LocoWorks- Tram Loco - battery pack access

I don't use my tram loco much, as I have to take it apart to put in and remove the battery pack

So I decided to remove part of the side skirt so I have easy access for the battery pack (I have a two more locos built on a Playmobil chassis with the same battery pack use).

battery pack fits alright...

I filled in the top part of the gap (the edge of the access hole has since been painted black)...

ideally I would have liked a some sort of cover over the hole, but the battery pack's pull handle sticks out too far. So no excuse not to use it now 😀

Sunny weather - time to run a train ...

Decided to remove the planting from the narrow borders by the edge of the garden railway at the top of the layout; replaced with gravel for easy maintenance...

with a bag of gravel left over, I took the opportunity to re-ballast the track through the cutting to the halt...

Making good use of the sunny weather ran a train round (using a battery RC loco)...