Very good layouts, thanks for sharing.

My husband had planned to go with chums to Warley last year but the trip fell through. He was very disappointed so I decided to surprise him (and me, taking one for the team) with a trip to the Warley show (and boy, was he surprised!). I was so pleased I did, especially after hearing it was the last one - and, most importantly, he loved his weekend. 🚂🚃🚃

The mk2 coaches could do with a few fare dodging passengers 🙂

Really enjoyed this video.

Thank you, i learned a lot of stuff, very well explained, thanks for sharing.

Totally agree with you mate. For me, and my view is equally as valid as anyone else's view, is Accurascale is like an exclusive, expensive, gentleman's club - something I'm absolutely not interested in 👍

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Don't use super-glue direct from the bottle, you have no control, pop some on a piece of card and use something, paper-clip, length of rod etc., to apply it. Much safer.

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Your cat is gorgeous. Thank goodness my dog does not get on my layout like your cat LOL

I have 4 natural disasters myself 😊

That was too closely spaced for freedom of movement. After all, if it was deliberate then the coaches would be on the floor!

11/10 perfect video. Those pantograph masts looks extra chewable.

wherever you are they want to be in the thick of it.

Fantastic. You managed to summarize almost everything I know about coaching formations in a single easy to understand video, and added a couple of hints I didn't. I look forward to the next episode in the series.

I thought, when I bought my 5 car set, i wouldn't worry about the full 14 car train. However, I did, Hattons had the cars on special and i preordered the NDM and when that arrived completed my APT. I had to swap one of the new APT couplers with the old APT. The upshot is it ran well so you are right a full APT needs 2 NDMs. Good video. Cheers

Love the close couple on those. I fitted the magnetic ones to mine.

7:22 you can get a stop collar that attaches to the drill bit to set the depth of the hole

I must complement the design of the layout ‘Rolvenden’. It looks like the sort of heritage railway that I might well visit on my next trip away.

Great layouts 👍🏼Particularly liked Rolvenden, that is only about 45 minutes from me 😀

great film of some brilliant layouts thank you

Some fare dodging passengers would be good too 😊

Great exhibition video - well done!

Halland is my layout, wish I had known would of had a good chat with you

Looks like fun👍🏻

Will they work with magnetic couplings from Westhill Wagon Works?

UK’s Coaching Mark Stocks Throughout The Generations Production 1. Angloceltic Railways (E & C R) Mark Stock (“MK1”) 2. BREL Mark Stock (“MK2”), A. Air Brake, B. Arc Roof, C. Heritage, D. Air Con, E. Modified, F. Classic 3. BREL Mark Stock (“MK3”), A. ICE, B. Modern, C. International + ICE-AutoVans (“90”) & Sports AutoVans (“89”) 4. Metropolitan Cammell Mark Stock (“MK4”) + ICE-AutoVans, Electrical DVT (For Suburban Stock) 5. Both The CAF Mark Stock & The Mark HST Stock (“MK5”) Prototypes 1. Cravens Mark Stock 2. Swindon Mark Stock 3. Crewe Mark Stock

@3:40 think you got it. Own advice : "Let sleeping dogs lie" anyway thumbs

Never seen these couplings before -does anyone use them?

I'm going to pipe up at a slight error regarding classes and their titles in the given periods, as well as some additional information others might find useful or interesting. Second class was abolished by the Midland Railway in 1875, with their Third class stock being scrapped and Second and Third being effectively merged to the effect of Second class treatment, with Third class fare prices under the Third class title. The reasons for retaining Third as a title rather than abolishing it outright and reducing the Second class fares is because, under parliamentary law, railways had to provide a minimum service at a reasonable cost (termed "parli trains" in railway lore) under the Railway Regulation Act 1844, hence why at the turn of the century you had First and Third, but no Second. Other railways followed suit, despite their annoyance, since they risked losing traffic to the better yet cheaper competing service the Midland provided. Since the MR's neighbours were doing it, other railway neighbours had to do so as well to keep up with the former as a result. Rinse and repeat, with the last of "Second class" being abolished just after the turn of the century. I'm not familiar with boat trains and their quirks, but it would make sense that Second was retained exclusively on boat trains for the purpose of maintaining the classist divide for the sake of through fares to Europe, though in railway terms I would imagine Third and Second were treated with similarly fitted out coaching stock for the sake of simplicity and maintaining a good public image. I should also note that "Third" was renamed to "Second" in 1956 (according to everyone's favourite source of knowledge Wikipedia, and since I don't know better I'm sticking to that).

