Just spotted Graham asked a question.....Yes, the branch line will be on the layout.
And on to today's progress....I've gone back to the trackwork over the Royal Albert bridge, namely the shallow point splitting the single line into Saltash station. I've made some more progress on detailing the track bed around the pointwork and am starting to tighten up on some of the loose bits:

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The blob of blu-tack is to stop the track escaping during development...its not a pile of sand dumped by some idiot wanting to derail a train!
The next bit is to work on the moving plate....the bit with red markings on. I'm torn between soldering a wire directly to the bottom of the two lengths of rail that sit on the plate....or to use single rail track connectors. I think I'll form the rail sections first...then see how well they sit in the plate.