New Layout Build - Station Street
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Well after quite a bit of work I've managed to get the next section of scenery going for the station side of the layout. There is of course plenty of small details left to add here but overall I'm very happy with the progress so far. I'll be taking a break from this section for a while and continue to focus on the station itself. Cheers
This is one of the most well detailed and realistic layouts i've ever seen.
I agree! I’m not a modeller, but full marks to Mr Everade, top bombing!🤘
It’s a masterpiece. Just hire Everard junction for the set for a film and do the rest in a studio. Save a fortune, nobody would notice as the detail is perfect. It’s a guide to anyone seeking perfection.
Looks like scale 1:1
You say this, but then Richard will decide he can improve on it and we’ll all be amazed at how he’s managed again to show us just how good he can be…he’s so great to watch!
Lovely work. So good to be watching your videos again.
This isn't just a model railway its a 3D landscape portrait of urban England in the late 1980s in all its true and wonderful shabbiness. This is a work of art Richard! Respect!
So true. It’s familiar to various places, so much so that even friends think it’s just around from Vauxhall. So much respect for your skill, time and patience.
@@paulsngaugechannel I find his work absolutely amazing. It's an underappreciated artform.
Peter M said it all. I've been following you for the past 9 years and I apply your technics.
Thank you. Cheers.
Amazing! Absolutely Amazing.. Keep it up all the way my friend... One Love💚💛❤
Hello this is my first full viewing of this channel. Subscribed prior. May i say I am very impressed with this work of art on an HO /OO scale layout. My most impressed was how were the csrs moving like this ? 🤔💭 😮 Amazing. The structure is a masterpiece the buildings: 💯 for realism I love how the trains go below the large structure buildings. Only could see it at a low angle tho. The side walk iis equivalent of tiling i am impressed with this. However i draw the line on graffiti no like it's vandalism! That's an eyesore in North America where our freight trains are being tagged like an epidemic. Meanwhile the water way underpass is another 💯 in realism i am so familiar with WOODLAND SCENICS Simulated water works liquid. Excellent job & video 👍🎥⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Absolutely mind blowing attention to detail. Take a bow! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
When you start getting impatient for your next hit of Everard Junction, then it drops and it’s ANOTHER masterpiece! You sir are a modelling genius. Bravo. Nothing looks contrived or odd. It could be a real place, it’s just full of character!
So tru!
I will say it again this is their GOLD standard of modelling, it looks outstanding..wow
I love the attention to detail with the discarded French letters on the canal towpath. Superb.
Looks so alive with the cars and the multiple trains running at different speeds.. Never seen anything so good. Love the Ford Capri disappearing under the bridge at the end of the intro section. Canal water is so murky - but maybe you could of had the bicycle and shopping trolley in a position where they jutted out of the top of the water and were partly visible as is the case sometimes at canals. There was a row of shops like this under the old Snow Hill station in Birmingham, now mostly gone.
I have watched this before but always good to re-watch, suggestion here, i know you have a sense of humour as we all witnessed you putting junk jnto the canal etc. So how about scratch building a hand pump rail car with two grubby p-way crew, pumping their way around your circuit? Knew Stewarts lane well, there was an off signal on one of the washer roads that had fallen down and you had to get out from your cab to duck down to see if signal was off so you could move.
Absolutely beautiful work my friend, this just gets better and better everytime without fail including the sound affects, incredible work loving the whole deal, love watching as have been for over 3 yrs now, always looking forward to seeing more😊❤👊
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A memory of London in the eighties for me was band concert posters, particularly on walls under bridges. The Clash, the Specials, UB40, Pretenders, XTC. They were everywhere, fresh and half torn. Excellent work as always, and very entertaining viewing.
Very good point. Posters over posters to the extent that when the they finally come loose it was like a sheet of cardboard sometimes.
I stumbled across this channel purely by chance, and I don't have any real interest in model trains. However, the uploads are consistently interesting (good choice of music, too) and the first glance took me back to so many parts of the London of my childhood, adolescence and early adulthood in the 70s and 80s: Brixton and Loughborough Junction (as posters mention in the thread), but in particular I was transported to Bethnal Green and Stratford (the canal, the scrapyard, the light industrial units). The work on the urban scenery is *chef's kiss* and it feels churlish to have the temerity to make suggestions, but I can't help it...
One thing that I remember seeing so often back in the day which I'm sure would look great on Station St is one of those old GPO stripy tents that were put up over manholes when the engineers were working on cables. Can't recall the last time I saw one but it was regular in the 80s.
