Wife joined me (we're mid 60s) as you peeled back the platform masking tape, "It's like Greenford Station". Said with excitement rather than tears (family tragedy there in late 1970s). Then the shops - "That's Ealing Broadway" said in time with you saying it. Essentially, you're evoking her life from early teens to early 20s. Thanks. Your social history approach to modelling where the trains provide moving interest to an environment is great for us. Modelling where the trains and their management is the main thing is less interesting for us. Brilliantly humorously intelligent, as always
Great update Richard. An important point for accuracy, is that with the Ladbrokes shop, you have to have a blank window, it was usually green, with no advertising on the window. The law well into the mid to late 90s was that you weren't able to see into a betting shop, and they weren't allowed to advertise on their windows, completely unlike the modern versions. The only indication of a betting shop was the name, like it would have had Ladbrokes licenced bookmakers over the shop, and the name of the shop manager over the door like pubs have. Looking great though, brings back memories with those shop names, don't forget a small independent pawn brokers on the opposite side of the street, and you could add a small private shop at the other end of the street, for a typical late 80s, early 90s feel lol. Keep up the good work, look forward to seeing how it progresses
This is amazing Phillip, I was a kid in the late 80s and early 90s and I’d forgotten all about this! I remember going past William Hill near me, the glass frontage was covered in blue paint with the odd picture of sport on it…every time we passed I’d ask my Dad what was in there…and he’d just say “betting shop…” and that was it… Such a smash of nostalgia when I read your comment.
Absolutely! I seem to remember my local bookies had those multicoloured plastic streamer things so they could leave the door open in the summer whilst not allowing a view inside.
@@planetpeckham1 Correct actually I think they had them up all the time. Doors were usually glass from what I can remember. With the plastic curtians behind them, (lots of cigarette smoke also came out when someone left the shop as well lol)
I don't want to say I audibly cheered when I saw this appear in my subscriptions feed, but I did. Can't wait to get into the video, it's always so much fun when you upload a new one. Your layout and your techniques never amazes to impress me, and I can only hope to ever reach your skill level.
I purposefully left the station alone as I improved my skills working on 'easier' parts of the layout. Never build the focal point of a layout first. You'll be disappointed with it as other parts of the layout surpass it.
If you can imagine yourself walking on those platforms, waiting for a train, getting on and enjoying the experience then I think this says how well the modeller has achieved the experience. I for one think I have stood on one of his stations at some point in my life. Just Fantastic and I am an engineer so I love all of the steps and processes.
At this stage I’d think you’re no longer a model railway builder/enthusiast…. You’re an artist in your field. The attention to detail and realising is incredible. Loving the new station ideas.
You, sir, are a master modeler! Many of us could never achieve the quality and detail as you have so aptly shown to us. You are an inspiration to those of us who dream of accomplishing something so grand.
Wow! As a child of the 70's that row of shops was a blast from the past! As I mentioned in a previous video, I love the authenticity of the cracked and broken paving, so realistic!
I am fascinated by the detail and realism you put into your layout. However watching this build come along I am learning about urban life in the UK during the late 80’s. I must say it is very different from my experience living in the Dallas, Texas Metro area. In the 80’s we were just starting to build a regional passenger rail and bus system. Dallas was the first large major city in the US to have long haul passenger rail service discontinued back in the early 70’s. However we did build large airports. The model for short haul regional airlines with hourly flights to cities within 500 miles began here. Our transportation system is freeways that we drive on in our big air conditioned cars and trucks. And yet it was a rail head that but Dallas on the map. So I am very intrigued by how the rail system has influenced the urban culture in the UK. Thanks for incorporating historical details in your layout.
Outside of London rail really has influenceD British cities, past tense! It's virtually useless for regular, reliable travel outside a handful of big cities. And even when visiting London I've had my fair share of comedy moments, drivers forgetting to stop where they're meant to, or else stopping and opening the doors while the station announcer frantically shouts "do not board! do not board!".
Oh yes, Bejams was such an 80s store. I'll also add that WH Smith always seemed to be the huge corporate newsagents, doublesized stores in key high street locations as opposed to all the smaller corner shop style independent paper shops. I said it before on an older video, but something people forget about the 80s was how ubiquitous cigarette advertising was. For billboards, nothing sums up the time period more than a giant poster for ciggies which hasn't been legal (or socially acceptable) for years now. All your little newsagents on the layout would be covered with ads for them too.
Well done. I often travelled the London area in my early years, and your layout invokes memories of my travels. Yes they are still looking dour in most parts of the region. Love the trains running around and they look very authentic. Great videos. Thanks for sharing. Magical.
