I am a British bloke who lives in Middlesex, NJ! And l must say you've captured the feel of the railroads hereabouts rather well, considering you dreamt it all up! Jamesburg is just a mile or so away and the railway actually goes right through the middle of town. It makes a connection with another line which heads north and goes to a place called Browns yard. This was formerly electrified and was sometimes used as a diversionary route for main line trains. Even GG1s were occasionally seen! I understand that in 1939 the King and Queen even came through Jamesburg whilst on their US tour. Anyway, l'd better stop, but great layout!

Hi Graham, the work you've put into the railway - especially the buildings and architecture - is amazing! It's really developed from the last time we saw you so you have been busy. Thanks for sharing this with me and thanks to Martyn for arranging

@Graham as you know I'm not into model railways but your construction is amazing, well done. Thank you and Martyn for the show

What a lovely video, good on you Martyn. And to Graham, lovely explanation and walkthrough of your fantastic layout. Thoroughly enjoyed watching this.

Great video! I have been having the same thoughts about weathering the rails before laying them too , good to see it makes sense.

Nice Progress nice to see you back

I notice that you run parallel rail joints through bends. I've seen others go with asymmetrical joins, to discourage kinks through the bends. Are you not worried about this, or are you finding the copydex does a good job of ensuring even arcs through the bends?

Hi Martyn, great progress and some lovely details around the layout, nice to see the extent of the project. Love your videos, please keep them coming. Can I ask if you had/have any issues during testing with the super elevation and stalling? I bought a number of bags from WHWW but couldn’t get consistent running, almost as if the one side of the wheel sets lost momentary contact. Or maybe my bad track or flange cleaning….. I would be interested to know before trying again. Thanks Timo.

Well Martyn, it's good to see you in action, even if this video did take 7 months in the making. You have some really great tips and a wonderful approach to this. Thank you for sharing and again, good to see you back in front of the camera at DCMR.

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Wonderful video layout is coming on nicely looking forward to you doing point rodding, hope you have a great Christmas mate all the best Colin from Mossend railway oo.

Nice work, Martyn, and a lovely model. Although it won't be seen on the layout, you seem to have missed the flashing around the chimneys. Or maybe theives stole them for the lead!!! 😯

Amazing job!

thanks Martin will check that out

As others have said i too had one brick sheet break on me as it was brittle..got replacement sheets in....im at that stage off how to paint it so youve given me other ideas..now ive got to be bold and go for it.. its has come out really well a reaqlly decent job.. would have been nice if you had shown in a bit more detail to the weathering at the end with the powders etc as through the washes and that is where it really comes to life

Been along today to see this years exhibition and it was great been attending the exhibition since I was a child due to my late father being a part Of newbury and later Abingdon model railway club

What gorgeous station building models!

Much to do but exciting as to what the layout will become! I would prefer to get the track laying done next, partly to just run some trains but also to be sure that the track layout does what you hope it does before you get too far into anything else…

Very nice, but I think you need a catch point before the shed line joins the heritage line, near the oil shed.

Hiya, nice to see you're progressing if a little slowly, good to hear about your upcoming plans. Looking forward to the next update. Tim

Lots going on!

Looking good

What about having the foot tunnel emerging partway up the arch. You could then transition it to a girder footbridge allowing passenger access to the Speen platform, and steps to ground for the signal box?

Silly niggly question that you're completely free to roll your eyes at and ignore: will you model how the passengers get to the platform - a footbridge over the running lines, perhaps? Underpass? Zip-wire?

Excellent work. Commentary spoiled a little by the multitude of ‘kind of’s

Looks fantastic! Really impressive!

Check out Richard (Everard Junction) where he did his canal - ideas there on how to seal the ends of the river for resin pour.

Thanks for sharing. My viaduct section is still bare board so this has helped inspire confidence greatly

This is awesome and it's given me confidence to give it a go on an area of my layout that i didn't know what to do with. Excellent work.

Cracking modelling. Your layout is really developing.

The scene so far looks amazing and the resin pour will make a massive difference. As you said I added my river scenes around 4-5 weeks ago now, cant believe that long ago after such procrastination. I do fully get where youre coming from and it was that very same anxiety that held me back too. Your setup seems very different to mine, but looks as if it should be fine no leaks. Its the part where the river meets the board edges. Tape and seal with hot glue, easy to peel off after I choose to use real water to test, and sponge it out, but that was my choice. It did give me confident though to proceed once I knew whether I had further leaks. Gratefully I didnt use the resin to test. There are loads of videos to watch: Luke Towan is amazing, dont forget Kathy Millatt and Geek Gaming Scenics among many American channels. You will feel so much more confident once the first is done. Itll be great. (thanks for the mention btw).

