The sense of scale on the mainline is outstanding. To get the banking of the corners and their radius just right is an incredible achievment in OO. Well done sir!
Great video as always! Nice to see the layout coming along. As an act of pedantry, and for anyone that may be interested, the points at the exit to the sidings are trap points, and not catch points. Trap points trap and catch points catch, ie traps trap things in yards, sidings and goods loops etc whereas catch points catch anything that may be running away wrong direction down an incline, and throw it off into the dirt for safety.
I saw your videos for your old layout, and with watching these videos of your new layout, its giving me a bunch of ideas for when i can finally start on my own. Definitely inspirational :)
I was worried that, after all the work you did on that engine shed, we weren't going to see it again. Well done. Another great bit of work. thanks for posting.
Fantastic planning and application once again. Really looking forward to this developing as you're previous layout was my inspiration to start my own in N scale. Great channel, thanks again.. Chris Indge
Great video looking forward to your next video to see how you are going to do your scenic area's. Glad you got to use the shed your scratch built it looks just right for that area. Regards George...
Awesome update! Really glad to see the depot added, it adds a lot of interest. Also the perfect size for not overwhelming the area with track, but keeping the operational interest up. Good job!
I like your story telling in the design of the layout. Maybe you could stick a cannibalized unit in the back part of the shed, scratch build some open access doors and build up some interior details. That might look nice through the windows of the shed. I'm looking forward to seeing more. I also liked your period correct music in parts of the video!
Could not have clicked on a video any faster. Great update. Looking forward to seeing the scenery aspect on how you will achieve that run down and overgrown feel. Simply awesome. Clint
I can't wait for the next videos. After watching these videos, I want to get back into model railroading but I am a long haul truck driver. I usually stay out on the roads for weeks at a time and I will first need a actual house.
Nice to see the shed being put to use. Maybe the yard is the remains of a steam depot that had tank engines working the branch line, now reduced to a few crew working dmu's. Great video as always.
Another big milestone reached with the completion of track laying. I've recently started my layout again (was nowhere near as advanced as yours), and have adopted a number of your techniques with great success so far. Just finished laying the track on my fiddle yard which has a very similar look and feel to yours and I love it. Wish I put in a fiddle yard first time around. However, always learning and improving. All part of the hobby. All the best Jamie
I enjoyed your video and I have to say the simple act of placing the Engine Shed on the layout changed the whole appearance of that area and gave an insight of what it will look like when completed. Regards Greg
I loved watching all your older videos, and I'm loving what you are doing with this new layout love the idea of the building and stuff can't wait to see what comes next in that area.
Brilliant well done, Your timber work is brilliant as well. Looking forward to seeing that siding finished. Loads of room for detail. Great stuff. All the best Duncan.
I do remember the construction videos of the shed, I was waiting to see when and where the shed would be placed. The new layout is deffinately comming along quite nicely. A suggestion. Maybe a few old Steamers inside the shed and a few older coaching stock the local Museum would be rebuilding to former glory. Thanks for sharing your beautiful layout. Take care and run trains
Richard, a trap and catch points are actually two different things. Catch points are normal at the bottom on inclines, and are there to protect against a train rolling back. Whereas a set of Trap points protects against a wagon/loco running away from a yard or sidings. Hope this helps,
Great video. Nice use of space and its good that you havent overdone it with too much trackwork. Kept it nice and simple. Look forward to seeing the scenery take shape
Brilliant , is consider taking the sidings outside the shed and doing them as if they carried on and now are dissused with sleepers chained across the ends as it goes into the grass/bushes
Good stuff. Glad to see the longer transitions in and out of the elevations doing a great job! The one and only catch point (so far) on my climb up to Exeter Central was done by bashing up a code 75 and managed to re-space most the sleepers 😁. Do love the bullhead track and I think we've managed to convert a few others to re-spaced flat bottom.
Definitely is great to see the shed taking is place on the layout I was wondering when and were it was going to go etc looking forward to seeing the next video
Very nicely done! That shed looks great! I like the way you've done your benchwork. I'm in the planning stages of my next layout, and trying to decide how I want to do the benchwork.
I remember in the late 80's when we used the trains quite often there was a breakdown crane set parked up in a very overgrown siding that I would always look out the window to see. It'd be nice to see something like that or a couple of rotten locos on that disused siding?
