With the shed half lined out, and me awaiting more plywood to finish the job (hopefully this August bank holiday weekend), I 've printed off the track plan and laid it out in the shed to make sure it fits.

Bit put out when it didn't look like it did, until I realised that I had made too little allowance for the overlap between sheets. With the sheets stuck together all was well.

I've been inspired by the skill shown not only in track building but in baseboard ideas and construction on the Eastwood blog on this site and will try and follow his style of construction.

This will mean an open frame sub base on which the track baseboards will rest, with at least at the city end a top baseboard to carry the town centre and a possible tram circuit. This will also allow for the undulating nature of the site with the ground falling away from the station buildings abnd then rising again at the other end of the station. Should also allow me to build a very slight gradient in as the train arrive and leave the station.

The plans have been laid out on a couple of sheets of ply and a couple of buildings placed on to allow me to gauge how much space is needed at the back of the layout.

The boxes laid out behind the station are intended to represent the footbridges and access to the tracks

Now I mustn't spend to much time day dreaming.

Rovex