Hi Eric, my name is Simon. I only found your channel a few weeks ago (random KZfaq recommendation) and I have watched quite a few of your videos since then and I thoroughly enjoy your content, you have a knack for it. I haven’t commented until today because I’ve forgotten to be honest.😇😅 All thumbed up, though.👍🏻 Anyway, this one made me comment. You’ve obviously had a tough time in the past which I wish wasn’t the case for you. You seem like a good bloke and if anyone deserves happiness and success, it’s you. My late father used to say “sometimes it’s five steps back to go one step forward, but the key is to keep moving forward“. Words I do my damnedest to live by everyday. I have the feeling that you probably do the same. Those past are always in our hearts, they’re never truly gone if we keep them alive through memories and deeds.🙂👍🏻 Moving on. I’m a railwayman, I work on the dark-side, ie, I’m a signalman, sorry, signaller (haha) and have been since January ’92. I started on a YTS scheme in Leeds in ‘84 and that led me down to Woking, Surrey, where I was a guard/conductor from early ‘86 until ‘92. I’m back in Yorkshire now doing the old signalling as I said. It’s been a great career, but boy, how the time has flown. Here’s to your career as a driver, I hope it’s a long one. All the best Eric. Thanks for an excellent channel.

Hey Eric. Hope you keep accumulating those zeros on your channel. The Kenton model shop on the bridge was called Puffers. Along time gone now but I just about hold the memories of the visits. It Closed in the mid 90s and of course the Harrow model shop closed in the early/mid 00s which moved to much smaller premises in North Harrow for a short while but quickly succumbed 😢

Hey Eric! Congratulations on the 10k mate, and thanks for the shout out for my baseboards! Always a pleasure to see what you’ve been upto with everything 😁 cheers, Tim

The model shop in Kenton was called Puffers, there was also Harrow model shop that did everything to do with modelling, I am from the ruislip/northwood area so recognise alot of parts of your layout

An excellent video. I thought you must be an underground driver. Really good to have the background and so good to see so many younger people in the hobby. Well done

loved your story eric ,so many similarity's .i lived in Harefield (mount Pleasant)when to school in northwood, (potter street) went to uxbridge tec was a apprentice with BT so work all around Hillingdon as a telephone engineer and spent a lot of my youth at west drayton and iver station train spotting ,actually went on the western tribute tour , western ranger being my favourite loco ,was lucky enough to see the last of the westerns which gives my age away, my dad was my inspiration for my love of trains ..............tony ps glad the trainsporters box came in handy

Hi Eric, Your happy memories of Ruislip resonate with me because I lived there from 1947 to 1958! My link to you centres on buying an ‘Ever Ready’ underground train set in 1951 from ‘Inwards’ shop on the corner of Ruislip High St and King Edwards Road. It cost £3.9.6 (£3.50). As you may know I was restricted by the fact the track design prevented the construction of any points. I did not realise it may have run on Hornby Dublo 3 rail track but in any case I could not afford anything HD! I spotted a video on your channel of the road bridge over the line at Ruislip station ; I walked over this bridge every day on my way to school either in Ruislip or later in Harrow. As you said - All happy memories. Best of Luck and Congrats on reaching 10k subs. Tony. PS still an enthusiastic 00 modeller. T🚂

Well mate thanks for sharing. Sounds like you've had a bit of a rocky road to travel . So I understand why you do the modelling. Cheers take care.

Hi Eric, congratulations on the 10,000 subscribers, you’ve had an interesting life so far warts and all enjoyed your story long may it continue thanks for sharing cheers Al

Could do with a 5 inch tour of your fleet that you've amassed over the last few years when it's a bit nicer weather!

Congratulations and great to be part of your 10,000! Familiar places you talk about. Grew up in South Kenton and then moved to Hatch End and Pinner. If you are talking about the model shop in Kenton on the bridge opposite the station, wasn’t it called Puffers? Preferred The Model Shop in central Harrow but there again the owner lived in Hatch End and knew my Dad which was handy!

Congrats on 10k subs the effort it takes to get there is immense so congratulations on a job well done

Well done Eric .i enjoyed the film .. All the best for your next 10.000

That’s awesome Eric! Your videos are always a highlight to the day

Gratz on 10k Eric. Keep the videos coming mate.

Congratulations 🍾

Congrats mate, been a fan of your channel for a few years, well deserved

Railway shop near the bridge in Kenton was called Puffers. Sadly it closed many years ago.

Grats on 10k Eric. Well deserved mate!

