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Some good news... Fiddling about with the point last night, I noticed that if I made the point motor move the point then it does work! So it should just be a case of taking that off the board and drilling the hole out a bit to make it work both ways.

So this is the status so far. The front part is nailed and glued down, but the point leading to the goods shed need some work as the point motor gets jammed and stops the point from going straight. So that needs gentle removal (it's nailed down) and some drill work! Everything beyond that point still loose, but you get the idea of the track plan. Underneath there are a bunch of SEEPs, and as this is Setrack, not too many wires. For isolating sections I'm always disabling the right rail so I hope to be able to reduce the number of wires required.

Right well so, someone suggested that N Gauge Setrack was perfect for an HOe fiddle yard... Next time I got anywhere near a train shop, I walked out with the N Setrack starter set, a GWR autotrain and some goods wagons... Playing around for a few evenings, both with that and my HOe Austrian sets, made me think that N gauge is real possibility! I'm not so good at building small structures, but there are many pre-made models, so that's alright. Now as for the layout, I saw a layout called Pucklechurch in a magazine, and liked the layout. Playing around for a bit, I realised it could be enhanced by adding an extra goods siding. Slowly this is getting built and some pictures will follow soon as I've worked out how I can do this! I've decided to call it Knucklechurch, and is supposed to be somewhere between Gloucester and Cheltenham around the nationalisation era. Knucklechurch is, however, only a stop gap. My thoughts are already planning the next project (maybe this is why I've got so many trains, in boxes, around the house?): The Oxted and Westerham heritage railway.... A complete and utter fiction that will allow me to run anything I want really....