Slow progress on the new section due to holiday and a lack of plasticard. However since the running lines are now reconnected I've been able to have a good long running session on layout. Enjoy.
A terrific achievement Richard, you really do have a superb layout and you have treated the rolling stock to the same attention of detail as you have the layout. Simply stunning. ..............Graham
Absolutely Richard, it's really important to just actually stop every now and again and have a 'play' otherwise what is it all for - you have to put some time away for just enjoying it now and again. ..........Graham
The superb scenery with astonishing attention to detail, along with excellent rolling stock and superb videoing, made this one of the best train watches on RU-vid for a very long term. An absolute credit to the builder. Simply superb!!
you know what's so great about this video , watching it I can think back to all the building videos and the time you put into each spot , the detail of it all , and now to see it all as one , running the trains and having fun with your acheivments , sir you have done a fantastic job thank you so much for taking the time to share each step of your layout , you inspire me
Great video Richard, keep up the great work that you do. My son and I love watching you running sessions when were not working on our layout.. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing..Gerry
Very realistic looking. Great to be able to watch trains and Loco's you would not be able to see anymore in modern Britain. Well worth the 5 or so years it's taken you to get to this stage.Thanks.
As always, the highlight of RU-vid videos. I love the shots across the allotments of trains entering / exiting the tunnel - it really is like watching the real thing and is a fantastic showcase of your great work. Thanks as ever for sharing.
A very good video as always. Perfect camera work, trains running at a realistic speed and we are able to enjoy the fruits of your labours, the scenery. Far too many videos seem to concentrate too much on the trains and not let us enjoy the scenery, the making of which takes up most of our time and we should be proud of it....
Hi Richard Stunning detail and, as with all your videos, an inspiration to all modellers. Love your show you how videos, please keep them up. Hope my Helixes work as well as yours and looking forward to getting started on my scenic section on Parkway. Just have 20 point motors to install on the lower storage level, test everything and then get the upper section started! Keep it up and thanks for sharing your efforts John
Brilliant video once again. Great camera angles and variety of traction. I never get bored watching your videos. Can't wait for your next upload. Cheers, Jordan
Richard The layout is really starting to look like the 'dogs danglies', brilliant work. It inspires me to keep going with my own layout. I really like the camera shots from the new sidings, looks great. Regards Paul
Hmm... I feel I now need a loft (preferably big) and oodles of free time (preferably years)... neither of which I have at the present moment. Perhaps some scratch-building is required to fill my appetite for modelling... :P I must say that the methods you have described in your videos really give a strong sense of reality when viewed from track-side. Wonderful stuff. :)
Had a bad couple of days and felt like watching some model trains go by. As I presently live in rented accommodation I don't have my own layout, but I found it incredibly therapeutic watching this video. I commute from Coventry to London by rail 4 or 5 times per week and it astounds me how realistic your railway looks. Once you've put a backscene up on the wall I reckon most would be hard pressed to tell the difference if you added some grainy effects to make it look like the 80s!
I asked you in the past where you got the brick retaining walls and you said that they were not being made now. I like the concrete retaining wall and will attenpt to make a section and cast them. I'll let you know when I get them done.
Lovely running session Richard, I've got my fix for the weekend now !! Great trackside shot of your 56 as you followed it along from the tunnel exit, thanks for sharing cheers Dazza
Hello Richard. Fantastic video as usual. I'm new to the hobby and value your how to series and learn something new all the time. I have a request though. When you do another trains running video could you have some of the passenger trains arriving and departing the station and also I'd love to see them in the new fiddle yard and diesel filling area. Thanks very much. Peter. 👍
Why dont you have any steam engines? Also where do you get your scenic bushes from like the grass and the little bushes that you shake out of the tub. Great Layout wish mine could be as insane as that. i only have about 6 trucks and only 2 trains that arnt from the thomas and friends collection as i used to play with it when i was younger hence thomas. The only normal trains i have to run on my layout are a shunter diesel and the A4 pacific Falcon.
Great video, it's so relaxing watching your trains go by. The scrap metal parts leaning against the fence look so real I'm surprised they're still there!
Hi Richard, really enjoyed that running session! Great to see a good selection of locos with various trains. Those coal trains look fantastic and I loved the double headed 37s at the start! Looking forward to the next video! Joe
The work you've done on the layout is so impressive. I enjoy watching the progress you make. One thing you might consider, to make it even better, is to add detail to the plants in the garden, so they don't have a uniform color. David
I really enjoyed the allotment scene. I think I might include something like that myself. I'm about to start my first layout and have enjoyed your videos.