I can't wait to see the extra detailing on the shed! I'm looking to do a yard, parts of which will be overgrown, so I'll be keeping an eye on progress :)
Richard - great project. I am sure that it will look great when you apply your scenic touch. The trap points should, by the period of your layout, be full turnouts - British Railways insisted on such in the late 1950's I believe (my own layout is set early 1960's and I had to change mine). I guess you could argue its an old yard but trap points rarely survived into the 1980's. A small radius L/H turnout should really be there with a blind siding for protection.
Welcome back, Sir. Hope you had a good Christmas and new year. Looks like things are coming along very nicely. Said it before and I'll say it again, the heritage/branch line running alongside the mainline really does remind me of the Nene Valley Railway. Great to see the beast that is your carriage shed make a welcome return. Was like seeing an old friend!
Late seeing this, but another Great video, with the embankment and ditch, put some rubbish in there, as sadly it seems to be a usual thing lol. Great to see you finish the track laying, can't wait to see you start on the scenery.
Good to see you are using the carriage shed, would have been a shame to scrap it after all of the hard work. Despite the shed area adding more to the less is more layout, I think it’ll work well, especially all run down. Looking forward to more! 👍 Paul
Really nice work very creative, from your previous videos I have watched you become a master at scenery and weathering trains buildings and minutia that makes a layout all the more pleasurable to run.
About BR not replacing track in yards. I remember that in the 1980s, a driver colleague of mine at Stratford TMD said that the sidings and roads around Willesden to Wembley had some sleeper chairs with LNWR on them.
Like the trap point you've made! Only thing I'd do differently with that yard is have both of the shed roads running straight before going into the shed, would probably look more 'natural' in railway terms. Guess the shed could be pushed back a bit?
Great update Richard, was wondering whether the carriage shad was going to be used in this layout even with it cut down still makes a huge statement on the layout impressive build, look forward to seeing the scenic updates ive gone back to watch a few of your older video's about static grass effects and scenery making to give me a few tips and ideas with my little diorama series cheers Beeton Hough Junction (Dave C)
lovely video as always. You are a genius, I'm waiting how for the next update, i worked the ECML in the 80s so looking forward to reliving my 1980s on your layout.
On the fast lines you should add overhead lines to run earlier electric locos like the class 91, which could add some more detail to the track also you could do scenarios where the class 91 train runs blunt end first due to a failure with the DVT trailer
I'vealways been interested in UK/EU layouts for two reasons A) LGB Trains, as we didn't have a lot of american stufff at the time and B) well I was raised on SHining TIme Staation/Thomas the Tank ENgine. ANd watching this entire layout rebuild, I'm for sure going to pick up a UK set to run on my layout, unrealistic or not ust because I"m blown away by everything you've done. Quite an inspiration in my opinion.
That shed looks splendid, and will work delightfully with an automated timetable with units being stabled overnight and off peak. I shall look forward to the scenery in this area. But where are Dean and Barry? We do need more Dean and Barry videos, I think.
If you (Richard) or anyone else is looking for ideas on what a run down and neglected railway looks like! Then, look up oldskidmarks he works the stone and sand trains driving a class 59/66 ? and take a ride with him from Acton to St Pancras Churchyard vids 27 & 28 If you want to see line side shite and run down rails his two part video has it all in spades and lots lots more, as for you boy, well you did it again great work, well done! Also another UK Freight Train Driver the Southern Rambler he videos similar routes well worth a view for scenic inspiration thanks Richard
A stretch of rusted track (disconnected of course) behind the engine shed, overgrown with weeds and rusting away, would look interesting and provide a logical place for a couple of derelict/abandoned freight cars or locomotives. There would likey still be room for a parallel embankment for drainage.
Brilliant as usual, Richard. We definitely need more sped-up clips of the trains on various parts of the layout. That had such a strong 80's railway video feel about it. Maybe some screen effects to make it look like an old VCR tape! What do you think about having a semi-embankment / semi-wall behind your carriage shed? I can almost picture that entire area full of rusted old wheels, DMU cab ends, engines and who knows what other parts being left to rot behind the shed. Some old dim yellow lamps and rusty chain link fence. Oh, and lots of old oil drums, of course! Keep 'em coming mate. Mike.
I'm so glad you got to use the carriage shed after the blood, sweat and tears that went into it!
Looking forward to the scenery!
I totally agree.
I was wondering if it was scrapped, but so happy to see it on the new layout.
My very thoughts too.
