Dean Park Model Railway 337 | December Update 2023 | Station Upgrades 

I like the rubbish being determined by which way the wind is blowing - great attention to detail!

Looking forward to developments in 2024.

And here was me thinking that retrospectively installing telegraph wires was fiddly and challenging! The OHLE looks great.

Thanks for the update. It's looking amazing. Have a merry Christmas :-)

Always an interesting video and this is no exception. You will absolutely hate me but I have to say the station looks so much better without the roof...sorry!! The catenary is excellent and your ideas of dealing with obstacles are great. Thanks for all your efforts producing these videos through 2023 Dave, which have kept this N Gauge fanatic enthralled. Have a great festive period. Cheers, Bob

Merry Christmas and best wishes for the future 🎄🎄

Excellent work. Happy new year.

Great update, you must have the patience of a saint with those over head wires 🫣. Loved the class 90 running around with the short rake of VGA’s…….. have got me searching for VGA’s now!! The new Hornby wagons look great they will be a good seller!! Haven’t spent much time on my layout last few weeks, but watching this has given me some motivation 👌 all the best for 2024!!

Exquisite attention to detail... a real pro at work.

Nicely done and great details,,thanks for sharing…😊

wonderful modelling

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SETUP MY FRIEND. I REALLY LOVE IT.

I love the videos and the trains which are amazing

The OHLE masts and wires really do elevate the scene. The stone retaining walls and cabling details etc look fantastic too! What a brilliant looking layout.

Great update Dave and that night shot of the station at the beginning is impressive. Wishing you all the best for Christmas, Colin

Merry Christmas Dave and a good and healty 2024, for you and your loved ones!!!

An amazing-looking layout. It looks like Scot Rail has quite a few passengers. I hope they appreciate the updates.

As always an informative, entertaining and educational video. Thanks for all the vids throughout the year. Hope you have a great Xmas and a fantastic 2024. Regards Darryl

Love your layout and the explanation how you tackle the challenges. Merry Christmas. Greetings from the Netherlands

Got to admire your attention to detail with the catenary masts and overhead wiring. Those jigs are a great help. It's one of those jobs you have to do in stages or you'd get scunnered with it. (Picture Chewin' the Fat angry man!!!). Have a great Christmas. Cheers

the hbo intro sound got me expecting the opening of the sopranos

Love the video very interesting video and good to see the how things have changed since last time

Hi Dave, great update, yes a lot of work to install the masts and wire. Great work in all the updates during 2023. To you and your Family, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Mike HO from Australia.

Many thanks for sharing your build of OHLE with the wiring alterations, another enjoyable watch. A very Merry Christmas to you Dave and your family and best wishes for 2024, regards Barry..

Wow, those wires, so fiddly but the end result well worth the effort, not sure I would have the patience to do that 👍🏻

Amazing modelling 👍 I used to maintain the points heating on the southern network, so it was great seeing that detailed. All the best for the new year.

Hello Dave, thanks for all your great videos during 2023 and I will look forward to more in 2024. In the meantime have a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year. Cheers Greg

Brilliant 👏 👏 👏

Dave ,You have doing a great job of the overhead wiring , Regards Dave

Incredible update Dave, looks great, merry Christmas

Amazing work with the OHLE masts 👏. Looks fantastic 👍

Brilliant trains and layout

Wishing you all the best for Christmas

Nice update Dave. I like the addition of the overhead wires in the station it adds another level of detail. Those Hornby TTA tank wagons look great. Merry Christmas. - Nicholas.

Just outstanding Dave ,have a Merry Christmas and have a wee dram or two ,thanks for some inspirational work they say the young should learn from the older but in your case for me it’s the other way round Merry Christmas Mark 🎅🏼

A great update overall here Dave, some good work overall done round the layout and the hornby TTA tankers do look very good, I am on the lookout for some tankers myself as I would like to have a big tanker train on my layout at some point, overall excellent work, have a good Christmas and new year.

So you changed mood to wanting overhead wires and what a challenge it was with all the tunnels. It does look good though so worth the weeks of work. I see you will put cages round the signals. Not all were entirely enclosed like they do today, just a screen on one side and over the top at an angle so a bit less of a challenge. The trees look really good very realistic bark on the silver birch. Best wishes for Christmas and the new year looking forward to seeing what else you do around Dean Park

Merry Christmas Dave & thank you for your video’s & inspiration throughout the year. PS - Those Hornby tankers do look good….

Brilliant update as ever! Your drains have gave me an idea, for my depot upgrade, and for when I put the correct ballast in the station, sometime in 2024. The scotrail branding on your station signs started to be replaced in 1991, when the Regional railways style Scotrail branding started to creep in. In fact, Inverurie was the first station to get the RR scotrail signs!

