I saw your videos for your old layout, and with watching these videos of your new layout, its giving me a bunch of ideas for when i can finally start on my own. Definitely inspirational :)
Great video looking forward to your next video to see how you are going to do your scenic area's. Glad you got to use the shed your scratch built it looks just right for that area. Regards George...
I was worried that, after all the work you did on that engine shed, we weren't going to see it again. Well done. Another great bit of work. thanks for posting.
The sense of scale on the mainline is outstanding. To get the banking of the corners and their radius just right is an incredible achievment in OO. Well done sir!
Great video as always! Nice to see the layout coming along. As an act of pedantry, and for anyone that may be interested, the points at the exit to the sidings are trap points, and not catch points. Trap points trap and catch points catch, ie traps trap things in yards, sidings and goods loops etc whereas catch points catch anything that may be running away wrong direction down an incline, and throw it off into the dirt for safety.
I can't wait for the next videos. After watching these videos, I want to get back into model railroading but I am a long haul truck driver. I usually stay out on the roads for weeks at a time and I will first need a actual house.
Could not have clicked on a video any faster. Great update. Looking forward to seeing the scenery aspect on how you will achieve that run down and overgrown feel. Simply awesome. Clint
I enjoyed your video and I have to say the simple act of placing the Engine Shed on the layout changed the whole appearance of that area and gave an insight of what it will look like when completed. Regards Greg
Fantastic planning and application once again. Really looking forward to this developing as you're previous layout was my inspiration to start my own in N scale. Great channel, thanks again.. Chris Indge
I like your story telling in the design of the layout. Maybe you could stick a cannibalized unit in the back part of the shed, scratch build some open access doors and build up some interior details. That might look nice through the windows of the shed. I'm looking forward to seeing more. I also liked your period correct music in parts of the video!
Awesome update! Really glad to see the depot added, it adds a lot of interest. Also the perfect size for not overwhelming the area with track, but keeping the operational interest up. Good job!
I loved watching all your older videos, and I'm loving what you are doing with this new layout love the idea of the building and stuff can't wait to see what comes next in that area.
Nice to see the shed being put to use. Maybe the yard is the remains of a steam depot that had tank engines working the branch line, now reduced to a few crew working dmu's. Great video as always.
Brilliant well done, Your timber work is brilliant as well. Looking forward to seeing that siding finished. Loads of room for detail. Great stuff. All the best Duncan.
Another big milestone reached with the completion of track laying. I've recently started my layout again (was nowhere near as advanced as yours), and have adopted a number of your techniques with great success so far. Just finished laying the track on my fiddle yard which has a very similar look and feel to yours and I love it. Wish I put in a fiddle yard first time around. However, always learning and improving. All part of the hobby. All the best Jamie
Brilliant , is consider taking the sidings outside the shed and doing them as if they carried on and now are dissused with sleepers chained across the ends as it goes into the grass/bushes
Richard - great project. I am sure that it will look great when you apply your scenic touch. The trap points should, by the period of your layout, be full turnouts - British Railways insisted on such in the late 1950's I believe (my own layout is set early 1960's and I had to change mine). I guess you could argue its an old yard but trap points rarely survived into the 1980's. A small radius L/H turnout should really be there with a blind siding for protection.
Great video. Nice use of space and its good that you havent overdone it with too much trackwork. Kept it nice and simple. Look forward to seeing the scenery take shape
I do remember the construction videos of the shed, I was waiting to see when and where the shed would be placed. The new layout is deffinately comming along quite nicely. A suggestion. Maybe a few old Steamers inside the shed and a few older coaching stock the local Museum would be rebuilding to former glory. Thanks for sharing your beautiful layout. Take care and run trains
Late seeing this, but another Great video, with the embankment and ditch, put some rubbish in there, as sadly it seems to be a usual thing lol. Great to see you finish the track laying, can't wait to see you start on the scenery.
Very nicely done! That shed looks great! I like the way you've done your benchwork. I'm in the planning stages of my next layout, and trying to decide how I want to do the benchwork.
Really nice work very creative, from your previous videos I have watched you become a master at scenery and weathering trains buildings and minutia that makes a layout all the more pleasurable to run.
Like the trap point you've made! Only thing I'd do differently with that yard is have both of the shed roads running straight before going into the shed, would probably look more 'natural' in railway terms. Guess the shed could be pushed back a bit?
