Absolutely brilliant Graham, the castle really pops out now, it will be even better with the taller back scene. I can just imagine walking around the castle then having an ice cold pint in the pub. The tunnel for the canal boat is a great idea, that will look amazing, lots of hard work there my friend. Cheers Martin

Fantastic, Graham! Nice recycling as you have done and it looks excellent. The bridge and gate with the canal going through is epic. The concept on the scenic with the pub and the castle is already standing out. Always a pleasure! Cheers!

Great update!! Very nice canal!! Awesome castle too!!! Well build Graham! Love it!! Cheers Onno.

Very nice. I love the traditional Narrowboat too, it looks very authentic.

Very, very impressive Graham. That looks incredibly realistic. It all seems to blend together so well. Keep up the good work. Cheers, Bob

Hi Graham you are such a talented craftsman the new castle area is coming along very well. keep up the good work.

You ought to be pleased Graham it looks great , keep up the good work

Fantastic Graham! Cheers, Dan

Looks fantastic Graham, your layout just gets better and better, always look forward to your updates

Hi Graham looking great as usual keep up the good work.......... Paul

Castle looks great , can’t wait to see the canal finished

Very, very good Graham.

Hi Graham, you said I haven't done much, you're quite modest. The castle and the Surrounding are just great, as for the rest you're never short of idea. See you soon. Cheer's.

Oh My, Hubby got me to watch this, as he was totally awe struct! He has been following your Vids for a little while, but doesn't leave comments, so I will. Love love loved this. Well done. Please keep them coming :)

With the castle, cannel, pub and church, it harkens back to episodes of Keeping Up Apperances. Nice work as always.

Hello Graham a great stream. 👍

Castle and surround looks great.

The castle and that corner of the layout is just outstanding. Its amazing to see, thank you for sharing

The castle looks amazing Graham all blending in nicely thankyou for the video

Wonderful video

Great looking castle sat proud upon the hill. I am just about to restart my model rail journey after a 50 pause. (I know, that sounds a very long time) So I am viewing loads of channels to get ideas and advise as a lot of things have changed in the intervening time. Once ready I will set up a dedicated YT channel for information gathering and to document my return.

It’s really looking good Graham . I like the working canal boat. Cheers Kev

Hi Graham Glad you have reused the rocky outcrops , they always look so realistic . Now you have no lift up section, can you do a video of you crawling underneath the layout . Just for research purposes of course 😂. Best wishes and kind regards as always 😀👍👍👍

That looks brilliant

Hi Graham it's all looking Fantastic. The Castle looks perfect in the corner. Such a clever idea to put a Canal Tunnel under the Castle. Always inspired by your top quality ideas in action. Properly thought through. All very impressive. Many thanks for letting us all see. Best wishes Richard Crompton. Scarborough.

Hi Graham 👍 absolutely awesome really looking good my friend

Really great work Graham, this will be a fantastic scene when its finished, cheers David

Looking good matey. Minor technicality, if the horse is changing side there is normally a gap to pass the tow line through in the bridge.

Some great progress on that castle and the surrounding area there graham, keep up the great work.

Well you haven't Disappointed me its looking as good as I've come to expect from your Builds Castle Looks great there and very Cleaver to make the Canal disappear in the tunnel at the Castle Very Nice Love it Thanks

thanks for the update Graham, loving this totally

Wow looking good Graham or shall I say King Graham.

That is a nice looking castle on a very picturesque hillock. Great job. Looking forwards to the rest of that section being completed.

Graham, tremendous progress! A really good scene developing there. Regards Stephen.

Great looking castle and scenery!

Impressive Graham

You should be pleased Graham...lovely job on the castle and the canal. They look great together. All the best.

Looking great Graham, nicely taking shape. All good things are worth waiting for. Keep enjoying your scenic work and details. Carry on with the great work my friend. Clive.

Hi Graham - it looks fantastic - well done. Was just thinking back over all of your videos - from very humble beginnings on the kitchen floor (if my memory serves me right) to this amazing piece of modelling today. Amazing progress!

Astonishing layout and modelling

Castle looks fab , metcalfe should sign you up

Quite a lot of imagination has gone into this layout and it makes a refreshing change from the usual twee bucolic scenes that are so often presented in OO gauge! The Metcalfe Castle kit has been used to good effect. Thanks for uploading.

That castle is so impressive Graham, looks brilliant. Well done

A interesting idea Graham, I like the castle and the build . Fred watching as always 😎👌☕️

Great looking castle, can't wait for the canal to be finished.👍

Graham, your use of the castle is inspired! It's not an easy item to add to any model railway - even a large one - but I think you have smashed this! The canal remains a point of great interest for me. I guess having the mini undercarriage on the barge means that the water will need to be quite level to allow for ease of movement. Interesting to see how you deal with that and ensure realism. Still water runs deep though!

Good evening Graham. Great video my friend really loving your plans. when you go to Tintagel castle you can go to the castle by land rovers they run from carpark to castle main entrance.

Hi Graham , well done with the castle , it looks the business. Many years ago I had the same thoughts about some sort of vehicle to transport people up a hill to a country manor on my layout . I finally plumped for an Airfx 88mm gun and tractor , the tractor was converted to a Charabanc with driver and passengers in it . All the best , Frank.

