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This IS the HO model from the 70's isn't it? It certainly looks a lot like the one I just picked up, though mine is in blue.

Nice engine, seems to be about one third full size as the one built in New New Zealand , but Indian red for the NZ built one.

Hello from the East Riding of Yorkshire. Just watched your excellent video about your 040 pug locomotive. You have made an amazing excellent job of weathering the pug. Well done sir, and I also watched your video about fitting seats, passengers and lightning to the Hornby four wheel coaches. You have done another amazing transformation. The coaches have now come to life. Thank you so much for showing us how you did this. Keep safe and best wishes. 👍🚂

Apart from the D-couplers it looks incredibly realistic! I usually use car tyres weight, but these lead slabs seem much more flexible and probably heavier too.

fantastic weathering - the part immediately below the front windows and along the top of the buffer beam is particulalrly ecctive. Great work. I have a single criticism... the tail-lights need something.

What a very informative and interesting video.. Thank you so much for sharing your story, I think you have done a great job with your little locomotive. She now looks, as you say, just like the shunters would have looked in the early 1950s. Well done sir, I was born in 1955 and I can just remember seeing dirty, sooty black locomotives moving wagons across a road not far from where I used to live. I used to stand with my dad near the crossing gates watching the locomotive and wagons go past. Happy days instead. Well thank you once again for a great channel and a great video. 👍🚂

Great work Keith. That is a Neat look considering its a Cardboard Kit..! Will look great once complete. Thanx for your Efforts. Cheers All, Kim from Downunder Land. 🦘🦘

Super video KV of good progress on the layout. I think the stairs look good. Looking forward to the next update on the background.

Did you use Guagemaster for your chimney pots?

Once Again, wonderful work. 🤗 You should be Well Pleased with your Efforts, turning a Bland Little Toy into a Good Looking little Shunter. I have not seen the Coal piled up in front of the Cab like that before. Great little touch. I can only just remember Steam in my Youth. (back in the Old Country.) And was too young to take in Such Details. But can Imagine the Crew getting as much Coal on Board as Possible, to save some time through the Day..! Time Saved for an Extra Tea Break at some point..! Thanx for your Efforts to Share your Upgrades. Some Great Tips..! Cheers All from Oz. 🦘

Magic. Just Magic..! Well Done Sir, some great tips. Thank you, from Oz. 😎 aka. Downunder.🦘

Warp Speed, Nice..! 😂 I know that Hornby started production with Kids in Mind. But, Why did/do they keep producing these 'Pocket Rockets', decades later when all those Kids, like me.🤪 Are Now looking for a More Realistic Speed.! HoHum Hornby..! Great Video & Great Work. Thanks for your Efforts in Sharing some Upgrade idea's. I have Subscribed, somewhat Late but better than Never. 🤗 Cheers All from Downunder. 😎

I have a Lima 09 which I bought new in 1980. The chassis plastic has become brittle with age and I've had to repair it with industrial thermal curing super glue semi-gel. Back in 1980, I replaced all the buffers with scale working sprung items and fitted Jackson screw link couplings. It was also converted to run under the old Hornby Zero One 1st generation DCC system and it has been running as #9 on my layouts for 44 years now.

Great layout - thanks for sharing...

So I take it you don't like Ratio then ?

A good job well done in my opinion.

I know this comment is really late, but I actually have a Caledonian Railways blue livery pug, from a starter set when I was younger!

at 13:18 that is so impressive I actually love it

Very nice, must catch up on the other episodes

i just wish they had a longer wheelbase so they would look a bit more realistic

Looking great Keith, it’s really coming together now. 👍👏

there’s one of these at my local model shop so i might get it and do these improvements

super job!!!!!!!!!!!😊

Fantastic :)

It looks really good, such a great use of space and adds a whole new environment. I love what you have done with the arches and houses. It's obviously too late now, or maybe not, but what about swinging the tunnel mouths out to make them perpendicular to the track. Having them at an angle to the street above would allow for a proper town square. Just something that occurred to me. 😊

Reminds of the old film where they robbed a van then laid low in a terraced house above the railway line this is where they met their end in the passing coal trains one by one.

great work Keith

there is something quite nice about the southern region green livery

these look stunning well done

Thank you for the video. I just bought a second hand 25 and will implement your suggestions. Just the ticket!

I love the 2BILs too and wish I had a layout.

Looks really good, well done. I like the weed growth. Also, the open window.

Its looking great Keith, nicely done. 👍

Excellent video. Interesting and also very relaxing too.

I too hate Metcalfe chimney pots! I also dislike their curtains and often replace them with appropriate patterned examples from magazines etc. The one thing I think you've missed is drainpipes but otherwise well done!

coming along nicely Keith !

A layout that oozes charm and operates convincingly.

Keith can you show where you wired the pickups for impoved running, negating the depedancy of the brass pin on the loco? I have a few old tender drive loco's that are still poor runners and I believe it is the poor contact with the pin, which I try to keep clean.

Great looking trains. So sick of that awful, screeching, nails-down-a-blackboard blue popular with modern companies.

great result, thank you

Keith. For inside the tunnel to stop light being seen (as they are hidden sidings possibly not an issue ) I hang 2 strips of black bin liner with several vertical cuts, offset by half of the cut width, that then hang like a curtain. Any rolling stock just brushes past them.

Great craftsmanship, but I can’t help, but I think it would be better if the tunnel mouths were perpendicular to the track? As it stands, it doesn’t look like a plausible structure - why bother with the intermediate pier if it’s a void behind ?

I actually prefer to see sidings and freight yards on display. They always look interesting. Why would you want to hide them.? Shunting yards always look impressive when on display.

Great job with the extension for the Top tier, your portal pieces look great! The great thing with what you've done there is as the layout evolves, you can always rotate the new tunnel platforms up to 45° forward if you ever decided you wanted to open up that top tier further, or create a curved road towards the end. Fantastic work as always mate. And thanks for the shout-out!!

It’s coming along nicely Keith. Good airbrushing! Good to hear Belper in gods own county of Derbyshire. Coincidentally I’m going to Belper Model Railway Clubs exhibition day this Saturday, looking forward to seeing some good layouts. Keep up the good work 👍👏

Another fine film Keith , I love following your layout 🙂

Looking good Keith. I do remember the ballasting video very well.

Keith may I make some suggestions....just up the line from Plymouth Station the line goes through Mutley tunnel. However in the 60s a concrete carpark was built in front of the tunnel and over the line. You've actually modelled that concrete structure quite well....just needs painting concrete grey and parking cars on top!!! Perhaps add another storey to it. My feeling on the original white box however is different to your town idea. I feel it is crying out to look like a factory building. Its 90% there already in fact. Putting a town on top would always be full of compromise and a squash. Firther more i think you'd struggle to make it fit in with that drop below to look prototypical. Just my thoughts. Gary

A good job but sadly spolit by the gross Hornby tension lock couplings.

Very Nice and Totally Agree with Robust Older Lima vs Flimsy Expensive New Models. I was very Interested by the Extra pick up and can see that will be an achievable upgrade for the Future - Also agree with your 3 point coupling Principle. Many thanks