Just a series of shots showing the baseboards as they start to creep along the back of the shed. The main basebaords are made from 3 inch strips of 12 mm ply, two are glued together to form L girders and two of these girders form the sides of each section. Single 3 inch strips then span between these. The track will be laid on 12 mill ply boards with 6 mm mdf stips along the sides, (just like Eastwood blog - sort of). Part of the trackbed has already had this treatment, which explains the earthquake zone along the middle of the boards where the trackbed falls 3 inch

This allows an open baseboard and plenty of space under the tracks for wiring etc. Also allows me to have the road on either side of the station rise and fall.

Just waiting for a bisciut router to arrive (bargain off ebay - well, will be if it works), this is going to be used to join the track beds together.

Still deciding whether to model the slopes into and out of the station. Snow Hill was built on a hill (doh) which meant that both the access tracks from North and South fell away from the station. Apparently Snow Hill tunnel was quite steep and it wasn'y unknown for a train to fail to make it up the slope and have to be rescued. I don't intend modelling this, the slopes on my last layout were a bit too steep in parts, although modelling a rescue will add interest to operations.