Good afternoon all,

It's been a while since i've been able to post a bit more progress on my layout. Work commitments still getting in the way of the project, but i've managed to make a little bit more progress over the last few days.

I've laid some of the very realistic ratio concrete trunking which i was initially going to build from thick pieces of card, but having sampled the ratio product, I decided to use it instead. I still need to paint it and add some weathering though.

Progress on the platforms has taken place and, thankfully to the abundance of photos of this station on this website and various other websites, I've managed to start to make some accurate representations. I've used ratio platform edging (which still needs some more painting and weathering added) and thick pieces of card to make the platforms themselves. I've scribed the card to represent the paved areas and this will need painting in due course which hopefully will happen over the next few days. Watch this space!

The relay boxes are modified ratio products with a thin sheet of pasticard added to the backs as the ones at Par seem to be slightly deeper than the ratio products themselves. These have beed primed and are now ready for the top coat of grey. The scratch built signal is still work in progress.

The overbridge, which is still coming along slowly, requires some pointing (in model form of course!) before being painted with a mixture of colours using acrylic paints and photos which I took a couple of years ago. The stone faces are from the Faller range which I discovered when building my previous swiss railway layout. The embankments will be built from polystyrene but I haven't got round to this bit yet as I wanted to concentrate on getting the overbridge right first.

Anyway, here is a selection of photos showing the progress. As always, all comments welcome.

Best regards,

Jeremy

A view from the Newquay side of the station.

37206 heads into the station with a short speedlink working.

My scribed card on the platform to represent the paved area. Still quite a bit to go.