Other things that might (or might not) enhance the streets: milk bottles on doorsteps - 1988/90 was right at the back end of milk deliveries but there were still some; cats - I remember I used to have a thing of counting cats on my way to school in the morning, and it was a rare day I didn't get to eight; that embankment is crying out for an urban fox; and pigeons, dirty, stinking pigeons everywhere...
And a last impertinence: how about a pub with a manky beer garden in the spare spot opposite Farce Insurance?
I absolutely love the sodium street lighting, almost gone over the last few years. My mum remembers it coming in around Croydon in 1938 and how it transformed the look of the streets. Remembering my regular journeys to London past Brixton in the 1970s and 80s I would just add the ubiquitous purple flowering Buddleia sprouting from the brickwork and pigeons on the bridge edges. Keep up the great work
I always enjoy watching , you are a craftsman and amazing realism Regards Greg
Excellent video highlighting how it really looked in the eighties, it has triggered a memory, about my local council, two or three flags were removed to do a gas pipe repair and the flags would be replaced with tarmac. Another thing that moved councils in the North of England from hewn stone flags to tarmac was they became lethal in winter and you were often helping someone up after a nasty fall. On some flags a green slime developed that was as bad as ice, especially around the base of leaking fall pipes were moss then grass would accumulate. I was often amazed at how these 4 x 2 ft behemoths were hewn from local stone quarries and were almost flat on the surface, when lifted it was usually by a crew of two as they were two inch thick!
Excellent video and great project progress! 👍 Looks awesome!
Few randomly flickering street lights will be cool edition to the layout!
Followed you since the beginning. You're skills just get better and better. Very enjoyable to watch!
I visited London in November for the first time and saw so much architecture that I was first introduced to from your videos.
Fantastic work. 👍
Thoroughly enjoyed the entire video . I was only disappointed when it ended. 🙂
Meticulous magnificent marvelness. You are happy with how it looks, we are absolutely staggered. I remember well the old council men laying pavements with their buckets of sand and enormous larger than life mallets for tapping down, all worn down on one side. There was one bridge i drove under on the trains where the grafitti artists had obviously hung over the bridge and painted their "Work" upside down, always made me laugh that one.
Great update again Richard! Loving seeing our ModelSigns street lights again!
Some giant concrete blocks dumped at the end of the street would be very fitting, Richard. Don't ask me how on Earth they got them there, but my local council somehow managed it not far from where I work. Can't argue with results! I can't see any car getting through two massive slabs of concrete to go for a swim.
Budget Appliances is just begging for a delivery van parked on those double yellows outside, receiving a parking ticket while the workies are unloading out the back, of course. Flashing hazard lights would bring something unique to that little corner of the layout!
Finally, given that this is an 80's layout, I can almost guarantee that Michael's Meat Market are selling freshly baked home made scones, five for a pound. 50p each nowadays. Robbery! A throwback to my childhood there. Scones on a Saturday while shopping with Nan... Actually, she also got a parking ticket now that I think about it.
Take a trip down Love Lane, Liverpool. Best postcode is L3 7DD. It's shockingly similar to what you have there. Way more overgrown and... shall we say; extra urban. An amazing example of nature taking over a disused viaduct, note the trees on top. Give yours 40 or so years and you won't be able to tell them apart!
Bloody stunning layout mate, to say the least. It's got to be one of the finest examples of a home layout by now. It's a crime that you can't take it on to the exhibition circuit. Keep it up. Can't wait to see what comes next.
Mike.
I've been following your build for years and it never fails to impress me. Growing up in the 80s in England I can really relate to what you're creating. The area where you're putting greenery across from the shops would lend itself perfectly to a market, it's the one thing that always screams 80s to me and would love to see you creating it.
Ditto on 80s nostalgia. Open air market is great idea. Who wasn’t dragged around a market by their mum as a kid…dodgy video stalls and the bloke selling revolutionary cleaning products!
Looks good Richard. Well done. Very lifelike, as always.
May I make a suggestion, a fire station across the road from the office building. Love the new scenery! 😄😁☺️🙂
Superb Richard with some nice subtle touches too. The ‘how to’ approach will be well received as well. Well done.
Your layout always amazes me as you get many of the details correct, most show layouts fall down on simple details on a 1980's or 1990's era layout by usually putting incorrect vehicles or machinery from the 2000's on the layout.
One of those shops needs the obligatory guide dogs for the blind money collection dogs outside it.
Masterful Richard,
When watching I can imagine such great ideas for one or more areas on my layout. This time I love the full wall billboard. That's something I can do!
