Glad to see you back and on track. The electronics are impressive but way beyond my analogue mind. You have a great selection of locos which are so prototypical for the period modelled. I would love to see more of them in detail. I am really looking forward to seeing the scenic side develop, especially the MPD.
As they say "all good things are worth waiting for" and this is surely proof! I must say that my "gob" as well and truly "smacked" at the complexity of the layout, but it's certainly fascinating. I thank you for sharing this superb project and look forward to future video updates,
Great to see the layout again and all the progress. Really interesting and helpful explanations of work in progress, made even more helpful by the accompanying video. A picture paints a thousand words so your narrated videos are very much appreciated. Thanks very much for creating and sharing another marvellous episode 😊👍
Hi Hugh, You could say about this one you have been working under the bonnet and its all working great from this one so starting the scenics will be great for you and us to see and although not great the fact you have derailments on this super layout means we smallfry can not worry to much when it happens on ours. Looking forward to more from you and hopefully a little closer together keep well and modelling. Cheers Robert.
Hi Robert and thanks for your kind words. Hope you are keeping well. I had a bit of a break from RUclips so must catch up with your branch line work. All the best. Hugh
I love this layout, recently rewatched all your videos so I'm glad to see a new video. Really enjoy seeing the computer control working. Looking forward to seeing your future progress! Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much for the update, a huge amount of work done in so many complex areas (areas that I'd certainly appreciate knowing more about from a beginner perspective - the word LocoNet puts the fear of god into me). Very much looking forward to the next instalment, whenever that happens to be.
Great to see that you are okay and producing videos again; I've never been overly convinced about sound fitted loco's but I have to admit that the A4 sounded wonderful!
Many thanks for your comments. Glad you enjoyed it. Yes you are right about sound and sometimes it can be too much but overall worth it. For me anyway. Hugh
Well, well, well……. This where i want to go with my layout when i finally take it on. I love to take inspiration and 3 layouts always are at the front of my mind when thinking about what I might build. Perth South, Everard and Chadwick. Bravo. I love it. The station entrance area and signalling i will shamelessly copy… one day!
Hi Hugh, glad to see you back with an update. You certainly have been busy, hope you can post more often now. Like the idea of a "technical" video. Regards Peter (Sunny Sydney)
Hi Hugh - A very interesting update and my oh my you have been busy. It only seems that it was only a couple of months ago I last watched an update from you, tempest fugit (something like that) as they say. A very enjoyable update, thanks for that.
Hi, nice to see another video, it doesn't matter how long it takes to make an update on your layout, each one is most welcome. I am amazed by all the electronics in your layout, mine is so primative in comparison, and most of what your doing I have no clue about at all. One question if I may, what are the sound files that you have installed in your Gresley Pacifics, especially your A4's, I have an A4 with a Hornby TTS sound chip, and to me it sounds nothing like that syncopated three cylinder beat of the real thing, and yours are a joy to listen too. Looking forward to seeing your scenery start progressing, as the layout will suddenly spring into life then. All the very best and thank you Dave.
Hi Dave and thanks for your kind words. The sound chip on my A4 is from Digitrains on a Zimo chip. It is a good sound file and that’s why you keep seeing it in my videos😉😉. All the best. Hugh
@@perthsouth5576 Thanks for your reply. I have used Digitrains sounds on the Zimo decoder before for some of my diesel locos, I really like the Activedrive features on them................There is something quite wonderful about the sound of those three cylinder Gresley locomotives. Thanks again, all the best Dave.
There has a lot happened in the S&T department. Great to see how all works well. I do also like how prototypically correct the layout and the trains are, it makes the experience of running trains so much more than on a generic railway layout.
