December 2009
The Hornby castle ruin, no entirely convincing straight from box, so have been layering weathering on it.

December 2009
Things have slowly been done. The cork rocks have been expanded togaps filled, painted grey and a little weathering.
Ballast and some grass has been laid in front of the wall, rock face and closed tunnel. Rails have been rust painted.

September 2009
Mod-roc strips have been laided down to give the surface of the hill.
This eventually house a Hornby catle ruin and a herd of cows.

August 2009
I put up an end board made from hardboard and painted it black. After some meauring I ordered some NOCH scenic wall sections and arch. AFter a lot of trial and error I have made a false tunnel, this will be bricked up witha removable front and inside will be an abandoned rusting steam loco.Above it will be a small car park with a fenced in Hornby generator.

At the other end is a hill with a rock front.
The rock is cork bark and the base of the hill is expanded polystyrene sheet cut to shape.

August 2009
After a break, I started on the other end of the layout. I kicked off by ballasting the long sidings.

March 2009
08720 next to the diesel tanks.

March 2009
Eastfield North's diesel shed and pits.

March 2009
Overall view of the depot area.

Feb 2009
A distressed and aged van - now used as a storage.

Feb 2009
Scratched up and aged Transit van.

Feb 2009
Diesel tank glued in place.

Feb 2009
More ballasting.

The general view across the depot to the scenic backboard.
The main bridge support has two side walls, one of brick and one of concrete, also made from mounting board.
Some scenery has taken place around the backboard including the first of the two industrial buildings.

A scratchbuilt low-relief industrial building.

A shot of the yard with two new long sidings added.

A mock up of the depot complete with locos filling the stabling lines.

Some of the baseboard has been painted to aid my minds eye.
I started on the right-hand side of the layout by adding a low scenic backboard, then I created the bridge supports made
from mounting board - the ramp was rescued from my old layout. To the scenic backboard I have planned to attach two
scratchbuilt low-relief industrial buildings with appropriate shrubbery and landscaping up to the trackside.

With the track down, a rough idea of layout is fleshed out with approximate placement of buildings.

It was after struggling with the foam ballast that I realised it was far too messy for the kind of layout I wanted
so I removed it all and relaid the track - nearly all the track is down.

Drilled and fitted Peco inspection pits for the depot shed.

I then relayed the work using Gaugemaster foam ballast.

I began to lay the pointwork.

I bought a roll of cork from a firm I discovered on the internet, glued the cork down and trimmed off the excess.
Originally I had constructed some wooden legs to attach to the baseboard but realised that these weren't going to achieve
what I wanted in terms of strength, so I bought some extendable metal-legged work horses/trestles.

Strengthening cross braces placed at spacings designed to avoid planned point motor placement.

• My initial start for a Eastfield flavoured layout ended in 2007 after I realised I have planned too large and spent far too
much time on ballasting that didn't meet my expectations. So I replanned and reduced the size of the layout to a more
managable size. A decision was made to use Code 75 track with electrofrog points throughout with Gaugemaster
foam ballast inserts for ease of ballasting. Construction started January 2008.