Wife joined me (we're mid 60s) as you peeled back the platform masking tape, "It's like Greenford Station". Said with excitement rather than tears (family tragedy there in late 1970s). Then the shops - "That's Ealing Broadway" said in time with you saying it. Essentially, you're evoking her life from early teens to early 20s. Thanks. Your social history approach to modelling where the trains provide moving interest to an environment is great for us. Modelling where the trains and their management is the main thing is less interesting for us. Brilliantly humorously intelligent, as always

Wow! As a child of the 70's that row of shops was a blast from the past! As I mentioned in a previous video, I love the authenticity of the cracked and broken paving, so realistic!

A Ratners Jewellers would be an amusing addition in a 1980s row of shops.

At this stage I’d think you’re no longer a model railway builder/enthusiast…. You’re an artist in your field. The attention to detail and realising is incredible. Loving the new station ideas.

As you showed the shops and said you had talked to co-workers about old classics I said, there is no boots or our price Then you panned over... For a child of the 80s, it was like coming home :D

That’s a good picture of Chippenham, The scenics have certainly changed a lot since then.

Those final shots from inside the station tunnel looking out onto the platforms were perfection! glad to see the station coming along nicely!

"SubaSnaps Richard back in the day 1984 -1987 I used to work at Lab in Northampton which by 1990s became Kodak. 14 years I worked there. Really enjoy your layout.

You, sir, are a master modeler! Many of us could never achieve the quality and detail as you have so aptly shown to us. You are an inspiration to those of us who dream of accomplishing something so grand.

Ah man, loved all the new bits to this episode! I've been here a while but my brother just watched this episode with me. I regret to inform you that his summary was: "Everard sounds like a blue pill" 🤣

If you can imagine yourself walking on those platforms, waiting for a train, getting on and enjoying the experience then I think this says how well the modeller has achieved the experience. I for one think I have stood on one of his stations at some point in my life. Just Fantastic and I am an engineer so I love all of the steps and processes.

When you do the other shops you must have a Wimpey cafe 👍

I am fascinated by the detail and realism you put into your layout. However watching this build come along I am learning about urban life in the UK during the late 80’s. I must say it is very different from my experience living in the Dallas, Texas Metro area. In the 80’s we were just starting to build a regional passenger rail and bus system. Dallas was the first large major city in the US to have long haul passenger rail service discontinued back in the early 70’s. However we did build large airports. The model for short haul regional airlines with hourly flights to cities within 500 miles began here. Our transportation system is freeways that we drive on in our big air conditioned cars and trucks. And yet it was a rail head that but Dallas on the map. So I am very intrigued by how the rail system has influenced the urban culture in the UK. Thanks for incorporating historical details in your layout.

Great update Richard. An important point for accuracy, is that with the Ladbrokes shop, you have to have a blank window, it was usually green, with no advertising on the window. The law well into the mid to late 90s was that you weren't able to see into a betting shop, and they weren't allowed to advertise on their windows, completely unlike the modern versions. The only indication of a betting shop was the name, like it would have had Ladbrokes licenced bookmakers over the shop, and the name of the shop manager over the door like pubs have. Looking great though, brings back memories with those shop names, don't forget a small independent pawn brokers on the opposite side of the street, and you could add a small private shop at the other end of the street, for a typical late 80s, early 90s feel lol. Keep up the good work, look forward to seeing how it progresses

I don't want to say I audibly cheered when I saw this appear in my subscriptions feed, but I did. Can't wait to get into the video, it's always so much fun when you upload a new one. Your layout and your techniques never amazes to impress me, and I can only hope to ever reach your skill level.

WOW FROM CANADA Awesome work TOP NOCTH GREAT VIDEO AND DEATIALSTHX.😊😊😊👍👍

I’ve been waiting for a station video for like 2 years. Finally!!!!!!!!

You have found the beauty in otherwise unappealing post-war architecture. I love the period detail and your efforts to preserve authenticity in every way possible. Thanks for sharing your videos!

Fantastic to see the new station ideas making progress. The brickwork looks superb as usual and I love seeing those old signs...as I am of a certain age 😉 Well done Richard, fantastic method for doing the platforms 😎👍

Love the platforms and shop fronts. Bejams which is now Iceland, Safeway which is now Morrisons or Woolworths would be good brands for a double store.