I could sit next to the track and watch the trains go buy all morning with a cup of tea in my hand. This Christmas my youngest and I are going to convert the loft. We got double looped track nailed to a board. A box of trains and a box of bridges scene etc. Wish us luck!
Richard you're an artist bravo for the filming, the details in the décor , weathering anyway the list is to long. I'm sure you inspired many people like me . Many thanks
Hi Richard fantastic video as always I've watched it about 8 times so far and never get bored what's those new wagons you have the silver with yellow ends they look great I've never seen them anywhere cheers jack.
Richard seeing you are running three or more diesels together on what can only be described as a fabulous layout, I am curious as to what DCC system you have installed. I use an NCE powercab unit which will be needing a booster unit when my layout is complete.
+BALLAN PARKWAY Certainly not cheap. I bought all mine before price rises and they cost about £24 each. Now they fetch £50 or more. Glad I got them when I did!
Brilliant as ever. I join in most of the comments already posted. Where did you get the scale agricultural fleece for the allotments? Or is it a huge OO scale spider?! ;-)
Very nice, entire layout is coming along beautifully. I'm tracking your progress for quite some time and I always wondered do you plan to add some backdrop photo on the wall?
Will you please do something with the joins in the back board behind the allotment, they are very distracting. Apart from that I have done little else other than watch your video's over the last few days and think the work and all the other scenes are fab. Keep the good work up
Hi Richard, A very nice running session with all trains running on time I hope..lol, quick question if you don't mind, I am running a DC layout and I am contemplating converting to DCC, I have a couple of HST's and would I be right in saying that the Dummy Car also needs a decoder fitted......many thanks.
I have watched every video from my location Palm Springs CA. I find your easy manner and skill, very inspiring. your detaild are so accurate but I wish you had kept utopia by not having graffiti. best wishes.
As always its great to see your layout with trains running but I think it would be nice to see a little more variation in the speed of the trains I understand that approaching a station when stopping they would slow down but yours are all the same speed.A mix of fast as slow would make it more like the real thing.Sorry just had to be said
+Graham Wood Stuff On the mainlines stuff is run faster than the branch. Bear in mind that the trains follow each other. So when you see a freight train there is a passenger about 1 min behind it. I have to keep the same speed to avoid accidents. Filming this takes ages so I get as much stuff running as possible to get the maximum amount of shots. When I run the layout on my own I have fewer trains running and speeds are more varied (especially HSTs). I'll bear it in mind and see if I can show some of that in future videos. Thanks
Hi - Wonderful video, nice to see the allotments have enjoyed the August Bank Holiday rain too, leading to some slippy and sticky conditions for that car owner 8^)
I was thinking that the APT would look really good on your layout, but unfortunately it's wrong for the era. The last one ran in 1984, but your layout is set around 1988-1990 IIRC.
+ReddwarfIV I love the APT, fantastic bit of engineering. I have the forthcoming Rapido APT-E model on order. There isn't a decent model of the APT-P yet.
EverardJunction When I build a layout (already have a name, 'Wolf's Ford') it's going to have APTs running on the mainline. I'm not going to have issues with era, because I've decided to go on a whole alternate universe theme (taking the imaginary stations idea to its weirdest conclusion). So it'll look like the modern day, but with APTs running, and some hints that the UK is having a big conventional war. Wolf's Ford Station itself will be serving an RAF airbase, and there will be air raid sirens around, along with propaganda posters and things to give the picture that this is not the place it at first seems to be.
G'day RichardFirst time I have had an opportunity to post a comment. I thoroughly enjoy all your videos. I regularly refer to them when planning some work on my rather modest N gauge layout. You always do an excellent job, photographically and instructionally. Keep up the great work.This video is enjoyable as I can see the culmination of many of your earlier instructional videos.Cheers George
Excellent as always Richard, I could sit and watch trains running around your layout for hours. I'm looking forward to seeing some shunting running sessions in the new yard in the future. Any more progress on it? All the best Howard.
Those guys on the allotment better watch out, just noticed a giant spiders web the size of a garden shed right behind them at 09.43. Maybe it's that massive spider out of Lord of the Rings! Lol
+Kingswood Junction I record various sounds from other videos/programs. I then edit them together to make something that suits my shots. The 37s in the one is made up of two separate recordings.
