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Your layout looks great with great attention to details resulting in a realistic railway. However, the realism is lost when you show close ups s of locos and it becomes apparent that they don’t have crew figures! I did notice that some locos have crew fitted but there is no driver in your railcar and your tank engines etc.

Love the whole setting. Best integrated backdrop of any model railway I have seen. Looks like north Wales

Great show, thanks 👍👍👍👍. Loved the 'Cathedral', only the second time I've seen it modelled. I believe Cathedral was intended for the Kings, but word got out, so Kings they became.

Inspirational! Thanks for posting. Like the scenay before track approach, it works! Congratukations!

That goods yard is brilliantly done. I'm amazed you just played and got to that finish... Imagine if it hadnt have worked! Lol

Hi, really impressed by your build. Im yet to get to actually doing thr scenic laying, so I'm looking at yours with both awe and fear at trying to get to this level. Im interested to see more of the techniques used and watching your videos for inspiration along with others of course, all procrastination in reality 😂

Yeh great scenic work. Inspirational stuff . Noticed the bag of grout, what was that used for?

Hello, I've learned of this channel from your great Twitter account. Wonderful video, I liked the inclusion of the lessons learned and found the construction diary of your new layout informative. It's a lovely design and I look forward to seeing more of it as you develop it. All the best.

What is the Cathedral class comprised of?

Thank you for showing us the early stages and your final triumph. I guess there's hope for us all!!!

Hello over there🎉 loving your layout❤...amazing what you have done . Warm Regards Elizabeth@Tauraco00

Are you on RMWeb?

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Please make more long form videos I really want to see how you make your scenery!

This is an Epic build - also Great documentary skills - I would deffo be procrastinating about all that wiring 🥱 but you seem to have it all sorted, tho it doesn’t look quite as complicated as Charlie Bishops circuit boards 😜😆

Absolutely Fab - I’m a big 4 fan, especially GWR - using old photos as reference makes the Consists come to life So to speak - this really is (dare I Say it) Pendon museum Standards for Sure 🏆👍🏻✨

How do you like the Heljan 47xx and the Dapol 51xx?

Very enjoyable viewing, thanks for uploading. I look forward to the next episode! Cheers John

Highly convincing scenes. An impressive journey. Did you mean to say "chuffed" so much as a pun?

Would it be possible to use your channel as an example in an art gcse study? (Full credit would be given obviously)

Just found your channel but layout looks great. Subbed 👍

Really glad I came across your channel. I'm planning a small industrial layout and have been searching for a method to achieve that degree of realism in ballasting the goods yard area. Great work, thanks for sharing. Also, I'm with you on baseboard height - what height did you settle on in the end?

What a beautiful layout. You should be proud 👏.

Some really enjoyable running shots, it’s a lovely layout and I’m looking forward to the progression, cheers for now, John

Looks an amazing layout you have created, what is the 3rd coach on the "Pitchford Hall" parcels train, the "Cream & chocolate" one?

Wiring that lot must have been a challenge.

Inspiring stuff mate. Still in planning for my future « retirement project », but I do like the idéaux building scenery before the track. Some of the shots of the sections with completed scenery but a bare track bed really looked like demolition underway un the 60’s 70’s! Seems strangely more logical somehow to lay your track into a completed scene, tether than laying the track and building the scenery around it afterwards. I think that somehow shows through in the pictures once the trains are running. I too am a fan of 1:1 planning. I drew out my entire layout plan in chalk on the floor of my cellar for my last layout before building baseboards. It worked very well. Looking forward to seeing the next installments. Subscribed ! PS if you’ve got a track plan somewhere I’d be interested as we seem to have similar tastes and an area about the same size…

Really fantastic work, glad I found your channel. I too am a big fan of Chadwick and his work. He actually unknowingly encouraged me to get me back to building my layout. I'll do it modular as I do not have the dedicated space. But working on a section or two linked together will at least keep me going and as he says, "keep the mojo". It's funny that you have lots of GWR and your brother has lots of LMS as I have lots of both of those. So just 2 days ago I printed an old map of the two networks to see where they overlapped and I could credibly use all my stock on a hybrid area like Oxford!!! Are you going to motorise your turntable? If so would like to know what you use. Have you retrofitted any of your older trains to DCC AND sound? If so what sound decoder did you use? Just getting back into the hobby the choices are overwhelming.