Many congratulations on achieving 10k subs. Well done. 👍

Hi Eric Thanks for sharing your journey to where you are now. I’m in Australia 🇦🇺 and am gathering ideas for a Metropolitan line. Accumulating stock and currently dodging the heat . Congratulations on 10k subscribers. Thoroughly enjoy your videos and great to see your layout evolving 😉

Congregations and thank you for sharing your story.

Love your work Eric. Keep it up mate.

Eric, congrats on 10000 subscribers. From the Yank across the pond, Bill from California

Great video really enjoyed the back story and the magazine style video. Thanks again for making these.

Congratulations

Hi Eric, congratulations on reaching 10k, and thank you very much for the mention. You are welcome back anytime. 😊

Well done on reaching 10000 subs. Very interesting video, nice to get some background, and good of you to open up about your past and share so much with us. Keep up the good work and all the very best for the future.

Excellent channel, great to see the progress of the layout

great video and a great insight. Best wishes and Merry Christmas

Congrats

Hi Eric, congratulations on your 10k subs, also to see you in your dream job. Great to see you with your friends. Keep the videos coming 👍🚂

Congratulation on your viewing figures. You make your videos enjoyable for not only covering your modelling but your easy going and enjoyable personality.

Congratulations on hitting 10,000 subs mate well done, as it takes a bit of work to do that> great stuff!

Hi Eric, I do Enjoy your videos, and this was no exception. I often catch up with your updates whilst out in the garage doing stuff to the layout. Was good to hear some background on how the underground theme came about . Congrats on your 10k !

A fascinating insight to who you are in the first part of the video Eric, very enjoyable as always. That hour zoomed by. Well done on reaching 10,000 too..all the best.

Well done on the 10k

A most superb jobby Eric. Well done, for a most informative, fun and of course entertaining extended video! I watched in two shifts before and after dinner! Cheers from Abbey Road John

Congrats on 10,000, well deserved. Interesting back story (we are all nosey). Roll on 20,000. It's winter now so you need to get on with the layout, too cold for cars and 5". (My crash barriers have been around for over a year!)

Gratz on the 10k mate, you are doing some serious numbers across all the platforms. I regret selling all my childhood hornby stuff, I had loads of it and sold it for pennies as a teen.

Congratulations Eric on 10,000 Subs. Really like your videos, enjoy seeing the layout progress. The model shop that you refer to at Kenton, I think it was called Buffers. Remember going there in the early 1980’s with my Dad (fond memories).

Very good program leader...I loved it, honestly !!

What a great video insight into your life how you got started keep making these videos Eric your reach 20 thousand in no time mate

Congrats Eric on a great video and getting the 10K of followers. I first watched your channel on how to program the points using the z21, when you also got some point motors delivered to you at a station. I live in Sydney, Australia and love to watch your channel take care Dallas

Congrats on you 10K subscribers, love your videos, reminds me of my childhood and adolescence in London. With your interest in the Met, look out for a copy of From Steam to Silver by J. Graheme Bruce. Covers history of the Met (and other sub surface lines ) and goes into a lot of detail on the Stock. One of my favorite books when growing up. Except for occasional visit , I have to make do with the NYC Subway.

The turntable controller is definitely Fleischmann, so I'd imagine the turntable is too, though it's been modified to look more British. Blimey. Just looked up how much Fleischmann turntables cost - between four and five hundred quid. As far as I know, it's the same model they introduced in the 70s (or maybe 80s), so Roco/Fleischmann are really coining it in with that. I actually liked the way it looked with your curved track crossing the track leading onto the turntable. I've always wanted to that sort of weird bespoke not-a-diamond crossing, but I've never summoned up the courage to build my own track. Though I think it's become easier with things like Templot. It's the sort of thing which makes me as an exhibition visitor do a double take as it's something that's obviously not off Peco's shelves. Look forward to seeing how it all develops. Congratulations on the 10k subscribers.

Congratulations, Eric. I've not watched all of this video as of yet. I can see it's something special to you. It's wonderful to hear a little back story. The Severn Valley Railway is one of my local lines, and It's a shame I never got to see you. It's because of this railway that my love of Class 42/43 and Class 52's came from. Anyway, all the best to your Commander in Chief and yourself young Eric.

Very enjoyable and interesting life story. Loved seeing Western Champion. My own layout operates in “freelance” mode sometimes and includes models of locos that visited Swanage when I worked there. I don’t yet have a Western Champion model.

