It's been a long time since this blog was updated, and without the temporary platforms and some buildings it looks almost as if nothing much has happened in 10 months. Not so, much has been done to tweak the trackwork to make it reliable - even if it's not all wired up yet - and at the London end the scenic base for the cutting is now ready for planting and the insulation foam is now encroaching towards the station area.

So here are a few snaps from last Thursday, with a variety of Mike's motive power being given a stretch on pulling and propelling back a train of 30-odd wagons into the up siding. This was done repetitively at well over prototype speeds with unfailing reliability - no video coverage I'm afraid. Here we have a J class 4-6-2T, a C 0-6-0 and a JB electro-diesel.

Compared with Mk1, Eridge Mk 2 is wider and so there will be more of the 'train in the landscape' feel. The outriggers fitted beyond the original trackbed boards are now being filled in with more insulation foam as a scenic base. The real Eridge was built on made ground in the form of a slight embankment across the stream valley, but the layout transitions into a cutting which didn't exist here in reality but provides an excuse for the three-arch bridge at the end (based on Ashurst).