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Brilliant, James! Among many other features, the warehouse hides the portal to the fiddle yard perfectly and the sunken yard office is spot on. I also love the shadows from the overhead gantry. I'll be taking a different view on small industrial operations now. Very inspiring. Thank you very much for the tout and thoughtful commentary. Cheers!

Really enjoyed the video thank you. I personally do love a old beaten up looking shunter / switcher in a private industry 😊

Thank you, James, for sharing this immersive layout. It's good to see someone enjoy the process of creating a figment of imagination that is believable, a well observed bit of reality. And this format lends itself well to further development. Of skill, observation, of storytelling and… inner peace or ballance or, yes, mindfulness. I think of all sorts of layers once a sound base is built: colour, texture etc. One thing with these is they are added, sure. But I also take them partially off. All very thin, all desaturated (understated). On and off they go. Until one day, I just know: That's it. I truly enjoy your peaceful approach. No greed. Just a little everyday story. And under this same breath I think it's time to explore the dimension of sound. Thanks again for sharing your wonderful work and -quite important this- your train of thought. Rafael P.S. Thanks also for the foam trick!

Very good. Wish sound file did you use?

You are already fully aware that I'm very fond of this layout, but I have to say even more so since seeing it through a macro lens. Lovely to see the Trabant in situ as well, and thanks for your kind words! Very intriguing and mysterious place, what on earth are they making there? 🤔

Maybe you can use smaller magnets that are strong enough for the couplings, but do not affect the steel axles.

Excellent concept and execution James. I love your work and find it refreshing. Well done and thank you for sharing.

I'm loving this layout ❤

Once again a wonderful video James. Your small layouts provide me much inspiration to "go small." By the way, speaking as a civil engineer, the girders on the pipe support would be called "castellated beams." The hexagonal cutouts reduce the weight of the beam.

I absolutely love small cameo layouts. Thank you so so much for sharing and giving me more ideas to think about. 😊

I gather this is a shelf layout. Have you posted a track plan? Looks very realistic without all the unnecessary clutter one sees so often modeled. Clutter is not detail.

Wouldn't a starter signal be appropriate?

Awesome James. Love your work. Bernie in NZ

Soo good...love the footprints in the ice and the lighting.

A lovely video. Neil Rushby did a really inspiring 1970s Llangollen DMU 'might have been' scheme in Railway Modeller Dec 2004. Worth a read if you've not seen it.

James I have been following you for sometime ,are you going to publish a book regarding how your bases are constructed allowing the the fiddle stick or fiddle yard to emerge from the base of a basic 4ft x1ft construction. Yes being in my 70's I only use Imperial measurements.

Your videos give me an inner peace and inspire me te enjoy my modelling and slow down a bit. Thanks for the inspiration :)

how boring is this!

Llangollen have a nice fleet of DMU’s the wickhams set has to be a firm favourite of mine very Art deco style interior looking forward to the classic transport weekend in July another string to the bow

Think Llangollen do have a blue and grey 2 car set not seen it for awhile

You have captured why we love building model railways. I'm digging out that n gauge 37 :)

Lost in a scene...I get it...this layout is epic. Keep up the amzing work. Would love to see a video about your back scene construction - they all look soo realistic :)

I just wish they'd, y'know, manufacture and sell more 101s. They should be ubiquitous but they're not! also, I think you need to have a word with the driver about the 15mph platform speed limit ;)

I've heard there's a technique to build the loop from a single length of wire without soldering

Im so jealous, im sat in my garden listening to the drone of traffic in the distance, an aircraft thats not long left biggin hill, punctuated by the high notes of an emergency vehicle fighting its way through the traffic somewhere. Still there are worse places than a South East London garden. Im surounded by Birds nipping on and off the feeders, while a squirrel hangs upside down on the peanuts with bees busy visiting all the flowers. No trains though. Thats over a mile away and is mostly EMU's (and work).

A lovely way to break up your working day!

The biggest problem I have with this is in actually believing that it really is N Gauge.

A real inspiration. Thanks.

Another great video. Very inspiring, especially as I've just moved into a new 'office' in my cellar... And good to hear your note on Amazon... yes, not a force for good! Many thanks for all your sharing of ideas. I'm watching the videos out of sequence, as you'll have gathered...

Another guy on RUclips said a few years ago "Keep it simple". Very good layout.

I love the simplicity of the story being told here, a day today subject not without it's problems.

very nicely done ive just made wrexham central on roblox

By coincicidence I found myself within a mile or so of here today so popped over for a quick look. Atrocious weather, but you've captured the atmosphere really well - even in the present day, it's a surprisingly desolate spot

Amazing what can be achieved in a limited space.

Beautiful layout James and very evocative of the time when rationalisation still left gently decaying remains of a greater rail network rather than it being swept away wholesale without trace. The Peco bullhead track is quite impressive and shows how far RTR track has come when it has a look that at one time was only achievable by going the handmade route; I personally think that from your chosen viewing angle you couldn't tell if it was 16.5, 18.2 or 18.83mm gauge. Certainly the considered ballasting and details such as point rodding elevate the permanent way beyond it's RTR roots. Scale couplings look the part but offer their own challenges in operation, but having said that I'd probably live with the compromises on such a realistic scene. I have some North American HO scale and like you enjoy the look and operation of Kadee couplers but have yet to fit any to my UK or European outline stock. Trust the client will have many hours of enjoyment with this slice of personal history 🙂

Thank you for sharing James. I enjoyed the tour of the various layouts

Thank you for sharing the fiddlestick.

Do you build O gauge layouts? I feel that O gauge is ideal for shunting when there is some weight in the wagons. It is a question of space though. It has to be big enough to be interesting to operate without being too large.

Nice Layout, love the detail .

Lovely layout in scenic and composition terms, but the Peco Bullhead (?) track looks wrong somehow...its maybe as you have 1/76 models running on1/87 track gauge may have something to do with it

i do like this, i want to make a layout like it now lol

Very interesting, so taking notes. Have you ever investigated solutions to address the 'bouncing' exhibited by model rolling stock, when being propelled or shunted? Reviews often lionise models for their free-running capabilities, but especially on a Cameo or shunting layout, I think all that bouncing back and forth on the coupling, or shooting off after a failed coupling attempt, looks faintly ridiculous. Certainly not prototypical.

Such a lovely layout; you can sense the story. So much to see. I'm sure your client will love it

Love it very inspiring 😊

😊 superb

Beautiful layout, fantastic work!

Just perfect for a Sunday afternoon with a nice cup of tea. Thank you James.

Thanks James. Perfect video for a Sunday afternoon. 😊

I’m glad that someone is able to go round the heritage railway centres and video them. Despite being a retired guy, I don’t really have the time or energy.

Is that a Class 101, or one of the other unit classes?