@@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY Cheers James, there’s going to be a lot in the August update! Also, if you fancy sending us a couple DYLINGTON Custard posters, I can add to the kiosk on the platform and maybe other area 🙂 No available storage area though 🤣😂

There is no available space for storage 🙄 that's ridiculous 😁. As regards signage, my printer is kaput at the moment. Hence, no wagons are receiving anything on them yet. But have a look on our community page about three months ago (don't worry, we haven't got a lot on there). There's a post with the custard storage tanks on, it says something about advertisements in the description. There are a couple of photos, the second one, and I think the fourth one are advertisements. Maybe you could screenshot them and print them out at a suitable size...cheers James 🙂👍

@@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY will have a look

@@Kingscleremodelrailway hopefully that will work for you 🙂👍

@@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY just had a look and the best one has ladderman in the wrong place🙄

@@_RandomPea hiya mate, yes had to get as much of the final finish prior to placing, although did have to add some scatter over the joints! How’s your layout coming on?

@@Kingscleremodelrailway yeh not to bad. Ran into an electrical head scratcher with my points just before going away for holiday but back from tomorrow and itching to start making more progress. I've picked up lights to fit to platforms and buildings so they need placing in at some point👍

@@Kingscleremodelrailway I forgot about the need to do the scenics and then move into place on certain hard to reach parts on the layout. Very annoying.

@@_RandomPea just watched your clip, if you wish to have independent control, you need to make sure that you have isolated the sections, ie plastic rail joiners between the crossover and the back of the single turnout! It may pay to install a simple control layout, with the switches you showed, which means you could have two controllers available to control either section! Therefore a passing loop! Hope that helps a little, there is plenty of information on the web or maybe get one of the Peco how too books! I have one somewhere if you would like it? Stu

@@Kingscleremodelrailway haha. Thanks a bunch. Yeh, I wasn't really looking for independent control, more just to be able to isolate the passing loop. The other station works absolutely fine with isulfrog points but I think I got a couple of duff hornby ones that mean regardless of where the point it set it still allows power where it shouldn't Doh! 😣 I'll have to make do with it now, unless like someone suggested I cut some fishplates to break the connection. Been away on hols for 10 days and so I'll take another look. Ps. Thanks for the offer but think I have those same peco books 👍

@@dancooper982 Cheers Dan, both Bachmann and Hornby produce a 9F, both are nice, but for me, the Bachmann was slightly better. It is the weathering of this or tbh; any loco, which allows them stand out and look realistic. 🙂

@@user-dz4yo4yr2u Thank you Simon, I’m Stuart, not James. But you are correct, is nice to vary, I also have another couple of hundred aircraft to build! So do need to find some space to display them 🙄😂🤣 please have a look at the aircraft review I did a couple of months back!

@@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY glad you guys enjoyed the update and no probs re the shout out, his video’s are great, have shown a few people and they all had a big smile watching them. As for the cafe, that’s a good idea, maybe in that area by the footbridge and yes definitely happy to put up a DYLINGTON Custard sign, and I’m sure the cafe/kiosk will stock plenty!

@Kingscleremodelrailway we're pleased you are enjoying his videos. He's coming up at the end of next week, so possibly there will be a new one, and of course, an update on his 009 layout when he's done some more work to it. Be careful what you say, Dylan will be looking for a sign, cafe, or storage facility for Dylington's finest custard 😂👍

@@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY sign 👍 selling in the kiosk 👍 storage 🤔 maybe not 🤣 I am looking forward to seeing the 009 take shape, the plan you guys have put together does look good. We in time will also have a bit of 009 in the chalk quarry!

@Kingscleremodelrailway all credit for the 009 layout goes to Dylan it's his plan, and he's doing all the work on it. My contribution was building the baseboard. Other than that, my job is making cups of tea and fetching the chocolate biscuits 😁👍

@@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY that’s a very important role 😂🤣

@@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY Thank’s James, Really appreciate all your comments of support.

