This week has been pretty good modelling wise, I have completed 2 further stop blocks, a timber one identical to the first, and one that will eventually have a ballast infill. Work has also progressed with the retaining wall that will eventually curve around from the platform road round to in front of the cattle dock siding. This is being constructed from Wills Coarse stone sheets, a pedestrian entrance onto the platform can be seen stepping down from between the piers.

I have also begun the task of assembling some of the Point Rodding components from a pair of Colin Waite etches (one for the stools and one for the cranks). This seems an almost endless task, a couple of evenings work and all I have to show for it is a very small pile of components for the layout! The aim is to get all of the rodding in place below the platform face so that this area can be ballasted and hopefully provide further inspiration. I did consider making the rodding move a'la Chris Baker's Much Meddling but I am afraid that because it will be crossing a baseboard joint that I shied away from it so when complete it will be purely cosmetic.