them connected and installed in the loft. A couple of photos below show the full extent of the trackwork constructed so far, and give the overall impression of what the station layout will eventually look like.

I have also begun the construction of the retaining wall that will go around the end of the platform road. Beyond the wall will be the Station approach road which is a few feet higher than the track bed. The wall is being made from Will's Coarse Stone plastic sheets (as are all of the stone walls that will be on the layout), Once the walls are complete, they will be painted in a mortar colour and then the individual stones will be picked out in various shades of grey - time consuming but I think very effective (the Signal Box and Platform face have already received this treatment, the brickwork on the Signal Box chimney was similarly painted but in various brick-coloured shades). The photos below hopefully show my method of curving the plastic sheet to form the bend in the wall.