There isn't going to be much in the way of elevation on this layout, and what there is is nearly all at the road bridge and embankment.

This has been quite tricky to research, since everyone seems to stand *on* the bridge and take pictures of locos for some reason The roadway and path are nicely visible on Google street view, and there are a couple of small pictures of the bridge itself on Flickr, taken on the open day I think. Unfortunately the photographer doesn't have larger versions available, although he was able to dig up useful a wider view which shows the wing wall:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/17889585@N03/1859050951/

http://www.flickr.co...N03/4705921484/

It looks like the abutments are some kind of dark engineering brick, but I can't really see. The central pillar has curved ends with coned tops which should be fun to build - at least I only have to do one

I don't have room for anything like the scale bridge, at least not without reducing the embankment to nothing, so some selective compression is in order. I widened the openings in the profile board to try and get a better sense of the (quite spacious) openings, and built a framework from foamboard. Dimensions are eyeballed from the photos.

The girder in the first picture is a bargain bucket stand-in. It's about the right length for my compressed bridge, but it doesn't have the features or geometry of the real thing, which has a flat base and bows up with the bridge deck. It's also completely different as regards the bracing. So I really want to scratchbuild one, but it depends if I have time or not. If I don't, I'll probably need to add some more depth at the very least. The good thing is that with the abutments more-or-less defined, I can build the embankment and trim the profile boards back.

In other news, I fixed a minor rail kink and ballasted the double slip in place. There are quite a few spots in the ballast where you can see edges resulting from multiple ballasting sessions, I suspect sanding or light remedial ballasting will cure these.