Hello glad to see you are still doing trains!

ah ha !! .. Nice to see you again and in O gauge .. still truly a novice myself n any gauge ...

Nicely done...edges with grass blend well as with real life....

Like it....not overdone as you said.....realism on a budget....

An ideal series for the beginner from start to finish to see what is available and it does not need to be expensive

This is a lovely layout and some great details. Especially like the wooden logs on the open freight car.

This is brilliant was looking at a pocket line pack from Japan as my first N gauge layout. This has provided some good ideas thanks for sharing.

Hi mike, I never build a proper layout before and been tinkering with a ton of track plans just by building and seeing if I would like it or not, about on and off for around 9 months. I ended up building something similar to this layout because it has an asymetric track plan, and it just doesnt give the idea of your typical train set layout. I added a curved point in the middle to add a terminus station and added a little shunting yard for a small harbor. So overall the plan has everything I wanted in a 8x3.5 board! -terminus station -harbor and freight shunting yard -loop layout with asymetric track plan -water and coal tower -small town on the sea with seaside, trees and greenery Thank you for the inspiration, I have been following you guys for years and never really committed to making an actual layout, and now I finally am getting around to doing one :)

This is soooo good. I like the unfinished stuff ‘ Work in progress’. It gives me ideas for my lay-out. You might r3member me pestering you over problems with my Flying Scotsman de-railing and shorting out at the points. Problem solve£, 1. A smaller 0-6-0 runs round perfectly, and eventually discovered a bent middle axle, as you suggested to look at alignment..

Love this! great little track. New sub today from AUS. The PECO track project is spot on for someone like myself being a starter kit. Be keen to see how you mount it and add ballast.

Perfect video for the beginner like myself who is looking to buy some of my first rolling stock and what to look for. Thanks for sharing

I have built one of your OO end of line shunting layouts & love it...4x2ft, lots of fun

When using the roofing felt ballast do you cut it into strips / curves first, how do you lay it! I looked on your Tutorial Tuesday videos and couldn't see one about it so some help please! I have a small 00 layout based on your 'Ideal Indoor' layout, thanks to your enthusiasm I am going to have a go with N Gauge too.

Inspirational!

Nice idea ! I have also an idea like this, to do a "just running around" N scale layout with four different tracks, each for one train : I will model it as an estuary crossing with railway bridges more or less parallel from each other. Idea under study by now...

This kit was a little disappointing as I didn't build mine in "low relief" - I joined the two halves together and the roofs don't match up! (the lines on the "felt" roof don't line up. I had to replace my roof with a single piece of their "tarmac" card. Metcalfe apologise for this in their instructions and promise to sort this issue in a future print re-run.

Thanks for the video Mike, a working layout or relaxing watching your stock go round. A great track pack to start in using N gauge!!😎🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🇬🇧

Awesome, I make amusement rides in N scale and sell them on eBay. I really hope this hobby comes back as it's so much fun and rewarding to watch something you've created come to life!😁

what was the sice of the bord you usd

Great film thank you thery help ful I will go and lay my track now

Looks good Mike, I take your point regarding ballasting. Another problem with ballasting is that it makes it harder to take up and re- use all the track. With respect to roofing felt, great idea, but I'd just suggest that laying it flat in the sun will remove any wrinkle and fold marks and make it easier to lay 😊

I inherited some N gauge track and some locos with the premise that I make a coffee table layout, I have the kit and feel I am more than capable of doing so or I wouldn't have made the promise, but, I have no idea where to start, ie- size of the baseboard so that it has enough room to be interesting and not too big to get in the living room or what to put in the scene/diorama, I have only ever had 00 gauge and only really ever dome flat loops with no scenery, this is going to be interesting to say the least.

this was one i was looking forward to watching, as I have bought the same set track pack.... and a lovely J94 (discounted) to run on it.. looking forward to seeing this come together and giving me food for thought..

Yesterday i was looking at that settrack set but decided i have some flex laying around and some medium turnouts so just bought 1st radius curves your idea is great for my suitcase layout i am starting though its almost the same size😉

This would fit my table which is 2.6 x 3.10....I'm pleased you showed this....wonderful....

Sounds windy you must be outside on a summers day

Not sure why the other vid doesn’t get more likes….you created the smallest shunting layout that can be transported on a motorbike….that’s incredible and should have more interest shown it! Looking forward to seeing what you do with this layout.

Helpful to see how one of these track packs actually work, like the slanted oval, that's clever 😊👍

Plenty of possibilities again, curious about how this going to go 😄

It's nice and simple but with plenty of scope. Having tried ballasting the roofing felt is definitely an easier option.You have the best of both worlds there, simple shunting but you can let trains run round as well. Looking forward to see what you do for scenery on this one.....

