Hello and welcome back to Shelvington. In this February 2026 update I’m checking in from my OO/HO model railway in the garage here in Wellington, NZ. It’s been a while because summer has made the garage basically unworkable — when it’s regularly 30, 40, even 45 degrees, it’s just too warm to get anything meaningful done. Even so, plenty has been happening in the background, and the layout rebuild is still a proper refresh from the ground up. I show where the lower level is up to, including the fiddle yard now finished with all the tracks in place and locos and wagons lined up ready to run. The baseboards are in, the LED lighting underneath is installed, and you can really start to see the shape of the new build — even though this level currently ends where I’ve had to pause until temperatures drop. The highlight is a long-awaited unboxing: a Greater Anglia Class 755 FLIRT four-car unit. I take a look over the model, point out the roof detail (it’s incredible), and fit a standard 21-pin DCC chip (the chip bay is nicely done and magnetically held). Then I get it onto the programming track and send it for its first proper lap of Shelvington, including a run down the helix. Massive thanks to Iron Horse Hobbies in Christchurch for securing one and holding it for me.