I finally knuckled down to doing the point rodding. Somewhat to my surprise it's all gone well, if a little slow. Under the branch track the crank for the facing point lock went it and using Plastruct square the rod the headshunt point rod placed. The the FPL and branch points were connected to the run back to the signal box. These are 's's of round 0.7mm round brass kinked to drop the height from the rod in the chair to the crank and soldered to 0.7mm square rod . They are perhaps a little exaggerated over the prototype but I'm happy with result - they look the part. Some of the crank positions had got a bit lost, but skullduggery means you'd have to be Mr. Picky to really notice them. For the rest of the layout, where not already placed, I will place the cranks at the same time as the rodding so they do properly 'work'. I installed the rodding by starting at a crank and superglueing the rod to the crank, using bits and bobs to hold the rod in the first two or three stools. This was to get the angles right so to speak, and ensure the rod was sitting square in the stools. When this had gone off the rod was fully placed in it's remaining stools, a small blob of runny superglue to fix at each stool. Where there is a join, the rod is cut so it sits half on the stool, the next section  can then be joined and glued. The join is all but invisible and there's no kink (measuring the stools position carefully from the nearside rail paid off handsomely here). Then just work along. I'll be stopping just past the signal box for now, the south end hasn't really happened yet! It would be possible to make fishplates out of thin brass for the rodding joints as per prototype but that's a step too far form me. The effect is well worth the effort I think, I almost decided against point rodding due to (suprising!) cost and fiddliness. So glad I didn't. Next : sort the ballast out and go to McDonalds to get some planks coffee. After sorting the Bobby's lamp for the stairs - how could I forget...