Roving around

The blog has been quiet lately for no other reason than that I've been travelling around. After the jaunt to Ireland (a country depressingly thin on the railway interest front - though I'm sure there are many who will disagree), work took me to Malta (a step beyond Ireland on the railway front - admittedly the plentiful Bedford and Leyland buses dating from the '60s to the '80s make up for this in a big way) and then Edinburgh. The highlight of the latter was the unmistakeable sound of a Deltic engine coming to my ears while I was strolling through Princes Street Gardens: sure enough, there was 55022 'Royal Scots Grey' at Waverley with (I discovered afterwards) the ECS for a railtour today from Dundee to Oban (see photo).

All this means, of course, that progress with the route has been slow. Today I've created a WIA wagon consist for use as static scenery: there are shots on the UKTS Forum thread here. A rebuild of Banbury station is slowly unfolding. And sometime soon I'll be working on the Bicester branch.