Today I made a start on clearing some ground for a base for the shed that will eventually house Somercombe. Had to buy a chainsaw to get some old shrubs and a couple of trees out. Being green by nature, I have replaced these with 6 trees in another part of the garden(and I only went to Focus to get some epoxy).

Ok, it looks a bit like a building site, but it's a start.

Once the site is cleared, I will beforming a low wall around the area with concrete blocks before filling with concrete.

The shed will measure 20'x10', which, allowing for the framing and outer skin, should give me around 19'4"x9'4".

Somercombe will be set in South Somerset in the period 1960-66. Southern mainline, roundy-roundy, small country station with branch platform, this will enable me to get a bit of S&D on it.. The branch will leave the station and climb around the shed to a small terminus about 12" to 15" above the main layout. Things I would like to include are a coalmine(maybe that stretches the Somerset coalfield a bit) and a smallish MPD, though this would be next to a fiddleyard in it's own sort of diorama.