Thanks for the update Dave. Love the pin vice tip, and the extra detail dimension you add month by month. You are a wealth of information and expertise that a returning modeller values as we get back up to speed more rapidly. Rate your views on Primo trees for instance. Happy Christmas to you 👍🎅

Hi Dave OHW looks fantastic 👍 You must have a steady hand - enjoy that while it lasts ! 😉 In case you didn’t already know…. Top wire = catenary wire Bottom wire = contact wire Tensioner = dropper (has a couple of other names) Merry Christmas 🎄

Enjoyed watching the layout improvements Dave, pity it's taken so long for Hornby to produce a decent TTA tank, but it looks great. I worked at Parkeston Quay depot of Railfreight Distribution during the 90's and can recall seeing the Euro liveries on the class 90's on their release! Have a great Xmas & New Year

Merry Christmas to you and yours..... thank you for the years of Master Modelling and setting a brilliant scene of Scottish Rail Services..... I have seen other's who model HO scale presenting a disused spurs/turnouts and an area of Railway infrastructure junk. The rational is always it show what the real world looks like. But what if the Modelling world was to be a Utopian example of a clean world. Every station has a dedicated team of workers that spend all day picking up those bits of rubbish. Line side workers cut the grass and level off mounds of excess ballast. They even have dinky little cars (some with trailers) that are set on the side of the track while they clean up various area's of the Network. (might be dreamland but worth a try) Happy Modelling in the New Year.

Great video and merry Christmas for Monday

Catenary masts have to be planted slightly closer together if the sprung pantographs try to "dewire". Further the catenary wire can only go in a straight line between each mast realistically. Something some modellers seem incapable of grasping. You can however realistically have an angle part way along a section of catenary, if you provide what is called a "pull off". This is simply a Post (no brackets) with a horizontal wire from the post to the "catenary wire" to pull it slightly to one side to provide the angle. This wire obviously needs a dummy insulator on the wire end nearest to the post. I'm not sure what catenary parts Peco provide. As I'm used to using the large Somerfeldt or Veismann German ranges. Both of which provide many unusual catenary items as accessory's and also include various designs of mast, for different European Railway catenary systems. Both in N, HO/OO & HOm. The real fun begins when you energise the catenary and run locos from the overhead. All sorts of electrical tricks become available as you have now effectively 3 rails per track to play with !!!!

An HBO/Dean Park co-production apparently ;-) Nice update thanks! Happy Xmas - Joachim

Fantastic mate. I have followed some of ur advice in my layout b4. Unfortunately I had to dismantle it, cause of moving. Plse keep up the great informative vids. Merry Christmas

As always love your layout and what you do. Hornby missed a trick with the TTAs. I cannot believe they have only done one of each. It's like they have not caught up with where the hobby is now. Happy New Year to you and take care.

Good evening Dave. I must of said years ago about putting wires on the OHLE and you saying no ………. 🤔 Well I must say it’s a 100% improvement on what is already a fantastic model railway 👍🏻 Your attention to detail and sharing information is fantastic Dave 👍🏻 Have a fantastic Christmas 🎄 and hopefully Santa 🎅 will bring you something in his sack for you lol 😜 Happy new year and cheers for all the fantastic videos Stevie 😀

The new TTA tankers do look the part, Sam has definitely done a fab job with the underframe equipment there. The only thing I will say is that Hornby really haven't produced that many liveries for the new TTAs only THREE liveries have been done of each brand (and there are still many others to cover too) not to mention the lack of unbranded variants which were common to see in rakes too. Plus heavily weathered variants. Hopefully in 2024 we'll see those make an appearance.

Hi Dave a great video mate the ohle really look great mate I am waiting for the Mk2b coaches to come mate merry Christmas to you and your family Dave

Pantograph wires do not run along the centre line of the track they are at a slight angle across the track and back to ensure the wire doesn’t wear a slot in the pantograph and allow the pantograph to wear evenly

Just found your RU-vid site. A really excellent layout; very well observed with nice subtle colouring. Love the light stone retaining wall behind the station; ace. Do you plan to upgrade the Airfix plastic footbridge at some point?

Hey there, watched a few videos of your's and have loved them just a suggestion on your overhead wires i see you want them perfectly centered but if your going for perfection of look you can do that but if you waant it to be more realistic then the OHLE dont need to be perfectly centered as they variate in where they are above the train to reduce wear on the panograph so that instead of being in one spot reducing the life of a pantograph having it in several spots ultimately reduces the ammount of wear on the pantograph and means less maintenance costs.

do you have a link for the trees please dave ,liking them a lot

Blimey, overhead wires!. 10 years from now and you'll be installing the last section, totally bankrupt and on your knees 😂 Happy new year.

Man down middle platform😯

I guess if you can't afford a mature tree you can buy a sapling and wait for it to grow

The signal near the mast has got to go ... too near the wires

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Dude’s passed out on the platform and no one’s helping. Your eye for realism is off the scale.

Dave that’s a great layout and the detailing is 2nd to none.great rolling stock.i find that this hobby is now becoming way way expensive.