Have to add ,I get so jealous of folk like yourself Graham who manage to keep everything neat and tidy and everything in its place. I tend to have to go round evry so often and do a big tidy up as I am quite messy and unorganised . Thanks for showing us around the train room. Sometimes take for granted on KZfaq and forget just how good and how well done your layout actually is.

Hi Graham, that's very kind of you to show us you layout barn. Love the BBQ. You know, when you showed the garden from the window, I half expected to see a railway line not a road! LOL. Lovely rolling stock. Cheers Jerry

Much tidier than I will ever be Graham. Thanks for the tour. Cheers, Bob

Absolutely brilliant train room Graham, and splendid garden too! Thanks for sharing, all the best, Paul

Much appreciated- it’s always good to have a good look around and see if we can pick up any ideas. I have learned a lot from your scenic videos. Thanks Alan

What a great video Graham we all have better understanding of what Lakeside is all about. Your rolling stock is amazing

Graham. Many thanks for showing us your layout and its location. I'm new to modelling (albeit retired now) and am very grateful for the opportunity to virtually visit you. You have given me a Lot of ideas to explore so thank you very much again.

Thank you for the tour Graham. Your layout is beautiful as ever. And the behind-the-scene is very informative. You gave me a lot of great ideas for what to do with my layout room.

All I can say is "How the 'h - ll ' do you manage to keep it so clean, tidy. dust free etc. etc. etc. ?" I appreciate you are blessed with good knees and I presume back, legs & hips etc. . I wish I was ( currently in the 81st year in 2022 , still slowly getting bits done and added to my layout. Frustrated at times, annoyed with myself at others, but I would not be without the challenge and enjoyment all aspects of deisign, construction, problem sorting etc. etc. the hobby provides. . Well done Graham, . I think I shall now go and have a tidy up and dust around. Regards Jim R

Just found this one Graham. Amazing to see this layout compared to the way Lakeside is now. This one is a pretty impressive layout too. All the best.

mesmerising Graham you are a credit to the train modelling world !! thank you loved it nick

Thanks for showing us round Graham, love the idea for the fiddle yard, and look forward to seeing it developing. That is a lovely setup you have, and a wonderful collection. Cheers John.

Thanks for showing us your train room Graham, it's wonderful. I think it's a great idea to do this because everything is in perspective for us now. I love the fact that you have stuff from your childhood too, I wish I still had some of mine.

WOW Graham that is some man cave 😎 and What an amazing fleet you have hiding away. Looking forward to seeing the fiddle yards develop. Many thanks for sharing your model world with us all 👍 .... Jason

Thank you Graham, for sharing your wonderful layout room with us. Very impressive indeed.

Hi Graham, Just watched your Train room video, Made me smile I thought i was getting a tour of Hattons model shop. Youve certainly got some gear. What a lovely room to have it in.Love the lift out section in the middle. Regards Duncan.

lovely layout Graham, great to see your setup. also the way you've organised your terrain kit, old horbys etc is very helpful. cracking garden to!

Oh, so you can get through the slot at the side. I thought it was completely blocked. Oh now that's handy, a toilet right there. I would've been a lovely room to spend a night. You've got a large board at 8 x 16. Nice visit today, thanks for having us up for a cup o tea and a look round. Rob

Thankyou ,I still can't work out wether you burst a dream bubble of a fantasticlayout or proved what can be done with a bit of belief and imagination So keep up the good work so we trainees can learn how it's done. Thankyou again. Peter. (First train set at 60) now I know there is more than an oval.!!

brilliant tour round Lakeside Graham,thanks a lot ! i'm a long standing fan as you may know, having been right round vimeo and back with you ! very impressive set up which gives me and many others hours of enjoyment...long may it continue all the best dave

How interesting to look around someone else's train room, Graham. Fascinating. It may be relatively small but so tidy and interesting. Thanks for an entertaining video. Your fiddle yard is an ambitious plan.