Definitely is great to see the shed taking is place on the layout I was wondering when and were it was going to go etc looking forward to seeing the next video
Welcome back, Sir. Hope you had a good Christmas and new year. Looks like things are coming along very nicely. Said it before and I'll say it again, the heritage/branch line running alongside the mainline really does remind me of the Nene Valley Railway. Great to see the beast that is your carriage shed make a welcome return. Was like seeing an old friend!
Good stuff. Glad to see the longer transitions in and out of the elevations doing a great job! The one and only catch point (so far) on my climb up to Exeter Central was done by bashing up a code 75 and managed to re-space most the sleepers 😁. Do love the bullhead track and I think we've managed to convert a few others to re-spaced flat bottom.
Great update Richard, was wondering whether the carriage shad was going to be used in this layout even with it cut down still makes a huge statement on the layout impressive build, look forward to seeing the scenic updates ive gone back to watch a few of your older video's about static grass effects and scenery making to give me a few tips and ideas with my little diorama series cheers Beeton Hough Junction (Dave C)
Richard, a trap and catch points are actually two different things. Catch points are normal at the bottom on inclines, and are there to protect against a train rolling back. Whereas a set of Trap points protects against a wagon/loco running away from a yard or sidings. Hope this helps,
If you (Richard) or anyone else is looking for ideas on what a run down and neglected railway looks like! Then, look up oldskidmarks he works the stone and sand trains driving a class 59/66 ? and take a ride with him from Acton to St Pancras Churchyard vids 27 & 28 If you want to see line side shite and run down rails his two part video has it all in spades and lots lots more, as for you boy, well you did it again great work, well done! Also another UK Freight Train Driver the Southern Rambler he videos similar routes well worth a view for scenic inspiration thanks Richard
I can't wait to see the extra detailing on the shed! I'm looking to do a yard, parts of which will be overgrown, so I'll be keeping an eye on progress :)
I remember in the late 80's when we used the trains quite often there was a breakdown crane set parked up in a very overgrown siding that I would always look out the window to see. It'd be nice to see something like that or a couple of rotten locos on that disused siding?
Good to see you are using the carriage shed, would have been a shame to scrap it after all of the hard work. Despite the shed area adding more to the less is more layout, I think it’ll work well, especially all run down. Looking forward to more! 👍 Paul
I'vealways been interested in UK/EU layouts for two reasons A) LGB Trains, as we didn't have a lot of american stufff at the time and B) well I was raised on SHining TIme Staation/Thomas the Tank ENgine. ANd watching this entire layout rebuild, I'm for sure going to pick up a UK set to run on my layout, unrealistic or not ust because I"m blown away by everything you've done. Quite an inspiration in my opinion.
lovely video as always. You are a genius, I'm waiting how for the next update, i worked the ECML in the 80s so looking forward to reliving my 1980s on your layout.
Great to see you adding a maintenance depot, will provide more varied train movements and nice contrast to back scene - look forward to seeing it develop. In the distant future do you plan to convert the main train storage yard to a main line station by replacing some of the lines with platforms + placing a station building above them?
Brilliant as usual, Richard. We definitely need more sped-up clips of the trains on various parts of the layout. That had such a strong 80's railway video feel about it. Maybe some screen effects to make it look like an old VCR tape! What do you think about having a semi-embankment / semi-wall behind your carriage shed? I can almost picture that entire area full of rusted old wheels, DMU cab ends, engines and who knows what other parts being left to rot behind the shed. Some old dim yellow lamps and rusty chain link fence. Oh, and lots of old oil drums, of course! Keep 'em coming mate. Mike.
About BR not replacing track in yards. I remember that in the 1980s, a driver colleague of mine at Stratford TMD said that the sidings and roads around Willesden to Wembley had some sleeper chairs with LNWR on them.
I'm really out of the loop, what kind of connectors are those on the new Bachmann coaches at around the 10:03 ? I've not seen them before. The layout is coming along wonderfully, all those different levels and views look stunning!
I love the clickerty clack going on with this layout as trains run along. Absolutely great.
I'm so glad you got to use the carriage shed after the blood, sweat and tears that went into it!
Looking forward to the scenery!
I totally agree.
I was wondering if it was scrapped, but so happy to see it on the new layout.
My very thoughts too.
