normally I post these updates monthly, but I've been avoiding writing about this for ages. Oh well, here goes...

3 months in and im already talking about the end? its a long story.. at the end of February the offer was given to me to relocate my layout to a new place with more room, better lighting, better equipment and more working time, who wouldn't refuse? so the day of the move came, I dismantled my layout the best way I could. now the trouble is, I had never designed this layout to be able to be moved, it was always meant as a permanent fixture... so I load it into the van, and half way through the journey we heard massive CRACK and our worse fears had been realised... the board Split. luckily everything from my old layout was salvageable, but the boards and grass wasn't...
to top it all off Im browsing the internet one evening and pull up an old raiway map and to my horror the place I named my whole layout after

would have been on an SR route

so now im back to a new bare board, and a layout with no name. but I took this as a chance to redesign the layout, a second chance if you will, and have upgraded the track to have 4 sidings instead of 2, and also have a run around loop for my trains. I have upgraded the infrastructure of the layout and will definitely make sure it is transportable this time!!

I have definitely learned from this, but there can only be good times ahead:

• my Sub terrain for my layout should be arriving soon,
• I've just had my birthday so my layout has had a cash injection
• I have started a number of mini projects one of which I will show you shortly
• the layout is now securely in its new home so there's a lot of benefits to that!
  

for now, I just have to stay motivated and keep on chuffing!
Brad.

as always, please comment down below, im happy to answer any questions and im in desperate need of some constructive criticism!