The weekend saw the second point laid and the track at the other end of the yard started. I also spent a load of time installing the wiring. Now I know that sounds weird, installing the wiring before the track is laid but the wiring consists of 'CBUS' circuit boards from the MERG. The way I'm doing this means each baseboard gets one or two eight-way boards which drive a set of relays and MERG Servo-4 controllers. Once these are installed the 'wiring' is a case of connecting up the rails of the plain track to the two DCC bus-bars and the frogs of any points to the relays which switch them. This makes wiring very quick and easy. The other advantage of this system is that you don't have difficulties with building control panels before you can play trains!

The J15 propels some vans into the track which heads behind the cattle dock. This shows that the next bit of track-work to tackle is the double-slip (gulp)

The mill building is just there to give some scale, these two sidings were the rest of the yard, with a lay-by (still waiting for rail) in front of them. Looking at the pictures I can find it looks like the track towards the rear was used for loading while the one nearer the camera was used to store wagons prior to unloading or when empty.

Looking forward to Scaleforum this weekend and getting the shopping list ready!

David