Both these locomotives run great if you now how to repair them these locomotive which I do apart from making a bit of noise they are worth purchasing, it’s split shifts holding the wheels together which is normally the problem. You can get now from Peter spares at a very reasonable cost thank for sharing the running of these locomotives many thanks Colin.

Absolutely love this. I wonder if it'd be possible to have an automatic uncoupling feature by having a rod come up through the baseboard to prevent one wagon from rolling while the other is pulled away?

Hi Gormo, Another great video full of practical advice that we can ‘dip into’ and adapt for our our own layouts. I was particularly impressed by your end stop design as I’m looking for a method to apply to my own aluminium angle based cassettes. Also the simple but very affective handles. Whilst in this comment a bit of feed back from an earlier video on signal construction, if I may. Inspired by your design I constructed a two aspect signal but wired the 12v red and green LEDs ‘back to back’ and fed them with a pair of wires that have the polarity reversed by a sub-mini relay operated by a 12v dc coil from the aux switch on the point motor of an adjacent turnout that enable the UP line to be crossed over the Down main. I then wanted to turn this into a junction signal using a ‘feather’ indicator to control the route to the branch line, ahead of the crossover. To my delight I found the here in the uk ‘train tec’ market a feather kit that I assembled and glued to the top of the lens cover. It is illuminated by a set of tiny white LEDs pre-fitted to a strip that is enclosed in a black housing and lens cover. The LED strip is supplied with a 1K ohm. Resistor. To operate I initially energise the relay to switch the signal to red to protect the main line crossover ahead. When the branch route is selected a second relay reverses the signal to green and the feed to this 2nd relay coil is also wired to the feather and the white lights are illuminated too. All from your initial video that set my old brain cells into overdrive! With many thanks, Happy Modelling. T🚂

¡Hola buenas tardes Gormo! So, I’ve used the official ‘Time Machine’ and gone back to find someone who has made OO scale tarpaulins. An Ozzy, who’s built a thing or two for railway models, came up and, I’m going to give his method a bash.🤪. In all seriousness, I am currently repurposing some old Horny wagon stock - repainting, weathering, so I and can now form goods trains for filming around Arboleas Junction. Your tried and trusted method is perfect! It did make me smile whilst listening to your comments about the hot weather temperatures - whilst typing this (Wednesday 17th July 2024) it’s currently 30.5°C and 18.30hrs! Anyway, back to the garage for some more tarp’s. Stay well and look forward to another current date update soon. Un saludo. Gary.

Very Nice! Thanks.😊

Bloody good idea mate. Just started a new “mini layout” mainly a diorama and have been mulling over what to do the road surface in, and bingo! Thank you for the idea, off to Bunnings 🇦🇺🦘👍🏻

Fantastic Gormo! Really enjoyed that.

Great to see it all thanks

Dear Gormo, excellent footage of your layout! Love the way you shot the run around sequences. Cheerio

Great stuff. Felt like a real treat to see all that.

Thanks Gormo. It is now written in the book so unless I am dumb enough to lose the book, there should be no more problems !!!😊

Sounds great . I'll get in touch next week. We could also exchange phone numbers that way. Roland

Hi Gormo, what a cracker of a video, very interesting and highly entertaining. Thanks for posting. Cheers Greg

Great video, I like Bardfield most. Really enjoyed this, thank you.

Very good, most enjoyable, thanks.

Are you able to access those hidden areas?

Ingenious Gormo I love it 😊 👌😎☕️

Well done Gormo! A real inspiration for me, and I suspect to all other viewers. Thankyou.😃

Thanks Gormo. I have just done some video to the side inspired by scotts rails idea of mounting a mobile phone camera on its side vertically in a box car in which he made a slot in the roof to accommodate it. I went a bit further and constructed a rather rough drop centre flat car from shet styrene and balsa strips. This allowed the centre of gravity of the phone to be lowered to aid with stability. The camera can be angled slightly to allow the bottom of the video to be closer to the track and minimise having the top of the backdrop in the shot. The height of the top of the phone can have some clearance issues depending on tunnel and bridge clearances. That said, the very useful video I got was clear and very steady. A smooth loco is also an advantage. The phone is only held in position by snugly fitting balsa strips about 10mm high gripping the phone. I have also got some good onboard video with the use of an SQ13 cube camera mounted on a flat car, positioned as track cam at the head end and rear end. I have also placed it mid train both looking ahead and behind. The only problem with this camera is some fisheye effect when passing through bridges. I noticed that that did not seem to be a problem with yours so that was why I inquired what camera you were using. Cheers

Enjoyed the run very much. I don't often get to do that on someone else's layout. 😁 Smooth switches not just in movement but smooth riding through. Great job.👍

Gormo. I have to ask. What are all the electrolytic capacitors for close to the tracks? Are they there to prevent voltage drop on your branches? Phl

What is the make and model of the camera

Such a wonderful experience. Like others have said - the concept of destinations brings so much more to the layout and enables the ‘train playing’ (aka operation) to have such great purpose. An inspiring video for us all to enjoy. Thank You for all the effort that went into creating and sharing it. Happy Modelling T🚂

Remarkable layout and filming, editing all of that must have been quite a task. Thanks so much for sharing Gormo💜👍😊

Absolute pleasure too watch. What a wonderful layout. 👍🤓

Thank you for this fantastic video, Gormo, I honestly didn''t realise just how extensive your layout is! Loved the 'passing trains' sequence at the end! All the best, Ken.

The layout is more extensive then you realise Gormo 👍

Cweratinly goog to se the layout Gormo great ride cheers

Really enjoyed that Gormo , Thank you .

Hi Gormo, that was a really enjoyable look at the layout. I like how you've planned the layout to run to different destinations, even if they are only hidden sidings. That seems to make the layout more purposeful somehow..................Really really nice..............All the very best Dave.

Thanks, good to see how different areas of the layout are linked, cheers

Fantastic and a beautiful layout

¡Hola buenas tardes Gormo! That has to be the best update from GCJ and, without exaggeration, the best I have ever seen on KZfaq. Your attention to back-scene design and on- view attention to detail is second to none. You should feel very proud of your achievements. Long May you enjoy playing trains and, in doing so, entertain your KZfaq followers. Sending best regards to you both. un saludo. Gary. PS: Coming from Saffron Walden, as you are aware, it was great to see all the familiar town and village names from around Great Chesterford!

Gormo. Thank you for an excellent video. The layout looks great. Thanks. Pete

Excellent.... you clearly have so many options to 'play trains' I am very envious Gormo, thanks again Paul

Great footage mate, especially with other trains at work although got a bit distracted by the tools in your workshop! Now have a much better idea of how your layout works and fits together. Knew it went across other rooms but didn’t realise by how much. Long runs between the branch stations and you really get a feel of going from somewhere to somewhere.

Good fun thanks Gormo, cheers Peter.

good vid on channel thanks for the share on channel of you layout keep up the vlogs on channel

Very impressive conversion of a metcalfe engine shed

Super mate. Thanks again. Always a pleasure.

Where any/all structures aren’t fixed to the surface properly, the gaps show and doesn’t blend with the rest of this beautiful layout.

Looking great

Looking awesome. I love the layout. Hi from NZ, regards Bernie

It's looking better and better every time you post. Love the tunnel mouth and the trees really set it off. Great work around the cattle dock and ingenious idea for the water tower to get the scallops. Keep safe Frank

Hi Gormo. As ever, nice work.

I think your railway is fabulous.

On board

Very nice.

Great looking layout. Very nice work. 👍👊👍

Hi Gormo - it all looks great. How did you do the low relief terrace houses….i would like to do the same on my layout