Definitely a train set not a model railway.  Here are some
in-progress pics taken in the last couple of days:
<http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/wiki/Railway/In_progress>

Hopefully you can see the size of the thing and also gauge roughly
how its intended to work.  Some fiddling and fettling of lines is
still needed, one or two have been knocked out of straight while
doing other jobs, but they seem to fiddle back OK.

Today I've been doing the section from the end of the trundleduct
distant from the station, and taking the concealed back straight
round to meet the trundleduct; it will go behind a backscene that is
mounted on the trundleduct.

I am beginning to feel it might one day be finished (or at least
playable).  It's a way off yet, but do people usually have a "golden
track pin" ceremony?

Guy
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Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
> Definitely a train set not a model railway.  Here are some
[...]
> I am beginning to feel it might one day be finished (or at least
> playable). 

Definite possibility. ;-)

> It's a way off yet, but do people usually have a "golden
> track pin" ceremony?
> 
> Guy


I've never been privileged to participate in one, and never did one 
myself (I've built 14 layouts to the operational stage, and two or three 
of them actually got most of the scenery done, too). But I've seen 
photos, so they do take place.

HTH

-- 
Wolf Kirchmeir

Although it's not the subject of your post, I'd love to see a competition in 
which an entire layout has to be constructed around an off-the-shelf 
trainset with no additional track or rolling stock, just to see what was 
possible.

(kim)