Well impressed, the joinery work and wiring are really impressive thank you for showing it to us

Beautiful place Graham. Love the whole setup and the birds!! Take care friend - Matt

Hi Graham, I've only just had a chance to watch this video, absolutely amazing location and a great train room! Your layout looks so good from all the different angles, that's what I like about your layout, you run what you like rather than tied to a location/era = lots of stock to run 😂 thanks for showing us around , cheers Dazza

Smashing video Graham. Thanks and great to see you back. Hope Ruby is settled in now.

Thanks for showing us around! Very impressive facilities; I am so jealous. I see you learnt the hard way that light colour carpets are never the best choice for keeping clean!

I'm just completely astounded graham you left me speechless on this one just amazing it is has already been said a true man cave the old stock you talked about I had one those grey shell tankers as a kid lol

A priceless space, Graham. Thanks for sharing. The layout is really taking shape. In some ways it feels like I'm personally involved in its evolution even though I haven't lifted a finger to give you a hand lol!! Cheers! :)

Nice update Graham. It's wonderful to see behind the scenes. Ross

that is an awesome collection you've got, you have it so well set out and organized underneath your layout. Well impressed.

Nice overview of the layout and how you have stored everything. A very impressive display of your work.

A superb tour indeed Graham. Certainly is a proper train room! So tidy and well set out too! The stock is so well ranged and easy to get at. Love how all your scenic materials are so well set out too. Mines just a mess and always losing stuff. A wash room too! Would love something like that! :D More time to play trains. Hope the plans for the fiddle yard work out. Certainly would be quite a sight! Keep up the amazing work and thanks for sharing!

Wow. What a great layout. Can't wait to see how it develops.

What a dream space for a layout to build in and thank you for the tour around and seeing new views of your layout. There are a lot of shots I could point out that I liked, one being the lift out Manor House section. Seeing your childhood rolling stock, and after watching your other videos in random order, the progression the layout has gone thru.

It's like a train Mecca !!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the tour Graham. Regards Scott

Thank you for the tour Graham. Thoroughly enjoyed this video. If my layout one day becomes even half as good as yours I will be a very happy man. :)

Graham, enjoyable and informative overview/update .. Also great job on the Burned Out Car diorama .. Looking forward to future projects. Manor House .. might that be; Foulston Hall, has a nice ring :) cheers john

A Great Layout Graham, lot's to see, it makes my small effort look grubby, but then again as you say we all make use of the space we have, thanks for the tour,,,, Regards Mark

I really enjoyed the overview of Lakeside Graham it will be great to follow the remainder of the build . Regards Gav .

Hi Graham This turned up on suggestions so decided to give it a watch. It’s interesting to see how Lakeside has changed. Cheers Kev

Great to see the barn inside and from a different perspective Graham, and I would die for that loo, a bucket doesn't quite cut it lol. And that is a fabulous plan for the incline, can see it working well and a great entrance/exit feature with the tunnel mouth.

Evening graham, thanks for the insight looks very impressive and well deserved

It's only 3 years since I joined KZfaq but the progress that you've made in that room has been amazing , I have watched a lot of those loco's under the layout arrive in that time and remember how excited you were each time . I never realised it was an en suite layout , very handy in cold weather .......Peter

hi graham the layout looks fantastic and the room is well laid out for a train room keep up the great work

I am really impressed, you have what for me is only a dream but you look to be so organised. I love it.😀

Really interesting to see the whole room in context to the building itself Graham. I often say to my wife if I had a loo and a fridge I could spend a lot longer up in the loft so love your loo up there. I also like your organised storage as I am a bit fanatical about that, not that you would ever know as my loft always looks a mess. I am just in the middle of trying to sort it out now I have a lot less 'stuff' to store, just bigger boxes with the new 0 gauge set up. Keep up the good work and look forward to seeing your helix idea as I never really sorted mine out when I had one. Robin

A wonderful layout, Graham, and so TIDY! I wouldn't dare share views of my tip of a railway room.

