A bit of a break from the day's screen time meant the very early stages of hard landscaping around Podimore.
I quite like the way that buildings are grouping around this corner. The occupational bridge over the industrial line results in a skewed crossing over the front of the dairy yard which takes the lane around the back of the station building and up a lane towards the village or into the goods yard (ok, siding). The mainline mousehole will disappear from most angles behind a little bit of Exmouth Junction concrete fencing on the slope down to the double-ended siding in front of the platform road and some scrubby trees of the sort that turned up alongside the Northamptonshire ironstone railways. Two of my all time favourite layouts, Barrowfleet, and Ditchling Green, used a similar ruse very effectively. The dairy siding will have a gantry over it so a mix of hard lines and soft foliage at this end with all the coupling and uncoupling taking place at the right hand end of the upper section (yes, I did plan this), and the industrial loop unimpeded.
A slightly better sense of the skewed crossing here - contrary to appearances, the foam bed for the road is comfortably below rail height.
A closer view of the station building (Cliddesden was the basis of the drawing, but all the stations on the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway were similar, in case you're wondering), which is almost ready for paint.
Now, back to work!
Adam