It looks great already Mike.

Very much looking forward to seeing this develop!

I think Alan Wright's first Inglenook Sidings started as an oval like this with a layout called 'The Wright Lines'.

Mike and Doug, I've enjoyed your Motor Bike Inglenook series and this one looks to be entertaining as well. Do you think this will be a country, industrial or a seaport railway? Couldn't help but notice the seagull sound in the background.

Looking forward to seeing this evolve

Looks great! I did the exact same thing but with the Kato CV-1 and CV-2 sets, which were designed for their pocket line equipment. It uses 150 mm. radius curves and special small turnouts, so I was able to build it on a 24 in. by 14 in. baseboard. I will be very interested to see how you decide to scenic this layout. Cheers!

Cool idea! Love the simplicity of the track plan. I know you've done freelance & a bit of UK. Have you thought about trying to do North American locos & rolling stock? Freight & passenger cars are longer here, but I think on a layout with those curves and the length of the sidings they would fit. Or are they too expensive or too hard to come by over there? Just curious if you'd ever attempt it. :)

Nice what can be accomplished with two points. Add a point on the back side of the oval and you get a small yard. Your idea to mount the oval at an angle does provide corner space for optional buildings or landscaping. Lay down magnets and those spaces could be interchangeable to depict whatever suits your fancy at a given moment. Thanks. 😊

Am I the only person who doesnt enjoy inglenook puzzles? I like shunting in general, seems as if I dont have the patience😂

"Inglenook" is immediately what I thought! 😊💜 ALSO, another point & siding in the opposite direction for even more shunting fun! This oval cries for an urban scene with the track going INTO a manufacturing building. I have been pleasantly surprised to find several street-running branches with model-RR-tight curves INTO buildings. Blessing to Mike & All from Roanoke Virgina USA! 😊💜 Maybe one of the curves away can go into a building, and the other into a "canyon" of buildings?

Nice one! .. gonna need a bigger top-box!

Hello, another great video,this is looking good with the track and points in the box.the roofing felt is ideal for the layouts,cant wait for the progress on this one.

As all your projects they all look good and work well and are well thought out look forward to seeing more, Colin.

Hello Can you help or advise. I’ll keep this as short as possible. A few weeks ago I had a shed load of trouble with my Hornby Flying Scotsman loco with 3 coaches living up to its name, flying off the track everywhere even while going slow. In fact the slower it goes the more it jumps off. You advised keeping it simple. I restarted everything and as you said, kept it simple. Two ovals with 3 sets of points. Two coupled back to back. Learning early mistakes I made sure every piece of track fitted snug, one or two small gabs but these are no problem. I even soldered wires to fishplates, drilled holes for the wiring because I had a power failure when one set of points was switched over. I have made sure everything is flat. One or two adjustments to the securing screws at connections to even out the rails. The train ran round lovely. I stopped running for a week or so to concentrate on some scenery but this weekend decided to run the train again. The train jumps the rails at both sets of points. It also loses power at one set of points. I found that I had picked up minute debris near my scenery making, but cleaned it up, even cleaned the track nicely. Still I get power failure. When the power doesn’t fail the train jumps off, yet I cannot find a reason. Sometimes it runs round nice then for no apparent reason jumps off, or I lose power. Again I checked and have flat and even track across both sets of points. Any advice please. If I didn’t mention, I’m running 00 gauge at 1.76 scale ( double Dutch to me but you experts will understand). I can’t believe it’s weather fluctuation causing it. The set up is in my spare room, warm and dry. As warm as this blinking climate allows anyway, oh and I’m in middle England almost in Milton Keynes. Many thanks for the Miriad of advice you are going to throw at me again.

That view is incredibly convincing, which I thing proves your point about how good the Metcalf building’s look but also how adaptable they are if you just use a bit of imagination. It’s like anything else like wagons or fences or bridge girders: just because it was designed to be used specifically for something doesn’t mean you can’t hack it about and change it! 😜

Never ceases to amaze me how people like to tell you that you can’t do something 😂 On the other hand, it’s nice to know people from abroad are doing it too as it means it is not an exclusively British disease 😜

Superb idea mate! Just shows that there’s no such thing as ‘too small’ 😃

Hi me and my girlfriend have just got a class 55 denial model train for £26 is that a good price for a second hand train in n scale let me know

I've been really inspired by this series, and have actually started a layout along the same lines (though without the motorbike requirement), so thank you!

Plenty going on Mike, in this very small space. Bring on the better weather!!😎🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🇬🇧