A very interesting and enjoyable journey to the train room. Thanks for sharing....All the best....Tom

I've been following along since the early days Graham and have always admired your skill and workmanship. It's a great layout for such a small space. You have had many ups and downs during construction but as always these things are trivial when you look at the end result. Congratulations on your progress from the kitchen floor to the empire upstairs. Cheers from Aust (now entering Autumn). P.S. What a great rotating sculpture in your garden.

Great layout & video Graham, enjoyed it very much!

Thank you for this behind-the-scenes. I'm sure that your trains are very happy to live there :)

Thanks for the tour Graham, if I can get to a tenth of the layout you have I shall be very happy !!

Thanks for the overview, I can't believe you went through the entire video without banging your head, lol. I am looking forward to the fiddle yard and the problem that I ran into by adding to many turnouts thus providing no length for storage. Great video

Thanks Graham for the show around of your layout, I also was wondering about where and what of the layout too so thanks for that. I also keep my old Triang Hornby stuff as well, like you I can't through them out, I also have some broken items that I may put on the layout in a scrap yard being cut up.Looking forward to more updates.

Impressive space you have there Graham. Great to meet you today. Laurie.

Beautiful layout. Thank you for sharing.

Great tour Graham. It's a tight fit but you've made excellent use of every inch. David.

Wow Graham, you've got more stuff than most model shops I reckon! LOL. Thanks for the tour, it's a great setup!

Thanks for the tour....Superb !

Neat set up you have there Graham . It will intresting to see the progress of your fiddle yard.

Thanks Graham , really enjoyed the tour.

Fantastic as always Graham

Nice house seems beautiful outside. Keep up the good work. Henry

Nice set up. Your double level fiddle yard elongated helix plan sounds mental, can't wait to see it!

Simply wonderful. Congrats.

Very nice Graham. Spent years building layouts and modules in sheds and garages when we lived in the UK - nothing splendid like your set up. Now in Canada I have a basement to play with which just changes all the rules and is much more agreeable. Mark

Very interesting Graham, thanks for showing it.

Very nice man den Graham ,and it's neat and tidy...bonus ! Great to see around the Foulston residence again. It will be soon time to abandon the railway and enjoy the garden. Andy

That is absolutely amazing. I will show that to my grandsons as we are starting out on a small 6 ft by 2 ft layout.

Love your kinetic sculpture!

cracking layout Graham! great video tour thanks.jim.

I agree with you keep the boxes, great layout, happy model railroading...Zane

Great overview Graham, love the idea off connecting the fiddle yard, save all the handling off the stock.In a year or two if it was me I would be away down through ceiling to join up with bottom room and create another world below with a seamless connection. But as you say it took long enough to get this far. It looks class as is. Look forward to updates.

well I guess you are not worried about a flood in the layout room, lol., what a great video, you have a couple spare trains to run, so never get bored with a single train, all the time. wow first class layout room, you have a washroom too, it was really mice to see the full layout in one screen shot, I didn't see the post man and postal box in this video either. ha, in a future video you might want to tell me to pay attention, and show it again,, lol. thanks for the walk around, and future plans, you need to get one American loco, say a conrail gp-38=3 he he just saying, thanks for sharing another great video, was a nice tour

I can only dream (and often do) about a train room just like this!

Very nice video!! I am impressed!! I'm looking forward to the double fiddle yard. Greetz from Holland!

It has changed a great deal since my last visit, I will never get my belly down that gangway now bruv, even if I could, I would need a box to stand on to see over the back scene lol. The split level storage yard with its elongated helix style system of moving between layers should hopefully work a treat. A big job for the coming months.

Great scenery Graham!!!!!!!!!

Man alive!! Absolutely GREEN with envy. Inspirational.

What a beautiful garden and train room. Most of my trains are Hornby . I not a fan of dcc. I’m 69 and old fashioned. Thank you for sharing.

