Progress - what progress?

It is difficult to explain the lack of progress on the layout since 2007. I could point to having to re-cover the roof after the felt tore in a storm causing a flood in the shed and saturating the insulation but that would be a poor excuse for two years delay. The main cause has been pottering - and lots of it!! Once some track was laid it was difficult not to start running locos up and down, trying out decoders and so on.

One big decision I did take was to replace the staging with a cassette system. The staging was never going to provide all the storage I needed but with the cassettes this is unlimited. The revised layout plan is shown above.