Good morning,

I have been meaning to post something about my layout for quite sometime now.

Just a bit of background, I have been modelling the swiss scene for many years and have decided to model china clay operations in Cornwall for my latest project. Par was chosen as a prototype as I have never modelled a prototype location before. A visit to Par was tied in with a holiday in Cornwall during July 2010 and many pictures were taken. The great thing with this particular station is that most of the buildings have not changed in years so making my life easier in building it.

My initial plans were to model the station with a period spanning the late 90's to the present day. However after carrying out extensive research on the location, i have decided to model the 80's as this would provide the widest range of traction and rolling stock.

Believe it or not, I started building this layout a year ago and have only built the baseboards and laid the track. A house move later and I have finally finished the wiring which makes the layout DCC ready as I have recently purchased the gaugemaster prodigy advance system.

It is a continuous run layout with an 8 road storage yard to the rear spanned over three baseboards built from ply wood.

The only alteration I have to make is to replace the concrete sleepered track with wooden sleepers as my chosen period for the model has changed in the last 6 months to the 1980's.

I used google earth to make all the platform measurements (I actually measured the width of these whilst down at Par) and where to install the points. I'll also use this to get rough measurements for the buildings and where to position these.

Here are a couple of photos with the layout's progress to date.

Any comments kindly appreciated.

Best regards,

Jeremy