Can't believe its nearly a year since your last video but although not clearly visible good progress made on Perth South. Always look forward to seeing updates on your channel so hopefully not as long until the next one 😉
Absolutely fantastic I don't think I have seen anything like it, even With club layouts. Love watching the running sessions and the background description Of how you got this far. Is this in a loft? More please and thanks.. Regards Howard
I've just come across your layout .Very impressed .Your electronic expertise is mind blowing . I know Perth well having lived in Edinburgh and Alyth it was always a good spotting station back in the day .Am i right in thinking the MPD is now Tesco. Look forward to seeing the layout grow. Just out of interest what is the camera you have in front of the diesel as it traverses the layout ?
Hi David. Many thanks for watching. Yes the Edinburgh Road Tesco store is built on the site of the MPD yard though the actual running shed area is a GPO depot. The Track cam is a called an SQ13 and you can still get them quite cheaply on line. All the best. Hugh
Worth the wait, what a great episode and thanks for sharing. Absolutely stay true to the prototype, so important. How are you finding train controller, I’d be interested in hearing your critical take on the system. The signalling is fantastic, what a great outcome Best wishes for the new year, and good looks with the ballasting.
@@1BCamden many thanks for watching and for your kind comments. Glad you enjoyed it. Re Train Controller, I think it is a great system but the proprietors have made it difficult to buy in the UK. I’m not going to comment on the politics as all I can do is say what I think of the system. At the end of the day, it is very similar to I train and I guess if I was starting again I would use that, but I’m heavily invested in Train Controller now so don’t really want to change. Hugh
Hi Hugh, thanks for the train controller feedback, I’m still going down that route, Australia is to far away from those issues so it shouldn’t be a problem 🤣 Again, your signalling m, bet you are happy about the outcome !!! Best regards Stanley
Great Layout and update and information - I will also be running Digitrax system on my new layout, but i have had difficulty in scourcing the SE8C boards do u know of any other alternatives that are just signal decoders. thank you
Many thanks for watching and for commenting. Re the SE8C, it seems to have been replaced by the SE74. Don’t know if it has the same functionality. I got all my electronics through Digitrains but that was a few years ago now. Hugh
RELIABLE LOCO CURRENT COLLECTION - REQUIRES PERFECTLY SMOOTH TRACK ! I can see visual issues with your track laying method ! You've pinned/nailed the track which will firstly, partially defeat the benefit of that foam type underlay. The nails will allow vibration to transfer between baseboard & a Loco. Secondly it will interfere with reliable current collection, particularly with the steam locos, which have (like the real thing) longer rigid chassis'. Resulting particularly at slower speeds, with stuttering and jerkiness. Especially with the Bachmann steam loco models. Which until recently haven't used the tender wheels for enhanced current collection ! Track needs no pins, nails, screws. It's best when only glued, and the best glue is strangely PVA of the non waterproof type. (Evo-stik in the green bottle). This glue can be dissolved with a little warm water, whenever the track needs moving, or recovering ! It also means that even ballasting, when the ballast is mixed with a PVA 25% - Water 75% mix, can be laid, and with warm water later, recovered and reused, without damage to the valuable (expensive) track !!!!
@@railwaymechanicalengineer4587 I disagree! I glue the track but use pins to hold in place to ensure perfectly aligned track. The pins are removed when I ballast and weather. I think my track is pretty good and the smoothness of running is something I take pride in and evidenced in my videos. By the way, I was at one time a BR P Way engineer.😉😉
@@perthsouth5576 Sold the layout to a German owner of a truck haulage firm, two years ago. Now "Property Developing" in Portugal ! That layout was originally intended to be the basis of a Model Retail business, to sell "British Outline" to the Spanish. As no one in Spain has imported British Outline in over 20 years, & the Spanish do not understand "Mail Order". In Spain their banks won't allow "Mail Order". But BREXIT killed the business, as Import Taxes on my first shipment were 117% by Spanish Customs !
