Six Months in the Sidings

 We have spent many many of hours of hard labour on this strange project this year, so it seems only fair that we should inflict some of this pain upon you all. You know how much you all love it...

First off, a round up of how we got where we are. 

Why? is a question I prefer not to ask...

So, this year, the main area of work has been on the sidings. Originally meant to be just a parking area for our immense panoply of locomotives and wagons, it has grown into something almost outside of our control. 

This video shows the Scrap Yard, aka 'that bit that we didn't know what to do with'...

At the other end of the sidings is the Transfer Table. This is Thierry's 'Opus Magnum', his 'Raison d'Etre'. 

It's not actually finished yet, but here's a preview of this magnificent achievement...

Thus, albeit not yet finished (to the surprise of absolutely no-one) here is the sidings in all it's glory...

Just past the sidings is a French village. A French village with a difference. The difference being that it appears to have been recently invaded by aliens. This is not exactly a common event. I have not seen anything like it in our local village for a very long time. Not since last Thursday anyway...

And so, as time passes like a TGV on steroids, here is, finally, the entirety of our layout in an amazing breath-taking video. Please fasten your seatbelts and take all precautions necessary. Paper bags can be found in the pockets in-front of you.

The next six months? Well, that depends on so many things. The weather (heat waves drive me out of the garden into the climate controlled alternative universe of the Barn Station) , the spare time (yeah, right, maybe not so much), union strikes (so far they have not affected transport in the Barn Station, but you know the French...), Brexit (Well, that screws everyone yes?), Covid (that too) and, most credibly, further invasions by many-limbed aliens...