The sense of scale on the mainline is outstanding. To get the banking of the corners and their radius just right is an incredible achievment in OO. Well done sir!
I love the clickerty clack going on with this layout as trains run along. Absolutely great.
Great video as always! Nice to see the layout coming along.
As an act of pedantry, and for anyone that may be interested, the points at the exit to the sidings are trap points, and not catch points. Trap points trap and catch points catch, ie traps trap things in yards, sidings and goods loops etc whereas catch points catch anything that may be running away wrong direction down an incline, and throw it off into the dirt for safety.
That shed will look fantastic there. Overgrown track will fit just right. Enjoy the day. Ray L
I saw your videos for your old layout, and with watching these videos of your new layout, its giving me a bunch of ideas for when i can finally start on my own. Definitely inspirational :)
This is the magic of your layout. Imagination runs wild..brilliant!
I was worried that, after all the work you did on that engine shed, we weren't going to see it again. Well done. Another great bit of work. thanks for posting.
Fantastic planning and application once again. Really looking forward to this developing as you're previous layout was my inspiration to start my own in N scale. Great channel, thanks again.. Chris Indge
Great video looking forward to your next video to see how you are going to do your scenic area's. Glad you got to use the shed your scratch built it looks just right for that area. Regards George...
Awesome update! Really glad to see the depot added, it adds a lot of interest. Also the perfect size for not overwhelming the area with track, but keeping the operational interest up. Good job!
I like your story telling in the design of the layout. Maybe you could stick a cannibalized unit in the back part of the shed, scratch build some open access doors and build up some interior details. That might look nice through the windows of the shed. I'm looking forward to seeing more. I also liked your period correct music in parts of the video!
I was thinking the same thing, especially if he has a Loco that doesn't run. It would be a fun way to reuse something that's otherwise junk.
Could not have clicked on a video any faster. Great update. Looking forward to seeing the scenery aspect on how you will achieve that run down and overgrown feel. Simply awesome. Clint
Love the way you get the layout to capture some history and tell a story all in one, keep up the great work & thanks for sharing it with us.
Thinking to myself "that yard needs a trap point"...
*Richard puts in a trap point*
YESSSS
LOL I was waiting for that moment as well. He knows his stuff :)
Great update Richard and glad to see how the shed you built is going to be used. Looking forward to the next update.
I can't wait for the next videos. After watching these videos, I want to get back into model railroading but I am a long haul truck driver. I usually stay out on the roads for weeks at a time and I will first need a actual house.
Good to see the old carriage shed getting re-used after the effort you put into building it!
Good video. Looking forward to the start of the scenery phase and seeing where your creativity takes you.
One of those NetworkSouthEast MkI’s sounds like it’s developing a hot axle box.😉Good to see the new layout progressing and looking great.👍🏻
Nice to see the shed being put to use. Maybe the yard is the remains of a steam depot that had tank engines working the branch line, now reduced to a few crew working dmu's. Great video as always.
That timelapse was fantastic! Great job on the railway so far.
Good to see the carriage shed is going to make an appearance in the new layout
Excellent update and love the fact your reusing the shed from your previous layout.can't wait for the scenery stage.
Another big milestone reached with the completion of track laying.
I've recently started my layout again (was nowhere near as advanced as yours), and have adopted a number of your techniques with great success so far. Just finished laying the track on my fiddle yard which has a very similar look and feel to yours and I love it.
Wish I put in a fiddle yard first time around.
However, always learning and improving. All part of the hobby.
All the best
Jamie
Love watching your older videos making scenery, can't wait to see them on this new layout
I enjoyed your video and I have to say the simple act of placing the Engine Shed on the layout changed the whole appearance of that area and gave an insight of what it will look like when completed. Regards Greg
I admire your sense of organisation.
I loved watching all your older videos, and I'm loving what you are doing with this new layout love the idea of the building and stuff can't wait to see what comes next in that area.
Brilliant well done, Your timber work is brilliant as well.
Looking forward to seeing that siding finished.
Loads of room for detail.
Great stuff.
All the best
Duncan.
Very good Richard. Your practical style is to be admired. Looking forward to how you develop from here.
I do remember the construction videos of the shed, I was waiting to see when and where the shed would be placed.
The new layout is deffinately comming along quite nicely.
A suggestion. Maybe a few old Steamers inside the shed and a few older coaching stock the local Museum would be rebuilding to former glory.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful layout.
