Fiddle Yard Improvements

[@AVFCAM]

The train running montage was immense…the music, the details about the trains…it was really, really good!

[@ianmillard1604]

Loved the "gameshow" style train introductions. "What's your name and where do you come from" comes to mind!

[@captainjackkay3132]

Your attention to every detail is appreciated and certainly the biggest point you ever make. I enjoy every video you produce. Thank you

[@roystudds1944]

A great video Richard. Your fiddle yard is very impressive. I also loved your “silly montage”. Nothing silly about it at all. Wonderful running session to end with. I’m quite a bit behind with watching videos but will catch up with you eventually. Thanks for sharing. Roy.

[@dwaynejohnson4892]

Ok….. your running session absolutely inspired me.. the detail that you gave about the trains and the photography was world class and deserves to be in the most elite model magazines. Thank you and please add more like it. After all we are all in this hobby for our love of trains…. And we sometimes forget that we do all this hard technical work for the primary purpose of……. Running trains. Thank you for reminding me and for the really great experience.

[@EverardJunction]

I really enjoyed making that little segment. There will be more like it in future. Cheers

[@astolatpere11]

Really look forward to your updates. Thanks from Northern California.

[@Conrail1731]

Love the way you introduced your trains. It was like you were calling out actors for their curtain call credits

[@robertcotgrave5920]

Absolutely incredible 👏 🙌. Amazing. Keep up the fantastic work.

[@DoctorFaktor]

I said to myself that there's no point in sitting through half an hour of fiddle yard improvements, and here you are, proving me wrong. Thanks.

[@meruliouslacrimens5154]

What an absolute delight to see any of your vids, your attention to details that we know are there because we saw you create them, but at a brief glimpse you would never know were there are staggering. This is the era i worked for BR and you are just about perfect in all details. There are times when its hard to believe what we are watching are the modelling perfection you have attained and not the real thing. I particularly enjoyed the vids where you laid out the oh so familiar misplaced troughing with the odd lid out of place or broken lids and the one where you went to such lengths as placing all that junk that we all know collects in canals. Mind you as an ex-driver and professional audience, i think all your vids are great and i sometimes binge re-watch them all. Terriffic stuff.

[@EverardJunction]

Thanks for the kind words. Glad you enjoy the videos, more on the way as always. Cheers

[@ForburyLion]

Reminds me of school holidays in the 90's spent on the platform at Reading station taking photos with my 110 camera.

[@johnlladron735]

Thanks for the update. The railway is looking great!

[@Conrail1731]

Love the way you introduced your trains. It was like you were calling out actors for their curtain call credits. 👏👏👏👏

[@markvoegt2619]

Really impressive, informative and very enjoyable experience! Please keep them coming.

[@onnomulder9775]

A very great update Richard!!! Many thanks for sharing! Cheers Onno!

[@mattflaneur407]

Not only are you a great modeller, but your sense of theatre and showmanship conveyed in these videos is impressive. Your "silly little montage" was very enjoyable, all it needed was a commentary by Matt Berry! Love the step by step and clear explanations of your modelling, but also these snippets of theatre too. You should check out Mikkel's Farthing Layouts if you don't already know his blogs.

[@callumk5]

I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed the narrated running montage. Superb!

[@trafficlightman6]

The "Silly Little Montage" was probably my favourite part!

[@Groot-zc5rz]

Absolute work of art. Your fine weathering details are second to none.

[@johanjacobssonfranzen]

Loved, loved, loved the "silly little montage"!

[@myworld67]

A much nicer fit with a lot smoother traffic flow. Great Job as always. Thanks for sharing ... "Happy Rails". GMan

[@Grychon]

As others have already said, the montage of the running trains was absolutely awesome. Another fantastic video full of amazing detail 👍

[@daviemaclean61]

An impressive fiddle yard and the amount of rolling stock it can handle. Fyi - at 21:24 - you might be heading for a disaster at your block of flats! Wee bit of structural failure occuring!

