After spending the winter clearing the loft, boarding the floor and celotexing and hardboarding the eves, I now have a workable space. The loft still needs power and lighting and the centre area needs celotex and hardboarding, but progress is being made at last!

The plan is to run the layout around the outside of the loft on a 40cm "shelf" that allows me to still access the storage in the eves, have my computers in their current location (the loft is my man cave), but have a large baseboard for a station/town scene at the far end.

The baseboards will be 9mm plywood with 2x1" to strengthen them. horizontal support will be placed between the existing house supports and the diagonal beams you see in the pictures to take the weight of the boards.

Next step is to get power and lighting to the loft. At the moment it has one double socket in the middle of the floor and LED strip lights running off my PC usb port.