That shed will look fantastic there. Overgrown track will fit just right. Enjoy the day. Ray L
This is the magic of your layout. Imagination runs wild..brilliant!
I saw your videos for your old layout, and with watching these videos of your new layout, its giving me a bunch of ideas for when i can finally start on my own. Definitely inspirational :)
Great video looking forward to your next video to see how you are going to do your scenic area's. Glad you got to use the shed your scratch built it looks just right for that area. Regards George...
I was worried that, after all the work you did on that engine shed, we weren't going to see it again. Well done. Another great bit of work. thanks for posting.
Good to see the carriage shed is going to make an appearance in the new layout
I admire your sense of organisation.
One of those NetworkSouthEast MkI’s sounds like it’s developing a hot axle box.😉Good to see the new layout progressing and looking great.👍🏻
The sense of scale on the mainline is outstanding. To get the banking of the corners and their radius just right is an incredible achievment in OO. Well done sir!
Great video as always! Nice to see the layout coming along.
As an act of pedantry, and for anyone that may be interested, the points at the exit to the sidings are trap points, and not catch points. Trap points trap and catch points catch, ie traps trap things in yards, sidings and goods loops etc whereas catch points catch anything that may be running away wrong direction down an incline, and throw it off into the dirt for safety.
Great update Richard and glad to see how the shed you built is going to be used. Looking forward to the next update.
I can't wait for the next videos. After watching these videos, I want to get back into model railroading but I am a long haul truck driver. I usually stay out on the roads for weeks at a time and I will first need a actual house.
Thinking to myself "that yard needs a trap point"...
*Richard puts in a trap point*
YESSSS
LOL I was waiting for that moment as well. He knows his stuff :)
Could not have clicked on a video any faster. Great update. Looking forward to seeing the scenery aspect on how you will achieve that run down and overgrown feel. Simply awesome. Clint
I enjoyed your video and I have to say the simple act of placing the Engine Shed on the layout changed the whole appearance of that area and gave an insight of what it will look like when completed. Regards Greg
Fantastic planning and application once again. Really looking forward to this developing as you're previous layout was my inspiration to start my own in N scale. Great channel, thanks again.. Chris Indge
Excellent update and love the fact your reusing the shed from your previous layout.can't wait for the scenery stage.
Good to see the old carriage shed getting re-used after the effort you put into building it!
I like your story telling in the design of the layout. Maybe you could stick a cannibalized unit in the back part of the shed, scratch build some open access doors and build up some interior details. That might look nice through the windows of the shed. I'm looking forward to seeing more. I also liked your period correct music in parts of the video!
I was thinking the same thing, especially if he has a Loco that doesn't run. It would be a fun way to reuse something that's otherwise junk.
Awesome update! Really glad to see the depot added, it adds a lot of interest. Also the perfect size for not overwhelming the area with track, but keeping the operational interest up. Good job!
Well done on fitting the shed in.
Really glad to see a wee shed scene making an appearance, Richard. It'll look great! 🙂👍🏻👍🏻
I loved watching all your older videos, and I'm loving what you are doing with this new layout love the idea of the building and stuff can't wait to see what comes next in that area.
Love watching your older videos making scenery, can't wait to see them on this new layout
Nice to see the shed being put to use. Maybe the yard is the remains of a steam depot that had tank engines working the branch line, now reduced to a few crew working dmu's. Great video as always.
That timelapse was fantastic! Great job on the railway so far.
Brilliant well done, Your timber work is brilliant as well.
Looking forward to seeing that siding finished.
Loads of room for detail.
Great stuff.
All the best
Duncan.
It looks really good now when sidings are finished it will be top class
Great to see the shed return!
It’s painful having to wait for the scenic work to start, it’s going to look so good! Another quality video!
Good video. Looking forward to the start of the scenery phase and seeing where your creativity takes you.
Another big milestone reached with the completion of track laying.
I've recently started my layout again (was nowhere near as advanced as yours), and have adopted a number of your techniques with great success so far. Just finished laying the track on my fiddle yard which has a very similar look and feel to yours and I love it.
Wish I put in a fiddle yard first time around.
However, always learning and improving. All part of the hobby.
All the best
Jamie
Love the way you get the layout to capture some history and tell a story all in one, keep up the great work & thanks for sharing it with us.
