You certainly don’t let the grass grow under your feet Graham . An impressive eye to detail , which you can see in your bus station. Looks absolutely fantastic .

Hi Graham,What can I say? It just's gets better and better just Fab,I have said it before and I will say it again? You are the Master my friend your layout and the build quality is at its highest in model Railway layouts and is driven by your attention to detail,Well done my friend,Kind Regard's,Jim.

I like the longer videos as I get to see more details of your layout 👍🏻👍🏻😁 Great way you have light setup on the truck.

Hi Graham, the bus station and the smooth running bus looks fantastic. The old saying "less is more" is very true, because you see some layouts that are riddled with bits and pieces and they resemble a junk yard. Exciting times ahead with construction of the village and the Magnorail road system. Really enjoyed this video and I`m looking forward to future videos with great anticipation. Cheers Greg

Great Video Graham ...very much looking forward to village build roadway and cycles ... love the 33 ... !

Hello Graham, I have only been following you for a few weeks but you are an inspiration to this 74 year old. I am really looking forward to your completing the Canal; I am fascinated by your plans and would just like to say, albeit that you probably know this already, that Magnorail now produce an “end-to-end” track that presumably would work with Canal Boats thus overcoming the need to have a “turn-around” at each end. I hope you don’t mind my mentioning this. I am looking forward, almost desperately, for your next Cabal instalment !! With very kind regards and many thanks for making an old man smile in this difficult times.

Just awesome Graham. Always full of ideas both big and small!! Cheers Murray

Evening Graham, everyone else as used the adjectives to describe your work on Lakeside. I am so pleased your mojo as returned and you are enjoying your modelling again. Thanks for sharing Lakeside with us all. Stay safe to you and yours Graham.

Wow, Graham... the road markings really made that area pop to its max now. The new loco is very sharp, too. With the Magnorail bike- it would not really be boring. It is a temporal activity, visitors, youtubers, or you watch and then watch other things, then come back to the cyclists. You can always add more, too. And you will always find a way to make it more interesting and fun than designed. Cheers!

Great update as always Graham. Bus station/depot looks fantastic and those road markings really do finish it off. Looking forward to seeing you progress to the village area. If it's anything like the previous Lakeside village then it's going to be pretty special. All the best Jamie

Graham your layout is a dream come trueI cannot understand how somebody who criticize a bus that is not jacked up proper when does all the wonderful things you see on the way out it's a dream come true I would give anything to have that lay out some people have small mind s be proud of what you have achieved

The bus depot looks absolutely fantastic and very atmospheric, very inspirational stuff there mate! Joe

Graham, another great video showing off the very detailed layout you have. It is very impressive and you have every right to show it off. Looking forward to the village and bikers build. Thanks for sharing and stay safe. Ken

Evening Graham, the bus station area is absolute mint now and i agree with less signage thoughts, as you say couple of bins and that area is sorted now. Glad they got the pro`s in with that nice wrecker and dandy light mod, love the village thoughts as for bikes not boring, how many folk when kids would chase each other around blocks for ages, either just racing or playing bike tig etc. Anyway i shall leave you with two words - Simply Epic cheers ken

Hi Graham, the high street with it’s running bus and beautiful station, along with all the wonderful details, really is a masterpiece. Superb job! I love the new loco. Looks great. So.....onward to the village. I can’t wait. See ya next time.

As always Graham, great work, looking forward to the village...cheers, Chris

Great update Graham, looking spot on with loads of areas of interest, thanks for sharing, all the best, Paul

Hi Graham those last few touches have really finished that scene off and it looks terrific and love the lights on the bus and the repair scene. Now I cant wait to see the village develop !! Your EWS 33 looks very good and I have just got the BR Blue weathered version and will check the wheels are clean before I run it !!!...………...….Keep Safe Cheers Kev

Really looking great Graham. Things are turning out well. Stay safe Cheers, Bob

You have been busy. Town & bus station just great. Class 33 really fits in well. Looking forward to your next phase. 👍👍 😎

I just love this, cant wait to find your other vids, love the little people.

Adding all that detail just shows what you can do, great no limits in this hobby the choice is yours! The magnorail cartridge is definitely the right thing to do, keeping it in its own stable environment and easier to get get working first. Like the idea of the raised section - a transition between levels - will be interesting to see which way you go. Stephen

It certainly has been a mega build that street scene, but I hope viewers can understand and appreciate the time efforts that go into something so amazing as that :). It came together perfectly and to be honest with the lovely present from Geoff (Tram Junction), the bus station most certainly set the whole lot off. I have seen the working Magnorail from Everard Junction and I think you will be happy with it once you get the setup issues sorted. But enjoy your bike ride with you wife hehehe. Look forward to more :)

Terrific job, Graham. You have been working hard. Love the bus. All I have to show for lockdown is one part-built guards van kit!