Very nice work 👍🏻

Intresting video, but i must admit i just run whatever i want. Most of mine are MK1, but in general, as long as the coaches look the same, then im not really fussed. I juat enjoy running the trains and watch them go round the layout.

The issue is the roco coupler - use the supplied options!

Hi, very interesting. I'm badly in need of some mk2s in late 70s early 80s condition but don't really know what that would be. I've looked at these but bypassed them due to cost. However I was very interested in the whining noise, does your block detector use AC? Sounds like the charging circuit is not properly protected against stray AC or RF??

They'd go nicely with my derailing Accurascale Deltic!

There,s No highlight, very poor range

I'm currently running NR25 (N scale), with Indian Pacific eagle logo's fitted straight out of the box. The sound this loco makes when starting up the engine is superb. Ditch lights are automatically activated to flash when sounding the horn. It also has a working bell sound that is set to Function 19.

Making Trains Part 1: I enjoyed this, I have just found your channel, so is part 2 coming soon?

What software did you use for the Light Configuration? 9:32 - 11:01

Good tip for saving kadee springs is to apply a small dab of super glue to one of the couplers kadee spring points. That way if the spring comes adrift you shouldn’t have the spring shoot off into the abyss

Without any description of what components are needed, how it is built and wired this article is as much use as a chocolate fireguard.

Very Interesting video.

Fleischmann had close couplings years ago. German engineering 😴🤣. I think we are getting too involved with perfection today. It’s just a model railway, after all.

Disagree about the Hornby coach. Unless you are a Gresley expert on how it should exactly look these are extremely minor faults. They look absolutely fine to me.

I swapped the tension lock couplings for the magnetic knuckle couplings supplied and have been running a rake of 6 mk2bs with no issues on my less than perfect track 😊 i do agree that removing the tension couplings was tricky. I ended up unscrewing the bogies on most in order to have access to squeeze the ends of the couplings and pull them out and then refitting the bogies. Quite a slow process.....

What about the most important thing of all: does the MN offer as fine motor control as the MX?

The problem is in the Roco coupler. Coaches from Hobbytrade, Heljan and NMJ do the same as your coache. Derail when using Roco couplers.

Try bachmann DMU couplings on them (the loop type) I've never found couplings which completely eliminate slack to be any good (magnets included)

An interesting, quite well put together video talking about both the positives and the negatives (as the way it should be these days!) Although one thing I'm not exactly sure about are those Roco couplers, sure they do give off a nice close coupling look but it's a double edged sword. You get a nice realistic close look at the cost of being able to run them on any sort of curve radius less than 3 without derailing and I also don't really like how much of a faff it looked to actually get them to uncouple either but that might just be me. Of course this doesn't take away from the fact Accurascale didn't get the length of the NEM pocket quite right which is something that other manufacturers who've done 4mm before hasn't gotten correctly before and I do feel there needs to be a rule made to make a pocket that is both the correct length and the correct height (without the stupid dips that the Bachmann Mk1s & Mk2As have) so that there's a smaller chance that derailments will occur when fitted with something that's either a tension lock or a magnetic coupler. For me the solution to permanently fix this would be to buy a set of Hornby Magnetic couplers and test which one works best (as the Hunt Couplings from West Hill wagons are extremely brittle)

hi any chance you can do a more in death video on setting the zimo mx 600r for ABC braking . i can get my locos to stop but not at the same place with a different speed thank.