@@matthew1194668 @ this weekend at the Didcot Steam Centre there were Gauge 3 Live Steam Loco’s on a stand and was very cool!

@@dinmorejunctionmodelrailway I’m sure in time, it will arrive! I do like how GBrF have used the older BR livery’s, I saw the Large Logo Class 69 at Basing too the other day!

@@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY Thanks James, May have to try further rescues, also with more animation 🤔 will have to do some research!

@Kingscleremodelrailway I'll have to send my grandson round he'll put you right. He's always planning stop-motion things for Dylington. You know, like, the Postman video or Bin Day or even the Dukes of Hazzard 😁👍

@@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY I have seen a couple of these, they are great! 👍

@Kingscleremodelrailway Thank you, he really enjoys making them, but they do take a long time to create, especially the Dukes of Hazzard one. Which took around ten hours, I think the last one was about four hours. Stormy Day was probably five hours, and it was great fun helping him. I'm the tea lad 😁👍

@@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY sounds like you would fit in well with the breakdown crew 🤣

@@ClaireParker-d8m Well….. what can I say! Thank you Claire 🙂

@@stevelea1 Thanks Steve, I do hope you had a cuppa watching it! 🙂

Cheers, you and your dad have a great aircraft collection too 👌 very nice!

@@Kingscleremodelrailway thank you :) much to my wife’s dismay it continues to grow lol 😂

@@dtrain1634 🤣 is that always the case, tbh, I would like to complete so of the models you have, C17 and awacs but just no space, if you check of my aircraft video you will see the lack of space now, 😢🙄

Thank and I wasn’t aware of that, tbh, I am glad they didn’t, it was great the hear the locos, especially the tank engines; working hard to climb the grade!

Thanks for the visit

It was loud 😳 I was there exhibiting Warton Rd for two days never heard anything like it!

Cheers mate, just started on the station area today! 🙂

Thank you 🙂

I was there for two days exhibiting Warton Rd, Gauge 3 layout, at one point it was so loud; I was sure it was coming through the shed door 😳🤣😂

@@Kingscleremodelrailway cool I was on melton Mowbray there to and at points we would have crashes because the noise was distracting us 😂

Thank you for your comment, I am glad that enjoyed watching it 👍

Thank you for your comment and no we are not ignoring the Lickey Incline. However the statement is true. Fawley Hill is 1 in 13, Lickey Incline in 1 in 37.7, the difference is Lickey is a Mainline whereas Fawley is not. Therefore, Fawley Hill is the steepest Standard gauge railway in the Uk.

Had to look this one up. As soon as I saw the name Sir William McAlpine, things became clear .... well, slightly clearer, at any rate. Can we take it chimneys ALWAYS face uphill on this line?? I recall mentioning of a freight only line to a sandpit somewhere on the LMS accessed by a line which came up a 1 in 5 grade to regain 'the big railway', but this was a reader's letter in (IIRC) Railway Modeller, over 50 years ago and not all the regular correspondents -were-completely-sane- had 100% accurate recall. Fascinating line ... thanks for sharing. 🙂

It was my first time there, a very interesting place, the McAlpine grounds was full of Very Large Ex Railway items, it is great that these were saved. And no the chimney did not appear to be facing uphill 🙂 however, is well worth a visit and definitely try to have a ride on the line, it is something 😳🤣😂