[@garydoc]

Wow! Well spotted Davie…

[@davidcann4329]

Well spotted sir, I had to watch this a few times before I saw the "structural failure", I'm sure Richard will sort this out!

[@tidmouthmilk12]

Personally, I really liked the little montage! It's nice to get an introduction to some of the main members of your fleet and the kind of work they do. Speaking of the fleet, what's happening with the gronk? Will it still have a purpose at Everard Junction without the carriage sidings in the redesign?

[@m10cachilles43]

I'm hoping it ends up as a station siding pilot.

[@soerenwizard]

Greetings from a continental modeller. I do not strive to reach your level of skill, but I really enjoy your updates!

[@047678]

Love your vids and the narration is pleasing to listen to. One quibble...in the railways we have curves, not corners.

[@andrewpalm2103]

I could not help but laugh throughout the mid-video montage, with the 1980's industrial film background music and narration being so on-point. You have a very impressive stable of trains, beautifully weathered. Cheers from Wisconsin!

[@EverardJunction]

Glad you enjoyed it! It took a lot longer to film and edit than I'd originally planned. Cheers

[@simonkeyse8185]

I've followed you for a while now Richard even though I don't have an interest in railways, model or otherwise. But I have to say you do it better. Your attention to detail is second to none. On a separate topic. Love your ford Granada Coupe. My dad had one, only his was a Ghia, in I think 1977.

[@davidhale7551]

A great video, I like that you detailed the reasoning behind the mods to your fiddle yard. The "Montage" was brilliant, I used to watch the Westerns heading through Twyford heading for Reading when I was young, ( and living in the UK)

[@EverardJunction]

Cheers, glad you enjoyed it. I do like that Western, lovely model.

[@yarslowmodelrailway1]

HI Richard. I share your desire to have spacious, reliable storage. In fact, the Yarslow system started in the storage area - I thought it was that important! Interesting that you mention siding spacings having reduced with the move from Set Track to Streamline - I experienced the opposite. I got 16 double length tracks in using Streamline and would have come up way short had I used SetTrack. Another great vid - thanks.

[@rlm98253]

Greetings from Whidbey Island, Washington State, USA. Another outstanding video. Please consider producing a video showing and explaining your control panel. Thanks.

[@EverardJunction]

When I've built the control panel they'll be a video on it. Currently the layout is manually operated with the trains being DCC.

[@StationRoadModelRailway]

I've used the Peco curved set track points in the past, and they were notoriously unreliable for train operations. It wasn't so much the tight radius of these points but the large gap in running rails on the frog, particularly useless for steam locomotives with pony wheels. Did you consider extending the head-shunt sidings by curving them to follow between the main lines?... possibly doubling their lengths in some cases and fitting 3 car DMUs.

[@Krommeniedijk]

That montage caught me totally off-guard and made my week. Brilliant stuff.

[@chriswalker8440]

Absolutely superb and the visuals of the running trains is 1st. class, as is the general atmosphere of the period. Excellent stuff!

[@cncpgreatlakesdiv4896]

Great update Layout looks great. ATB TO YOU.

[@pureboxofscartcables]

The montage bit reminded me of those British crime capers like Snatch & Lock Stock. I'm amazed you find the time to do these great videos, let alone work on the best layout I've ever seen and restore a Granada.

[@markandrews70]

Loved the montage

[@JonasKaizer]

That montage was fantastic! Thanks for the update. Always enjoy your videos!

[@herrkiwi3110]

Just done something similar on my layout , now everything running a whole lot better and reliable, very rewarding , well done sir.

[@franktuckwell196]

Amazing, what with sound and all, its hard to not believe you are not there casually leaning on a gate watching it all unfold before you, except, you must stick down and make good the joins in the clouds, its the only give away that its not full size and i worked in that BR environment for over 20 years, fantastic stuff. All we need now is EVERARD JUNCTION, THE MOVIE!!

[@HemelDownModelRailway]

Brilliant video really liked seeing all the locos moving the freight 🙂

[@stephendavies923]

Richard, your hard work shows and was certainly worthwhile. I was expecting to hear a little "Fluff Freeman" in the run down. All right :-) Great content as always.