An idea for you. Trash items in the murky canal. Because you placed the debris along the base then covered it with two layers of water effects is the key error. To allow your scatter be seen first pour your clear base coat and harden over.
Once ready for your second coat, set your debris with an ultra thin coat of adhesive atop the first coat. The debris MUST be visually vertically upright. Let dry.
Now add multiple thin layers of tinted water effects. Let the debris cut the surface. Then with the final Hodge Podge layer you can demonstrate water breaches of water flow by trash.
O.K. that's next time! Can this canal flow be saved with urban trash. YES!
Go back to both canals. Have prepared trash ready, weathered, and able. Things like lawn racks, shopping trolleys (a.k.a. carts), tires, pinball machines, ATM machine, (I don't know if Brits play basketball or not) a hoop basket still attached to the backboard & post, and/or one of your busted street lights (with utility pole). With a micro drill or sharp hobby knife, cut a shallow hole into the water effects. Insert the new debris into the canal using Hodge Podge as adhesive and a wake maker around the obstruction.
In any event, your GrandDad is righteously proud of this entire layout effort you have succeed building.
Jim in N.Y., U.S.A.
S U P E R B !!!! I shouldnt act surprised, I should know better but even in the intro my eyes went as wide as dinner plates. Your patience knows no bounds, Super detailing. Richard with all the hard work, you just keep raising the bar every video. The hour just flew, I was disappointed it ended but Thank you for sharing regardless.
Cheers! I wish a could make the videos more regular but I like to make a good chunk or progress with each one. As opposed to diluting it down into small parts. Glad you enjoyed it 👍
@@EverardJunction Beggars cant be choosers. Its worth the wait everytime.
Love the little computer store! We’ve still got our Amstrad, except it hasn’t been turned on for years and we keep it in a cupboard.
I love the reality of the grime and dirt on this layout, and the overall lonelyness and alienanting feeling it represents, especially at night with the yellow lamp posts.
Very realistic as usual, I like the Herbert do a bit of graffiti, very nice touch 👍
After I watched this - I burned down my layout. This is Brilliant.
A fantastic layout with great details! Keep up the good work! Trond, Norway
Absolutely stunning modelling, it inspires me to try new ides. Thank You
I like to think they built the road with every intention of it carrying on and filling in the canal only it never got there and a subsequent carpark was built there making the banking steeper... Fantastic work..
That's a massive amount of work. Lovely trip hazard right by the door to Byte Computer Centre!
Richard you are bossing it. Really fabulous job all round. The dirty, backstreet areas are looking particularly good. Once finished you need to work out how the chop it up and take it to some exhibitions!
I recently looked back and realised that I, as well as many others too I'm sure, have been watching your videos for about five years now and if one word could describe your work from beginning to end it is... Superb!...Thank you.
Absolutely incredible attention to detail, funny in these times still see cracked and uneven pavement especially where HGVs have ridden up and parked, and those old GPO telecom covers and yellow Hydrant markers. I've taken a few of your ideas, particularly the advertisement billboards and the grubby environment, fantastic 👍
Fantastic detail and modelling! Not my era, mines 1949! But what wonderful modelling, and well presented! Brilliant
Best UK layout by far.
As a Street Lighting Manager I’m impressed 👍🏻
Just need a ‘No Waiting At Any Time’ sign on a post within 5 scaled metres of the end of the double yellow lines mounted 2.1 scaled metres high. On both sides of the street.
Thanks! Not bad for eyeballing it from google haha. I'll be adding some signage in future, cheers
More than happy to provide guidance on any highway elements as been in the industry nearly 40years starting during your modelling era. Just shout
Wow! What a fantastic video. Well worth the wait. I have a “no through road” backing on to the railway and was vexed as to how to block the road off. You have given me the inspiration I needed to solve that problem. The whole area is just brilliant thank you so much for sharing. Roy.
I give you 100% for eye for detail. I think we can all learn to appreciate what we see with more clarity. Inspirational
I can see the intro of this video infinite times. A true master of layout modeling
I love making the intros. My favourite bit of the editing process!
What is the catchy music you’ve used on this intro? It fits brilliantly
I remember, back in the day, our greengrocer still had his balance scales and mechanical cash register out back, and would pull them out when there was a powercut. We'd being shopping in the dark, but he was the only store able to trade! Definitely looks good for the scene, probably needs a mailbox and a couple of phoneboxes, and a workcrew over a manhole with their little red/white striped tent 😁
Anyone who lilves in Brixton will recognise the terrace of town houses- they're just by Loughborough Junction (and backing onto the site of the long gone East Brixton station). I cycle past there every weekday and I always think of Everard Junction. A truly top class example of railway modelling and excellent video production. It's been a real pleasure watching your layout develop over the years. A massive thankyou to you.
