MSTS Oxford route

After months of inactivity, I've decided I could use my blog for something useful - to give the MSTS (that's Microsoft Train Simulator in case you're wondering) community a handy insight into what's going on with my Oxford route.
Here are some basic data:

• Coverage: Banbury to Didcot Parkway, Oxford North Junction to Bicester Town and the first mile or so of the old OW&W line from Wolvercote Junction. This is my local patch and playing with the route means I don't have to walk down the road to the level crossing to watch trains. The GW Society centre at Didcot is included, and about a mile or so beyond Banbury and Didcot in all directions. (edit: The first route I attempted to create was Guildford to Portsmouth, familiar to me from days of childhood; this is now due to be overtaken and surpassed by Dave Corfield's excellent Dorset Coast route.)
  
• Contemporary setting: when I do get out of my armchair I can take photos to model the route accurately. I'm not a fan of the post-privatisation scene but it's current and popular with many. The route works reasonably well with stock from the sectorisation era of the late 1980s, which is when I first travelled on the (real) route.
  
• Custom models: there is a huge amount of freeware stock available for nutters like me, and I'm hugely indebted to all those content creation wizards at UKTS. To create a strong sense of realism and immersing oneself in the route, however, I've taken the decision to build my own models for as many of the lineside structures as possible. It's time-consuming but I feel it will be worth it. Since I'm a bit of a cheapskate I'm actually just using Google SketchUp - I know it has its limitations and isn't taken seriously by most of the game-playing modelling community, but I love it for its simplicity. Thanks to a fantastically useful plugin by Paul Gausden (aka Decapod) I can export my models from SketchUp straight to MSTS. I'm pleased with the results, by and large.

What I plan to do is use this blog to provide updates on progress, post screenshots, etc. Here's one for starters - a northbound Voyager racing through Radley (camera shutter late by a second):