The new hidden mainline is seen here on the left, climbing above the lower fiddle yard. Some levelling is still required in the distance, but the extra 100 feet of mainline already enables me to remove all trains from the yard for maintenance purposes. Today I've given the whole area a thorough clean and a long-overdue vacuuming. I also took the opportunity to fit individual sleepers in the gaps at the end of each length of flex-track - overkill for a fiddle yard I suppose, but the gaps annoy me in photographs.
Apologies to anyone expecting to see proper diesels & electrics. The steam loco is a momentary lapse of reason as the empty yard proved ideal for test-running stock not normally seen on the layout....