Where does the time go? Been far too busy with other things, e.g., work, children, DIY, etc., to make much progress, but in an attempt to build and maintain momentum I have joined the Farnham & District Model Railway Club! F&DMRC have a great N-gauge group and a fantastic exhibition layout in the form of Basingstoke. Looking forward to learning lots, meeting nice like-minded people and hopefully contributing something to the new N-gauge layout, Warwick.

Other than that I have finally cut, fitted and pinned all the track in place. Next job is to solder dropper wires onto the straight sections (I've already done the DCC dropper-link conversions on all 10 points) and then straight connecting things up to some sort of bus main.

Whilst I await delivery of my Octopus III from Tam Valley Depot in San Diego, CA., I started thinking about where I'm going to put all the buttons and indicators for controlling the points. This naturally lead to some armchair modelling on the laptop to create a control panel overlay. As I know next to nothing about how real railways work it's guesswork coupled with artistic licence. Well, it makes sense to me!