It will look fantastic once you add the water, i have used resin on a viaduct and another bridge, having a blow lamp takes out bubbles etc instantly. The resin can be colored if required.

Great video really enjoyed it and it’s looking great 👍

Wow, what a fantastic scene. Realy well done and appreciate you sharing the tips! Also - a lovely outro.

Martin, how about a third option? Use what looks like two smaller arches inside/under the larger arch, each one half the diameter of the main arch size that you already have, but only one of the smaller arches is actually open as the walkway. The smaller arches under a larger arch is a common motif you will find in architecture. Bill

That looks brilliant, I hated building mine - looks amazing when built, absolute shocker to build. Love the paint job.

Hi Martin, Great video as always. With regards to tunnel for signal box access. When the railway and signal box were built, nobody had cars, so why would they spend so much money putting in access. Surely the signalman would arrive at the station and walk down to the box? Regards Rome another Martyn.

Speed signs came out well to be fair! Interesting to see.

with the tunnel, I'd make it a recess creating a lock-up for the signalman area, with one door open and have a few tools within there

Good job. If you fancy a trip up to Gadion on 7th and or 8th September the club room is having a open day

Great video, which has given me some good ideas for my own future layout wiring. I know I'll need to think about multiple power districts too, and the PM74 is one possible way to do it, but is it Digitrax specific, or would it work with any DCC system to just split the power into districts, without any Digitrax or Loconet "smarts"?

Does bi-directional running mean a train that likes boy trains as well as girl trains?

One of the best tutorials of this type I've seen. Extremely informative and watchable. Regarding the placement of the power meter, I'd suggest adding a separate low-cost meter - see the item OOBill uses, for example - somewhere between the DPDT switch and the Heritage Track feed. But I guess you've already thought of that option and discounted it. Like the "power districts" approach.

Very well explained

Very informative. Love the structured approach

I'm using DCC-EX, which can put out DC with PWM controlled in software, I could still monitor current and voltage in DC mode, and don't need a dpdt switch. Very elegant solution.

Hey Martyn - thanks for the kind mention! Must admit I don't know much about Loconet but I guess in broadcast terms it's similar to CMRI - there's so little data, in modern terms, being thrown around, that it really doesn't matter. Looking at your diagram, the thing that interested me is Loconet seems to be a ring network - is that correct? Regards, Chris

What a remarkably realistic outcome! The completed result really is an excellent representation of an historic stone landmark, very well done with your artistic skills.👏👍

Nice little project, the paint work came up really nice, shame about the brittle plastic! Out of interest would the plasticard brick sheeting be a good substitute to replace the damaged sections. Keep up the good work.

Looking really good. Brick arch liners! I don’t know anyone who hasn’t had an issue with fitting them. I made a jig from from chipboard and timber strips to the same width as the arch span. Another piece of batten to go over the brick sheet, held down with long screws to keep the arch compressed. The viaduct section was then offered up to the end of the brick sheet, another piece of wood across the back with two strong rubber bands, one each side, looped round the screws holding everything in place, then glued with DCC Concepts MEK. Preforming the arch liners by curving them round a coffee mug, securing with rubber bands and leaving them in my (at this time of year) rather warm conservatory for a day or two helped getting them into the shape. One thing to be aware of if you’re going to build a multi span viaduct is that the top of the stone arch is half a millimetre wider than the bottom. In my case, seven arches had a considerable curvature which I found before assembling. After removing any moulding flash, try aligning the top edges along a spirit level and see the gap at the base where the piers attach. Rather than use the provided track bed, I used Plastruct 2mm sheet, 91106, cut to depth, spanning the joins between arches. It makes for a much stronger construction. The only downside is having to custom fit the inner walls of the parapet as the supplied track bed is only 1.5mm thick. If you did want to use the supplied track bed, offsetting it’s position to go half and half over each arch with a half section at the ends to fill in would achieve a good increase in overall strength. I have to say, my construction method differs somewhat from the supplied instruction sheet. The result is a much stronger finished article with extra bracing for rigidity.