Happy Shopper was a national chain, that sort of superceded 'VG', 'Waitrose', 'Mace' and 'Fine Fare' mini-markets/newsagents. Other 80's period small shop logo ideas might be: 'Woolworths', 'Richer Sounds' (HiFi chain), 'Dorothy Perkins', 'Rumbellows', 'Currey's, 'Athena', 'MFI', 'Do-It-All', 'Tandy', 'Kwik Save', 'John Menzies', 'Somerfield', 'Radio Shack', 'Dixon's', 'Redifusion', 'Comet', 'BHS', ... Just off the top of the head. Not forgetting the one shopping chain that has outlived them all... The brilliant and ubiquitous - 'Co-op'.... . Love that 'scenic break'... Potentially so authentic. Can't wait to see what happens with the 'road to heaven' though...(lol). Great work as always.
@ 34:30 I actually worked in that ‘building monstrosity’ you mentioned at Ealing Broadway station 44 years ago when it was BBC Television Enterprises and we produced all the foreign versions of BBC shows 🙂
Fantastic to see the new station ideas making progress. The brickwork looks superb as usual and I love seeing those old signs...as I am of a certain age 😉 Well done Richard, fantastic method for doing the platforms 😎👍
Of all the excellent work and new stuff you've added, and all the hard work, the one thing that stood out to me were the blinds in the windows. I have seen many blinds, but those looked very realistic and added so much to the windows already and you have not added interiors or lights. I guess I am easily amused, but those blinds really popped there. Anyhow, I wondered how much the heat got you. Joyce and I spent the month of June int he UK and left, just before the first real heat wave hit, but even 27 in York and London at the end of June felt really hot there.
Another triumph of modelling artistry, always look forward to your efforts. Having grown up in the 70's and 80's I thought I'd mention a few more shops that were popular, "Etams", ( teenager womens clothing), "Timothy Whites", "Mothercare", "Hepworths"(mens clothing), "Dixon's". Keep up the great work.
I'd love to see a clever bit of lighting installed under (and maybe even beyond) the scenic break to add to the illusion/illustration of the indoor part of the station. Never seen that on any layout yet.
Love the walk down memory high street, just a suggestion for another shop, Woolwoths and a shoe shop maybe, there was Freeman, Hardy & Willis or Stead & Simpson amongst others, also C&A was a popular clothes shop 😃
i dont know about everard ,richard i think this may evolve into everlasting junction .and that is a compliment not a complaint,long may your good work continue
I say it everytime. Wow!! Absolutely superb, Everard Junction update, cuppa, grab the biscuits, sit back and enjoy. Them shop fronts took me back to when I was a kid, so I guess I'm one of them blokes of a certain age too.😊. May I suggest a Woolworths, Co-Op or even a Wimpy. Funny how theres always a WH Smith's near a train station. Hopefully you can put a couple of Brutes on the platform with trainspotters sitting on them, that was a fairly common theme back in the day too. Thank you for sharing. Excellent.
Great work as usual, Richard. I've added some discarded lumber and newpapers to my layout recently. It makes the scene look more real, but it's hard for me to do as I'm an overly tidy person! You continue to inspire me with your work. Cheers from Wisconsin!
Awesome - Do you see this as a lifelong, ever evolving project or do you think that one day it will be done? The Class 37 at the end of the video looked real 👌
Given your efforts to light your coaches and locos, will you have lighting in the station? That murky concrete underpass is begging for some 1980s sodium lights!
When I saw the first part of the video I thought it looked like Ealing Broadway. A great representation of the area. Looking forward to see this progressing. A great video thanks for posting. Jeff
In addition to some good suggestions already made, perhaps a laundromat/dry cleaner and possibly a Chinese or Indian restaurant or takeaway and maybe an independent car spares shop or bicycle shop?
Looking good, many thanks for showing what you do. Regarding the shops on the other side of the street you should have a greengrocer and maybe a flower stall.
Supasnaps was a great shop for photos. And Our Price too, god that's a trip down memory lane. Bought my first ever vinyl single from there. Adam and the Ants 'Antmusic'
Happy Shopper wasn't a "newsagent" - it was like a brand of tat that were sold in many of these places - including in the Norf - old convenience stores etc. Like some shops may have had "The Sun" or various Tobacco products etc making up their signage
Lighting of dubious quality under the overpass to make it look a little less uninviting than total darkness lol...ideas for other shops - M&S, Woolies, C&A but be better off with full glazed double frontage. Had the former in my own town mid 80's M&S being in the ground/first floor of a 100-year old three-storey building they adapted, while Woolies had a 70s era two-storey building that had another occupant on the upper floor.
