This is a picture of the control panel, just a start with more to follow.  The lights will show which direction the trains travel, red lights is incorrect setting, yellow light is correct, green light for auto stop for the whole layout. The large switch on the right is the switch for the electric turntable tracks. It will have lights to let you know if the track is lined up.  It is only for steam engines in Britain because modern diesel and electric trains did not have to turn because they had an engine in each end unlike many European trains.  Most places do not have turntables anymore.

This is a closeup of the control panel with lights and switches

4 layers of track

This is the harbour train station and you can see the bridge also.

Here you can see the main line and a branch line, also the turn table.  This Intercity 125 from 1980 till 1990.  It has 2 kitchen cars, one had got waiters only for first class passengers.  The other kitchen car does not serve food to the table, you have to get your food yourself.  It has 5 coaches and a front and back engine.

This is a closer look at the level 3 harbour station with station buildings.

This is a picture of second lifting bridge door, closed here, with two layers of track.  You can see the baseboard levels, lowest level which will be the harbour, then the next layer is level 2 and then level 3 above

Here is a photo of 4 layers of track

Another view of part of the bridge with Edward Thomson 1948 going over it.  The wallpaper has got texture on it to make it look like water when it is painted.

This is a picture of a tug boat under the bridge before it is painted.  There is a harbour and a big extension bridge also.

A carriage modified to have forward and reverse lights. 

Switch wiring for the point system. 

Red and Green LED's indicate switch direction. 

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Edward Thomson train pulling three carriages. 

This is a photo of my first bridge

That is a picture of level 3 with an extension bridge half finished

This is a photo of level 3 station and a two layer lifting bridge door

This picture shows the lifting door in the up position.  You can also see the 4 ft long harbour that is 1ft6.  Also level 3 harbour station will be built here for passenger trains.  Below at level 2 is the container yard for goods trains.  Level 1 is for container ships.

This shows lifting bridge no. 2, also with two layers of track.  

 This is a photo of the process of building the Brunel 1859 bridge.  It still need to be completed and painted, it is 8 ft long.  Another lifting bridge for enabling big container ships to go through is still to be built where there is a gap.  This will have an electric motor to lift it.  Small boats can go under the yellow section of the bridge in the foreground.  

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76 from Christian Clydesdale Thomson on Vimeo.

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This picture is of 3 trains and 3 levels of track.  In the background at level 3 is a great western Sprinter from 1933 and it is diesel electric.  The other two are steam engines from 1948.

This is the extension connecting the main line with the harbour at level one and three. This is the second bridge door which lifts up to give access to the water tank.

 Here you can see it opened.  It is constructed with 3 hinges.

This is s picture of level 3 and level 2 towards the bridges taking you to level 1 from level 2.  

This is a picture of me starting to build a hill. Under the bridge there will be a river and behind that there will be a watermill. There will also be a waterfall.  On the other side of the bridge there will be another hill.  

I have decided to make more sidings at the back on the bottom layer.  This was planned later as I did not know if it was possible in terms of the lifting door position.

This is the same but seen from the other end of the layout.

This picture shows 2 edward Thomson steam engines from 1948 up to 1962.  One engine is not strong enough to manage the incline as it is very steep.  Each train has 6 volts and I find that it works a bit better.

This shows you the storage space under level 2 giving storage to 6 trains

This shows you 2 trains at the siding

This is a photo of the bridge door with 3 tracks at top level and 2 at lover level.

That is a photo showing you the door lifting.  As you can see both levels open and close together.

Here you see the door fully open with a view to the hinge and the door handle.

This shows you the layout from the other end with a view to the lifting door and 2 tracks of the main line with a third line with a buffer for a shunting yard for goods trains to enable main lines to pass. The other 4 are passenger main lines.

That shows you a train on the bridge.

Here we see two trains under the newly completed bridge door on level one, going in different directions. The train in the background is in a siding on the incline.

This is a photo showing 2 layers on the opening door giving acces to the middle.  Both layers lift together creating a very heavy opening lifting door.  It took a long time to design and get it to work.  A piece of circuit board was used to make it more solid to ensure the tracks will continue to stay in the right place.

This shows a picture of the bridge door open.  The silver coloured metal plates stops the wood getting bashed when it goes down.  

This shows the same but from the other side.

 This gives you an idea of how strong it is so that it will last for many years.

The circle is nearly complete now.

This is a picture of the hinged opening.   The rods are made from a meter long rod cut into smaller pieces and filed.  Washers, bolts and nuts are solder to prevent them moving.  This now completes the circle with an opening that can be lifted up with the hinges on the right hand side.  Both layers move together.  It will be completed to look like a bridge.