Work continues on the bridge. Abutments finished on the town side.

Note the use of prototypical 1960 stock.

A bit more track laying done over the weekend. Starting to think about the layout of the goods yard. Only three sidings. One through the goods shed and cattle dock. Another will be for the coal merchants and one for.......well, just as a siding.

The track on the left of this picture is from the previous aborted attempt.

Looking up from the station throat. Again using typical 1960's stock.

Over the yard towards the station building.

I think it is time now to power some of this up to check it all works. I will fit droppers to each rail section and maybe, if I'm really keen, get some tortoises in tomorrow.

Spent some of this morning putting in the droppers to the power rail. For this I decided to use mains cable, stripped at intervals. Soldered this all up at lunchtime and checked for shorts as I went. All was going well until the area in front of the signal box A bit of head scratching and swearing followed before I noticed the problem. I had added a couple of copperclad sleepers to a point yesterday and forgotten to gap them Problem quickly sorted and at 14:35 today the first loco ran under it's own power. Didn't run very far, but this was fortunately down to dirty track, a quick wipe over with fingers was enough to get it going again. Next job is to fit Tortoises and wire these in. Once I am happy with this stage I can press on and complete the circuit. The next problem I see ahead of me is that when the circuit is complete, will I want to play trains or get on with the scenics.