Brilliant!! Platforms varied as much as the places that rails run through, up and down through the country. Weeds as well as ivy are great at covering up joins as well as the old staff crossing steps built into the platform edges. I remember taking a short cut from one platform to another, but split my uniform trousers from crutch to belt up the back, one night and worked a whole shift with my winter coat on. I have worked on real platforms where they didn't pay as much attention as you did on yours. Next you'll be running a scrubbing train or sandite to help the tracks. I once when laying sandite, needed to pass two signals at danger ( 1 failed ), protecting a junction and a well known slipping point. Now i could only pass 1 signal at danger, but you have to lay sandite at 20 mph. I slipped down the embankment, but the next day after five trains had slipped, i was given dispensation to pass 2 signals at danger, which prevented other slips.
Great modelling, Richard. The grout platform surfaces look really nice. The track weathering is also superb. Amazingly, a handful of Happy Shopper branded stores remain, but most are now called Premier Stores. Thanks for some wonderful modelling!
Shop bought code 75 concrete sleeper from peco. I cut and re-spaced all the sleepers. Took me months to do but I'm pleased with the results. Glad you noticed, cheers!
That closing scene, shot from beneath the overbridge, is going to be very effective. With photography playing such an important role in E.J., I'm guessing there will be some detailing work under there in time.
Brilliantly done video! I really hope I can do a layout again in future. I'd a landscape oil painter, so I enjoy the technicalities of replicating effects and illusions! Some vertical strip blinds would look great in some of those windows as they were very popular back in the day (although I was born in '95) 😂
Another excellent video, the way in which you produce these are fantastic. Step by step, inspirational. The whole layout is. Looking forward to trying some of these platform construction myself. Can’t wait for the next instalment guide. Thank you. All best Marc
Excellent viewing. I followed your recommendation for Tajima1 bushes in an earlier video and have been very impressed with them, so thanks for the tip 👍🏻
Wonderful as always, so much useful information and all provided with am engaging video presentation! I am enjoying watching your layout grow & change; it serves as inspiration to get my finger out and get on with it...many thanks!!
At 54 years old, I know it's quite childish of me to go, "ohhhhhh!" when I hear the words "So I'm going to leave it there for this video........."! 🤣Never has 45mins rattled by so fast. As always, a great update Richard, many thanks. By the way, how much is the rent in one of those flats? 🤔
I might take you up on a rental... if the price is right. Mind you, we would have address the safety issue of that walkway with no banisters. Great work! I always love your work. Inspiring.
Terrific video as usual. It may be worth looking at Chandwell as he has done receding roadways on his back scene. Also Eric French did a great photo backscene for an over bridge. Keep up the good work.
Good work Richard, but if you add the questionable stains on the platform. Weeds and grass growing out of every crack, add smashed glass from various windows and bottles. Gutters leaking and mold/moss growing in damp areas. If you add these items to your model Richard, you will have a proper British Rail station of the 1980s. I nominate Wakefield Kirkgate as an example.
Brilliant work as always. Love those shop fronts which bring the memories flooding back. Everard's Our Price - a touch of class !!!! Very interested to see what Cricketmaker brings to the hobby. Thanks
Enjoyed the video as always. The new platforms are a massive improvement to the old ones! and that platform surface looks amazing. I might have to try using tile grout for when I do my station. Loving the scratch built row of shops as well. - Nicholas.
I was thinking about 80's shops and you have to have a Woolies and a Victor Value, which was bought out by Tesco in 1986. Even a small Tesco store would fit. Even more obscure was Huckleberry's Burger bar, which was like Wimpey. Actually, I have just remembered that Dad worked at Ealing Broadway for London Transport. This must have been back in the 70s though.
Some great progress you’ve made there. I’m intrigued how you plan to merge the lower level in front of the station with the upper level row of shops which you’ve started. A conundrum I’ve not managed to work out how to overcome myself just yet!
Your attention to detail is brilliant. You are like a set designer for some top class Hollywood movie but only better. Keep it up as it will only get better and better. However don’t let it it take over as I know it would with me.
I've had a thought about your shops and non having the roadway head into the clouds. How about rather than a road you have a small car park with other buildings at the end to hide the back scene.
You have the most beautiful layout I’ve ever seen. Love your bided brother.videos not bided. Don’t know why auto correct comes up work a word like bided. ???
Where do you get your concrete sleeper straight track work? I'm assuming that (as always) since you are in the UK, your gauge is OO? I'm STUCK with preferring 'S' gauge, where finding suppliers of GOOD STUFF (NOT Amer. Flyer) is like finding "Chicken Lips"!!! Your work, and attention to minutia has indeed produced excellent "Fruit", mate! Cheers Gb
Give my regards to Ealing Broadway! A pleasant surprise that you have been working on this over the hot period. I well remember Ealing Broadway station in the 1980s from childhood trips to London on the train. Don't forget that the main ("fast") lines would have had a yellow line and "keep back from the edge" signs as well as the white lines - introduced, I believe, when the HSTs came to the western region in 1976. I shall look forward to seeing how you do the modern waiting room on platforms 2/3 of Ealing Broadway, or the Everard Junction equivalent.