@@perthsouth5576 PVA with Peco track pins just to hold curvature in place until the glue dries. Then remove the pins ! Any pin or nail in the track causes tiny dips, and I can see more than one such dip on that layout. That WILL cause running issues with current collection. To align track correctly on the visual part of the layout, you actually have to measure the Track Centres. Even Peco Streamline "Flexi" track do NOT use correctly spaced track centres, their pointwork being the issue. Indeed Peco's "track Centres" are only suitable if you are modelling one of the ex Great Western Railways original "Broad Gauge" routes, which have a bigger "Six Foot" (Gap between track Centres). This is why virtually all exhibition layouts in Britain today have what appears to be "Toy train set" Track spacings ! Obviously all my exhibition layouts since the 1970's have scratchbuilt points. Which means as in real life you can built any point to any Radius. (No British commercially produced track provides for pointwork bigger than 5ft radius. Which in real life is a just a 30mph curve !) In "OO" I simply will not go below a 5ft radius for ANY track, and that layout I was building in Spain had all mainline pointwork built to radii between 5ft 6in & 6ft 9in. Above 6ft 9in problems begin with the Frog area as even today's refined Code 75 track is still "overscale" in the checkrail, flangeway parts. Below 5ft radius you cannot close up the gaps between corridor coaches, to allow corridor connections to realistically touch. Or the gap between a loco & tender. Without derailment issues beginning. Further a 6ft radius scratchbuilt point costs only around £5, and takes me around 2 hours to build. Using nothing more than "copper clad sleeper strip" & code 75 bullhead rail (From SMP in Sheffield). A small tip 25w soldering iron, a minimum of four code 75 roll gauges, to hold rails in place as you solder them, and a few fine modelling files to produce the "blades" and two frog rails. Indeed for a German Club I built Dual Gauge Pointwork, after they discovered the "Brits" know how to do this ! I even taught some of the Spanish guys how to handbuild track, as they also had no idea this was possible. Happy Modelling 😝
Hi James, I think you need to lighten up. I never claimed this was a fine scale model railway but it’s my model railway with Peco track and proprietary models. I have built fine scale P4/S4 track in the past but at my age, life is too short and I wanted a railway I could build and enjoy relatively quickly. By the way, I still disagree about track pins and the faultless running I have bears that out. I completed track laying some time ago now and nothing will change so, (and I don’t mean to offend) I have no real interest in how you do yours. These videos are my story about my model railway and I’m not really looking for help or advice. If you don’t like the way I do things, then that’s fine but don’t feel the need to post it here. I’m not looking for a reply to this so please don’t as I’m not into big debates. I’d just like you to accept there are different ways to enjoy our hobby and everyone has their own opinions as to what is best for them. As you say, Happy Modelling! Your with respect. Hugh
Glad to see you back and on track. The electronics are impressive but way beyond my analogue mind. You have a great selection of locos which are so prototypical for the period modelled. I would love to see more of them in detail. I am really looking forward to seeing the scenic side develop, especially the MPD.
Many thanks David. Yes I will have to do a loco fleet review sometime. Hope I manage to do justice to the MPD. All the best. Hugh.
As they say "all good things are worth waiting for" and this is surely proof! I must say that my "gob" as well and truly "smacked" at the complexity of the layout, but it's certainly fascinating. I thank you for sharing this superb project and look forward to future video updates,
Many thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. Hugh
Great to see the layout again and all the progress. Really interesting and helpful explanations of work in progress, made even more helpful by the accompanying video. A picture paints a thousand words so your narrated videos are very much appreciated. Thanks very much for creating and sharing another marvellous episode 😊👍
@@rick-campbell many thanks Rick for you kind comments. Glad you enjoyed it. Hugh
Hi Hugh,
You could say about this one you have been working under the bonnet and its all working great from this one so starting the scenics will be great for you and us to see and although not great the fact you have derailments on this super layout means we smallfry can not worry to much when it happens on ours. Looking forward to more from you and hopefully a little closer together keep well and modelling.
Cheers Robert.