Happy Shopper was a national chain, that sort of superceded 'VG', 'Waitrose', 'Mace' and 'Fine Fare' mini-markets/newsagents. Other 80's period small shop logo ideas might be: 'Woolworths', 'Richer Sounds' (HiFi chain), 'Dorothy Perkins', 'Rumbellows', 'Currey's, 'Athena', 'MFI', 'Do-It-All', 'Tandy', 'Kwik Save', 'John Menzies', 'Somerfield', 'Radio Shack', 'Dixon's', 'Redifusion', 'Comet', 'BHS', ... Just off the top of the head. Not forgetting the one shopping chain that has outlived them all... The brilliant and ubiquitous - 'Co-op'.... . Love that 'scenic break'... Potentially so authentic. Can't wait to see what happens with the 'road to heaven' though...(lol). Great work as always.

When you have finished this part it's going to be so brilliant I'm sure. Amazing realism.

Wow, those shops! Memories!!!

Funnily enough your Supa Snaps reminded me I have some photos to go pick up!

I am 50 years old and from the area you are modelling, brings back memories, don’t forget a Dixons electrical shop and McDonalds or Wimpy

Another triumph of modelling artistry, always look forward to your efforts. Having grown up in the 70's and 80's I thought I'd mention a few more shops that were popular, "Etams", ( teenager womens clothing), "Timothy Whites", "Mothercare", "Hepworths"(mens clothing), "Dixon's". Keep up the great work.

Watching trains while on the train. This my journey sorted 🙌🏻

I was thinking about 80's shops and you have to have a Woolies and a Victor Value, which was bought out by Tesco in 1986. Even a small Tesco store would fit. Even more obscure was Huckleberry's Burger bar, which was like Wimpey. Actually, I have just remembered that Dad worked at Ealing Broadway for London Transport. This must have been back in the 70s though.

Well done. I often travelled the London area in my early years, and your layout invokes memories of my travels. Yes they are still looking dour in most parts of the region. Love the trains running around and they look very authentic. Great videos. Thanks for sharing. Magical.

Wow, didn't realise you were so young! Amazing video and work as always. One of my favourite KZfaq channels for sure 😊

Brilliant!! Platforms varied as much as the places that rails run through, up and down through the country. Weeds as well as ivy are great at covering up joins as well as the old staff crossing steps built into the platform edges. I remember taking a short cut from one platform to another, but split my uniform trousers from crutch to belt up the back, one night and worked a whole shift with my winter coat on. I have worked on real platforms where they didn't pay as much attention as you did on yours. Next you'll be running a scrubbing train or sandite to help the tracks. I once when laying sandite, needed to pass two signals at danger ( 1 failed ), protecting a junction and a well known slipping point. Now i could only pass 1 signal at danger, but you have to lay sandite at 20 mph. I slipped down the embankment, but the next day after five trains had slipped, i was given dispensation to pass 2 signals at danger, which prevented other slips.

I say it everytime. Wow!! Absolutely superb, Everard Junction update, cuppa, grab the biscuits, sit back and enjoy. Them shop fronts took me back to when I was a kid, so I guess I'm one of them blokes of a certain age too.😊. May I suggest a Woolworths, Co-Op or even a Wimpy. Funny how theres always a WH Smith's near a train station. Hopefully you can put a couple of Brutes on the platform with trainspotters sitting on them, that was a fairly common theme back in the day too. Thank you for sharing. Excellent.

*Never* clicked on a video so quickly... Always excellent.

What a fantastic video. Well worth the wait! I lived in South Ealing from 1950 to 1976 and my first full time job was at WH Smith in Ealing Broadway so I know the area really well. Reading everyone else’s comments has been a great trip down memory lane. Ealing has changed so much since those days. Bentalls and John Sanders were two big department stores in the town, long since gone now. I thoroughly enjoy watching your progress and I am learning so much from your building process. Thanks for sharing Richard. Roy.

Again I marvel at your complete attention to detail. Perfection is always your goal. Thank you 😊

great little parade of shops... lacking only some punks and a ghettoblaster (as I recall). fantastic mate, nice one

Still watching and still fascinated by your progress. The shopping building and the progress around the plattfoms is really wonderful.

man i can remember seeing happy shopper crisp packets beside pretty much every footpath when i was a kid. memory unlocked lol. great video again!

Looking good Richard, don't forget, good old Woolworths !!

