New Layout Build - Track changes to the branch line
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- I'm back at work on the layout itself after completing various rolling stock projects. Over the past week I've focused on making some significant changes to the branch line. I was never satisfied with the branch on that side of layout. Despite the visual issues and contrived appearance it also had a number of operational issues.
Link to my original setup in case you missed it. • New Layout Build - Bra...
I've fixed most of the problems to the best I can with the available space. Much happier with the appearance now. I've just started the process of adding scenery to the area and hope to provide an update in about another week or so. Cheers
This one was quite tricky to film due to the nature of the work and the small space to work in. It wasn’t practical to film most of the carpentry or electrics for various reasons. I hope you’ll excuse the vlog nature of this particular video. Scenery has just been started today and I hope to return to the usual format in the next video. As always thanks for watching. I hope to have the next one ready in about a week. Cheers
Will you be uploading more cause of lockdown
@@poler_games I'm at home so will be making the best of it and progressing with the layout.
Thinking that the "old route" could be transformed into a road and or stream/canal under the mainline...
Looking good look forward to seeing the Scenics’s coming along
You've made a commitment to the frog juicers already on your layout. But if you had it to do over, would you use "keep alive" capacitor units in your units to pass over the dead frogs, or go with the juicers again. I'm wondering if keep alive fitted units would work better for less, or if the juicers are less expensive and/or work better.
BTW, the new branch reverse curves look a lot better.
Scientists say people are happier when Everard Junction videos appear in their notifications
Went right back to the unboxing of this futuristic piece of work:
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And yes, people are shurely happier with this videos. Well, at least, i am. What makes Mr E. Junction (i once called him that...) such a success? I suggested here that it may be because his videos are about the modelling. Mr. R. does not want, as so many out there, to be the star of his own videos. His talent and inconspicuousness makes him the best producer of railway videos, as numbers clearly show, in views and "likes". Mr. R. is a celebrity, despite of himself. And i mean celebrity in a good way, as someone who is admired for talent and deeds, not in the tv stuff meaning.
Eight out of ten cat owners who expressed an opinion said their cats had to wait an extra hour to be fed when Everard Junction posts a new video.
As a scientist, I can attest to this.
There aren't a lot of youtubers that make me stop watching other videos and immediately click on their videos but when you see Everard Junction with a new video, its impossible not to click straight away!
Cant wait till "about 1974"!
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Grab the popcorn sit back and relax and be amazed by Everard Junction 👍
that ATP-E sounds amazing! sounds like what I imagine the 70's thought the future would sound like. Sounds like no other train I've ever heard before.
Each power car had four Rover gas turbines. Must have been quite a noise when it was running in the 70s. Cheers
@@EverardJunction It certainly was I heard it pass Hendon Police College whilst on a course there. Also visually a very pleasing train.
@@EverardJunction I was all ready to start collecting when I saw that train, then I saw your other video and realised they only made a limited run. Do things like this ever get other production runs?
@@Kmwildride I don't think there are currently any plans to rerun. They do pop up on ebay sometimes but fetch mad sky high prices.
Sounded like some SPACE: 1999 sound effect. Thought I saw Barbara Bain in the train too.
The opening sound byte just took me back to the "Mindless Optimism" commentaries that you used to hear on the Look at Life films of the sixties. The music just nailed it too.
I appreciate your logic in your decision making. Everything from your reasons for soldering to the outside of the track rails for hidden trackwork, to the use of code 100, to the switching and display panel. Very impressive.
I will attempt to incorporate your methods as I go forward with my layout. Very nice layout and video! Thanks
Lovely S bend with the elevation, can't wait to see the scenery built up in that area.
Love the Intro to Everard Junction with the APT just fantastic, thanks for a great video too.
i would like to thank you for being the person who has influenced my model making by getting me interested in making dioramas, or i guess scenery like what you make, I've been watching your videos since your first set and have been inspired.
The opening black & white frames were smashing to say the least. You sir are spectacularly brilliant and inspirational. Thank you for your beyond fine work!
Thank you for the time you’ve spent on the videos during this difficult time. Looking good. I’d go for a rolling hillside and perhaps a small river around the branch line.
And perhaps a sewage works in that odd corner left over from the earlier branch line set up.
Again, hurrah and thanks!
I would love to see a return of the old country pub in the old shunting area. Thanks Richard, great explanation of the electrical work needed for the storage area.
The soldering from 11 minutes forward was so satisfying to watch ❤️❤️
Excellent video as always.
This takes me back to when I was younger and had a big layout in my bedroom I collected and built over many years.
I'd be tempted to add a reversing loop to the Sidings you just constructed, going under the main layout. Everyone's a critic.
