This gives a really nostalgic look. I'm not from the UK but I can definitively feel the late 80's early 90's environment. Amazing work!!! thanks for sharing

Love it! Simple but clever things like the young couple that have apparently just arrived and left the station make it so realistic!

Fantastic, thanks for cheering up my Sunday. BTW the canopy needs a single shoe thrown on it, there always seems to be one in real life.😂

Ooooff. I'm going through the mill a bit of late and the shot(s) @16:52 and after really tugged the heartstrings. Suddenly I was 7 or 8 years old again, going to the Motor Show at Earls Court with Dad, waiting at the home station in Cambridge for the train to "town". It was all so fast, exciting, noisy. Everything was so red, white and blue, thanks to Network South East. I even remember a PacMan chomping his way along an LED display at Kings Cross, removing all the letters on a departure board. (sigh, sniff) Thanks Richard, you really are a magician.

Never too little, never too much but just right! Another very enjoyable visit to Everard Junction.

More pigeons. They add so much more realism to the mix with people at the station. Station roof as you say filled in the void of what was there. Great look

As this is the 80's ... "Is it real, or is it Memorex". If you know, you know. l lived through this time and probably owned a number of the cars in your scrapyard. This looks so real to me, you bring back some good memories. Keep up the great work.

Fantastic update Richard. The detail on the platforms and the canopies really set the station off. Thanks for sharing. Roy.

I love / hate watching your work. Your level of skill, talent and knowledge is mind boggling. Everything you create is simply off the charts. Every time I watch one of your videos it makes all my work look even worse. Thank you for sharing. I’m headed to my train room to throw everything in the trash. 😂

Spectacular work! The level of detail you go to is unbelievable!!

Wow just wow, Richard your attention to detail is amazing some of those shots you really have to look twice to see if they are real, wow. Eddy xx

honestly, the detail and workmanship is outstanding

Great attention to detail… it certainly has that 80s feel

I do like the footbridge with the big glass windows...perfect for trainspotting if its chucking it down. Amazing detail again. All the best.

You bring so much pleasure to so many people. Thank you.

An excellent canopy. Makes for a wonderful relaxing station.

Blimey, even adding pigeons. How far can one go with details. Brilliant idea though and while at it by the thought, one could as well blend in some free roaming pets such as dogs and cats. Picked up a new idea here. Thank you Richard, and your craft, imagination and bringing a layout to life is just off any scale of the ordinary. Sublime as we know it, and you just never stop the amazement. Fabulous 🙂

Remarkable work, remarkable results, a pleasure so share this project with you. Thanks.

Been waiting two years to see some pigeons - Excellent ! (17:56)

Fantastic level of detail and so evocative of the awfulness of the architecture and urban landscape of the times.

Just when I think your layout couldn't get any better... bam! You drop another video hahaha. Fantastic work as always.

That guy looks like Roy Orbinson (24:15) Impressed with your layout! Greetings from The Netherlands.

Looks brilliant. Your videos are better than anything on the TV. What a view. Speechless really.

Location cabinets and bits of broken troughing at the bottom of the ramps and some trespass boards. So far so bloody good

You've captured a vibe and that's what keeps me coming back.

Greatly done... when piggions than you should add a lot of 0.2mms wire cut to 0.4mms of length coloured in dry orange brick for cigarette's filters. Thrown away the are to find evetywhere on the pavement, in the ballast along the plattforms, and everywhere else so the campaign signs "Keep Britain Tidy" do make more sense... 😉 btw: Piggeon's white crab is to be seen on several spots under the places they like to rest... Thanks a lot for sharing your ideas.

Inspired work as per usual Richard , I notice Elton John , so that’s where he got the inspiration for “ Im Still Standing “ 😃😂

Excellent detail to the station platfroms as to all the layout that you make . Super video to watch look forward to the next instalment in the layout.

I liked the first train you ran through. It wasn't in sight, but the noise was there. To me, it sounded like you had added a soundtrack of an audience clapping, which I thought was a great idea, but then it turned into a train. Still good, though. Very informative, even for a T-gauger.

This looks great a really authentic modern period imagining. The night scenes are particularly effective

A pleasure yet again to see the best railway modeller on KZfaq at work. What more can I say. Excellent as usual Richard .👌 Ps love the pigeons. atb Graham 🙂

Awesome as usual Richard!! Thank you for sharing this video! Cheers Onno.