You might be familiar with Top Gift Fabric occupying two arches under Brixton station too. I like to try and copy(ish) a few real places from the area. Cheers
I’m originally from Brixton I knew it looked familiar!
Are there enough chimneys though? and does no-one in the terrace make curtains with Top Gift fabric?
A model railway shop would have been nice
Another one of your superb scenes that you could just walk into. I love the variety of the shops. I can just imagine getting off the train and walking down to the computer store to gaze in wonder at all the things in there, and then, not being able to afford anything, popping into the fabric shop to buy something that I can make into a new top to brighten up my dreary office clothes. Your videos are always something to look forward to.
An imaginative and witty Network South East layout. The 'Byte Computer Centre' reminded me of those days! Still a lot of work to do. Thanks for uploading.
I‘m a gauge 1 modeller in Germany and yes, I know, I shouldn’t be here. Nevertheless this is one of my favourite 4 mm layouts. Totally in awe of your work, and the atmosphere you create.
What does that mean?
You’re welcome. Good modelling is good modelling regardless of scale
@@highdownmartin that’s exactly the point I wanted to make 👍🏻 well said 👌🏼
Thanks for another well spent hour with morning cups of tea.... always inspiring and informative. Great work!
Just managed to hit pause. Must wait for wife to come home this evening to the dover sole I bought from the fish van and will cook as a little party. I've said before how your model evokes her own teenage years in the Ealing area. Chatting with a group of friends last week, someone said something disparaging about UA-cam videos and modelling to which she dived in quite aggressively about your videos being far more than toy trains but art evoking history, sociology, electronics, design and rationale for the design, artistic sculpture technique and how it meant so much to her
Lovely imitation of reality. Quite convincing. The way you see the dirt and trash is really intriguing. Impressive effort. Your work is very inspiring. Rob
I like the appliances in the window of the Budget Appliance shop, it really adds depth
You have a real talent for choosing and arranging detail and weathering in just the right manner to make a scene convincing. So many other railway modellers lack this skill. Excellent work!
Awesome video Richard. The realism is second to none. You certainly have set the standard for others to follow.
Great layout, been watching for years and still look forward to seeing what happens next in the layout. An old take out Chinese or a small Curry house would have fit well under the arches. Also need to add a beaten up Cul de sac sign at the beginning of the new street
It's always a pleasure, please take as much time as you need
Absolutely brilliant. No other words needed. It just fires up my own modelling mojo…cheers Richard for another cracking video
Unreal, beautifully done. You have captured the era so, so well and without the verbal philosophy and pretentiousness of the American dude.
Just .......wow! I'm South London born and bred. You've captured areas around Stockwell, Herne Hill, Brixton, Battersea and Clapham just perfectly. Love your videos mate, and l'm not a modeller. Always wanted to be but stuff got in the way. I get my Railway modelling kicks ftom people like you. Just brilliant.
Wow coming on really well and your detailing is of a high standard. Take care Richard and all the best for the rest of the build. Kevin
One of the best yet. So enjoyable
Excellent stuff as usual Richard. You are my go to guru mate and also responsible for me re-entering the hobby again. All the very best Graham 👌 👍 🙂
Cheers Graham! My goal has always been to encourage people to give the hobby a go or get back into it. Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Just had a thought, I've not seen any motorbikes on your layout. Maybe a scene of a guy on a bike in leathers talking to someone outside a chip shop
Superb attention to detail as always. It's such a pleasure to watch this and see how you make the magic happen ,thank you for sharing.
Loving this layout, absolutely fantastic.
I worked at Stewart’s Lane depot with the local fault team for a couple of years round about 2010 and know that street well.
Excellent work sir.
Fabulous ' ...just as I remember arch businesses ...love the scroat leaving his tag ...and I think that was me in the green Golf ha '
Great job sir! I agree that the bank could keep that bare feeling, it's a good contrast to the country side of the layout.
You have such an eye for details, this is exactly how I remember London when I was there, (quite a few years ago).
Looks terrific, Richard. Really nice! Greetings from Ohio.