Great stuff Richard! You're right, the branch looks much better now. As for the intro, wow! Took me back to the summer holidays 1975, watching the APT-E on trials passing through Sonning Cutting!
Fantastic! Man, I left for a bit, came back to check out your videos, and there has been so many changes and so much progress. Very cool! Inspiring work for sure.
Another interesting vlog showing progress on the layout. I did enjoy the intro with the over dub from a Pathe newsreel.
I think if I ever get around to building my own layout, it is the points and signalling I would look forward to the most, so this really helps.
Redesgning your branch made a lot of sense and had taught me a few things why it had to be done. Im in the process of designing my new layout and im not rushing it.
I think the longer scenic section will give you a lot more scope and it gives a more natural look. Really look forward to seeing what you do with the overall scene! Loved the intro! Joe
Loved the opening Pathe News reel mate! JohnE
Thanks Richard ... I love seeing that you have a new video out.
I will be starting my very first 1980’s era Irish Rail layout soon.
Thnx for the inspiration
at first i could not tell where the track was going at the start of the video but when you showed the new fiddle yard it made a whole lot clearer where the trains go.
As good as you are modeling your layout I am a little disappointed you did not put a lock in the canal scene. It has been 20 years since my trip across the pond for 3 weeks in England featuring a week on the Shropshire. It is still one of my best holidays ever.
If your model is set in 1988, you need a Hornby mallard. It ran a few rail tours I believe would be nice to go with the hall. I know steam is not something you really focus on but seeing an A4 fly by on this layout would be exhilarating.
Hi Richard. Some more smashing progress going on 👍. I do love the sound of the APT-E, it just stands out wonderfully! Can't wait to see this side of the layout with its scenery, you always make a fantastic job 👌🙂. Stay safe mate, GWR
Some great adjustments made and the moving of the fiddle yard is going to give a much better experience especially access. It’s all looking really good. All the best, Clint
I would be hopelessly overcome with the temptation to put in a removable terminus scene where that fiddle yard is.... Unnecessary complications, as you say less is more!
Another fantastic video Rich. Always a pleasure watching your updates, especially during this lockdown. Very much looking forward to building my loft layout which will be inspired by yours.
Loved the intro! Was waiting to see the Thunderbirds!
I would add the leg otherwise someone will sit or rest themselves on the edge and break it - Sods law etc.
Fantastic very exciting new branch line, I'm in no hurry to see the layout finished, I enjoy the process of watching the building of it bit by bit.
Thanks Everard great content already watching out for your next post.
Superb as always. I always pick up some useful information and helpful tips with each one of your videos; thank you! I also enjoy watching your layout grow and improve, great work!!
Just an idea, but how about making your abandoned bridge a Beeching legacy feature when doing the scenery? A defunct branch line with overgrown track bed or an old entrance to a goods yard that has since been redeveloped, might open up some opportunities for some scenic dilapidation. It might show how the industrial landscape has changed. I'm thinking of the part coming into Reading from Waterloo, where there was a spur that passed under the main Paddington lines, for a bit of inspo. A pretty scruffy area back in the NSE era.
I'm going to play with some disused elements if I have the space. There isn't very much room to play with so I may settle on a disused bit alongside the branch. Cheers
This video has highlighted so many issues with my layout plans
Magnificent, Richard, thank-you!
What a gem to us all you are!
Very best wishes,
John
Nervous about things ? Those look like nails they have been gnawed! Seriously great video, love the changes and the layout as a whole. I hope you and your family are keeping well in these crazy times.
I feel like an electrical expert now. I'm going to re-wire the house. Excellent video yet again!
I'm no electrician but I do enjoy messing about with a few wires, 12V or course! Glad you enjoyed it, cheers
@@EverardJunction You know far more than I ever will, you seem to be proficient at numerous things, very impressive
I'm like Richard; I love messing about with layout wiring. At a push, I'll even have a go at car wiring, on nice, simple, old cars. The beauty of 12v is: mistakes don't kill you !! 😁 They can produce some interesting smells though.
Evening Richard hope your keeping safe and by the look at your latest video you are lol 😂 Thanks too you Charlie Bishop Dave class 47 and others I've started working on my model railway in my garage after being furloughed from work 🙄 You give great instructions on what your doing and I especially take some good tips from what your doing 👍🏻 Keep safe and looking forward to seeing the next Everard junction 😄 Cheers Stevie 😎
Fantastic cinematography on this one, especially in the beginning.
Great work as usual Richard. I’m a chippy and and your works ok bud. Very practical use of materials. Look forward to catching up hopefully at MK in October like last year, Nick and George.
That is a lot better - much prefer it. Lots of fun to be had with the scenics there now.
If it were me, I’d already be toying with the idea of what that small section of the fiddle yard could become, perhaps a small terminus? Would certainly add some operational interest, not that you need some but does give some closure to the branch line.
