This week the layout has been reassembled in preparation for a new phase of work on it. At the moment it’s standing without any buildings permanently fixed allowing me to spend looking at the structure of the layout, its track plan, and how to maximise its display potential, including the possibility of it becoming US eastern seaboard HO gauge, rather than UK outline OO.

Being able to look at the layout from all sides as opposed to just one, is showing some of the design faults as built, but as above, lets me look at making the best out of what I have. There’s also a good deal more photographic potential than perhaps I previously realised, the two shots here being quick snaps out of the Canon G10.