Great work as always, perhaps take a look at Maidstone East station this has a footbridge next to the railway bridge across the river, would be an awesome way of connecting the shops to the station
Just noticed the Budget Appliances shop. That's where we used to go in our first ten years of penniless marriage! Similar place in East Ham High Street South that dealt in second (third?) hand washing machines. Tbf, he was a genuine guy who loved his job and really did service them properly - good for three years but not worth cost of repair so we replaced with similar used machine. First new machine we bought was a big disappointment and, being electronic, died faster than the old ones we'd been used to
An absolutely stunning part of the scene Richard, superb work. It's a good job block paving wasn't popular back then...... you'd have pulled all ya hair out laying them individually.
A very ironic resting place for a washing machine.
Could really picture making an uneasy commute on foot through this unfamiliar neglected area, well captured!
Richard, I have to agree with Jon, the intro to this video is something else ! Even if you’re not a model railway enthusiast you have got to watch the rest of the video to see how it is created ! It really is compelling stuff ! From your very knowledgeable narrative, to the brilliant camera work ! Congratulations - truly brilliant stuff !!! 😀😀😀 !!!
Just wow.
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Hi Richard, I had an Idea for your passenger trains when they arrive at the mainline station they slow down automatically to a stop, wait for 20- 30 seconds before starting back off again. Just another level of automation, to give you that realism effect that you're after. I know that electronic automated system exists and its an actuated switch that's loco specific. You can run it on all your passenger trains without effecting your freight trains. You could even have it where your trains go to park in the fiddle yard and another train starts up automatically. I like those shops you put in under the viaducts, I've seen something like that real to life over here in America. Cheers! 😁
Im not by heart a model train enthusiast, but i love what you do and enjoy watching these videos, your are truly amazing at what you do and you attentention to detail is also amazing
Thanks very much. I get a kick out of appealing to non train enthusiasts. Tells me I'm keeping things enjoyable, its easy to get too serious/nerdy making these videos. Glad you enjoyed it, cheers.
I’ll be honest…I place you on the level of Master model railroader. The absolute most realistic, can’t tell if it’s a photo in real life or not, layouts I’ve ever seen have been from Pelle Søeborg, a contributor to Model Railroader magazine. His work is amazing.
YOU are on par with his work. Bravo! Can’t wait for the next one!
Really is fantastically done. Now if you can get those people actually walking up and down the street and perhaps a car coming down the cul de sac, doing a three point at the bottom and coming back up again !!
Love this layout, so well detailed, but for me the cherry on the top are the night scenes these are fantastic. The lighting is superb. Top marks!!!
Just one word here from a regular observer of your many videos; stunning! Thanks again for a very enjoyable hour of watching. Eric
The time, effort, level and attention to detail used, never mind all the videoing and editing, is absolutely spectacular.
You sir, are an an inspiration to everyone, and a credit to the hobby, well done 👏👏👏👏
I love the work you put in this, it is incredible. One possible improvement that I was thinking about was the introduction of manhole covers into pavements. When you look around you start to realise how prevalent they are. With telecoms often where lines cross a street there will be covers on opposite sides of the pavement.
You won the OO internet. Fantastic, no other channel comes close.
Well done. As always it is fascinating to watch you achive such wonderful results.
Superb dashing job again with such an intricate keen eye to the tiniest of elements to be seen in the real. This new layout is coming to life spectacularly impressive in a cerebral manner. Fabulous!
Looks great, you must've had fun coming up with the shop names!
Absolutely superb, you have captured that 1970's UK inner city feeling to a tee. That's the first Morris Marina I have seen that was not blowing smoke.
Great work as always Richard. 👍
I find that murky water from Woodland Scenics way too murky. I ripped it out and used a little bit of paint in clear resin instead.
It still looks murky but you can make out the submerged rubbish still.
I was surprised at how well you managed to blend all that brickwork together around the bridge. Top notch.
It's been great watching this all come to life, a fascinating joy.
It's all looking so good! Amazing work
You could imagine "Minder" being filmed here! Brilliant.
What a fantastic layout, the work that you have put into it, can’t wait for you to rip it up and start a new one, maybe a garden railway if you a have one,
There's detailed. And then there's this layout! Thank you for sharing the inspiration and passion.
Fantastic work! Your eye for detail never ceases to amaze me.
Mate I’ve been watching you from when you first started and the transformation you’ve done over the years on the layout is awesome so well detailed definitely one of the best I’ve seen
Just awesome, always look forward to your layout updates.
Richard, I am almost lost for words, that was stunning, As you go along working on your layout you seem to get better and better. A huge congratulations on the work you have done on Station Street. I think I might have a few sleepless nights waiting for the next video. Cheers Greg