Hi Marcus. Brilliant track plan on a brilliant layout. You're modeling skills are superb, well done buddy. Love you're baseboards look so well made. Because I only have a 10ftx10ft layout mine looks a bit cramped as well, didn't have a choice if I wanted 4 running tracks. Brilliant your have nice long sidings. I'm a technophobe so electrical bits go mostly over my head.☹ OK with dc though.👍 Thank you for subscribing, subscribed back.🌝 Thanks for showing us Marcus. Thumbs up thumped 👍 ....Pete.....

HI - Very nice work. I wonder if you could please expand on your comment re Peco code 100 buffer stops being "a bit naff" compared to the code 75 ones; what's wrong with them exactly? Cheers

Any chance you can show how you changed your class 56s to transrail? I have 2 and was looking to try and do the same.

I really liked you're method of putting the flangeway into the hard standing... it looked really good. I bet your layout had a good covering of concrete dust over it though, except where that red cloth was, with you blowing the dust from the flangeway instead of hoovering it up, and not attaching a vacuum to your electric sander to catch the dust from that, you must have spent more time cleaning up the dust than you spent doing the project. It looks as though you could have done with wiping a damp cloth over the concrete before the wash as it looked as though you were brushing dust up when you started brushing the wash on. A suggestion if you do it again is maybe using a metal plasterers trowel to put the mixture down and then letting it dry for a short while, like you did, and then finishing it off with the trowel wet in a bucket of water and cleaned each pass like ive seen plasterers do when they put the finish to plastered walls.

Hi Marcus. Brilliant update buddy. Trying to get some diesel pumps having a bit of a job getting them, like your ones. Like the concrete base you have done for your sheds, look realistic. Going to try filler for my base. Did experiment with my small engine shed looks pretty good. Don't know if I'm going to vlog it in case I cock up.😒 Brilliant layout. Thanks for the update mucker. .... Pete....

Nice to see scenery rather than the easy option of retaining walls with different levels of track. The amount of time making all those trees must have seemed like forever!. It looks fantastic, so can’t wait to see what comes next. You have a new subscriber.

Hi you could try Oxford die-cast models for cars v good . Poss add some graffiti about. Like the layout. You could get a photographic backscene .

Layout looks quality mate good video

Looks quality mate good video learnt some good tips

Hi, for some reason KZfaq never informs me when you post a new video, and I've been subscribed for ages. You have a really great layout there, and some great scenery and modelling skills. When you described the unfinished board behind the station, the beige colour of the board reminded me of a beach scene going off into the distance. It was only when I looked again I realised it was plain board.........I think maybe the white paint or glue on the wood appeared like waves in some weird way............Anyway, a great layout, thankyou, all the best Dave.

What a great update...really enjoyed the video, the station looks awesome, scenery is epic...my Son Adam says its the best layour he's ever seen...considering he runs his models on Harold Road i may have to ban him from it for that statement , seriously...great modeling my old freind 😊

Your modeling skills are awesome. Like you I built a layout, then had to move, not only to another house but another country on a different continent. So goodbye old layout. The new layout, begun 2018 is much bigger with 80 feet of sceniced main line, and probably as I am now in my eighties rather too ambitious. It has a lot of scenery and I am eagerly awaiting your video on trees and shrubbery. You, sir, are a master modeler.

Excellent update and great to see ya smiling face. Now where are those signals we been talking about…..

Fantastic layout

Amazing layout great content subscribed too.

Just a quick question, as you’ve said in a previous video all the fiddle yard points are manually operated, how do you intend to reach them with a backscene board in the way? Great video though, it’s a very enjoyable series! Cheers, Ollie

As a qualified electronics engineer, your wiring is just fine.

Note: that 40 yard roll on off bin (Biffa) would need to be accessed by a 32 ton 8 leg truck to pick up/ exchange….. impossible where you have it🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

I love this layout so much, lovely to get a little overview of it

Really coming together now mate. My only gripe is that you’ve not made the branch station traditional looking with a ramp at each end - I do like an old fashioned station. 👏👏👏

Great video! Being following you for years and you're a massive inspiration. You even motivated me to go up in the loft tonight 😅 I'm a bit behind you (still cutting plywood) and have a young'un so just stealing an hour or so here and there when I can. I'm modeling early 2000s too and have lots of Cararama cars as they do loads of stuff for that era (Volvo, Saab, Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Ford, Fiat etc). I've bought loads off eBay over the years. Abrex also do 1/72 Skodas which come in handy too.