When I saw the first part of the video I thought it looked like Ealing Broadway. A great representation of the area. Looking forward to see this progressing. A great video thanks for posting. Jeff

Brilliant as always. I worked on the railway throughout the 80s and your work takes me back to that time, great memories, thanks

Great to see the scene above the station coming together, seeing the old shops from when I was a teenager was cool. Looking forward to seeing the finished scene.

Better than the real..this looks just perfect ... great work .. Salutations de france

@ 34:30 I actually worked in that ‘building monstrosity’ you mentioned at Ealing Broadway station 44 years ago when it was BBC Television Enterprises and we produced all the foreign versions of BBC shows 🙂

Liking the period shop fronts. I think your ‘80s shoppers might want to grab a bite to eat in a Wimpy, and I recall a British Gas shop next to the Radio Rental in the high street I frequented in those years. Perhaps something for the other side of the street.

Outstanding attention to detail!

Haha Richard I’m a guy of a certain age, I remember the shops very well. Looking Great 👍

Excellent stuff, as ever. Your Ladbroke's reminded me of when as a boy the barber in a parade like that did one cut and one cut only, with blunt shears hanging from the ceiling. Very often, my mum would take me into his shop, and then have to go across to the betting shop across the road and shout through the plastic strip curtain thing over the bookie's open door for Tommy (the barber) to come back to his own shop. So you need a scuzzy barber's in the parade opposite. 😀

A small point of accuracy I'd like to add is that usually a Boots the chemist shop spanned two shop front lengths I think. I've never seen a single unit Boots or WH Smiths (lots of items inside) unless they have them in London. Maybe you could also include a Public house of your own devising and naming somewhere on the layout. Great work.

As usual another interesting a fascinating update. My goodness this has brought back some memories as I was born in 1956 and lived right next to South Acton railway station. I thought I knew this area very well but when I checked my old stomping grounds I hardly recognized the area. All these new and very futuristic buildings along Acton High Street and continuing to Ealing Broadway and further afield. My goodness it has changed and for the better by the looks of it. Regards Chris

Our Price Records! ❤

I was a kid in the 80s (I was born in 1982) and those shops are all pretty much what I remember from my childhood. Happy Shopper was life 🤣

I think the reason I like watching these videos is because I am watching someone who is the total opposite of me. Although I would like to, there is absolutely no way that I would have the patience to do what you do. I would just want to get it built as quickly as possible. When you were messing around changing the canal, and the road layout, and the houses, and the scrapyard, and the track layout on the branch line, and the sidings and the scenery around the bridge at the other end of the layout I kept yelling at the screen "STOP CHANGING WHAT YOU HAVE ALREADY BUILT AND GIVE US THE F##KN STATION!" Now you are there I feel I can relax! Please don't change it! Note to self... relax ... and chill... and look forward to the next installment! 😊

Great modelling, Richard. The grout platform surfaces look really nice. The track weathering is also superb. Amazingly, a handful of Happy Shopper branded stores remain, but most are now called Premier Stores. Thanks for some wonderful modelling!

Mate, thete!re is nothing better than coming home from work and finding a new video of yours! I'm not a railway moddler, but have followed you since the beginning and am thankfull for your videos. Bloody well played mate!

Great content as always, appreciate the detail, and the closing running session.

I always enjoy your scenery builds. 👍

Great video. Glad you posted something new as its been a bit. I've learned so much from you 'how to' videos. Thanks again.

Have a great new week! ✔✔

Really enjoyed that!! Thanks for posting!!

Another great video thanks lovely work.

Your attention to detail is brilliant. You are like a set designer for some top class Hollywood movie but only better. Keep it up as it will only get better and better. However don’t let it it take over as I know it would with me.

Another great update Richard looks fantastic awaiting the next

"I wasn't around in the 80s". In that short sentence, I suddenly felt very old indeed....but perhaps a bit smug at the same time for having been around in the 80s. Exceptional work once again and well worth the wait for this latest video. I do love it when a new Everard Junction video pops up.

Excellent tarmac finish ! As always very educative and inspirational.