I'm looking forward to adding the lines as they really bring the platforms to life. Interesting about the yellow line. I know they were starting to be introduced but adding them to the fast lines only would provide a nice contrast to the station. Cheers for the info!
"SubaSnaps Richard back in the day 1984 -1987 I used to work at Lab in Northampton which by 1990s became Kodak. 14 years I worked there. Really enjoy your layout.
Great to see the scene above the station coming together, seeing the old shops from when I was a teenager was cool. Looking forward to seeing the finished scene.
I've never done any ballasting of track, as I don't have a layout, so speaking from a point of inexperience here, but I would think that powdered grout would have enough adhesive qualities that you would not need the PVA. Again, I don't know that though.
A small point of accuracy I'd like to add is that usually a Boots the chemist shop spanned two shop front lengths I think. I've never seen a single unit Boots or WH Smiths (lots of items inside) unless they have them in London. Maybe you could also include a Public house of your own devising and naming somewhere on the layout. Great work.
Just use a baby wipe to remove excess "mortar" before the paint dries. Looks awfully tedious using a tiny q-tip to remove paint from such a large area? Not to mention the chemicals you would be breathing in from using that solvent.
Ah man, loved all the new bits to this episode! I've been here a while but my brother just watched this episode with me. I regret to inform you that his summary was: "Everard sounds like a blue pill" 🤣
As you showed the shops and said you had talked to co-workers about old classics I said, there is no boots or our price Then you panned over... For a child of the 80s, it was like coming home :D
Wife joined me (we're mid 60s) as you peeled back the platform masking tape, "It's like Greenford Station". Said with excitement rather than tears (family tragedy there in late 1970s). Then the shops - "That's Ealing Broadway" said in time with you saying it. Essentially, you're evoking her life from early teens to early 20s. Thanks. Your social history approach to modelling where the trains provide moving interest to an environment is great for us. Modelling where the trains and their management is the main thing is less interesting for us. Brilliantly humorously intelligent, as always
Brilliant! Glad it brought back some memories, cheers!
I was a Driver at Reading for 19 years. This is like "I recognise that" .. And, Ah, that reminds me of.
Great update Richard. An important point for accuracy, is that with the Ladbrokes shop, you have to have a blank window, it was usually green, with no advertising on the window. The law well into the mid to late 90s was that you weren't able to see into a betting shop, and they weren't allowed to advertise on their windows, completely unlike the modern versions. The only indication of a betting shop was the name, like it would have had Ladbrokes licenced bookmakers over the shop, and the name of the shop manager over the door like pubs have.
Looking great though, brings back memories with those shop names, don't forget a small independent pawn brokers on the opposite side of the street, and you could add a small private shop at the other end of the street, for a typical late 80s, early 90s feel lol.
Keep up the good work, look forward to seeing how it progresses
Excellent info. I'd have never of known that, cheers!
This is amazing Phillip, I was a kid in the late 80s and early 90s and I’d forgotten all about this! I remember going past William Hill near me, the glass frontage was covered in blue paint with the odd picture of sport on it…every time we passed I’d ask my Dad what was in there…and he’d just say “betting shop…” and that was it…
Such a smash of nostalgia when I read your comment.
Absolutely! I seem to remember my local bookies had those multicoloured plastic streamer things so they could leave the door open in the summer whilst not allowing a view inside.
@@planetpeckham1 Correct actually I think they had them up all the time. Doors were usually glass from what I can remember. With the plastic curtians behind them, (lots of cigarette smoke also came out when someone left the shop as well lol)
@@bryemycaz haha! Spot on! Plus lots of screwed up betting slips littering the pavement outside!
I don't want to say I audibly cheered when I saw this appear in my subscriptions feed, but I did. Can't wait to get into the video, it's always so much fun when you upload a new one. Your layout and your techniques never amazes to impress me, and I can only hope to ever reach your skill level.
I’ve been waiting for a station video for like 2 years. Finally!!!!!!!!
I purposefully left the station alone as I improved my skills working on 'easier' parts of the layout. Never build the focal point of a layout first. You'll be disappointed with it as other parts of the layout surpass it.
If you can imagine yourself walking on those platforms, waiting for a train, getting on and enjoying the experience then I think this says how well the modeller has achieved the experience. I for one think I have stood on one of his stations at some point in my life. Just Fantastic and I am an engineer so I love all of the steps and processes.
