What great layout Steve. So much detail. I go for walks in the area and I visited the station yard this week (now a car park) and I'm having great fun identifying and photographing the buildings on your layout still existing . Your layout really helps me picture the area as it was in those steam days. I'm going to be watching your videos on youtube many times. Thankyou for your work.
Hi Stephen, that was lovely. A great model and the operations were very well explained. Thanks for taking the time to video and post it. It was much appreciated. Kind regards, Richard.
What an excellent layout,which i thoroughly enjoyed,taking me back to my trainspotting days of the late 50's/early 60's.These were spent mainly at Batley,my hometown,Mirfield near the engine sheds and Leeds all being via pushbike and of course the inevitable Doncaster by train.Good days and since retirement have built my own ficticious layout. You should be proud of your layout.
What a lovely layout! It was like being there for an actual day and watching the world go by. Your local knowledge was a huge part of the experience for me. Thank you.
I was delighted to find this. My grandparents lived very close by in Moorside Road. By the time that I can remember, the station had closed but the railway was still operational and I clearly remember the Yorkshire Woollen Leylands rattling over the level crossing on the way to Birstall. My father recalls evening excursions in the summer during the 1930s to Cleethorpes, usually with a J38 or J39 at the front. Incredible to think of that now, as indeed it is to witness all of the massive changes in recent decades with so much swept away.
Absolutely brilliant! It is not often you get such quality track-work, realism of locos and stock, as well as superb sound operation and thoroughly compelling commentary describing the trains with a sure degree of authenticity! My I'm waxing lyrical! But it deserves it! Very well done sir! Subbed for all your future vids!
This is such a good layout that it warrants a much better quality video. Much of the detail gets lost in the blurry picture. I look forward to further videos of this layout.
"pins down the brakes" never heard that term before, so great to learn new info. So I always assumed the multiple pin holes where to take into account break shoe wear, but can they be used to apply just "partial " breaking force then?
Yes. Unfitted goods trains could overpower the loco brakes on downhill gradients so wagon brake levers were pinned down before descending the steep incline to Batley.