Hi Robert and thanks for your kind words. Hope you are keeping well. I had a bit of a break from RUclips so must catch up with your branch line work. All the best. Hugh
Hi Hugh
Fantastic video bringing us up to date on your progress.
Love the 08 shunting in the yard.
All the best Paul
Hi Paul. Many thanks for your comment. Glad you enjoyed it. Hugh
Your electrics is mind blowing to say the least! You are a very talented modeller. Great running session John
Many thanks John. Glad you enjoyed it. Hugh
I love this layout, recently rewatched all your videos so I'm glad to see a new video. Really enjoy seeing the computer control working. Looking forward to seeing your future progress! Keep up the good work!
Many thanks for watching and commenting. Glad you are enjoying the videos. Hugh
Good to see you back Hugh. It's often said that railway modelling is not "rocket science" but.......... I think your layout comes pretty close.
That’s very kind of you. Many thanks. Hugh
Thanks so much for the update, a huge amount of work done in so many complex areas (areas that I'd certainly appreciate knowing more about from a beginner perspective - the word LocoNet puts the fear of god into me). Very much looking forward to the next instalment, whenever that happens to be.
Many thanks for your comments. Glad you enjoyed it. Hugh
Great to see that you are okay and producing videos again; I've never been overly convinced about sound fitted loco's but I have to admit that the A4 sounded wonderful!
Many thanks for your comments. Glad you enjoyed it. Yes you are right about sound and sometimes it can be too much but overall worth it. For me anyway. Hugh
Love seeing this layout. Great seeing multiple trains running. Awesome.
Thanks Ian. Glad you liked it. Hugh
Amazing update. Thanks for sharing. Roy.
Thanks Roy. Glad you liked it. Hugh
Well, well, well……. This where i want to go with my layout when i finally take it on. I love to take inspiration and 3 layouts always are at the front of my mind when thinking about what I might build. Perth South, Everard and Chadwick. Bravo. I love it. The station entrance area and signalling i will shamelessly copy… one day!
Many thanks for your kind words. Glad you enjoyed it. Hugh
Hi Hugh, Great update, like the signals and all the electrics. Cheers, Peter
Thanks Peter. Glad you enjoyed it. Hugh
Great to see you back missed your videos.
Many thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. Hugh
Hi Hugh, glad to see you back with an update. You certainly have been busy, hope you can post more often now. Like the idea of a "technical" video.
Regards
Peter (Sunny Sydney)
Hi Peter. Many thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it. Hugh (sunny and cold in Scotland after yesterday’s storm!)
Love the Perth section of the layout as having travelled and stopped at Perth station many times 😊 and nice to see another Scottish railway modeller
Many thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. Hugh
Hi Hugh - A very interesting update and my oh my you have been busy.
It only seems that it was only a couple of months ago I last watched an update from you, tempest fugit (something like that) as they say.
A very enjoyable update, thanks for that.
Hi Chris and many thanks. Hope you are keeping well and managing some modelling. All the best. Hugh
Hi, nice to see another video, it doesn't matter how long it takes to make an update on your layout, each one is most welcome. I am amazed by all the electronics in your layout, mine is so primative in comparison, and most of what your doing I have no clue about at all. One question if I may, what are the sound files that you have installed in your Gresley Pacifics, especially your A4's, I have an A4 with a Hornby TTS sound chip, and to me it sounds nothing like that syncopated three cylinder beat of the real thing, and yours are a joy to listen too. Looking forward to seeing your scenery start progressing, as the layout will suddenly spring into life then. All the very best and thank you Dave.
Hi Dave and thanks for your kind words. The sound chip on my A4 is from Digitrains on a Zimo chip. It is a good sound file and that’s why you keep seeing it in my videos😉😉. All the best. Hugh
@@perthsouth5576 Thanks for your reply. I have used Digitrains sounds on the Zimo decoder before for some of my diesel locos, I really like the Activedrive features on them................There is something quite wonderful about the sound of those three cylinder Gresley locomotives. Thanks again, all the best Dave.
