A day off on Friday allowed time to start track building on the lower quayside area of the layout. This bit of the layout is a bit of an 'Enigma Engineering' inspired shunting puzzle, I might even resort to waybills so I can shunt different bits of the pickup goods down to the lower yard. I know one end of the section is going to be a coal yard, but I'm not sure about the other end yet, possibly a scrap yard? The intention is for this track to be inlaid, so copper-clad sleepers and lots of check/guard rails are the order of the day. To make life more fun I decided to add a three-way into the plan. I'd never built one before and was very glad of the guidance in the Scalefour society digest on which rail to lay in what order. Wiring also confused the heck out of me as the point I built was the opposite way around to the wiring diagram and i had great trouble reversing the diagram, and working out which rail was which from underneath the baseboard for wiring.

Please excuse the temporary bit of wire to jump the rails together!

The points are operated by cranks connected to the SPDT switch that changes the polarity of the frog, or frogs in the case of the 3-way.