The castle is spectacular 👍👍

`Is that all` Graham, wow when you panned back to show your castle it looked spot on and the positioning of the church I feel is correct. Where I live in Dover the castle has a church within it, which can only be accessed from within its grounds. You rightly so should be pride of what you have achieved in this area, don't forget to install a parking meter in the castle car park (lol), a transit minibus perhaps to transport the disabled into the castle. Can't wait to see the canal and working lock in place, take care regards Barry..

Brilliant job Graham. It`s going to look stunning when finished. Regards Lord Al. P.S. If am a lord does this layout make you a Duke,, lol The Duke of St Neots.

Hi ya Graham. Wow! This scene is just getting better and better. The canal with it’s stone pedestrian bridge and the stone wall portal into the castle area, magnificent. And with the Church soon to be sitting on the hillside, wonderful. What a great day someone could have. Arriving by canal boat to take a tour of the castle, and later in the day taking in a meal and beverage at the pub……great day. Thanks Graham. See ya next time.

Looks great 😊

Great progress … the castle and hill look fab and the canal tunnel is a superb idea! 👏

Graham what about a flagpole in one of the turrets a nice proper union jack.

Nice progress so far Graham.

Looking fantastic mate I still loving your content

The Castle looks spectacular, as for a little vehicle many attractions like that use a golf buggy, to move people around

Well good

just a thought for your transport up to castle, i cant help you with this (building one) but a lot of farm parks that you can visit have a covered trailer with seating towed by a tractor so people can see the animals maybe you could build something along these lines

Good progress on the lock, Graham. Now you have established the final design specifications by proof of concept, you are now in a position to built the final model for installation. The castle and grounds have come on in leaps and bounds and looks splendid, as does the scenic break solution which is most appropriate for its location. The church on top will add to the illusion by distracting the eye. Looking forwards to seeing further developments. Best, Jason.

I really like how the canal disappears beneath the castle.

Looking good! Bet you have a long list of things to do though!

I've wandered around a few castles up & down The UK in my time, but never tire of seeing another in such a prime spot. I hope the gift shop has a good (colour) book on the history (and maybe a leather book mark or an embossed pen!). Very nice. Love the canal tunnel entrance. You speak my visual language sir. Good progress - nice to see.

Looks fantastic. That castle is a wonderful kit. Really like the tunnel entrance. Excellent work (as always) Was going to suggest a golf buggy but someone already has. However. Some london stations have large people movers like a stretched golf buggy but i imagine this will be equally difficult to get. Best wishes. Jon

Hi Graham that castle looks fantastic I have been looking at that kit for a while Metcalf kits are very and affordable. And the canal I can see it all coming together now great work looking forward to the next video.

The castle scene looks great, and the rest is looking very promising, Graham. I'm still nervous about my grandson seeing the canal scene, though 🙂👍

Hi Graham. Just wondering how the kit car is coming along. It's been a while since the last video. Keep up the good work, cheers from Oz.

Maybe you put the Time Team mob at work in the moat doing some archaeology.

i also have the castle on New Hall Road, was an absolute swine to put together but looks great once its done. Mine just has grass inside

OOPs. I viewed another earlier video of yours and learned that the pub is from Scale Model Scenery. I am in the US and just getting familiar with OO scale options.

The castle looks great but it's missing a couple of flag poles, one for a 'British Heritage' flag and the other for a St George's or Union flag.

Hi Graham, I've been looking forward to seeing how you were gonna fit the castle and lock together. That's come out really nicely. Great work. Have to say I am getting really narked with model railways at the moment. I cannot work out what I am doing wrong with Cobalt IP Point motors and Electrofrog points. What ever I do I keep getting a short when I run trains over the frog and I don't know what I am doing wrong despite watching everything I can reading the DCC concepts instructions over and over. However, enough about my tribulations with model railways. Great to see your layout is coming along nicely. You've done really well with it.

WOW!!! Graham, you have been busy. Everything looks absolutely fantastic. Are you going to incorporate some Magnorail workings in there any where? it would be interesting seeing the shuttle bus going up the hill to the castle grounds!! Also do you have room to put a turntable inside the castle for the canal boat? Or is it going to be "The Hand Of God" to turn the boat around? Keep up the fantastic work. I think it's time I did another video. I've had one "sitting in the can", as they say, for 12 months now. but haven't been able to find the time to work on it! I am building a combined separate Program/Test track at the moment and it's turning out a bit more complicated than I intended it to be, mainly because of my penchant to use bi-coloured LEDs, not the usual 3 pin type, but the 2 pin variety with both colours in the same package. They will be used with mini limit switches on the points throw bars. Enough of my ramblings. Can't wait to see further developments on Lakeside. ... Ian ...

Is that you and Hazel sitting inside the castle walls? I love where your project is going. A church on the hill inside the castle walls. My your imagination is on overdrive. 😊

I bought the castle gatehouse a number of months ago but hadn't gotten to it yet. After seeing your castle videos I started the kit and think I will get the additions to do the whole thing after seeing yours. So thanks for the motivation! I may have missed it but I am curious about the pub at the bottom of the walkway to the castle. Is it cardstock? Metcalfe?

Is the castle a National Trust Site so members can have free parking?

Oooh…that looks fab, I’d love a castle but alas, my modest 4’6”X2’6” n gauge layout is a little short on space to be able to do it justice. Lovely work and looking forward to seeing it progress. 👍🏻

What make is the pub

Those pesky Normans building canals before the Victorians!

How you going to get the water to drain out 😂