The Lickey Incline is the steepest sustained adhesion standard-gauge main-line gradient in the UK (at 1 in 37.7), but there are indeed other grades that exceed that. If we ignore funiculars (which are arguably just angled lifts, in which case a lift that goes vertically has a gradient of 1 in Zero), the steepest railway gradient in the UK would be on the Snowdon Mountain Railway (at 1 in 5.5), but that is neither standard gauge, adhesion worked, nor the mainline. The Sheffield Supertram maxes out at 1 in 10, and *is* adhesion and standard-gauge, so is technically the steepest standard gauge gradient in the UK, but light rail/trams are built somewhat differently. But there are a lot of extant gradients in the UK that beat the Lickey - for some examples: the incline to Bank on the DLR (1 in 17, Light Rail), Foxfield Bank (1 in 19, not the mainline), Marley's Bank on the Leighton Buzzard Railway (1 in 25, narrow gauge), Golfa Bank on the Welshpool railway (1 in 29, narrow gauge), and I believe the gradient on some of the tracks feeding into some of the London terminuses are *briefly* in the region of 1 in 30 as ramps thread lines over and under each other, but that's not sustained. Of these, Golfa Bank is probably the best experience, as it's about a mile long, quite twisty and is regularly running steam passenger service. (That said, my personal favourite is Aberffrwd bank on the Vale of Rheidol. It's not as steep as the lickey, but it is four miles of sustained and extremely twisty 1 in 50. The locomotives are the most powerful 2ft gauge steam locos built for a UK railway, and have a tractive effort to rival some standard gauge locos - and they *need* it). The Lickey is certainly Impressive when considering the combination of its length and grade, and of the scale of traffic expected to use it, but there are steeper grades, longer grades and taller sustained grades in the UK.

@@SomeThrillingHeroics Thank you. In the late 90’s, I was one of the PWay Engineers working on the construction of the Croydon TramLink and remember Gravel Hill being 8%, generally; I worked on the GWML (Padd to Didcot) with gradients “around” 0% to 0.1%, so this was somewhat out of the ordinary and bloody steep, especially when; I had to walk up and down it; many times 😢 as we installed the ballast, sleeper etc……

Thank you for your comment 👍🙂

Cheers, some wagons still need some work.

It’s a Dapol straight signal, so, not a servo I believe, it’s really good and easy to install and use, however, a little noisy 🤔

Glad you like it

Hi, Yes the Watercress is not that far, have you ever seen my mates OO gauge layout “Ropley”? It was at the Basingstoke exhibition this year, also various modelling mag’s. It is always good to have a look at the real thing, the focus of attention for this trip the signalling. Kingsclere is using GWR signalling, however, I was looking at the rodding and wires! So didn’t matter that much if it was upper or lower quadrant.

@@Kingscleremodelrailway yeh I've seen Ropley before pretty impressive modelling. Love to get mine looking a fraction as good 😊

I’m sure you will, it just takes time mate 🙂

@@Kingscleremodelrailwaywill you make your rodding or use the wills kits, which I still have no idea how they charge so much for 😆

I do have a couple of the Wills kits, Modelu also have some signalling item, which even mote expensive, however, really good. As for Kingsclere, I am going to model the transition from mechanical to electrical, so therefore reduce down the amount of rodding and signalling wires required, so enough to show but not break the bank, also it is difficult to make it look correct due to scale distances clearances, I spoke to I guy I work with, who luckily is a signalling engineer and we have a plan 👍 he also owns Collingwood, which is a lovely layout definitely check it out!

Thank you, although when you see it enlarged on a screen, there’s a couple items that I need to address, but I’m happy how it turned out. 🙂

@@Kingscleremodelrailway always nervous to do anything on good models myself, was this with an airbrush? 😂

@@_RandomPea yes mate, although there was a little use of weathering powders. If you have an airbrush, and not trying to teach you to suck eggs, but just practice your technique on some paper or card, then move on to some old cheap wagon and enjoy, don’t worry about making mistakes and remember less is more, a little dusting is far more realistic than coating a loco and allow each coat to dry before applying a second, there is a different between wet and dry paints. I use a variety of paints, mainly frame dirt, a little rust both light and dark and roof dirt and some times a little sleep grime. I do hope this helps, the main thing is to not worry but just have a go and enjoy.

