Progression of the quickest order

Well i have had a concerted effort to get the layout to a reasonable stage  recently as things are slowly coming along  tortoise point motors remain to be fitted  and as does the top half of the loop towards the fiddle yard  but the bottom half remains  almost complete with the board joint being  in place prior to slitting across the joints and wiring will then commence in full flow  hopefully by Christmas day I will be able to run trains on this board and across on to what is board 2 of 3 .

There has always been an aspiration to capture  something of the ravenglass and eskdale railway  in this layout and i am feeling that these photos  show that  slightly reminiscent of  beckfoot halt

Could one day we see a model of  the Powerful yet pleasing 2-8-2 "River Mite"

 or perhaps a little bit of minature railway history  with  a model of River Irt the 0-8-2 Formerly owned by the Heywood family now running in eskdale.

Not so rapid action....

Well the last few months  have passed and not much progress has happened until the past two weeks various items have been acquired including all the point-work and track for the first two sections that will Be on show next October at the lancashire and yorkshire DCC group show i then plan to extend the layout for its next booked outing . various items of stock are being built as time permits most of the construction has been round creating the landscape from layers of 2" insulation foam  this is a time consuming process  and I'm keen to get it right.
photos will be uploaded in due course.