Great intro. Real 80's feel. Always look forward to these vids.

love the shot of the HST flying through the station!

Thanks Richard, Another great video. Brings back memories as a kid travelling between Swindon and Paddington to see my grandparents in the late 80's. Could put a few brute and luggage trolleys full of mail by the lift doors on the platforms for the evening mail trains. Keep up the great work!!!

Excellent work as always. I know a model railway is never truly finished, but you can probably begin to see the woods from the trees and a very faint, and distant finishing line. Superb work, love your videos ❤❤❤

Love the video as always. The station looks great. Really like the pigeons too! Great work

At 18:46 I can see my local station on the London Southend line 😂. Brilliant detailing as always.

Brilliant! Excellent work, most realistic, presentation.

Beautiful as always. You have a fantastic eye for the details that make it look and feel right. I can still feel the boredom of a school age boy waiting for the train home and almost smell the brake dust of the goods train passing. The pigeons, especially the eyecatching one on the canopy make the scene.

I love the journey you take us on. I felt goosebumps when I saw the train coming through the station at platform level. Took me back to my teens standing next to my dad on a day out. Thank you so much. All the best Alex

Just love it! Reminds me of travelling back from London to Slough by train at night with mum as a child in the eighties. The pigeons are superb too.

I am amazed how good the "platform canopies" look without hiding the trains moving through them. (I would have been too chicken to do Platform #1 as well... But it worked!) As You said, "They can ruin the station scene." Well Done Richard! I'm Waiting for the HO Scale Railfans now on the end of the platform!

Love the night shots - superb.

The night time effects are amazing!

Although I don't comment very often, I am an avid follower of your videos which are always very interesting and entertaining to watch.

Looks like my old home station of Forest Hill @ 2:29 - one of those horrible concrete pre-fab type re-builds favoured by BR at the time.

The pigeons really sell it. Nice. I love the world building of it all. Thanks for sharing it with us.

An absolute triumph. The canopies have tied together the platforms and the multi storey buildings, which I have to admit I previously didn't like at all. But now they tie together cohesively and look fantastic. Absolute triumph. Fantastic work. Really creates an atmospheric scene.

Well, Richard, if your work on your car is as exquisite as your station work (and all else), I would want my old hot rod back and have a go. lol Thanks for another smashing video.

I'm not going to lie Richard, that Passenger Station look's 100 times better with those Canopy's. I'm glad I thought of it ! 😁

Again love watching your video's. get lots of inspiration ( & idea's ) for mine. Just like watching the train's at end has a feel of a city

I love the time and place you are creating here 👍.

Great update and excellent video and audio on the nighttime scenes. As someone who used NSE stations in this era the realism is spot on!

It is the detail that makes things on this layout so good Richard, but on thing you always seem to get right is EXACTLY the right amount of everything. Canopies are excellent, and as for the pigeons....... Cheers, Bob

The whole video is always worth watching, but just the opening montages you create are some of my favorite model railroad content on KZfaq. Thanks for sharing!

This continues to delight and astound me. The amount of hard work and concentration you put in is admirable. I have a suggestion re the cars: not all the cars in the 80s were from the 80s and there were still a few 60s and even 50s ones around. Might it be nice to see the odd Rover P4 or Triumph Herald still on the road?

I love this station is just the right levels of nostalgia, busy daytime urbanism, and night time seediness.

This is very impressive! The bins, litter and pigeons are an especial joy.

Such awesome work. Love watching these vids. I don't know how it was in the UK, but in the US, you'd have to have the sketchy soft drink vending machine with the light ballast that was on its last leg. the one you knew was going to take your money when you used it. lol!

Your level of detail is commendable! I'm not a model railroad builder, but I do appreciate and enjoy watching these things get built.

Your work and imagination is appreciated here in Ontario Canada. I always look forward to see where your mind is going next. Cheers, Dave

Such excellent work & detail! Amazing as always..

Coming on really nicely now ,little bits here and there make it more realistic,well done ... Camborne central...

I resonate with this era. Loved the 80`s locos and the ugly/plain architecture. Top class layout.

Fantastic video, fantastic layout. Favourite bit: pigeons.

It's a brilliant addition. The whole area has suddenly sprung into life, like coming out of lockdown. Love it. 😊

So nice way to end the WE thank you so much ! Cheers from France.