Invent us all a shrinking machine and you’d be a £zillionaire overnight 😆👍
When you do the other shops you must have a Wimpey cafe 👍
At this stage I’d think you’re no longer a model railway builder/enthusiast…. You’re an artist in your field. The attention to detail and realising is incredible. Loving the new station ideas.
You, sir, are a master modeler! Many of us could never achieve the quality and detail as you have so aptly shown to us. You are an inspiration to those of us who dream of accomplishing something so grand.
Wow! As a child of the 70's that row of shops was a blast from the past! As I mentioned in a previous video, I love the authenticity of the cracked and broken paving, so realistic!
I'm also a child of the 70s and I love how evocative of my childhood environment this is.
@James Hodson I never quite understood why people would get to a rail station and suddenly need ties and socks.
Those final shots from inside the station tunnel looking out onto the platforms were perfection! glad to see the station coming along nicely!
I am fascinated by the detail and realism you put into your layout. However watching this build come along I am learning about urban life in the UK during the late 80’s. I must say it is very different from my experience living in the Dallas, Texas Metro area. In the 80’s we were just starting to build a regional passenger rail and bus system. Dallas was the first large major city in the US to have long haul passenger rail service discontinued back in the early 70’s. However we did build large airports. The model for short haul regional airlines with hourly flights to cities within 500 miles began here. Our transportation system is freeways that we drive on in our big air conditioned cars and trucks. And yet it was a rail head that but Dallas on the map. So I am very intrigued by how the rail system has influenced the urban culture in the UK. Thanks for incorporating historical details in your layout.
Hey Jack. Thanks for the past history lesson of your part of town mate 🙂👍
Outside of London rail really has influenceD British cities, past tense! It's virtually useless for regular, reliable travel outside a handful of big cities. And even when visiting London I've had my fair share of comedy moments, drivers forgetting to stop where they're meant to, or else stopping and opening the doors while the station announcer frantically shouts "do not board! do not board!".
Love the platforms and shop fronts.
Bejams which is now Iceland, Safeway which is now Morrisons or Woolworths would be good brands for a double store.
Oh yes, Bejams was such an 80s store. I'll also add that WH Smith always seemed to be the huge corporate newsagents, doublesized stores in key high street locations as opposed to all the smaller corner shop style independent paper shops.
I said it before on an older video, but something people forget about the 80s was how ubiquitous cigarette advertising was. For billboards, nothing sums up the time period more than a giant poster for ciggies which hasn't been legal (or socially acceptable) for years now. All your little newsagents on the layout would be covered with ads for them too.
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There was also Gateway which had some shops, later to become Somerfields.
@@bryemycaz that’s a great shout, I see your Gateway and raise you International!
@@TheHongKongHermit Can't wait for things to get better and Lambert and Butler ads to be all over towns again, those were always good.
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WOW FROM CANADA Awesome work TOP NOCTH GREAT VIDEO AND DEATIALSTHX.😊😊😊👍👍
will the shops have street numbers on them? Used to see them in a bottom corner of the name panel
Well done. I often travelled the London area in my early years, and your layout invokes memories of my travels. Yes they are still looking dour in most parts of the region. Love the trains running around and they look very authentic. Great videos. Thanks for sharing. Magical.
Happy Shopper was a national chain, that sort of superceded 'VG', 'Waitrose', 'Mace' and 'Fine Fare' mini-markets/newsagents.
Other 80's period small shop logo ideas might be: 'Woolworths', 'Richer Sounds' (HiFi chain), 'Dorothy Perkins', 'Rumbellows', 'Currey's, 'Athena', 'MFI', 'Do-It-All', 'Tandy', 'Kwik Save', 'John Menzies', 'Somerfield', 'Radio Shack', 'Dixon's', 'Redifusion', 'Comet', 'BHS', ... Just off the top of the head. Not forgetting the one shopping chain that has outlived them all... The brilliant and ubiquitous - 'Co-op'....
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Love that 'scenic break'... Potentially so authentic. Can't wait to see what happens with the 'road to heaven' though...(lol). Great work as always.
Still watching and still fascinated by your progress. The shopping building and the progress around the plattfoms is really wonderful.
@ 34:30 I actually worked in that ‘building monstrosity’ you mentioned at Ealing Broadway station 44 years ago when it was BBC Television Enterprises and we produced all the foreign versions of BBC shows 🙂
Fantastic to see the new station ideas making progress. The brickwork looks superb as usual and I love seeing those old signs...as I am of a certain age 😉
Well done Richard, fantastic method for doing the platforms 😎👍
Of all the excellent work and new stuff you've added, and all the hard work, the one thing that stood out to me were the blinds in the windows. I have seen many blinds, but those looked very realistic and added so much to the windows already and you have not added interiors or lights. I guess I am easily amused, but those blinds really popped there. Anyhow, I wondered how much the heat got you. Joyce and I spent the month of June int he UK and left, just before the first real heat wave hit, but even 27 in York and London at the end of June felt really hot there.