[@EtonieE25]

That’s quite a lotta stock you have there Mr Everade 👍

[@a11csc]

another helping of sheer indulgence and many thanks for it

[@fredburley9512]

That class 50046 moving so slowly is incredible. Great work.

[@jkernssr]

Bravo again to Everard Junction. The fiddleyard looks amazing while adding more versatility. Also, love watching your trains run. Makes me feel like I’m there.

[@dilwich]

Always a pleasure to watch.

[@mrweaverman1]

defo a how to video thanks richard for your amazing work

[@NOMADCREATIVESOLUTIONS]

Layout, weathering and trains all looking great

[@chrisclark4813]

Fantastic video, as a Reading lad, it's an amazingly realistic model. (The sight of a Western rounding a curve, almost, nothing better) I'm not a modeller but hopefully, constructive 'input', your smooth curves and track are perfect, but slightly jerky loco's in some shots are (I would respectfully suggest) your next/ongoing targets. Anyway, brilliant channel, all the best. Love from Reading Lad.

[@EverardJunction]

Not much I can do about the way a model moves at speed or accelerates. The only thing I can do is lay smooth track and hope for the best. The models all have their own unique characteristics, some worse than others. Cheers

[@WHP1980s]

The miss loco introductions section was a great watch, very 80's. Kept away from the set track Peco curve points since my early layouts, bad news really. Great update Richard ATB Graham 👍🚂

[@StyreneMikesModelShop]

Extremely well done video! The information was helpful, the montage was great fun and the running shots were as usual, lovely to watch. Thanks Richard, nicely done!

[@martynbuzzing3327]

Wow! That was some work. Looking great. 👍

[@gs425]

Great well made video again Richard. But I will make a point here that we are constantly fed paranoia about endless dropper wires and bus lines. The reality is they are only needed where sections don't get power, rather than every single section of track. Home layouts just don't need endless feeds soldering in and I feel its putting off newcomers. So if your points into the fiddle line tracks are electrofrog then you naturally need insulating joiners. Therefore one pair of wires to each track. Many people insist on on pair to each track piece. Rant over hahaha

[@chrisreynolds7412]

Hi, nice update. Could you extend the headshunts by curving them to give you more storage ?

[@martinfinbow2120]

If you were to extend the head shunts following the curves at each end. You could use them to accommodate the longer freight trains when in storage. Pulling forward in to one then backing up to clear the forward point again.

[@kittonsmitton]

You mean curving the head shunts, great idea!

[@capitallines]

I think you did very well to survive so long with those set-track curved points, but there’s no going back now! Fantastic running session, too.

[@rupertcarss6704]

Love it! The montage is fantastic. Great music and commentary. Top job!

[@defel1]

Layout looks really good. Well done.

[@NicholassTrainChannel]

Good stuff Richard. Looks like the fiddle yard is working a lot better for you. I have to say that montage was on point! very authentic. - Nicholas.

[@mikeatpudhamjunction2323]

Great update. The extra lines in the fiddle yard will allow for greater running session. As well as fleet holding with the extra dead end lines too. Stay safe

[@going2thedogs]

Fiddle yard looks good Rich. A few more loops added as well which is always handy!

[@jeffreydavies9036]

A fantastic running session on this video. A mate of mine has an n gauge NSE based layout. I,ve got him to follow your channel. Just an observation. In your HST rake the TRUB would have faced the other way. I.E. the saloon would have been facing the first class . The reason I know is I worked on them as a steward . This coach replaced the TRUK which did have the saloon seating facing towards the second class coaches. The TRUB was unclassified when they entered service but was set up like a first class coach with a 4 and 2 seating arrangement. It sat 17 as there was a single seat as you entered from the kitchen/buffet area. Some passengers bought a second class ticket and sat in there for a meal. They were not happy if we were busy and kicked them out to join the plebs I second class after they gad finished and we needed the seat for someone else. I hope you don't think it,s a criticism because it,s not meant to be Thanks for posting a great video Regards Jeff

