With the Stourbridge end of the layout looking half decent attention has turned to the Dudley end of the new boards or the middle of the layout. Theres a few things that jarred about this scene now that it’s more open.  Before you couldn’t really see them.  The pavement doesn’t flow properly and there are big gaps at the end of the bridge girder. Also the lower part wasn’t finished.  When I designed the bridge I did have the foresight to include a half etch to allow the rivets on this side to be punched through.  However when I built it i didn’t bother! Ive already pulled up the road.

So the road and pavements have been redone. I made an overlay for the bridge from paper.  The pub sign is from Model scenics and features our much missed cat Moo.   The figures are from Modelu.

The bridge from track level.  Ive added the retaining walls with some nifty top capping that Tim kindly cut for me.

Turning around we see an overview of the somewhat neglected platforms.

An overview of progress so far.

Ive added a scattering of people from Modelu and Airfix.  I thought the lady with the umbrella was particularly suitable.  I still need to do more work to bed this end of the building in.  Considering this is the rush hour theres not many people about.

The station has 2 cats. The sensible one is Shadow while the mischievous one who wants to play is comet  They are more interested in chasing each other than the local rat population!

On the other platform a couple of elder ladies discuss the immanent closure of the station with the station master.

Agent A gent waits for the bus.  It’s late as usual!

Now that the some of the lighting is in place a few dark shots.