Enjoyed the build update.👍 You've made some amazing progress considering the hot weather lately. The station is looking great. Regards Graham 👍😀🚂
Another triumph of modelling artistry, always look forward to your efforts. Having grown up in the 70's and 80's I thought I'd mention a few more shops that were popular, "Etams", ( teenager womens clothing), "Timothy Whites", "Mothercare", "Hepworths"(mens clothing), "Dixon's". Keep up the great work.
When you have finished this part it's going to be so brilliant I'm sure. Amazing realism.
Many many hours to go but I'm really liking this scene. Cheers
Should've used a paint roller without the fluffy part on the grout.
I'd love to see a clever bit of lighting installed under (and maybe even beyond) the scenic break to add to the illusion/illustration of the indoor part of the station. Never seen that on any layout yet.
Love the walk down memory high street, just a suggestion for another shop, Woolwoths and a shoe shop maybe, there was Freeman, Hardy & Willis or Stead & Simpson amongst others, also C&A was a popular clothes shop 😃
i dont know about everard ,richard i think this may evolve into everlasting junction .and that is a compliment not a complaint,long may your good work continue
I say it everytime. Wow!! Absolutely superb, Everard Junction update, cuppa, grab the biscuits, sit back and enjoy. Them shop fronts took me back to when I was a kid, so I guess I'm one of them blokes of a certain age too.😊. May I suggest a Woolworths, Co-Op or even a Wimpy. Funny how theres always a WH Smith's near a train station. Hopefully you can put a couple of Brutes on the platform with trainspotters sitting on them, that was a fairly common theme back in the day too. Thank you for sharing. Excellent.
Agree with a Wimpy, McDonalds were around but not in the numbers they are now. A Chippy would also be very close to a station.
Great work as usual, Richard. I've added some discarded lumber and newpapers to my layout recently. It makes the scene look more real, but it's hard for me to do as I'm an overly tidy person! You continue to inspire me with your work. Cheers from Wisconsin!
Another great update Richard looks fantastic awaiting the next
Awesome - Do you see this as a lifelong, ever evolving project or do you think that one day it will be done? The Class 37 at the end of the video looked real 👌
My basic traction.. Fond memories.
If he can’t complete this there is no hope for us older ones. Richard is a lot younger than his voice and expertise suggest. 😀😀
Given your efforts to light your coaches and locos, will you have lighting in the station? That murky concrete underpass is begging for some 1980s sodium lights!
That is the plan, plenty of dim lighting for the buildings and platforms.
When I saw the first part of the video I thought it looked like Ealing Broadway. A great representation of the area. Looking forward to see this progressing. A great video thanks for posting. Jeff
Better than the real..this looks just perfect ... great work .. Salutations de france
*Never* clicked on a video so quickly... Always excellent.
Yessssss made my Sunday, never clicked so fast.
And it was only the other day when I was wondering when the next layout update would be!
In addition to some good suggestions already made, perhaps a laundromat/dry cleaner and possibly a Chinese or Indian restaurant or takeaway and
maybe an independent car spares shop or bicycle shop?
Have a great new week! ✔✔
Looking good, many thanks for showing what you do. Regarding the shops on the other side of the street you should have a greengrocer and maybe a flower stall.
For the ballast it is worth checking out the Bexhill West channel. He's come up with a very interesting ballast spreader and tidying device.
Watching trains while on the train. This my journey sorted 🙌🏻
Supasnaps was a great shop for photos.
And Our Price too, god that's a trip down memory lane. Bought my first ever vinyl single from there.
Adam and the Ants 'Antmusic'
Happy Shopper wasn't a "newsagent" - it was like a brand of tat that were sold in many of these places - including in the Norf - old convenience stores etc. Like some shops may have had "The Sun" or various Tobacco products etc making up their signage
Lighting of dubious quality under the overpass to make it look a little less uninviting than total darkness lol...ideas for other shops - M&S, Woolies, C&A but be better off with full glazed double frontage. Had the former in my own town mid 80's M&S being in the ground/first floor of a 100-year old three-storey building they adapted, while Woolies had a 70s era two-storey building that had another occupant on the upper floor.
Great video. Glad you posted something new as its been a bit. I've learned so much from you 'how to' videos. Thanks again.
