The double-track main line has now been properly trimmed and laid.  Cutting and re-spacing sleepers is very time consuming!  I decided that the concrete sleepers on this section would benefit from being opened out to 8mm centre-centre.  After gluing and adjusting - 5mm coffee stirrers are perfect - the track does look better, even though it's all a compromise in 00.  The station area will be bullhead, so no chopping and spacing will be needed there.

The other time-consuming element was aligning track at board joins.  Because the boards are supported on shelf brackets, and the need to remove the  elevated section for occasional cupboard access, getting the horizontal and vertical alignment spot-on was, er, challenging!

So then on to the crossover at the station throat.  Even with the cut-and-solder mods for DCC, pointwork was fairly straightforward to lay - despite my continued tendency to prune rail lengths just slightly short.  But it looks reasonable and hopefully will look much better when painted and ballasted.  Before going much further, a check was made for clearances on the curve:

This is worst case, assuming I've not overlooked any longer rolling stock.  Not too bad is it?

Now to lay track in the station area... and then under-board wiring... and point servos... and... eventually see trains run!