Well a month has easily passed since The Wiltshire Group show at Pewsey and NSL's debut. Running up to the show I was having some doubts about how insane I would be driven by the limited operating potential of having only 5 wagons! However I can report that as the layout is as much for talking about as it is operating the potential for insanity was not as great as I feared.

However, as is always the case what worked well enough at home decided to misbehave on arrival at Pewsey! Yes the "Hoffman" pattern point motor played up from the very start to the extent that I had to check the position of the blades everytime I changed the point (and on a layout with only one point that was a lot!), that makes it a 100% failure rate :( .

So what to do. As you can see in the photographs that follow there is a nice warehouse in line with the point which will be perfect for hiding a slightly butchered "Tortoise" inside which will operate the point through a wire in tube arrangement-sorted .

The other photographs are just some general views of some of the buildings on the model/diorama. The only nearly finished one being the stone building with the wooden upper story which will be a marine engineers workshop.

As any readers who follow this blog or those who are unlucky enough to stumble across it while looking for something else will know or will discover I am quite incapable of concentrating on one scale or gauge. What should arrive in the post the other day but a chassie from those nice people at Hollywood Foundry for my S scale 04, at least that only leaves me a body "kit" to build. Oh dear I'd better get the 16ton mineral finished to go with it.

On the EM front at the recent Andover show myself and "Fursty Ferret" each bought a cheapie Hornby van body, mine was destined to become a slightly freelance van with outside framing for my light railway project, while "Fursty" informs me it is a little like a Hull & Barnsley(?) Rly refridgerated van? Mine has aqquired its outside framing and a Wooden Gloucester chassie from Cambrian while "Furstys" has some rather natty brass(?) strapping.

I will try and attach the images if I can find them. Please let me know what you folks think.

John.