Eric, if memory serves the model shop on Kenton railway bridge was called Puffers

Love your stuff Eric - well done on 10k and your story is very moving - isn’t it amazing the way these inanimate objects connect us with people, memories and ourselves. It was your shed that got me to click on this channel but it was your passion for modelling and sense of place that has kept me watching. I have a scheme to move out of the house too once I’ve renovated our old cottage in the Highlands. My railway will be in old byre (cowshed) and eventually in to the garden - coarse vintage 0 gauge, so quite different from yours, although I reckon you’d like the live steam Bassett Lowke and possibly my original Hornby clockwork Met - no name plate but basically the best they could do in era to make a Sarah Siddons in lithographed tinplate… Keep going - here’s to 100k one day 🎉

The model rail shop in Kenton was called "Puffers" on the bridge, I think?

Great video Eric ! Thanks for the gen on the AGR model shop . Gunna email them to see if they do foreign locos DCC fitting as hate doing it myself ..

Hi Eric, Congratulatioons on an excellent video following your acheiving 10K subscribers, I found it very moving and made me think about my Dad whom I lost a few years ago but from whom I got my love of all things railways.. You are very good at getting your ideas over and your other interests as well. I was very interested in your log cabin solution, so would love to know how you chose your solution as I am thinking about the same solution due to no room in our house.. Also can you put a link in for Tim Horn as his baseboards seem very good, and I would rather buy based on a on a reccomendation. Please keep up the great content and I always look forward to seeing your latest videos. Respect to Charlotte as well for letting you follow your dreams with her as part of your journey, you have obviously overcome many challenges and respect to what you have both now achieved together. Warmest regards Mark

Well done on 10,000 really enjoy the channel and nailed Hornby to a tea. What’s your thoughts on companies like accurascale and cavalex raising the bar that bachmann are working hard to keep up with

Congratulations and credit where it's due. Glad to see that you surprised us all by donning a shirt and tie. You sure do scrub up well! Okay, maybe you're saving that for the big silver plaque one. Bravo ragazzo!

Eric, well done on the following, and thank you so much for this deep and honest show and tell of your life and travels through this world, you modeling and your engineering, please please please keep making your vids and making me grin. Hope to see you on a GL5 event.

Congrats on the 10k dude. And not a dub in sight 😂

Blimey, I just hit 5000 and thought I'd done well. Congratulations

Please keep posting on u tube Eric as I enjoy your video's and don't venture to other platforms. Really enjoy your stuff and once lived in Harefield so it's a bit nostalgic, unfortunately there's no tube in the New Forest.

Brilliant video eric .. socially i find it difficult also so totally understand the difficulty in making random conversation.. do you ever run thru leicester station as i've just got a job with EMR so be gr8 to watch you trundle thru.. if u do..

Great video, I made i to the end. Have you tried the metro memory test?

10K subs youtube - congrats! Tiktok - hahaha - what is that :) Hope it's all paying back for your time! Keep up the long format videos on KZfaq - keep the trains running ;)

Rip James 😢😢

Hi Eric, congrats on 10k!🎉🎉🎉. Do you still have your o gauge layout? Because at my local model railway club/shop/museum we have one that’s identical!

what gage is your under ground trains?

Hi, I haven’t seen your Viessmann Plasser Tamper machine in action yet, did you sort out the issues you had with it or is it it the depot awaiting attention? Cool video by the way, what company do you use to get your decals/ transfers and how bespoke are they? thanks for sharing

Nice, interesting video. Did you ever get your Class 92 fixed? I think I saw you were selling your sleeper coaches on Twitter. Thanks Tim.

eric can you do a video of trains going around your layout posting a video like this every now and then it will keep everyone happy great job on the layout and you definitely should build a little exhibition layout my favorit tube stock is the piccadilly line 1973 stock sad to hear thy are being replaced also near where i live below cambridge apparently there's some abandoned don't know??????????? tube trains thanks for the videos my name is jake i have autism so please excuse my spellings

In the summertime you should go to York model engineers it’s a very good club recommend

Eric, who manufactures the coaches behind the Rapido engine at 57:02?

Congratulations Eric! Really well done. I too had a clockwork set but that was decades ago . The whole concept of an underground layout is different and probably has great appeal and that has probably helped plus your personality. I have been doing youtube for sometime and am always interested in what other enthusiasts are doing and the progress they have made. Keep up the great work. Stay safe and strong. PS I also had the first Gti that came to Canada around 1982 👍🖊📐💥❤️🔥