Anyway, despite all this, there has been some progress at St Petrock Station, though, as you'll see from the photos, there's still much to do.
The main platform is almost complete, and is edged with Southern Railway 'harps & slabs" (from Peco), in-filled with Polyfilla and painted to look like tarmac. I now realize that the edging should have had at least one extra row of paving slaps behind it, but I don't feel inclined to correct this omission. Perhaps the contractor didn't know what he was doing. Yes, that's a good excuse.
The running-in board is a Dart Casting with lettering on plain paper, printed using my computer. In the background you can see the goods shed beginning to take shape.
If you look at earlier photos of the station building, you'll see that the platform there has brick edging and a paved surface, giving the impression that the platform had been extended (doubtless in the 1930s) to cope with the growing holiday traffic.
The following photos show the station and station yard. Station Master Hubert Penrose's greenhouse has appeared, but vegetables have yet to grow in his garden. Thankfully, when they do, the Southern Railway are in the process of giving him a stout fence, so passengers with nothing better to do won't be pinching his beans.
