After a false start with a second-hand/recycled baseboard and waiting for Lenz to bring out long announced items, I am now under some pressure from colleagues at the Liphook club to get on with it.!

It really will be a new start and the target date is the club's 2014 open day in October.

Soltendieck is a real place in Northern Germany within commuting distance of Hanover and Hamburg. It is near to Lunberg Heath where the German Forces in this region surrendered to General Montgomery at the end of WW2

It had a station on a line that ran from Berlin to Hamburg which was used extensively to move emmigrants from Berlin to Hamburg for transport to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century.

With the division of Germany into East and West Germany in 1949 the line was cut actually a few kilometres east of Soltendieck and as a result all services on the West German side ceased. This was not always the case where lines were cut and some lines continued in use on each side of the border often without track alterations.

In this instance the station building is just within West Germany and with some judicious shunting can operate as a passenger terminus as well as serving a long established grocery wholesalers warehouse. The East Germans have removed a section of the railway embankment at the border and a third of the warehouse has been lost. It will be set in Epoch 3 which covers the height of the Cold War.

The first work is to layout out the proposed track layout on the 3300 x 600 footprint; then if all OK to build three baseboard sections approx 1100 x 600 each

Track layout to follow.