Take care and run trains
Really glad to see a wee shed scene making an appearance, Richard. It'll look great! 🙂👍🏻👍🏻
I spy a new canal. 😁 loving the work and additions to the new layout.
Excellent as always, Richard - looking forward to further installments.
It’s painful having to wait for the scenic work to start, it’s going to look so good! Another quality video!
Richard, a trap and catch points are actually two different things. Catch points are normal at the bottom on inclines, and are there to protect against a train rolling back. Whereas a set of Trap points protects against a wagon/loco running away from a yard or sidings. Hope this helps,
Great video. Nice use of space and its good that you havent overdone it with too much trackwork. Kept it nice and simple. Look forward to seeing the scenery take shape
Layout looks great nice to see your old shed.
9 minutes and you already have over 100 views. You are a legend, sir!
West Wruxshire you are right, it is wonderful!
It looks really good now when sidings are finished it will be top class
Brilliant , is consider taking the sidings outside the shed and doing them as if they carried on and now are dissused with sleepers chained across the ends as it goes into the grass/bushes
Very much looking forward to the overgrown and rundown effects to come.
I bet you are missing laying track already??! lol. Also good to see that long shed is being used! Cheers. Dave
Even though it's been cut down, it's still huge! Love it :D
Well done on fitting the shed in.
Good stuff. Glad to see the longer transitions in and out of the elevations doing a great job! The one and only catch point (so far) on my climb up to Exeter Central was done by bashing up a code 75 and managed to re-space most the sleepers 😁.
Do love the bullhead track and I think we've managed to convert a few others to re-spaced flat bottom.
Definitely is great to see the shed taking is place on the layout I was wondering when and were it was going to go etc looking forward to seeing the next video
Very nicely done! That shed looks great! I like the way you've done your benchwork. I'm in the planning stages of my next layout, and trying to decide how I want to do the benchwork.
Looking forward to the scenery going in,my favourite part of any layout 👍🏻
Can’t wait for your scenery content. Loved it in the past!
Yep ditto
Awesome as always. I really looking forward to seeing the scenery getting built up.
Great video! Looking forward to seeing what you do with the rest of the run down yard.
Nice.. Reminds me of the old Croxley Green depot coming off the Croxley Green branch line.
I remember in the late 80's when we used the trains quite often there was a breakdown crane set parked up in a very overgrown siding that I would always look out the window to see. It'd be nice to see something like that or a couple of rotten locos on that disused siding?
I can't wait to see the extra detailing on the shed! I'm looking to do a yard, parts of which will be overgrown, so I'll be keeping an eye on progress :)
Richard - great project. I am sure that it will look great when you apply your scenic touch. The trap points should, by the period of your layout, be full turnouts - British Railways insisted on such in the late 1950's I believe (my own layout is set early 1960's and I had to change mine). I guess you could argue its an old yard but trap points rarely survived into the 1980's. A small radius L/H turnout should really be there with a blind siding for protection.
Welcome back, Sir. Hope you had a good Christmas and new year. Looks like things are coming along very nicely. Said it before and I'll say it again, the heritage/branch line running alongside the mainline really does remind me of the Nene Valley Railway. Great to see the beast that is your carriage shed make a welcome return. Was like seeing an old friend!
Nice job Richard good to see the shed back in use look forward to next one m8 from all at Tinsley tmd
I love what you have done and continue to do. You have given me encouragement to try a scratch build myself. Thanks!
Looks great. I noticed a slight wobble of the DMU over the point as it returned to the shed. Realism built in. Geoff. W.
Late seeing this, but another Great video, with the embankment and ditch, put some rubbish in there, as sadly it seems to be a usual thing lol. Great to see you finish the track laying, can't wait to see you start on the scenery.
Good to see you are using the carriage shed, would have been a shame to scrap it after all of the hard work. Despite the shed area adding more to the less is more layout, I think it’ll work well, especially all run down. Looking forward to more! 👍
Paul
Absolutely love the development of this, everything so immaculately done & trains run so well. Makes it all look so easy in the FF motions lol 👍
I think you have just got me back in too the hobby cheers mate
I'm still stunned by your weathering. :))
Might want to pop over and see mine 😉
Another excellent video. Looking forward to the scenery.
Another wonderful video. Great to see an electric screwdriver at last .
As always informative and inspiring.
