Quite a lot has happened over the last week and a half; I don't usually get this much done, I don't know what's come over me. The new substructure for the enlarged and improved staging was covered with my usual 4mm yoga mat material, stuck down with Evo-stick.
I managed to stretch the leftovers from the rest of the layout so there are a few more joins than I would have liked but it's the off scene area when all's said and done.
On the layout proper I've extended the grey silhouette backscene form the Baile Hill tower on the Bar Walls around to where Terry's warehouse will be placed.
On Wednesday I picked up ten lengths of Peco flextrack from my mate Nick's stall on Machynlleth market; enough to do the staging and leave some over for future projects.
As well as the three long storage roads I've squeezed in a loco siding (the front track) so that when my mates bring toys to play with it's easy to rail them here.
I took the snaps yesterday, today I've got one and a half long sidings in and with wires to them and in my upstairs playroom I've another warehouse building under construction, this long gone one from Skeldergate.
Finally I've attended to the ergonomics of the signal box. The box diagram was flat to the wall above the point levers and awkward to keep in view while supervising my mates getting up to all sorts of mischief on Friday evenings.
I didn't want to mount it above the levers because I wanted to keep the view of the layout uncluttered and having it sticking out to the right would compromise access to the storage shelves underneath and to the staging sidings. Earlier this week I had a sudden rush of blood to the brain and I decided that I'd hinge it so it could be out for use and folded flat when not.
Remarkably pleased with myself for working that one out.