Should have used a tamping bar like they use in full scale would have got it level in no time. Concrete sets better if you bring moisture to the surface. Weathered Concrete doesn't really have any light patches, by it's nature unless sealed it absorbs any spillages (Diesel, Oil, Grease or Paint). Concrete/Cement dust is not very good for your lungs hope you were wearing a filter mask.

Do you have any problems 'pushing' the HST with the Hornby kinematic couplings or have you used another type of coupler?

Superb modelling and not overstated. And the fact that you are drawn in by the realism makes it all the more interesting 👍

First time I have watched your videos, your layout is so realistic, will now be regular watcher….

It would be awesome to get some tutorials on your scenic work mate, what a job youve done! Have you been long in the hobby?

Just found this channel and loving the realistic detail, I have a 6X4 layout and aiming it to be as realistic as possible so this has given me a few ideas :)

Fantastic! Your greenery is really up there with the best on KZfaq, so very much looking forward to seeing how you do it 😊

This is my next loco. Looks so cool.

Thanks for the whole coverage here,great layout ,very subtle and laid back,well done on a superb job.

Amazing.

I love your little details...with fences, bushes and the weathering on every item ..looks very real ! 👍

If you want to add another level of real life loco depots etc you need to add more dropped oil on the track, just think about where the locos stand and just go full send on the black oil, back in the 90`s we never gave a s*** about oil contamination on the ground and where locos stood or driver stopped locos and changed ends the ground was filthy, it does look good right now but add more dirt and more crap... cracking layout.

Great intro for me, not usually into modern era but great modeling! Subbed 🎉

my era and area. I can just imagine those load haul steel coils making their way from the steelworks where i work

Superb work. Great to see a realistic layout which succeeds because it's not overstuffed with stock, track buildings etc. All very restrained, spacious and tastefully weathered. Love the Loadhaul 56 especially. Cheers.

Thanks for the update in what sounds a very busy life... Absolutely love this, everything scenery wise blends so well, videos nicely put together, interesting to listen to, diesels everywhere. Platform level blending has given me ideas... Nice one Regards... Ste

Really like the look of the new station - fabulous work. Thanks for sharing 👍🏼

Another fantastic update, great to see the progress made across the whole layout 👌👌

Looking really good Marcus, I'm constantly watching your layout for inspiration on my own, particularly around your depot area. Station also looks fantastic! Joe

Don’t keep apologising. The layout looks very realistic. 👍 it always takes a while to get things done.

Thanks for the update. Great work you have been doing. I always enjoy your layouts. Great locos too! Although I am an N gauge modeller I can appreciate the detail of the Cavalax 56s!

I think this has got to be my favourite layout. Love the era and the detail and skill involved amazing 👍

Fantastic update, its a shame life's busy as you're good at it! 😊

Stunning - what a superb layout! Brings back so many memories of when South Wales still had so many interesting workings. I've always been into photographing loco's and it was shortly after this time with the invasion of the red sheds that I lost most interest, so it's great to see the area recreated so well! I immediately recognised the sadly no more 'Margam TMD' and also 'Rhymney' a.k.a. the Vale...!! As to the real railway round here, I paid a now rare visit to Margam Knuckle Yard this week, and the place is now looking incredibly sad.... Really good modelling to bring back the good times! Keith

Great update. Can I ask what actual paint did you use for the Arriva colours on the station fencing? Regards Andy

The combination of the Cavalex 56s and your vegetation is very impressive!

I'm having a TMD with wagon repair facility built for me that's set in the mid to late 1990's. I bought 3 Cavalex Class 56's. They are very good locos. I've also got 2 Cavalex Class 60's on pre-order. Also got some weathered Cavalex HAA's & Accurascale JUA's. Can't wait to get my layout.

Layout looks great mate, impressed how you have used the space without going overboard on track. Gowerton Vale is a perfect name to honour what came before but be its own thing

Excellent update Marcus! Thanks for uploading, the branch line adds something different to the main part of the layout, cheers Darrell 😃👍