Brilliant!! Platforms varied as much as the places that rails run through, up and down through the country. Weeds as well as ivy are great at covering up joins as well as the old staff crossing steps built into the platform edges. I remember taking a short cut from one platform to another, but split my uniform trousers from crutch to belt up the back, one night and worked a whole shift with my winter coat on. I have worked on real platforms where they didn't pay as much attention as you did on yours. Next you'll be running a scrubbing train or sandite to help the tracks. I once when laying sandite, needed to pass two signals at danger ( 1 failed ), protecting a junction and a well known slipping point. Now i could only pass 1 signal at danger, but you have to lay sandite at 20 mph. I slipped down the embankment, but the next day after five trains had slipped, i was given dispensation to pass 2 signals at danger, which prevented other slips.
Great modelling, Richard. The grout platform surfaces look really nice. The track weathering is also superb. Amazingly, a handful of Happy Shopper branded stores remain, but most are now called Premier Stores. Thanks for some wonderful modelling!
Gotta ask about your trackwork...is it shop bought or have you built it yourself ? I ask as it looks superb and the sleeper spacing looks correct.👍
Shop bought code 75 concrete sleeper from peco. I cut and re-spaced all the sleepers. Took me months to do but I'm pleased with the results. Glad you noticed, cheers!
That closing scene, shot from beneath the overbridge, is going to be very effective. With photography playing such an important role in E.J., I'm guessing there will be some detailing work under there in time.
Brilliantly done video! I really hope I can do a layout again in future. I'd a landscape oil painter, so I enjoy the technicalities of replicating effects and illusions! Some vertical strip blinds would look great in some of those windows as they were very popular back in the day (although I was born in '95) 😂
Another excellent video, the way in which you produce these are fantastic. Step by step, inspirational. The whole layout is. Looking forward to trying some of these platform construction myself. Can’t wait for the next instalment guide. Thank you. All best Marc
I remember en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatties_of_London in the 80's, used to buy alot of modelrailway stuff from the branch that used to be in Reading.
That's a great idea! I loved Beatties, the one near to where I live had an upstairs section full of model railway stuff
Excellent viewing. I followed your recommendation for Tajima1 bushes in an earlier video and have been very impressed with them, so thanks for the tip 👍🏻
Very nice to see the progress!! Maybe there is a place for a Wimpy's?
Wonderful as always, so much useful information and all provided with am engaging video presentation! I am enjoying watching your layout grow & change; it serves as inspiration to get my finger out and get on with it...many thanks!!
A WONDERFUL VIDEO. Brilliant job many, thanks, to all at Everard railway, many thanks 🤩
Nicely done
At 54 years old, I know it's quite childish of me to go, "ohhhhhh!" when I hear the words "So I'm going to leave it there for this video........."! 🤣Never has 45mins rattled by so fast. As always, a great update Richard, many thanks. By the way, how much is the rent in one of those flats? 🤔
I might take you up on a rental... if the price is right. Mind you, we would have address the safety issue of that walkway with no banisters. Great work! I always love your work. Inspiring.
Terrific video as usual. It may be worth looking at Chandwell as he has done receding roadways on his back scene. Also Eric French did a great photo backscene for an over bridge.
Keep up the good work.
Genuine question, what is more satisfying…
Watching glue/water mix soak in to ballast or watching a mortar wash spread through the mortar lines?!
Good work Richard, but if you add the questionable stains on the platform. Weeds and grass growing out of every crack, add smashed glass from various windows and bottles. Gutters leaking and mold/moss growing in damp areas. If you add these items to your model Richard, you will have a proper British Rail station of the 1980s. I nominate Wakefield Kirkgate as an example.
That's roughly where I'm headed. Very clean and tidy at the moment, lot of grime to add. Cheers
Brilliant work as always. Love those shop fronts which bring the memories flooding back. Everard's Our Price - a touch of class !!!!
Very interested to see what Cricketmaker brings to the hobby.
Thanks
I’m struggling with platform width/depth. How deep are your platforms? 10cm, more? Thanks!
Enjoyed the video as always. The new platforms are a massive improvement to the old ones! and that platform surface looks amazing. I might have to try using tile grout for when I do my station. Loving the scratch built row of shops as well. - Nicholas.
I may well be interested in renting a flat
Another fantastic update Rich! Really love seeing this layout come together. That station looks gorgeous!
Again I marvel at your complete attention to detail. Perfection is always your goal. Thank you 😊
I was thinking about 80's shops and you have to have a Woolies and a Victor Value, which was bought out by Tesco in 1986. Even a small Tesco store would fit. Even more obscure was Huckleberry's Burger bar, which was like Wimpey. Actually, I have just remembered that Dad worked at Ealing Broadway for London Transport. This must have been back in the 70s though.