Excellent as always, Richard - looking forward to further installments.
Very good Richard. Your practical style is to be admired. Looking forward to how you develop from here.
Can’t wait for your scenery content. Loved it in the past!
Yep ditto
9 minutes and you already have over 100 views. You are a legend, sir!
West Wruxshire you are right, it is wonderful!
Brilliant , is consider taking the sidings outside the shed and doing them as if they carried on and now are dissused with sleepers chained across the ends as it goes into the grass/bushes
Looking forward to the scenery going in,my favourite part of any layout 👍🏻
Richard - great project. I am sure that it will look great when you apply your scenic touch. The trap points should, by the period of your layout, be full turnouts - British Railways insisted on such in the late 1950's I believe (my own layout is set early 1960's and I had to change mine). I guess you could argue its an old yard but trap points rarely survived into the 1980's. A small radius L/H turnout should really be there with a blind siding for protection.
Great video. Nice use of space and its good that you havent overdone it with too much trackwork. Kept it nice and simple. Look forward to seeing the scenery take shape
Awesome as always. I really looking forward to seeing the scenery getting built up.
I'm still stunned by your weathering. :))
Might want to pop over and see mine 😉
Layout looks great nice to see your old shed.
Very much looking forward to the overgrown and rundown effects to come.
Absolutely love the development of this, everything so immaculately done & trains run so well. Makes it all look so easy in the FF motions lol 👍
Another wonderful video. Great to see an electric screwdriver at last .
As always informative and inspiring.
I do remember the construction videos of the shed, I was waiting to see when and where the shed would be placed.
The new layout is deffinately comming along quite nicely.
A suggestion. Maybe a few old Steamers inside the shed and a few older coaching stock the local Museum would be rebuilding to former glory.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful layout.
Take care and run trains
Love the progress Richard. Going to look amazing. Glad the engine shed is in early 😊😊😊😊😊
I spy a new canal. 😁 loving the work and additions to the new layout.
I bet you are missing laying track already??! lol. Also good to see that long shed is being used! Cheers. Dave
Even though it's been cut down, it's still huge! Love it :D
looks fantastic love the idea of scratch building things instead of buying expensive things. I enjoyed that very much :)
Looks great. I noticed a slight wobble of the DMU over the point as it returned to the shed. Realism built in. Geoff. W.
Another excellent video. Looking forward to the scenery.
Late seeing this, but another Great video, with the embankment and ditch, put some rubbish in there, as sadly it seems to be a usual thing lol. Great to see you finish the track laying, can't wait to see you start on the scenery.
Very nicely done! That shed looks great! I like the way you've done your benchwork. I'm in the planning stages of my next layout, and trying to decide how I want to do the benchwork.
Really nice work very creative, from your previous videos I have watched you become a master at scenery and weathering trains buildings and minutia that makes a layout all the more pleasurable to run.
I love what you have done and continue to do. You have given me encouragement to try a scratch build myself. Thanks!
Nice.. Reminds me of the old Croxley Green depot coming off the Croxley Green branch line.
Like the trap point you've made! Only thing I'd do differently with that yard is have both of the shed roads running straight before going into the shed, would probably look more 'natural' in railway terms. Guess the shed could be pushed back a bit?
Definitely is great to see the shed taking is place on the layout I was wondering when and were it was going to go etc looking forward to seeing the next video
Welcome back, Sir. Hope you had a good Christmas and new year. Looks like things are coming along very nicely. Said it before and I'll say it again, the heritage/branch line running alongside the mainline really does remind me of the Nene Valley Railway. Great to see the beast that is your carriage shed make a welcome return. Was like seeing an old friend!
Great video! Looking forward to seeing what you do with the rest of the run down yard.
Good stuff. Glad to see the longer transitions in and out of the elevations doing a great job! The one and only catch point (so far) on my climb up to Exeter Central was done by bashing up a code 75 and managed to re-space most the sleepers 😁.
Do love the bullhead track and I think we've managed to convert a few others to re-spaced flat bottom.
Great update Richard, was wondering whether the carriage shad was going to be used in this layout even with it cut down still makes a huge statement on the layout impressive build, look forward to seeing the scenic updates ive gone back to watch a few of your older video's about static grass effects and scenery making to give me a few tips and ideas with my little diorama series cheers Beeton Hough Junction (Dave C)
Worth waiting for. Thanks again for another informative video.