Hi Graham, nice additions to the layout and thanks for the heads up on the road markings. Susannah

Hi Graham looking very nice and the bus with lights looks great i look forward when you get time to do a night video very well done great video again and looking very much to the next one. Cheers Dave.

Well done Graham. Fantastic work thank you.

Well done Graham for an excellent job done on the bus station and surrounding area. It looks fantastic. I like your new Class 33 in the EWS livery, which is one of the nicest modern image liveries. Looking forward to seeing you and Hazel peddling your way round the village. It will keep you busy for a while at least, but should look great whan completed. Keep safe the both of you and speak to you Tues. Cheers for now buddy.............................Geoff

Fantastic Graham, the quality of the finish is amazing, I'm looking forward to following the building of the village keep the videos coming I look forward to seeing them. Stay safe Eddy xx

The bus depot looks fantastic... wow! Looking forward to seeing the village scene coming together and loving the raised roadway idea, I hope it works out for you.

Loving the Bus Station looks amazing....ohh very jealous Graham...you got a 33 in EWS my too favourite locos side by side, love all your videos. Have a relaxing bank holiday Jez

Morning Graham, Grand Job mate, love it 👍 Look forward to seeing the progress on the Village,

Great work on the bus station and town and you're quite right not to clutter it up too much. It may not be completely P word but when the Mark 1 hand has to get in to do something it's a pain! ;-) . I do wish you'd kept that Class 33 a secret - it's just popped onto my shopping list. Cheers

First off the bus station is superb Graham .absolute credit to you and your skills..second.. That class 33 looks so good in them E.W.S colours really suits it ..and third the push bike kit .awesome...Building it as cartridge...fantastic Graham ..Thinking out of the box again...TOP MAN.. cheers allan

It's all looking good. Fitting the Magnorail on top of the board seems like a good idea. As you say the road down will be less steep and the sloping back gardens will add a little extra interest. Not having to cut a hole in the baseboard is a bonus!

Thank you Graham, another fascinating show (!). That class 33 is a good looking model. I like that thin red line running around the roof edge. Have a good week. IB

Well done Graham..looking forward to seeing you and your lady riding round the village. lol Bus station looks great. Take care all the best.

Brilliant as ever. The did station has come out fantastically well, and I’m looking forward to being inspired further by your village scene. That class 33 almost tempting me back to oo gauge too!

Stupendous Graham, absolutely brilliant!! You have put a lot of thought into everything you've done. Really looking forward to the town & road, and love the idea of it being raised up & over too. Someone's left a few bits of rubbish laying about!!! -. road sweeper? haha. Superb my friend superb. 33 looks fab with the 66 alongside too! The No: ! end bus station is awesome. Take care Graham. Cheers Iain

They both look great together!!

Brilliant. I love the moving bus,

Great video graham the class 33 in EWS looks really nice The roads look really good you have done some great work there and glad to see that the bus has lights now it will look great in night time shots

Awesome video as always Graham !! Stunning loco this class 33. I'm loking forward to the build of the Magnorail system. Cheers Onno.

G'Day Graham, another brilliant video as always, the jack under the green bus you were talking about is called an air bag jack here in Oz, they are a very practical unit especially on soft or boggy ground. Keep up the great vids, stay safe and take care, regards Bill in Oz.

another great video mate the bus station is amazing cannot wait to see the progress on the village loving the channel

Looking great really coming together sir

Everything’s looking GREAT Graham !

Hi Graham. Thank you for the video, most inspiring. I've just had a couple of days of model railway hell tbh. I've had major issues with my removable section since adding the higher level and have ended up catching and tearing up 4 sections of track out of 6 while trying to get it to work again. But seeing what you've done has managed to deter me from taking a chainsaw to the entire lot! lol. I think i need to go away and sleep on it for a century or two then come back and sort it out ;) Keep up the good work my friend!

Thank you, another great video. Love what you have done thus far and really looking forward to seeing what you do in the future.

We call them Air Bags graham much easier than a ten ton trolley jack ! great update ! I have noticed that heljan wheels do need cleaning they seem to have a coating on them from new ..

looks great, you have done a fantastic job. Also like the fact they are Eastern National , I look forwards to your next stages

Looking fantastic very detailed layout, Nice new addition to your locomotive fleet.

Hello Graham, thank you for putting up another interesting video, the layout is looking superb, stay safe, all the best, Stephen.