I feel like It’s a real town or city and I would live there happily 🏴
Radio Rentals used to have a nice own brand blank VHS tape. Often stacked to one side of the window display.
Some great progress you’ve made there. I’m intrigued how you plan to merge the lower level in front of the station with the upper level row of shops which you’ve started. A conundrum I’ve not managed to work out how to overcome myself just yet!
idea.
for the high street, a row of facia shops at the end and a shorter row on the other side to allow the road to bend
Your attention to detail is brilliant. You are like a set designer for some top class Hollywood movie but only better. Keep it up as it will only get better and better. However don’t let it it take over as I know it would with me.
Happy shopper was a corner shop, happy shoper, was a brand used by Booker cash and carrry. Wholesale, terrible brand
Fantastic update & great to hear DYE-O bloom. I take it you like deep house? I recommend checking out Marsh & Braxton for some great music! ☺
I've had a thought about your shops and non having the roadway head into the clouds.
How about rather than a road you have a small car park with other buildings at the end to hide the back scene.
You should do a tribute to Hornby pitchman Bernard Cribbins next time.
You have the most beautiful layout I’ve ever seen. Love your bided brother.videos not bided. Don’t know why auto correct comes up work a word like bided. ???
Freeman, Hardy and Willis….. shoe shop
Our Price…. Record shop
The Jolly Fisherman… fish and chips
Ritz Toys….
1980s Welwyn Garden City
Yet again another very realistic build, if you look hard enough you can see the clouds move, well done 👍
That’s a good picture of Chippenham, The scenics have certainly changed a lot since then.
I think the video warrants a like, solely on the efficiency trimming the excess on the brick work !
Brilliant as always.
I worked on the railway throughout the 80s and your work takes me back to that time, great memories, thanks
Where do you get your concrete sleeper straight track work? I'm assuming that (as always) since you are in the UK, your gauge is OO? I'm STUCK with preferring 'S' gauge, where finding suppliers of GOOD STUFF (NOT Amer. Flyer) is like finding "Chicken Lips"!!! Your work, and attention to minutia has indeed produced excellent "Fruit", mate! Cheers Gb
Give my regards to Ealing Broadway!
A pleasant surprise that you have been working on this over the hot period. I well remember Ealing Broadway station in the 1980s from childhood trips to London on the train. Don't forget that the main ("fast") lines would have had a yellow line and "keep back from the edge" signs as well as the white lines - introduced, I believe, when the HSTs came to the western region in 1976.
I shall look forward to seeing how you do the modern waiting room on platforms 2/3 of Ealing Broadway, or the Everard Junction equivalent.
I'm looking forward to adding the lines as they really bring the platforms to life. Interesting about the yellow line. I know they were starting to be introduced but adding them to the fast lines only would provide a nice contrast to the station. Cheers for the info!
"SubaSnaps Richard back in the day 1984 -1987 I used to work at Lab in Northampton which by 1990s became Kodak. 14 years I worked there. Really enjoy your layout.
Looking good Richard, don't forget, good old Woolworths !!
Hi Richard, looking to purchase some of these slabs. I see products 23096 and 23097; did you mix them for the final effect? Thanks! 👍😎
Great to see the scene above the station coming together, seeing the old shops from when I was a teenager was cool. Looking forward to seeing the finished scene.
I've never done any ballasting of track, as I don't have a layout, so speaking from a point of inexperience here, but I would think that powdered grout would have enough adhesive qualities that you would not need the PVA. Again, I don't know that though.
A small point of accuracy I'd like to add is that usually a Boots the chemist shop spanned two shop front lengths I think. I've never seen a single unit Boots or WH Smiths (lots of items inside) unless they have them in London. Maybe you could also include a Public house of your own devising and naming somewhere on the layout. Great work.
Maybe you should install some Magnorail in the lower section of the station area.
Just use a baby wipe to remove excess "mortar" before the paint dries. Looks awfully tedious using a tiny q-tip to remove paint from such a large area? Not to mention the chemicals you would be breathing in from using that solvent.
Very cool and the layout is coming on well. Take care - Kevin
Wow, didn't realise you were so young! Amazing video and work as always. One of my favourite RUclips channels for sure 😊
The platform edges are called coping stones not paving slabs.
Pedantry I know, but I know you do like those details.
Ah man, loved all the new bits to this episode!
I've been here a while but my brother just watched this episode with me. I regret to inform you that his summary was:
"Everard sounds like a blue pill" 🤣
As you showed the shops and said you had talked to co-workers about old classics I said, there is no boots or our price
Then you panned over...
For a child of the 80s, it was like coming home :D