A Wimpy bar would fit in nicely with the shops across the road.

looking good! Thanks for sharing 👍

Another excellent video, the way in which you produce these are fantastic. Step by step, inspirational. The whole layout is. Looking forward to trying some of these platform construction myself. Can’t wait for the next instalment guide. Thank you. All best Marc

A WONDERFUL VIDEO. Brilliant job many, thanks, to all at Everard railway, many thanks 🤩

anither great video Richard , thanks for a great video and looking forward to the next one

Enjoyed the build update.👍 You've made some amazing progress considering the hot weather lately. The station is looking great. Regards Graham 👍😀🚂

brilliant as ever Richard.the building on top of the station reminds me of Wembley Central 👍

Of all the excellent work and new stuff you've added, and all the hard work, the one thing that stood out to me were the blinds in the windows. I have seen many blinds, but those looked very realistic and added so much to the windows already and you have not added interiors or lights. I guess I am easily amused, but those blinds really popped there. Anyhow, I wondered how much the heat got you. Joyce and I spent the month of June int he UK and left, just before the first real heat wave hit, but even 27 in York and London at the end of June felt really hot there.

Another fantastic update Rich! Really love seeing this layout come together. That station looks gorgeous!

Thank you for another brilliant video

Looking good, many thanks for showing what you do. Regarding the shops on the other side of the street you should have a greengrocer and maybe a flower stall.

Lovely job. I worked for 'Our Price' in 1989. Hell of a fun job. Then they were bought out by WH Smiths, and it went horribly 'Pete Tong'. 'Tandy' would be a good 1980's shop to have. I spent an awful lot of money in my local branch. Always stocked stuff you never knew you needed. I love your videos. Thanks for sharing!

Wow! It just looks so real!

Some brilliant work done on your station Richard, it certainly improves the layout a lot, a good station always improves a layout in my eye.

Yet again another very realistic build, if you look hard enough you can see the clouds move, well done 👍

Hi Richard, Enjoyed the video and the progress you have made and really look forward to your next installment. Cheers Greg

Looks great the surface of the platforms will look spot on once you have all the detail in place. It looks just how you would imagine in your minds eye.

very good. looking good. cant wait for next episode. well done.

Right on time for tea! Another great video. Thanks

Excellent viewing. I followed your recommendation for Tajima1 bushes in an earlier video and have been very impressed with them, so thanks for the tip 👍🏻

Brilliant work as always. Love those shop fronts which bring the memories flooding back. Everard's Our Price - a touch of class !!!! Very interested to see what Cricketmaker brings to the hobby. Thanks

Great work as usual, Richard. I've added some discarded lumber and newpapers to my layout recently. It makes the scene look more real, but it's hard for me to do as I'm an overly tidy person! You continue to inspire me with your work. Cheers from Wisconsin!

Love the walk down memory high street, just a suggestion for another shop, Woolwoths and a shoe shop maybe, there was Freeman, Hardy & Willis or Stead & Simpson amongst others, also C&A was a popular clothes shop 😃

Wonderful as always, so much useful information and all provided with am engaging video presentation! I am enjoying watching your layout grow & change; it serves as inspiration to get my finger out and get on with it...many thanks!!

fantastic layout update.. love the station platforms.

That closing scene, shot from beneath the overbridge, is going to be very effective. With photography playing such an important role in E.J., I'm guessing there will be some detailing work under there in time.

Great work. Very enjoyable to watch

Enjoyed the video as always. The new platforms are a massive improvement to the old ones! and that platform surface looks amazing. I might have to try using tile grout for when I do my station. Loving the scratch built row of shops as well. - Nicholas.

Fantastic progress, you are quite a craftsman Richard, kudos great effort begat great results.

I'm a Hayes and Harlington boy so just up the road from some of you. Love your layout, process and attitude. Keep the vids coming.

Supasnaps was a great shop for photos. And Our Price too, god that's a trip down memory lane. Bought my first ever vinyl single from there. Adam and the Ants 'Antmusic'

Great layout and scenery looks fantastic 👍🏻👍🏻

My first visit to Everard Junction ..excellent verbal and video description of stage by stage development of your platform construction..I feel I could easily follow that and get similar results ..some ppl spend ages doing same process , which can get tedious ..you got it just right ..enough to clearly see whats needed ..not too much to get boring ..will be watching many more of your posts ..many thx Lance

Outstanding, really like the tunnel portal with the shops on top. Ref the shops don’t forget Curry’s and Dixon’s were on most high streets in those days. Also independent Satellite Dish shops were popping up every where back then.

I believe that Happy Shopper was an "Own Brand" owned by one of the large Cash & Carry chains used by small grocery stores etc, loving the update, thank you