Progress is good, still much to do but advancing well.
First job of the day was to clip together all six boards to ensure that there was no warpage and that everything lined up (which it did)
The polystyrene needs to be shaped but is the right height for the raised loop.
Here the polystyrene needs to be cut away to allow the turntable to be fitted. The tracks here were laid at the end of the last all day session.
In the absence of a reasonably priced, single tunnel mouth, a Peco one has been bought and painted accordingly.
The main station end with the modified (by us) double, double tunnel. Again the polystyrene needs to be shaped.
After laying the tracks (including my modified half large radius curves (right hand side) ballast was added and the inside walls of the tunnel painted brown.
Polystyrene cut away (two girder bridges will bridge this gap) turntable fitted, sadly only five of the six roads will fit.
The whole of board one has its track fixed and ballasted.
Looking down the front section from right to left.
All the track along the front is now permanently fixed into position.
An extra piece of hillside was added today, cut roughly to shape and glued in. We can't shape this until the glue has dried. The junction layout was also fixed into position along with the TPO.
Level crossing now permanently fixed and held into position by the track. The raised section here has now been shaped ready for modrock. Signals also permanently fixed into position.
Main station end (before the platforms were added) and before I'd had a chance to vacuum!
The up (inner) loop with signals.
Tunnel walls again painted brown, points were pre-soldered and just required the holes drilling in the boards before fixing into position. I took the precaution of bench testing every set of points prior to installing them.
Station view again with nicely sculptured hillside for the upper loop.
Looking through the station into the tunnel.
Two platforms fixed into position and the 0-6-2 tank was used to check the clearances.
Starting to look like a proper station!
Had to move one of the signals to fit the platform, may yet move the other one.
Looking left to right, the trackbed for the raised section easier to see.
The view I'll be getting used to, from behind the layout. Still need to add the main station building and platform.
The ramp here by the crossing will be removable as it crosses two boards.
The third signal is for the shuttle loop, which will be automatically controlled.
The added "hump" which we'll model properly once the glue has set.
Board one track and ballasting completed.
Two more boards to be ballasted, then we need to lay the tracks at the back (fiddle yard) at least two more full days of work ahead of us (we think) but great progress.
Tired now.
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