Great stuff isn't it
great update. scenery is my favourite part so im getting excited for more now.
Your modelling is stunning richard. Truly impressive
Richard, a trap and catch points are actually two different things. Catch points are normal at the bottom on inclines, and are there to protect against a train rolling back. Whereas a set of Trap points protects against a wagon/loco running away from a yard or sidings. Hope this helps,
Excellent work can't wait to see the next video
Best how to model railway videos on the net bar none.
If you (Richard) or anyone else is looking for ideas on what a run down and neglected railway looks like! Then, look up oldskidmarks he works the stone and sand trains driving a class 59/66 ? and take a ride with him from Acton to St Pancras Churchyard vids 27 & 28 If you want to see line side shite and run down rails his two part video has it all in spades and lots lots more, as for you boy, well you did it again great work, well done! Also another UK Freight Train Driver the Southern Rambler he videos similar routes well worth a view for scenic inspiration thanks Richard
I can't wait to see the extra detailing on the shed! I'm looking to do a yard, parts of which will be overgrown, so I'll be keeping an eye on progress :)
Looking awesome. Enjoy your videos
Awesome job!!! Cheers Onno.
Nice job Richard good to see the shed back in use look forward to next one m8 from all at Tinsley tmd
I think you have just got me back in too the hobby cheers mate
Superb introduction with a pair of Class 47s
Fantastic job, looks awsome richard
I remember in the late 80's when we used the trains quite often there was a breakdown crane set parked up in a very overgrown siding that I would always look out the window to see. It'd be nice to see something like that or a couple of rotten locos on that disused siding?
Hooray! The shed is back!
another great video Richard thank you
Good to see you are using the carriage shed, would have been a shame to scrap it after all of the hard work. Despite the shed area adding more to the less is more layout, I think it’ll work well, especially all run down. Looking forward to more! 👍
Paul
Loving the new layout, can't wait for it to be finished!!
Nice to see this episode, and looking forward to the scenery work )
I just love these videos I just cant wait to watch when a new one comes up
lookin good you could also use the siding with the long shed for permanent way trains and wagons similar to the old dmu depot at reading
Excellent and tremendous inspiration for me on my more modest layout.
Superb, absolutely superb! Any chance of showing us a plan of your train track layout?
Can’t wait to watch this will watch on tv, you have a great channel 😃
I was wondering when you would put that shed to use!....Looks good...
I love your channel and you give me a lot of inspiration for my own layout and I always look forward to your video's
Keep up the good work!
I'vealways been interested in UK/EU layouts for two reasons A) LGB Trains, as we didn't have a lot of american stufff at the time and B) well I was raised on SHining TIme Staation/Thomas the Tank ENgine. ANd watching this entire layout rebuild, I'm for sure going to pick up a UK set to run on my layout, unrealistic or not ust because I"m blown away by everything you've done. Quite an inspiration in my opinion.
lovely video as always.
You are a genius, I'm waiting how for the next update, i worked the ECML in the 80s so looking forward to reliving my 1980s on your layout.
Great to see you adding a maintenance depot, will provide more varied train movements and nice contrast to back scene - look forward to seeing it develop. In the distant future do you plan to convert the main train storage yard to a main line station by replacing some of the lines with platforms + placing a station building above them?
Brilliant as usual, Richard. We definitely need more sped-up clips of the trains on various parts of the layout. That had such a strong 80's railway video feel about it. Maybe some screen effects to make it look like an old VCR tape!
What do you think about having a semi-embankment / semi-wall behind your carriage shed? I can almost picture that entire area full of rusted old wheels, DMU cab ends, engines and who knows what other parts being left to rot behind the shed. Some old dim yellow lamps and rusty chain link fence. Oh, and lots of old oil drums, of course!
Keep 'em coming mate.
Mike.
About BR not replacing track in yards. I remember that in the 1980s, a driver colleague of mine at Stratford TMD said that the sidings and roads around Willesden to Wembley had some sleeper chairs with LNWR on them.
I'm really out of the loop, what kind of connectors are those on the new Bachmann coaches at around the 10:03 ? I've not seen them before. The layout is coming along wonderfully, all those different levels and views look stunning!
They look like Bachmann "coach pipe" NEM couplers. Bachmann code 36-060 I think there are 4 per pack.