Great intro. Thank you for the update. I believe you will be better off and happier in the long run now.
BRILLIANT intro !! I've only watched that much so far, I'll get to the rest later, this vid definitely a keeper on the basis of the intro alone.
Love the opening scene
your videos are always enjoyable I love what you’ve done to the branch line it looks more natural now
it would be great if you can explain the juicers when you install them as been told I might need them for my scissor crossing I’m building
Keep up the amazing work stay safe and stay healthy 👍🏻😊
Nice work Richard on the branch line looks a lot better with the storage yard and the control panel loving the new intro
great intro to the video. i'm guessing that the shot of stock leaving the fiddle yard will feature quite a bit in subsequent videos. Have you any plans to darken down the inside of the Tunnel interior so that the interior stock lighting shows up even more ?? fabulous rebuild your doing a great job.
You make soldering so easy :) glad though I followed your example of putting droppers on every piece of track!!
Just a suggestion Richard, The area that had the carriage shed that as gone since you re-did the branch line could be replaced with a mill and canal. The canal could enter from a tunnel which disappears under the branch at one end and into a tunnel under the fiddle yard at the other.
That's brilliant, very neat work and great explanations.
If you're ever looking to fill a space on a branch line how about the remains of a disused station, a victim of Beeching, with the platform in place and a boarded up building or two?
That intro though 😍😍😍
Absolutely brilliant Richard it does look load's better now I'm looking forward to seeing do the scenic side's of things. Take care and stay safe kind regards Gary leicestertmd 👍😉
I’m surprised you decided to make a siding/yard. I would have thought about a branch line terminal station. Something small, nothing fancy, but gives the branch line a bigger purpose.
I like the changes. That control panel is my kind of panel, simple and working. Great work. Thanks for sharing.
A former junction with abandoned track bed would probably be a nice feature
Another great video Richard ... like the changes you have made . Keep safe
Love the intro!
Well done Richard and again an awesome video. Your attention to detail is excellent/ Thank you Kevin NZ
You should section off the main lines and do the same with the track power indicators around the layout so that your able to isolation section so you can work on areas of the layout with the other lines still able to run, plus it will help with troubleshooting power issues in the future, a bit of future proofing on the layout
Nice new version Richard it looks so much better. Thoroughly enjoyed watching, as always. Thank you. Cheers Iain
Ho richard
I prefer the version of the branch line and love what you did with control panel you made.
I was wondering did you get the gaugemaster frog juicers if so can we have a follow up video on them and the control panel etc.
Peter from Birmingham
Excellent video. Suggestion for the point LEDs: if you wire the outputs from the switches on the three way point to the inputs on the switches on the other points, you could just have one LED per siding which would light up when all the points were set to that siding, and otherwise be off. So there would only ever be one light on to make it easier to see which siding the points were set to.
This is why you’re better than most standard modellers, you’re not afraid to admit to your mistakes and cut your losses to make it more like how you want. Too many of us plough on compounding our errors...
Also, how many point motors could you power from that power supply?
Thanks, I try to sort stuff I'm not happy with before it's too late. I didn't do any scenery on that side because I knew that yard was coming out.
You could power loads of points from the CDC. As you often only operate one or two at a time it doesn't really matter how many are connected.
Amazing video Everard always watching your videos
Much better arrangement - can get to the units much better - loks more realistic too. Well done.
I genuinely think you should just make a video of these intros. They're brilliant.
Great video. I do hope you manage to find a use for your excellent carriage shed though.
wish l had your knowledge on electronics Richard ,you keep saying its quiet simple to me it aint, your an inspiration always look forward to your next video....
It’s been awhile since I’ve watched your videos so I apologize in advance if you’ve done this. For the control panel you can use a piece of lexan plexi. Drill your holes, no worries of cracking or splitting with lexan. Paint the backside black and it will looks clean. When I do watch your channel, your videos are excellent, thank you for taking the time to make them!
Thank you for your video! Best regards from France
Quite simply, great stuff Richard, keep it up!
Best way to spend an evening - always look forward to your videos and great to see the layout developing!
Nice work Richard. I sold my APT-E on (for the price I paid) to a friend. I found that it was just too dominating and became out of place. A bit like owning Flying Scotsman or Hogwart’s Express!
It is rather dominating isn't it. I don't run mine often as it's way out of era. I don't use the sound either, very noisy! Cheers
Great correction to a difficult area, reminds me of the duct under lines at the soon to be old Euston
love this kind of thing, want to make scenesand railways like this myself, unfortunatly just no room for it!
That APT sounded like it was either going take off at mach 5 or blow up! Can you imagine what they would have sounded like in a covered station?