Your modelling is stunning richard. Truly impressive
Really nice work very creative, from your previous videos I have watched you become a master at scenery and weathering trains buildings and minutia that makes a layout all the more pleasurable to run.
Love the progress Richard. Going to look amazing. Glad the engine shed is in early 😊😊😊😊😊
Great to see the shed return!
looks fantastic love the idea of scratch building things instead of buying expensive things. I enjoyed that very much :)
About BR not replacing track in yards. I remember that in the 1980s, a driver colleague of mine at Stratford TMD said that the sidings and roads around Willesden to Wembley had some sleeper chairs with LNWR on them.
Superb introduction with a pair of Class 47s
Like the trap point you've made! Only thing I'd do differently with that yard is have both of the shed roads running straight before going into the shed, would probably look more 'natural' in railway terms. Guess the shed could be pushed back a bit?
Great update Richard, was wondering whether the carriage shad was going to be used in this layout even with it cut down still makes a huge statement on the layout impressive build, look forward to seeing the scenic updates ive gone back to watch a few of your older video's about static grass effects and scenery making to give me a few tips and ideas with my little diorama series cheers Beeton Hough Junction (Dave C)
Excellent and tremendous inspiration for me on my more modest layout.
great update. scenery is my favourite part so im getting excited for more now.
Can’t wait to watch this will watch on tv, you have a great channel 😃
lovely video as always.
You are a genius, I'm waiting how for the next update, i worked the ECML in the 80s so looking forward to reliving my 1980s on your layout.
On the fast lines you should add overhead lines to run earlier electric locos like the class 91, which could add some more detail to the track also you could do scenarios where the class 91 train runs blunt end first due to a failure with the DVT trailer
Looking awesome. Enjoy your videos
Best how to model railway videos on the net bar none.
I love your channel and you give me a lot of inspiration for my own layout and I always look forward to your video's
Keep up the good work!
I'vealways been interested in UK/EU layouts for two reasons A) LGB Trains, as we didn't have a lot of american stufff at the time and B) well I was raised on SHining TIme Staation/Thomas the Tank ENgine. ANd watching this entire layout rebuild, I'm for sure going to pick up a UK set to run on my layout, unrealistic or not ust because I"m blown away by everything you've done. Quite an inspiration in my opinion.
Cannot give suggestions but will enjoy the branch siding grow
lookin good you could also use the siding with the long shed for permanent way trains and wagons similar to the old dmu depot at reading
I just love these videos I just cant wait to watch when a new one comes up
That shed looks splendid, and will work delightfully with an automated timetable with units being stabled overnight and off peak. I shall look forward to the scenery in this area.
But where are Dean and Barry? We do need more Dean and Barry videos, I think.
The layout is coming along. Look forward to more updates.
Loving the new layout, can't wait for it to be finished!!
Nice to see this episode, and looking forward to the scenery work )
If you (Richard) or anyone else is looking for ideas on what a run down and neglected railway looks like! Then, look up oldskidmarks he works the stone and sand trains driving a class 59/66 ? and take a ride with him from Acton to St Pancras Churchyard vids 27 & 28 If you want to see line side shite and run down rails his two part video has it all in spades and lots lots more, as for you boy, well you did it again great work, well done! Also another UK Freight Train Driver the Southern Rambler he videos similar routes well worth a view for scenic inspiration thanks Richard
A stretch of rusted track (disconnected of course) behind the engine shed, overgrown with weeds and rusting away, would look interesting and provide a logical place for a couple of derelict/abandoned freight cars or locomotives. There would likey still be room for a parallel embankment for drainage.
Brilliant as usual, Richard. We definitely need more sped-up clips of the trains on various parts of the layout. That had such a strong 80's railway video feel about it. Maybe some screen effects to make it look like an old VCR tape!
What do you think about having a semi-embankment / semi-wall behind your carriage shed? I can almost picture that entire area full of rusted old wheels, DMU cab ends, engines and who knows what other parts being left to rot behind the shed. Some old dim yellow lamps and rusty chain link fence. Oh, and lots of old oil drums, of course!
Keep 'em coming mate.
Mike.
Worth waiting for. Thanks again for another informative video.
Great stuff isn't it
Happy New Year Richard, always looks forward to your excellent content. Loving the new siding area. Cheers Ben :)
Superb, absolutely superb! Any chance of showing us a plan of your train track layout?
Fantastic job, looks awsome richard
I was just about to do something else but it can wait, I will watch this instead!