Thought it was a real scene 🙈🙈 awesome

Really enjoyed this update.

very smart, well done

Incredibly realistic. Well done!

Incredible layout. Especially the foliage.

The lifted track looks great

Brilliant update Marcus! The opening shot of the 37 running says everything about your attention to detail, it’s a great viewing layout and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it, cheers Darrell 😃👍

Fabulous layout!

An excellent update, I really enjoyed viewing

Looking nice now Marcus. The video gives a much better perspective to the pictures you sent me. The signals look extremely good - Paul has got the scale spot on with these. The magnetic uncoupling is so simple and I’m not sure why there aren’t more people using it? I think it was you that got me into it for Oak Road about 5 years ago!

Good to see another new episode, with more progress evident. Top marks as always for realism which, to my eyes, comes from the lack of anything with that shiny, brand-new latest must-have-model look, combined with plenty of space, natural “scruffy” lineside areas and a great selection of tastefully-modified locos. IMO, you are doing everything properly and it is paying off. Well done.

As always a very enjoyable watch as you get some great shots and it was worth taking those tracks away to free up some room . Varied stock makes it nice an interesting and perhaps you will get to love DMU's !!!! Looking forward to the next one. Cheers Kev

Love this layout more every time I see it - the uncoupling method is really good what magnets have you used?

Hi, really enjoyed the video and a superbly detailed layout, I’ve just newly subbed so looking back at some of your earlier videos as well. Really looking forward to forward to you modelling the football stand! Cheers Gary

I really like the sense of space on your layout. As a viewer, I can imagine walking along the road with the gravel crunching under foot. If I can add some constructive advice, perhaps look at adding something to hide the bottom edge of the buildings so they appear to be in the landscape rather than 'on' the landscape. Great stuff!

Shame it’s taken me so long to come across this channel , super layout

Excellent video and nice update Marcus. 👍

The layout looks great

Absolutely brilliant! So life like! Lovely job buddy. Hope you and your family are all fit and well.

Amazing as usual. I love the station area and sidings, definitely reminiscent of Rhymney. Nice quip about the South Wales weather, although it is nice and sunny here in Bridgend today, for a change!

Having worked in these yards during my work, you have got them spot on.

Love this layout. As someone else already pointed out, the 'less is more' principal you adopt really adds that extra element of realism. Thanks for the heads up on the typical Welsh climate btw; I will be heading that way soon and it has prompted me to get a Malaria jab before I go.

What ballast do use on the mainline?It looks very effective. I do like your style of modelling.

Excellent update mate, the layout and rolling stock is looking a treat!

Hello, Nice update video. I've watched your video with interest as I noticed a road bridge on your layout about 26 mins in. I was wondering if you could advise where you sourced the bridge from? Thanks Tim

Hi there. Your layout came up on my "Recommended" list, and I'm glad I watched it. Brilliant! As an "ex-pat" South Wales valleys boy your layout is right up my street. I don't use Instagram etc, so I guess I'll have to wait a while for the next video 😒 Have you discovered Mike Wilcox's channel? He has lots of footage of Margam & other South Wales depots etc from the early 2000s. Happy modelling & thanks for sharing.

Excellent video and layout mate. Well done 👍

Thanks for the update. Great work, love your layouts. You've really captured the feel and look of the moors at Margam. I appreciated your humour regarding our tropical South Walian climate! Cheers, Karl

Thanks for the update. I absolutely love your layout. It’s so realistic and has the right feel to it which really hits the mark. Great work.

Very realistic looking scenery and weathering. Very inspiring. Agree with the less is more philosophy. Also agree with your comments regarding the Bachmann Class 37 and Cavalex Class 56.

Nice update Marcus and good timing. Im just starting a new project thats the same era amd mre than likely goong to be based in S.Wales. Your less is more approach has got me thinking, because at the moment my track plan is more is not enough, so i think ill have to rationalise it. 😂

You have a great layout there. Have to agree with you, less is more.

The layout's coming on a bundle now, and the 'less is more' approach on the yard is definitely a vast improvement. The station area is looking really good too now, and I love your idea of the football stand. That's rarely, if ever, modelled, but it's surprising how many football grounds are right next to railways IRL. Great stuff all round.

Never apologize for the timing of your videos. The layout's looking fantastic. Glad to see you got your door reversed. It worried me that the bridge would fall down one day and leave you locked out.

Your not filming in any professional capacity and there are still several long segments and countless short segments of your layout that really come to life - EMACULATE JOB!!!

Fantastic layout and video. New back to this hobby am aiming to get to your level of quality. Agree with you on tension lock couplings. Will add the wire to the rolling stock ( probably superglue it on) Currently have removed the coupler from both ends of the locos which looks better but your wire hoop/hook looks less obvious and would allow me to fit snow ploughs. Could you tell me where you purchased them from or did you make them yourself. Cheers Mike.

Hello,what a brilliant video,I have a few diesels myself in 'N' gauge,seeing Talbot Lane was really awesome layout to see,this Talbot Moors being bigger and DCC sounds makes it more realistic to see.

Love your shrubbery sir ❤❤

Definitely made the right move removing those tracks at the front. Images and videos of a layout are 10 times better if no baseboard edges or non-layout things are on show. Whilst I agree the Accurascale 37 is a solid loco, I do also prefer the Bachmann model, I find it easier to work on if nothing else. Great selection of stock too, especially the Cavalex 56, think it’s probably in the top 3 locos ever produced in OO gauge to date. Thanks for the update and for putting the video together 👍

Great layout and video 👌🏻how and what colour is the background? Looks very simple but very effective.

Very convincing and great modelling..very well done

Brilliant update - you’re creating something really special 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Looking good

We model the exact same era and the same small region ha i steal all my ideas off you!

love this well done

Hi Marcus. Brilliant track plan on a brilliant layout. You're modeling skills are superb, well done buddy. Love you're baseboards look so well made. Because I only have a 10ftx10ft layout mine looks a bit cramped as well, didn't have a choice if I wanted 4 running tracks. Brilliant your have nice long sidings. I'm a technophobe so electrical bits go mostly over my head.☹ OK with dc though.👍 Thank you for subscribing, subscribed back.🌝 Thanks for showing us Marcus. Thumbs up thumped 👍 ....Pete.....

HI - Very nice work. I wonder if you could please expand on your comment re Peco code 100 buffer stops being "a bit naff" compared to the code 75 ones; what's wrong with them exactly? Cheers

Any chance you can show how you changed your class 56s to transrail? I have 2 and was looking to try and do the same.

I really liked you're method of putting the flangeway into the hard standing... it looked really good. I bet your layout had a good covering of concrete dust over it though, except where that red cloth was, with you blowing the dust from the flangeway instead of hoovering it up, and not attaching a vacuum to your electric sander to catch the dust from that, you must have spent more time cleaning up the dust than you spent doing the project. It looks as though you could have done with wiping a damp cloth over the concrete before the wash as it looked as though you were brushing dust up when you started brushing the wash on. A suggestion if you do it again is maybe using a metal plasterers trowel to put the mixture down and then letting it dry for a short while, like you did, and then finishing it off with the trowel wet in a bucket of water and cleaned each pass like ive seen plasterers do when they put the finish to plastered walls.

Hi Marcus. Brilliant update buddy. Trying to get some diesel pumps having a bit of a job getting them, like your ones. Like the concrete base you have done for your sheds, look realistic. Going to try filler for my base. Did experiment with my small engine shed looks pretty good. Don't know if I'm going to vlog it in case I cock up.😒 Brilliant layout. Thanks for the update mucker. .... Pete....