This blog has been a little quiet of late; not that we haven't been doing anything, far from it, but we all seem to have been rather busy recently! A huge amount of planning has taken place - the idea being to maximise our efforts and have a clear and shared idea of our intended outcomes and deadlines.
A lot of the work we have undertaken over the last couple of months has concerned the electrics; as you can't see this most of the time, those who see the layout on a regular basis could be forgiven for thinking all progress had ceased! However, this work is at the heart of a succesful, working layout so we have taken great care with this. Other 'behind the scenes' work has seen great progress made with the baseboard covers - these are essential for a number of reasons now.
Part of the electrical work is to allow, should the need arise, the quick replacement of the Tortoise point motors - it may be a sod's law situation here. If they were hard wired in and were going to be awkward to replace following a failure at a show, this need would no doubt arise! We strongly believe that getting the fundamentals right at this stage will repaid hugely later on.
One rather exciting development is the station building. Although it has been substantially complete for a while recent activity has seen come on in leaps and bounds. As more photographs have been 'discovered' a few extra items have been added. These along with addition of guttering and the valances have transformed the building. Chris has also repainted the brick in a slightly different shade and the result is very pleasing, as I am sure the photographs will show you.
Elsewhere we have made progress on the stock front. The Class Y is progressing well and should form a rather nice 'signature' piece within the fleet. The type had a lifelong association with Hull. There is detailed coverage of this particular project here http://eastmoor.blogspot.com. Later in the year we will have a special where we will give a much more in depth look at rolling stock for the project!
So, that brings us right up to date. We won't have such a long break between updates next time!
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