[@EverardJunction]

Thanks for the info Jeff. I've looked into the subject before and always found conflicting photographs. I'll swap it around when I get a chance. Cheers

[@jeffreydavies9036]

@@EverardJunction Hi I hope you don't think I was critersising. For ref the TRUB has 3 saloon windows, and was used on Inter City services only. The TRUK and TRSB had 4 saloon windows. Your HST is a W.R set, in this set It was the TRUK that had the saloon facing the second class and sat in the rake where your catering vehicle is situated, this then had a second class coach between it and the TRSB (or plain buffet car). They replaced the two catering cars with the TRUB a combined buffet restaurant and kitchen. The kitchen cars then got transferred to the Eastern Region when they started using HST,s in top flight service. I have seen pics of these sets with the two catering vehicles together and with one or two second class coaches between them I believe it was on the cross country HST,s the buffets had the saloons facing in either direction. But the buffet always sat between the first and second class. I didn't work cross country trains that often, I worked South Wales to Paddington services so I, not as clued up on these formations as the Inter City sets. If you are happy with the way the set looks leave it be. Please don't change it around because I have brought it up. Again I,m no rivet counter and just like to see good layouts running and I really enjoy watching your vids Thanks for posting Take care Regards Jeff

[@kevinheard8364]

really very nice, indeed, sir. Great job!

[@peteshoulders1]

super as always thanks for a smashing video well crafted cheers

[@simaesthesia]

Nice job, Richard; really well thought out. Have to say that @20:29 shows that the effort you put in to extending that background scenery was well worth it!! Loved the montage. Thanks.

[@mickeybarrass3625]

superb as usual Richard. Love the two tone grey 47. The fiddle yard looks very impressive indeed. I know one thing, living in them block of flats would be handy if your into ye trains. judging by the excellent montage, I think its fair to say that Everard Station, would be a hot spot for Train Spotters. So it might be worthwhile thinking about having a few vegging on your platforms, when you do get to that station build. Thank you for sharing Richard.

[@mangleytown]

Nice to see that fiddle yard full, great loco and rolling stock collection 😀

[@1BCamden]

The montage story was great, brought the layout to life, thanks. Are you thinking about extending the head shunts (flex track) to gain a bit more additional storage. Thanks Rich, fantastic episode, fiddle yards are sometimes a second thought moment, but are usually more important than we think. The body changes are possibly an episode in itself. Best regards

[@davidglass2065]

I have to say,your montage was awesome. The use of each train and why was an eye opener and very informative. That got me thinking, is there any chance you could be persuaded to do more of them please. Maybe adding what each train could pull in the way of carriages and the reasons why it was used and why you used it ? I feel this would be a great help to us arm chair modellers and those of us that were not about in them days to build a better knowledge and more in depth railway. I have to say I had always just stuck a train to whatever I wanted and had never thought about the things you had said in your montage. Keep safe my friend and I hope to see more of this great content.

[@bnbantics]

I thought that "Silly Little Montage" was really awesome! You should totally do more of them!

[@sitearm]

Rail Fashion Show! 10:57 - cue the music and first on the model runway is... *humor* ty for posting and highlighting!

[@ianwalker2250]

at first I thought the montage segment was just dross production until I realised it was a tongue in cheek thing - then I loved it. Keep the videos coming - love your channel

[@EverardJunction]

Glad you enjoyed it. It was meant to be a bit of a parody akin to the various "enthusiast" videos that were available in the 90s and early 2000s. Cheers

[@DJ_K666]

@EverardJunction Love it! Now I'm saving up for the Accurascale 31 and sond of their mk2s. See you at Warley!

[@davidstrains4910]

Decent video there Richard, some great work done and good to see some trains running round the layout.

[@adamtaylor7150]

hahahaha, I loved the montage, it was like a time machine back to the 80s!

