With nothing I was trying to do today 'going for me', I decided to give up and have a look at the station. Sundays are the easiest days, anyway, if, as I correctly suspected, the enhanced car parking is not fully accessible yet.
Things have progressed nicely, and the end is in sight.
The approach road has been resurfaced now, too.
There is still no sign of a ticket machine, but there is potential ducting in a plausible location for one - we shall see.
The station itself has had some attention. The white platform edges, yellow lines and platform warnings have all been newly reapplied.
They are (currently) so clean and bright that they might draw criticism on a model layout.
The previous markings have been removed first, so the upside-down letters and alien script of the past are gone now.
The removal seem to have been done by something along the lines of a rotary wire brush. There are occasional circular gouge marks and some paint remains on the chamfered edges of some paviors.
Also, during my tour of inspection, I finally noticed this expansion joint, about a third of the way along the loop past Platform 4.
I've never noticed it before.