Between Christmas and building and decorating work in our house, Jenswell had been put out of the way for a while.

Now we've got room to set it up again and do some work.

The points are operated using MSE wire-in-tube.

The w-i-t's were initially pinned to the slab.

I have now stuck them down with self adhesive address labels.

These work on the ply deck but came unstuck on the painted foam slab. i willhave to try some PVA to stick the sticky labels down!

Strangely they seem to stick pretty well to the unpainted slab beneath...

At the moment it's just a matter of pulling or pushing the wires to operate the points.

I have a couple of ideas for operating levers...

Last night I sorted out the track wiring.

I had already soldered dropper wires to each length of track before we laid the track.

Initially I used single core bell wire, but after a couple of pieces broke off I replaced the droppers with flex.

The dropper wires were punched through the deck and pink slab when we laid the track on doublesided automotive tape.

Last night I soldered the dropper wires to copper tape stuck to the slab underside.

The self adhesive copper tape is a product intended for wiring dolls houses.

It came with fairly comprehensive instructions if I ever need to wire a dolls house.

Obviously using a soldering iron on polystyrene needs some care!

I have a temperature controlled solder iron.

With a little experimentation I found it worked best at 240'C using Carrs solder cream.

The foam slab melted a little directly under the copper tape but does not appear to have suffered much ill effect.

I have wired all the Yard tracks together regardless of point setting.

As I only expect to run one loco at a time this shouldn't cause a problem.

After i'd finished soldering I couldn't resist getting out a loco and controller to check if it works.

Around about midnight, my Dapol Sentinel shunter was puttering along quite happily and going through the insulfrog points without hesitation.

Incidentaly, Hull Model Railway show 2012 will have three layouts (including Jenswell) depicting the North Holderness Railway.

Not bad for a line that was never built!