The key elements taken from Salisbury were as follows:

• LSWR design style of shed albeit reduced from ten roads to four, however the distinctive ex-LSWR style has been copied with its glazed gables, slate roof and exhaust stacks. Inside the shed can be seen inspection pits utilising Peco inspection pits threaded on to full lengths of flexible track. Also the main roof trusses and the wooden troughs to capture the smoke and guide it to the exhaust stacks are included.
• The shed offices are modelled on the outside of the back wall and the pedestrian entrance via the steps from the lower road at the rear of the shed is also included. The chimney on the corner of the shed is associated with the sand drying room.
• Coal Stage and ramp complete with a detailed interior with the coalmen, the coal loading bins, and the canvas weather protection sheets at the doors. It is intended to mount a small electromagnet located in the removable roof to lift the coal load from the wagons allowing them to leave empty.
• The substantial water tower, including stores and engineman's dormitories has been modelled in its original condition with windows in place rather than as later bricked up. The small unloading platform for the stores van siding off the turntable is modelled along with its canopy. I have added a small single story office building to the rear of this building.
• Turntable positioning relative to coal stage and water tower building. The basis of the turntable is a Peco kit with the deck modified with the addition, from scratch, of new sides to represent the heavy over girder type in use at Salisbury (up until 1958 when it was replaced by an undergirder type) and a turner's platform.
• The slightly elevated running lines and carriage siding at the rear of the scene.
• The up and down running lines at the rear of the layout allow the occasional main line train to pass the shed in the background and gives the opportunity for some of my other rolling stock to be seen.

Locomotives arrive and depart to and from the station to the east (i.e. the fiddle yard). Some locos can then be seen on trains heading to the west country, likewise locomotives on trains from the west then appear on shed for coaling etc. Most represent locomotives seen at Salisbury although occasional other visitors arrive, my excuse is that they have arrived from Eastleigh on a running-in turn after a works visit.

I have tried to create a number of cameo scenes around the layout these include: gangers taking a break by the PW hut (one of whom is a representation of my Grandfather who actually worked at Salisbury as a Ganger), workers filling wheelbarrows with ash, loco cleaners on duty with ladders, various loco crew awaiting their next duty, maintenance staff in and around the shed, a wheeltapper walking along side the carriage siding, a gardener tending his back garden, the postman about to receive attention from the household's dog that has got between him and his bike and a group of school children trying to sneak access in to the shed (one of whom represents my Dad during his short trousers days!)

Other details include: two types of LSWR water columns as seen at Salisbury (scratch built from brass tube and rod) and braziers, working yard lamps, various yard cats, piles of ash and working LSWR style signals on the main line.

Basic scenery is formed from Mod Roc with a plaster coating (mixed with brown powder paint to ensure if chipped white patches do not show) for the embankment sides and to form the basic road surface at the west end of the boards. Various Woodland Scenics ® and other scatter materials are then used to build up the ground cover.
Prior to ballasting I gave all the trackwork an overall spray of track colour and the rail sides then painted with rust colour. Trackwork in the yard was then further weathered and changed in tone after ballasting to give the impression of coal dust, dirt and oil.
The main line is ballasted with fine ballast (generally sold as N gauge ballast, as I find the '00' ballast too course for my liking).
The yard area is a mixture of ballast, fine cinders, coal dust and real ash etc. to give a variety of tones across the yard.
My general method of construction for the buildings are a mixture of Wills building sheets, embossed and plain plasticard and plasti-strut. A typical concrete platelayers hut and a couple of ballast bins from Roxey white metal kits are also included along side the main lines.

The signals on the main lines, built from Model Signal Engineering (MSE) components, represent the up station approach bracket signal (with fixed distants) and down advance starter and are operated by MSE actuators. The original LSWR style Lattice upper quadrant signals at Salisbury were pneumatically operated hence the small cylinder located on the dolly just beneath the arm.

I must extend a big thank you to fellow High Wycombe and District Model Railway Society member Ron North for his excellent hand painted backscene.