What is it with rail modelers. Not three sentences in and you are using your “special little word” again - PROTOTYPICAL. You all do it. And it’s nonsense. If you look it up, it means “representing the earliest iteration” of a subject. You lot keep using it just to mean “TYPICAL”. It really winds me up, and yet another reason I look at a new rail modeling sites with fear and trepidation.

Im gonna be a bit biased here lol. The British, UK layouts seem to be of higher standard than those in US lol. Sorry US guys🤪lol as for this layout, its exceptionally well done. Great job on tbe weathering the shunting and goods areas and back drop. As i looked at your progress couldnt help but notice an area by station thats so wide on board that i was a bit concerned for you sake about reaching critical maintenance areas where arms length reach was almost out of reach for working repair functions. I still dread the day i must cut and lift out hard to reach areas for repair jobs. Otherwise splendid job on that setup, it makes one feel immersed into that era in time and into the daily happenings in railway work

Excellent. So what height did you decide on the for the baseboard in the end?

This looks a fine new venture with a positive progression of events. The one minor niggle for me is the lack of superelevation on the sharpish end curves of the running lines. I admit to nitpicking here but this feature plays a big part of most running lines in real life.

Beautiful layout, lovely buildings and scenery. I've subscribed! Rgds, Joachim

What is the black foam you used on the baseboard?

Very good modeling, design and photography. I enjoyed the whole video with trepidation - scared that it might all be ruined - until towards the end you did it. You used the word “PROTOTYPICAL”. Why do all rail modelers use this word? It drives me mad! “It’s our little word, and we’re going to use it!” If you look it up it means “Representing the earliest iteration of the subject”. And that is not the context that modelers use it. They really just mean “typical” or “the usual”. I agree that Charlie of Chadwick model railways is a great inspiration and source of knowledge. Until he started saying it too! So, I challenged him on it, and he started using it more and more to annoy me. “OK Charlie” I said. “It’s your RUclips channel, you can do what you like”. I also can do what I like, and I can unsubscribe.

Excellent. Similar in feel to the model railway I'm building (Frontington and Backwoods), though yours is a lot further along and quite a bit bigger! Glad to see you're having fun as well as making progress. I'll be keeping an eye on your channel for future updates!

Absolutely incredible layout, it’s easily one of the best out there, and I especially love the goods shed, it’s absolutely stunning!

Great story: exceedingly well done. Greetings from a quite warm Melbourne on the other side of the world, but I was in the UK recently. Great country!

Credit to you. We'll done.

Great video. Goods yard ballasting is the best I have seen. I love the Redbridge layout too, not far from me so I recognise parts of it.

Really good update, the ballasting is a masterpiece, it looks so authentic, so well done there! I really like the goods shed, it’s a lovely model and you’ve made it look really good with the cattle dock. The backscene has given the layout some depth too, it looked great as the trains ran by. Really looking forward to the next update and maybe the the completion of the signal box and engine shed. Cheers for now, Merry Christmas, cheers, John

Fantastic! Great to see an update of this layout! I'm starting my GWR 1930's Branchline right now. Lots of research and planning so far! Great video, thanks for showing!

Really hope there's more to come. Great work

I travelled extensively on the GWR in the 40's with my mother. Notable things: There were lamps everywhere and they were red, not white. Tank engines didn't have top feed. I'm nitpicking, what you have created is superb. I wish I could do as well.

Admire your attention to detail but are you missing the fun element of running trains ?

Excellent video! very concise with lots of detailed information, well narrated, looking forward to seeing more updates, subscribed 🤓

I’ve only just come across your channel, I must say it’s looking great. Some of the shots of the loco’s at the coaling stage looked superb. Loved the the buildings and scenery you’ve made a fantastic job and is something I can’t wait to get into on my own layout. I shall look forward to further updates, cheers for now, John

Brilliant, so much detail and so realistic.

One word - Inspiring

This is brilliant. Almost as good as Everard Junction!