There has a lot happened in the S&T department. Great to see how all works well.
I do also like how prototypically correct the layout and the trains are, it makes the experience of running trains so much more than on a generic railway layout.
Many thanks Tom. Glad you enjoyed it. Hugh.
Can't believe its nearly a year since your last video but although not clearly visible good progress made on Perth South. Always look forward to seeing updates on your channel so hopefully not as long until the next one 😉
Thanks for watching and commenting. Glad you enjoyed it. Hugh
Superb work 👏
Many thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. Hugh
Absolutely fantastic
I don't think I have seen anything like it, even
With club layouts.
Love watching the running sessions and the background description
Of how you got this far.
Is this in a loft?
More please and thanks..
Regards Howard
@@howardavins1107 thanks Howard for your kind comments. Yes it is in the loft room of my house. Thanks for watching. Hugh
I've just come across your layout .Very impressed .Your electronic expertise is mind blowing . I know Perth well having lived in Edinburgh and Alyth it was always a good spotting station back in the day .Am i right in thinking the MPD is now Tesco. Look forward to seeing the layout grow. Just out of interest what is the camera you have in front of the diesel as it traverses the layout ?
Hi David. Many thanks for watching. Yes the Edinburgh Road Tesco store is built on the site of the MPD yard though the actual running shed area is a GPO depot. The Track cam is a called an SQ13 and you can still get them quite cheaply on line. All the best. Hugh
Worth the wait, what a great episode and thanks for sharing.
Absolutely stay true to the prototype, so important.
How are you finding train controller, I’d be interested in hearing your critical take on the system.
The signalling is fantastic, what a great outcome
Best wishes for the new year, and good looks with the ballasting.
@@1BCamden many thanks for watching and for your kind comments. Glad you enjoyed it. Re Train Controller, I think it is a great system but the proprietors have made it difficult to buy in the UK. I’m not going to comment on the politics as all I can do is say what I think of the system. At the end of the day, it is very similar to I train and I guess if I was starting again I would use that, but I’m heavily invested in Train Controller now so don’t really want to change. Hugh
Hi Hugh, thanks for the train controller feedback, I’m still going down that route, Australia is to far away from those issues so it shouldn’t be a problem 🤣
Again, your signalling m, bet you are happy about the outcome !!!
Best regards Stanley
What a masterpiece, Hugh for first minister.
@@Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge Awe… thanks for that. Glad you enjoyed it. Hugh.
Great Layout and update and information - I will also be running Digitrax system on my new layout, but i have had difficulty in scourcing the SE8C boards do u know of any other alternatives that are just signal decoders. thank you
Many thanks for watching and for commenting. Re the SE8C, it seems to have been replaced by the SE74. Don’t know if it has the same functionality. I got all my electronics through Digitrains but that was a few years ago now. Hugh
Welcome back! I just love the complexity of the track work. Look forward to more! (dougsmodelrailway)
Many thanks Doug. Yes it’s been a while. Glad you enjoyed the new video. Hugh.
Excellent!
Thanks Allan. Speak soon. Hugh
Great to see the progess - hopefully it won't be another year before the next update.😀
Thanks John. Glad you enjoyed it. Hopefully more soon. Hugh
RELIABLE LOCO CURRENT COLLECTION - REQUIRES PERFECTLY SMOOTH TRACK !
I can see visual issues with your track laying method ! You've pinned/nailed the track which will firstly, partially defeat the benefit of that foam type underlay. The nails will allow vibration to transfer between baseboard & a Loco. Secondly it will interfere with reliable current collection, particularly with the steam locos, which have (like the real thing) longer rigid chassis'. Resulting particularly at slower speeds, with stuttering and jerkiness. Especially with the Bachmann steam loco models. Which until recently haven't used the tender wheels for enhanced current collection !