Thank you, it is enjoyable both building and running the layout 🙂

Thanks mate

Thank you for your comment 👍

Hi there, I will upload a track diagram today, finger crossed. As for track plans, I would list out what you wish to have, for example 2 or 4 running lines, MPD? Yard? Time period is important, since the 80’s most yards became car parks. Once you have all your ideas, just sketch them out! And try to do it to a rough scale, if you can. The baseboards being us for Kingsclere are the same ones I had my n gauge on, there was a lot 😳, 90 points, two loop, massive fiddle yard and various MPD/oil siding / engineers siding / even a wagon works and a nuclear unloading facility. However, still plenty of room for scenic elements. Sometimes less track makes a better layout, as too much leaves no room for the railway environment and the countryside or town around it. However, it’s very much a personal choice! Whatever you are happy with; is the key! Hope this helps.

Thank you for you comment and will do 🙂

Hi there, Thanks for your comment. I used a 2mm card base, in short movable sections, to which I attached foam, from the unused foam in stock boxes (great to get the contours, but does soak all the water in) but any foam will do the trick, I then apply the bandage material, various manufacturers can provide this including gaugemaster, once fully dry I apply sculptamold, again there are other various products which you can achieve your requirements. Again and importantly “once dry”, I spray or paint on a base dirt/earth colour, then grass or soils. This process does take time and don’t rush. I have found that the foam I use; soaks all the moisture down to the card, which could cause issues, and a couple of the big sections have warp a little, but I will attach these down once it ready to do so! The reason for the small section's, they are easier to work on, I don’t want to have overspray risk on the ceiling and I am still to complete the backscenes. In the April review, out soon! I will show the various stages explained above, as I am currently doing the Upside cutting. Hope this helps.

Hi there, So it’s the royal we, although, my son does help out from time to time, especially with the video editing. As for the track weathering, the process I use is as follows: spray track with sleeper grime, there are various manufacturers and it good to use a few to break up to colours, then paint the rail and chairs with dark rust, again similar point to above in regards manufactures. Then for the ballasting, I generally use woodland scenics, but it’s down to personal choice, but always the fine grade. Always mix varying colours, the real thing has a variety of colours, try to get a photo of a prototypical area you would like to model, for the yard, I use cinders with a small amount of gray mixed in. Again once dry, I apply Track Grime, produced by Geoscenics, this is pricey but worth it, for the yards, I spray quite heavy, on the running lines I spray it lightly with a little more around S&C units, platforms of area where locos stand. I then apply oil spill, again from Geoscenics, I spray in the same above area’s but limit this. To finish it off, within the yards I use woodland scenics various greens and static grass but remember this would be very short as the vehicles will keep it low. For the running lines, these would generally be veg free? Hope this helps, however, to be honest there are so many ways to create the look you are after and it is very personnel , so I would recommend you have a short test track to practice your track and off track weathering and just play, try different products and perfect your style.

Forgot to mention in the April update, I will run through the works I have done in the engineers sidings, which aligns with the weathering details in the other reply. Have fun and don’t worry about making mistakes on the test track, a lot easy to make mistakes there, than on the layout 🙂

Thank you very much!

The PWM was pushing 😄 but touch wood my S15 has been ok

@@Kingscleremodelrailway mines all fanickity and probably needs a really good clean 🫧 but even some of the new locos I don't think would run at that low a power. Do you have a high spec controller or something special ?

@@_RandomPea I do run the cleaning train around often and clean the loco wheel’s occasionally. The controller is the DR5000 so not sure if it’s high spec, but I have no issues apart from a couple of dead section, however, most of the loco’s now have stay alive’s and the loco’s which are still being affected, I will have stay alive’s fitted.

Thank you, trick I have leant is that less is always more when it comes to weathering, lots of light coats to build up the effect you are after.

@@Kingscleremodelrailway❤

Thanks 👍 a lot of years building and plenty more still to do!

Thank you, great feedback 😄

Thanks Andy, Really appreciate yours and all the other great comments, if you or anyone have a particular area you would like us to concentrate on, please just reply back and I see what I can do.