Landforms developing - and other progress
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Eridge Mk2 is slowly getting ever closer to where Mk1 finished. Scenic landforms now cover the London end, showing the increased depth of scenery in the new version. These show how the low embankment of made ground on which the whole station rests (real) transition into a cutting as the topography rises (fictitious).
More on the odd looking locomotive later!
At the station end, the stream course has been carved out from extensions to the polystyrene baseboard surface, and the platforms have been reshaped but not yet bedded into the spaces between the ballast. Some new detail work has also been done on the main station building but things still look a bit precarious for any prospective traveller!
And what about that locomotive? Not one that would be permitted on the line in reality, and it raised some eyebrows amongst the diehard Southerners, but it's a Churchward 28xx from a Finney kit - Mike bought it at the MRJ show (!) when it was one of the first etched kits for a 'large' engine. The chassis has been around for some years, but it now has a body and tender. With a Portescap motor, inside working valve gear, and pickups in the tender only, like all of Mike's locomotives it performed very nicely indeed.
Rumours abounded that more of the boards were about to be upturned for completion of wiring, so things are certainly progressing.
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