Track needs no pins, nails, screws. It's best when only glued, and the best glue is strangely PVA of the non waterproof type. (Evo-stik in the green bottle). This glue can be dissolved with a little warm water, whenever the track needs moving, or recovering ! It also means that even ballasting, when the ballast is mixed with a PVA 25% - Water 75% mix, can be laid, and with warm water later, recovered and reused, without damage to the valuable (expensive) track !!!!
@@railwaymechanicalengineer4587 I disagree! I glue the track but use pins to hold in place to ensure perfectly aligned track. The pins are removed when I ballast and weather. I think my track is pretty good and the smoothness of running is something I take pride in and evidenced in my videos. By the way, I was at one time a BR P Way engineer.😉😉
You still in Spain James? How’s that big exhibition layout coming on?
@@perthsouth5576 Sold the layout to a German owner of a truck haulage firm, two years ago. Now "Property Developing" in Portugal ! That layout was originally intended to be the basis of a Model Retail business, to sell "British Outline" to the Spanish. As no one in Spain has imported British Outline in over 20 years, & the Spanish do not understand "Mail Order". In Spain their banks won't allow "Mail Order". But BREXIT killed the business, as Import Taxes on my first shipment were 117% by Spanish Customs !
@@perthsouth5576 PVA with Peco track pins just to hold curvature in place until the glue dries. Then remove the pins ! Any pin or nail in the track causes tiny dips, and I can see more than one such dip on that layout. That WILL cause running issues with current collection.
To align track correctly on the visual part of the layout, you actually have to measure the Track Centres. Even Peco Streamline "Flexi" track do NOT use correctly spaced track centres, their pointwork being the issue. Indeed Peco's "track Centres" are only suitable if you are modelling one of the ex Great Western Railways original "Broad Gauge" routes, which have a bigger "Six Foot" (Gap between track Centres). This is why virtually all exhibition layouts in Britain today have what appears to be "Toy train set" Track spacings !
Obviously all my exhibition layouts since the 1970's have scratchbuilt points. Which means as in real life you can built any point to any Radius. (No British commercially produced track provides for pointwork bigger than 5ft radius. Which in real life is a just a 30mph curve !) In "OO" I simply will not go below a 5ft radius for ANY track, and that layout I was building in Spain had all mainline pointwork built to radii between 5ft 6in & 6ft 9in. Above 6ft 9in problems begin with the Frog area as even today's refined Code 75 track is still "overscale" in the checkrail, flangeway parts.
Below 5ft radius you cannot close up the gaps between corridor coaches, to allow corridor connections to realistically touch. Or the gap between a loco & tender. Without derailment issues beginning. Further a 6ft radius scratchbuilt point costs only around £5, and takes me around 2 hours to build. Using nothing more than "copper clad sleeper strip" & code 75 bullhead rail (From SMP in Sheffield). A small tip 25w soldering iron, a minimum of four code 75 roll gauges, to hold rails in place as you solder them, and a few fine modelling files to produce the "blades" and two frog rails. Indeed for a German Club I built Dual Gauge Pointwork, after they discovered the "Brits" know how to do this ! I even taught some of the Spanish guys how to handbuild track, as they also had no idea this was possible.
Happy Modelling 😝
Hi James, I think you need to lighten up. I never claimed this was a fine scale model railway but it’s my model railway with Peco track and proprietary models. I have built fine scale P4/S4 track in the past but at my age, life is too short and I wanted a railway I could build and enjoy relatively quickly. By the way, I still disagree about track pins and the faultless running I have bears that out. I completed track laying some time ago now and nothing will change so, (and I don’t mean to offend) I have no real interest in how you do yours. These videos are my story about my model railway and I’m not really looking for help or advice. If you don’t like the way I do things, then that’s fine but don’t feel the need to post it here. I’m not looking for a reply to this so please don’t as I’m not into big debates. I’d just like you to accept there are different ways to enjoy our hobby and everyone has their own opinions as to what is best for them. As you say, Happy Modelling! Your with respect. Hugh