Another modelling master class Richard. Absolutely thrilled with your progress and the whole project keeps leaving me spellbound and craving the next instalment. Keep up the great work, your skill in taking the viewer right into the heart of your labour of love is reward itself.

Really pleased to see the video, gutted to find out i had not hit the bell properly, you’re so inspiring

Such attention to detail is phenomenal, the level of realism you have been able to achieve is an art form in its self. It makes for hours of pleasurable noodling.

It gets more and more amazing everytime he uploads a video. The attention to detail is fantasic!

My home station is Cambridge! Lovely model by the way.

Looks great! Creates the illusion perfectly!

Blinking amazing man! Absolutely in awe of what you are creating...! Thank you for sharing it all with us. Used to love going to model railway shows when I was a boy with my dad. Happy memories!

'blends in quite nicely' - no... It's awesome! So many people just don't get it quite right, some are good and then there's this.

Gradually recreating the impersonal spaces of the era! Very well done! Regards, Stephen.

As always explanations and the way you do things on your layout is always a privilege to watch as it grows Richard. It's amazing the more we do our layouts the better we get at producing better layouts and the way it all comes together. Thanks for an awesome update.

The amount of effort that goes into making a 30 minute video, 2 months at least. Very impressive. The attention to detail is so brilliant and love the superkings advert, oh and the pigeons. So much talent on display, electrics, camera work, painting, researching etc . Thank you. P.S. Just read the comments and the pigeons are an overwhelming success

Fantastic. Those pigeons look great but also extremely fiddly to paint and install 😂

Great video as always, station looks outstanding. Given me the motivation to make some progress on my own layout, which hasn’t received much attention this month.

Still the best looking layout on KZfaq and the level of effort into details is just epic. Always a good watch 😊

Richard, you've outdone yourself this time (yet again). It's so evocative of the times. I spent many an hour (or perhaps more accurately many, many minutes?) on NSE platforms in those years, and you've captured those commutes so well. Beautiful work, and especially the night scenes, particularly now as we approach the time of year when darkness so often accompanied my journey home. Wow. One missing detail perhaps, a very minor one? I'm fairly certain that some rubbish, a crumpled up wet sweatshirt, or perhaps the odd shoe, a magazine and a few tins would have made their way on to the top of the roof canopies from the flats above at the platform end? Love the pigeons too. I'm fairly sure there was a story about some pigeons that used to 'commute' on one of the west London lines into Paddington, or perhaps on the tube? I certainly have seen teh odd pigeon wandering onto a train as though intentionally? Happy days.

Absolutely BRILLIANT,, Give yourself loads of pats on the back ,You've done a Fantastic Job on the upgrade to the station,, your layout , Is Out Of This World 🌎 TALENTED

Great job. Like the canopies, they are very impressive and they are very similar to a lot of 70/80’s stations. A lot still exist I think. I like the way you think and express the area’s. Magic layout.

Hi Richard - a great transformation of the station and the figures and pigeons make it all the more realistic - thank you for the video - I always look forward to them.

Excellent work as always. Just as I remember it.

Great work and very effective, especially at night. The amount of detail certainly makes the scene and its definately one to emulate. Well done. Regards Steve

Love your eye and attention to detail, really captures the feeling and mood so incredibly well. I think I can even smell it. Thank you for your videos and greetings from Berlin!

Awesome vid. Love the 59 at night. You should be proud of what you can achieve. Keep up the good work bud. Look forward to next vid.

More nice work Richard, cheers Peter.

Captured the scene 100% Richard ! Thank you for your great video! 😊

Attention to detail, amazing as ever

They say the beggar is in the detail you have really found the art of wonderful Art and skill😊😅

That project turned out wonderful.

Fantastic layout! Thanks for your videos,!

Great additions to your station Richard, one word comes to mind `realism`. Many thanks for sharing take care regards Barry..

Reminiscent of Newbury station in the very early 1990s ❤

That platform furniture is excellent Richard. As you say, a bare platform simply doesn’t look right, and the judicious use of platform furniture gives it all the atmosphere it needs to create a realistic effect, something you seem to have got spot on, and it really enhances the excellent canopies 😎 Great work as ever mate 😎👍🍻💚

Great work 👍. The platform canopies really add a whole new visual dimension. The additional structures also change the acoustics when trains pass through the platforms.