Great video Richard really likes that APT advert the branch line is looking great
Looks very nice,
glad you've done away with the depot as it did look a bit contrived. I think for an industry you should go for something with a large tall building, maybe a dairy of some sort?
The old sidings looked better than what scenery will.
those switch machines are nice, do you have a video on how to make them, or what products you use?
Great video. Really enjoyed the intros the last couple of videos.
You're right to rework it, nothing's worse than getting stuck with something you're not happy with because of the sunk cost fallacy. Wood is cheap, rip it out and replace it if you're not happy with it! It's amazing how many modellers refuse to take that leap. Nice work, it'll be a great scene.
Interesting. The four track station with the single line branch reminds me a little of Slough with the Windsor branch.
My home town. Windsor that is, not Slough 😂
@@anonymoususer502 I grew up (in the 1980s) very near Slough/Windsor.
Hi Richard.
Another excellent video. You have a most interesting back catalogue of videos.
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Another fantastic Video!Wiring scares the hell out of me and im at the early stages of building my layout but i have loads of insurfrog points and dont want to buy electrofrog ones if i can help it!Any suggestions on the best way to use insurefrog points for dcc?hints,tips would be great!Find your goodself , Deanpark and New junction great role models in this underated wonderful hobby!I still to this date still get called the Fat controller just because i enjoy this hobby!Never gets old.Look forward to the next vid!
For insulfrog points the best thing to do is solder jumper wires between the stock rails and the point blades. Then you don't rely on the blades touching the rail to make a good connection.
Always a pleasure Richard.
Thank you for sharing your hobby with us! I am wondering what is going to happen with the train shed. The video from the New Layout Part 7 mentioned it.
I love your videos, thank you for sharing 👍🏻best wishes Andreas
Nice. Like the rethink to make more of the branch. Do you have easy access to service the 3 way turnout when it acts up or are they dead reliable?
That whole board with the points can come out in about 5 mins. That 3 way point was on my old layout for 5 years and I didn't have any problems, cheers.
I use DPDT centre off switches on all of my lines, for example on the storage yard I use the switch down for power and up for programming, in the up position I can find out what loco is on a section
by inquiring its address, this saves the need for separate information to be kept elsewhere.
Would the branch have been double track originally or has it always been single?
Could also put a mill / factory in that spare bit of space, once served by rail but no more. It could then be derelict or converted if appropriate to your area at the time your layout is set.
Great video- I liked the VLOG nature of it as well. You are setting fun expectations for openings- your last two have been extremely clever (no pressure, they have been fun). Always a pleasure. (BTW- did you ever have a channel for your old car project?- I lost track of that over the years).
There will be an update on the car at some point. I decided to keep that project to myself and just enjoy it. I do post progress on a forum but thats about it. More silly intros are on the way :)
@@EverardJunction Thanks for the answers. The car project was of interest, as re-tooling cars was a passion of mine, too (my last name might be hint, even for the UK). Anyhow, cheers!
Great job man, looks great! Can't for you start the scenery! Maybe the country side for now? The city can expand into it later.
That 4 x 2 area might make a good sports pitch perhaps? Football or cricket?
Bloody excellent that rich. The changes are much better.
Would love to see this in the flesh one day. Epic!!!
Which shuttle module are you using??
I'm using Lenz BM1s. Not totally reliable and quite a bit of messing about however they are working(ish) now. I've not covered them due to the issues I've had. I'm looking to replace in future with something else if possible.
EverardJunction ahh ok! Fair enough mate!
Just an idea, where you were going to have the small TMD area, now that you have changed the plan could you not instead have a small freight operation there instead perhaps for ballast trains or similar, with a hopper house ect for discharging,
Would only need 2 roads probably, and would be something different, whilst still leaving you space at the front for scenery.
You get them in all sorts of unusual tight spaces just off of small branch lines ect,
Great video as always. I like the modification you've made - I'm interested to see how you develop the better potential for the bridge. Are you satisfied with the Peco points' robustness for use with solenoid-type motors? I gave up on solenoids after about 4 incidents of blades and stretcher bars being rent asunder. I suspected it was due to the repeated shock effect. Solenoids are rather violent! I noticed during the sequence at about 19:30 when you are testing the points, they jump from side to side alarmingly.
I've never had a problem with peco code 100 points and solenoids. Friends have had good experience too with some points having been running like that for 10 or 11 years now.
@@EverardJunction OK, fair enough. To be fair, it was the H&M design of solenoid I was using, and perhaps they pack more of a punch than Peco. I'm on 75 track as well; it's naturally going to be a bit more delicate. I think I'll stick with Tortoise, despite the increased cost.
Looking good Richard
Excellent video Richard, thoroughly enjoyed watching this.
Excellent layout and love the APT-E.