Another superb video Graham. Is it weird I image myself as on of you layout figures when I watch you running sessions😂. Keep safe, Paul

Great stuff Graham.... Love what you do mate

Fantastic Graham love the road markings and I agree with your on the amount of road signs. Just an idea have you thought about raising the village level with the bus station and town. You could have a nice cutting at the rear of the village with a shallow grass embankment running down to the tracks. Keep up the great work is very inspirational and stay safe my friend. 👍

oh that's looking good - the road way is so realistic and look forward to see the magna rail getting built. On a slightly different note your drop down freight terminal has given me an idea to try the same idea on my own layout - so hope you don't mind if I pinch your idea. Cheers Euan

The bus is perfection and I am very much looking forward to the Magnorail. The whole street is a masterpiece. cheers for now, Rob

Looks great and the new part will really finish it off.

That looks fantastic i love it what a great job graham

Great stuff, you've got your next project ready to go 🌈😷🇬🇧

Great video graham. Sent you a sub there. Looking forward to seeing more of this. Fantastic layout.

Excellent Graham ! gold star to you lol OO the cyclist are here ? you know i cant wait please show as much as you can my dear friend as not much out there in content ? well the mechanics of it ? Great weather all week so have a few cold ones and build it outside in the sun ! Thanks Graham splendid job as always talk soon John from Chichester !

Yet again sir you have shown your amazing attention to those small little details that surround our everyday lives I wonder if in some past live you could have embarked on a career in town planning haha You seem to be creating a miniature place that most of us would be prepared to reside in Pure and pleasurable entertainment I wait in anticipation for you next foray into the development of this fascinating project I myself have been on this journey with your good self since the first layout you started So am totally 100 percent in favour of seeing you reach your ultimate destination With Kind regards Mike in the U.K.

Good job on the road markings Graham. I think the layout is already a huge improvement over the previous Lakeside! Joachim

(Joe)...excellent my mate 👍👌

hi, graham the road markings look awesome really comes out well quite agree about road signs in some towns. the bus station has come out fabulous. i have been looking at the very same class 33 and that's were i had seen it too so very tempted 😄 really look forward to seeing the cyclist going that will be a fabulous feature well stay safe and well all the best al 😄👍👍👍🙋🏻‍♂️

looking great well done

Couldn't agree more about the plague of signage.

Hi Graham , great video , but did notice that the stop sign by the bus station is good but the road marking is incorrect it should have parallel unbroken white lines .

Just keeps getting better Graham. I'm very interested to see how the Magnorail is installed, perhaps you could do one of your kitchen table 'how to' videos about it?

Graham just one little minor thing. STOP line by the bus station you have a broken white line they have to be continuous for a stop sign.

Great stuff looks super

What an absolutely beautiful layout you have made! You need a model size policeman to ticket the person that threw that trash and didn't use a waste receptacle! Edit: Oops! You have plenty of police, I guess they're still busy with the shoplifters!

Hi Graham, just for your information where you have a stop written on the median you should also have a hexagonal stop sign on a post with it for reference to vehicles where the median sign is obscured, just as you have give way lines with a give way sign at a minority junction. Also the broken line beyond the stop writing should be solid.

Amazing and such detail

Hi Graham, just a thought for the bike routing, to break up one of the straight lines you could place a parked car or skip outside one of the cottages for you and your good lady to ride around. As I say, just a thought.

Graham , as you've created the bus station, and your bus is of the Eastern National era, what would look good is a double 'N' sign at the rooftop cos they all had them., just a thought?

I'm running out of hats to take off to you Graham. The bus station has come out better than I imagined and the class 33 is a looker. When are you going to do the sliding door th the lift mate?

Just a thought. How about a height restriction sign on the roof entrance to the bus station for service vehicles. I enjoy your layout immensely. Cheers

How about some rubbish bins? the air ballon is refer to as a air Blader, and they raise the vehicle just high enough to change the tire. they weigh around 100kg .

Hi Graham, nice video as always. I love the Heljan 33, what sound and decoder did you fit, or are going to fit? I used the Leggomanbiffo ESU v5 in my Heljan 27, which you saw when we met last year at Milton Keynes. I assume the real 33 and 27 had very similar sounding engines. I thought your bus having the tyre changed is a brilliant idea. Our tyre man at work when changing tyres on our loaded trailers uses a 25t bottle jack, which is raised using an air line attached to his work truck. One other thing I noticed, the tyre man who is refitting the tyre on the wheel would have an air line and an air socket wrench laying on the floor where he had removed the wheel nuts off the front wheel when he took it off to work on. A small picky thing really but I thought you'd like to know. Looking forward to seeing those cyclists riding through the village, I've seen those on another layout somewhere and they look amazing when finished, another great addition to Lakeside. Anyway, enough from me, regards Dave.

Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs..... Reminds me of the song Signs by The Five Man Electrical Band. They were a Canadian rock band. Looks absolutely fabulous, unbelievable work you do. I have the magnorail system but haven't installed it yet. Cant wait to see how you do it. csxmad built a very complicated and interesting car auto load system with it, check his video out if you haven't.

Good evening Graham looking amazing just wanted to say are you putting any bins in the bus area. Good luck with your village looking forward to more of your videos.

hi graham where did you get the road markings and the bike well done mate looking cool

Hi Graham, the bus/coach station looks so realistic. Job well done. I know you said you don't want too many signs, but could I make a suggestion for one more? A sign at the entrance to the bus station saying "NO ENTRY. BUSES, TAXIS AND CYCLISTS EXCEPTED." The village should look really good when it's finished. Can I ask if you received a KZfaq notification for my latest video. Been 12 months since the previous one and I'm not sure if the notifications are still valid. Re the quick delivery of the Magnorail system. that was great service. Less than 48 hours from the continent to the UK! Here in Australia we're lucky if we get mail from interstate in even 48 hours! Sometimes even longer. Even mail from one side of Melbourne to the other can take 2 or 3 days to travel a total of 100km. Keep up the good work. FWIW, I've started to build the station roof canopy. I drew up the design on a CAD program called ProfiCAD at full 1:1 scale for HO. After printing and joining the pages together, it looks bigger then I thought it would The bending of the curves worked well, although not 100% perfect. :) Still, a coat of flat black or grey on them should hide most of the imperfections. I have to build at least 13 canopies spaced at - and this is being pedantic - 52.5mm centres! I am doing a video/s of the construction, so will see how it looks from the other side of the lens. Well I think I have prattled on long enough, so you and Hazel keep safe and well. .... Ian

Brilliant

Your road markings look very neat, but did you check the Traffic Signs Manual as a STOP line is a solid white line across the width of the carriageway for the traffic approaching that line? The yellow box junction markings might also not be in accordance to the manual as well as they do not cover the entire carriageway area in the junction.

That bus station has come together beautifully Graham , the road markings really bring the scene alive , love it . 👍 Just a quick request , what's the name of the Dutch company you used . I'm in France and ordering delays from the UK at the moment are just incredible . Thanks and keep up the good work .

Good morning Graham looking good. Do you mind me asking how wide is Kingsway high street.

Hi Graham can I ask what u use for the road surface.

Brilliant as always. Looking forward to the bicyclists making their rounds. Question on the road markings as they apparently be some sort of transfer/adhesive appliqué. Are you concerned about the friction of the guide magnet that runs the road at the front of the bus wearing through the road markings it passes over after some time?

The 33 looks great Graham. I wonder where Heljan got photos of a clean one to work from?😂 With the road through the village, I like the idea of raising it a bit. Any variation in height on a layout is good and, like you say, it will make the climb to the bus station less severe. Love the lights on the bus - very cool.👍 Here's a thought though: now that you've got some experience with fitting leds and switches/relays/timers, would there be a way to fit *working* brake lights on the bus? What I'm thinking is: could separate red leds be added at the back, worked via a reed? switch and timed like the actual stop/start of the vehicle? Is that maybe pushing it a bit?😂 I know you like a challenge and the tiny electronics are less of a black art now - could it be done?😂 I'll leave you thinking about that. Cheers for now, Dougie. Oh P.S. Remember, yourself and your good lady will need lights on your pushbikes, if you're going out after dark. Let's see you hide batteries on the bikes !!😂

Hello, I’ve like how you done your layout and buses moving, will we see any cars moving, your truck for the buses is it just wires or is there a track be for you put the wires in, I’m in OO Gauge and I’ve seen your new moving bicycle can you tell me the name of a company who makes them and box number and if you by two boxes can they join up. Thank you, I will give you 10/10 I enjoy watching your video. Thank you. From John

Can you make the people move next , eating lunch , helicopter flying over , just joking but actually helicopter possible . If only the real world towns where organised as well as this.ps saw bins from a company shedrings hobbies , great 3D bins amongst other stuff

The only thing I noticed is the disabled access has no slope for wheelchairs

you should have oprationing level crossing as well the bikes

Whilst I agree with testing the magnorail I would advise you to make the gradient on the road first! Otherwise you may make it all fit and then struggle with that gradient! Not criticism just an opinion wouldn’t want you to have to remedy a mistake!

where did you get the magnorail what is the company