Having recently taken delivery of an extra Class 33 (1990s railtour condition), SDJR Jinty, and West Highland liveried MK1 (Fort Bill-Mallaig mid 80s), I posed some little cameos.
A possible scenario if through trains had continued over the S and D for a bit longer, stalwarts such as a 7F mix with some diesels that could conceivably have appeared. Don't take it too literally, it's just a "what if".
Hopefully visible to most of you:
https://www.facebook.com/tim.hall.146/videos/1322301394540772/
https://www.facebook.com/tim.hall.146/videos/1299748610129384/
https://www.facebook.com/tim.hall.146/videos/1285028824934696/
https://www.facebook.com/tim.hall.146/videos/1253606708076908/
Having relaid and remodelled some of the track at the end of 2016, I left it a few months to see if I was happy with it all. Eventually, this autumn, I decided crack on with bits of scenery (see photos) and some ballasting (50/50 water/ pva, a few drops of washing up liquid and some black poster paint to weather it a bit). The shed areas had black poster paint added later to try to reproduce the grime of such areas. There is still a lot to do, but I'm pleased with the progress so far.
Late in 2016, after a long period of playing trains, but not doing much with the layout, I decided to remove the little used "freight loop" and with it the diamond crossings and three way points that caused more derailments than I was happy with. By asking handyman Mark (whilst visiting to do some work in the kitchen) to put a larger fillet in one corner of the fiddle yard, a siding could be extended, and brought all the way round the layout to become the 4th circuit. This gave the opportunity f
Three circuits, a fiddle yard, and a small branch line terminus appeared, as did a rather unconvincing fourth track crossing from the 2nd circuit to inside the 3rd one via diamond crossings, though I found that I rarely used it.
The "Hall" mock up nameplate was made by friends at the railway I was then a volunteer at, to celebrate my half century.