[@florasdad1]

Loved the montage and the back stories

[@edbridges1164]

I really enjoyed the Montage at the end! Kind of reminded me of some of the old school "Video Magazines" from back in the Day! Was it "Railscene" plus really do enjoy this era in railway history British Rail was escaping Corporate Blue and entering into a Colourful New Era! Also love the Swapping Bodyshells idea too things like that did happen on the Railways reuse of certain items mostly things like Traction Motors and Engines were obviously swapped between class members! Anyway love your work sir and long may it continue

[@therealdeal6846]

This looks amazing WOW!!!..great video thanks for posting!!

[@modelrailwaynoob]

Good job. Loved watching the stock at the end

[@Ozbert]

Thanks again for a beautifully shot piece throughout and especially the montage (reminded me of the "master of ceremonies" introducing the beauty queens). Ha-ha ; - )

[@EverardJunction]

Cheers, glad you enjoyed it.

[@martinworrall5888]

Great vlog,loved the commentary 👍

[@TheModelBoatGuy]

Slightly reminiscent of Dio at the start! Love the intros you do. Fantastic content too 🙂

[@Mapplewell_Park]

New fiddle yard looks great, and gives me food for thought for mine, which needs a re work. Can I just ask what do you use for your station platform edging. I can’t find the video which you mentioned these small tiles you use. Just in the process of building my station………. Then my fiddle yard again it would seem!! 😫

[@KitTags-ly7hl]

have you tried the Hunts 'hinged' couplings? Trying them out on Hornby 60s and 56s and seem ok, also on Bachmann VDAs which I find derail a fair amount, which check the underside as you've done with your wagons.

[@trainsmachineryldegmtrains3509]

Nice models, perfect video! Thumbs Up

[@stratman9449]

great job...again.....well done....love your filming....and great fiddleyard.......so what's next....😀

[@mtty1988]

Love your Neil oade ashpeth n gauge style spotter videos. Makes it look so better just seeing sections of it makes the layout look more realistic. Also is your 60,66 knolllage all from Ruairidh macveigh’s “motion history” vidoe of the 59 and 66

[@stephenriley9084]

Very enjoyable!👍. Regards Stephen.

[@darrenmould8676]

Hi v interesting film. learned alot. 3 way points made me think.

[@davidcann4329]

Thanks for sharing this massive update Richard, the fiddle yard looks amazing and this will increase the variety of trains you can run. The layout is just looking so real, it has a real sense of making you feel you are there, not the only one thinking this! You'll now be able to move on to the other areas of the scenic layout and continue your amazing detailing work. Also, your attention to weathering and colouring are second to none, not the only one to say that either.... Can't wait until the next episode.

[@EverardJunction]

Thanks David. Many hours of weathering in there for sure. I do enjoy that part of the process. Cheers!

[@blatherskite9601]

Most impressive! Can you actually reach the eaves side of the fiddle yard, to rescue derailed stock?

[@stocktonjunction]

Another great video Richard. impressed as always. I have a few issues myself that I need to iron out as do all us modellers Loved the running session 👌 you have a great selection of locos and stock 😀

[@gazclass58]

Wow amazing running session Richard your fiddle yard looks outstanding I think I would of done the same has you more storage space for a lost of two wagons I could live with that to. Love the dirty Tankers and of course my favourite loco the class 58 going round on the coal train.

[@thetbird69]

Really like the montage it was very informative and would be good for someone looking to build their own layout of a similar age.

[@samlane1721]

Loved the video it’s given me a few ideas for my own fiddle yard anyways my question is are we ever going to get a full in depth layout tour? I’ve been watching for years and haven’t seen one

[@peterkrause5187]

Love the well video, music and commentary break in the middle! Fantastic! 🙂 Hmmmm.... another minor anger moment 😉 I have plans for a transverser fiddle yard, but the presentation of your layout has me triggered for a mod!!😄 All good though! Your details on your layout is commendable!

[@anthonycarty9433]

As always another impressive video . Would it be possible to have a pictorial representation of the layout and some dimensions just to see how impressive it all is. Many thanks for posting .

[@mikehumphrey7413]

Your Layout is looking great. What is next? looks finished.

[@colinrimmer789]

The montage was a great way of showing your stock Richard 😁