Excellent layout, I've just subscribed to your channel. Lots of impressive stock and very well organised.👍

Very nice Graham, a proper 'man cave' :)

lovely video mate shows the whole expanse of the layout

Although that is a brilliant layout, your new one is so much better👍

Nice vid Graham keep 'em coming.

Great video tour of the layout. You sure do have a crazy amount of rolling stock. I couldn't throw out my childhood trains. I changed the wheels and couplers so I have around 25 pieces of rolling stock. I also have a few locos but they don't run. You can't get motors for the old Tyco but I did hear of a hack with computer CD drives using the motors from them.

It is a well organised backscene to support a fantastic layout. Maybe you could give some of the old triang locos an outing to Lakeside sometime .We all need to keep busy and active in retirement 😊. My own Triang pullman set continues to allow the Bachman youngster into the loft lol

HI Graham just taken possession of silver fox today, you were right it is a fantasic engine, i am new to the hobby so hope to have sound fitted at some point. Think your vids are fab. Peter B. Peterborough.

Great tour Graham :-)

A great tour Graham and it's nice that it's all self-contained away from the garage. I am envious of your carpeted staircase - lugging it all up the loft ladder for me. I thought I had a lot of stock/stuff, but apparently, compared to you, I have a long way to go! Before you went "off air" you were talking about installing a helix and I envisioned a spiral rather than the elongated incline you are planning. I had just about finished my helix (or the squiggle you make when trying to get a biro to work due to the positioning of roof trusses!) at that time, down to a fiddle yard below the main layout as you have. However, after much (rhymes with) mucking about it transpired that, while the radius was as big as I could make it, the curves were shaving off power and many of my locos couldn't make it, even without rolling stock in tow. I would advise you to make your curves as wide as you possibly can, even if it means them cutting across the fiddle yard space itself and not remaining outside the support legs. And to keep your incline as shallow as possible obviously. I'm sure you have calculated the sheer amount of track and points you are going to require, but I was going to suggest, to save (in no particular order!) your back, knees, wallet and sanity, why not just have an isolated marshalling siding, on the same level as the rest of the layout, at the control end, to manually set up each train before it ventures out onto the layout? After my aborted helix (it's still there - too much glue and screws for me to bother dismantling it!) I've gone right off fiddle yards. All I am saying mate, is think long and hard before you begin - but once you have I'm sure you'll give it your usual attention and it'll be fine. All very interesting. Cheers, Davie

thanks for the tour of your layout and room

Hi Graham, great layout a lot of work still to do. I have just subscribed, all the best to you & your family & Ruby. …….tony from RHYL.

Nice to see the Foulston Towers again Graham ...ruddy hell is like a railway shop under your layout ..and you keep getting more ? next you need a bigger railway room ...good idea with the Centre removal trap door ...Dave

lovely garden and great collection of stock. I would hate it think how you have spent over the years.

Lovley tour of The home of Lakeside, you have got enough model boxes to build a den out of them, totally forgot how much stock you actually had, I've started to put all my stock on a database so I know what I've got and weather it's running or not ....James.

Loved the grand tour. I think you should convert the loo into a signal box and control your layout from in there :-)

Hi Grayham Love the tour i am new just trying to fin my bench work my lay out is running all round my lounge started just before xmas about 3 more weeks work and than the corking. Many thanks for all your videos they are so help full i just picked a Z21 black with a fault on fixed that so playing with it let you know how i do. Good luck with the kitchin. Dave.

Very nice train room and setup all round Graham! Looks like you have a lovely garden as well. You're very tidy it seems - good to see! (Or is that the mrs being over-efficient?) ;-) Best of luck with the incline. Cheers, Joachim

That was great just like going on a behind the sceans tour of a film studios set.

absolutely wonderful layout of Lakeside if I could build a fraction of what you have done I would be highly delighted Graham give yourself a big pat on the back, I love the amount of loco's and rolling stock you have got. There must be quite a few £ there hope you have it insured. Anyway I'm waffling now time to go look forward to the video I'm sure it will be as good as all the others bye for now and happy modelling .......Chris :0)