Worsdell forever

Horse and cart and a load of sh... Emulating Ian's @thetalkinlens Wilton Carr crossing here, also a class B with a Middlesbrough to Helmsley goods. Perhaps they'll meet in the middle?

Bit more progress tonight, down towards the beck. The bit behind the platform is well looked after, this isza mix of 2 parts short spring and 1 part short lush green. Well, you can't blame me, I did shut the gate...

Made a tentative start on a bit of grass over the weekend and it seems to have gone well, all Green-Scene fibres, I prefer these as the seem to be the only ones that are just single colours with no red and blue fibres mixed in. There's medium spring green, a little medium straw, a tiny bit of long straw and a touch of short lush green in the base, Layered on to that towards the hedge is a light sprinkling of 50/50 medium spring and long straw. Over this is a little bit of different green scatters. The hedge isn't fixed yet and may get adjusted a bit.

It's this stuff, think I got it from the pet shop behind McDonald's at teesside park.

A bit more road surface done, around the station building and along to where a pair of gates lead on to the platform. I've added some stones to the bed of the beck, these are the larger bits of grit from the sharp sand. And a bit of a dam just above the ford.

Started on the road surface on board 1, even coat of fairly thick pva covered with chinchilla dust, when dry and swept off it should sand down to a nice fine texture. Also made a start on the bed of the beck, dried and sieved sharp sand, the smaller grade on to pva and the larger grit will be added later to represent the larger stones.

A bit of an idea of what the lane down to the beck will look like.

If you put a hill like that on a fictitious layout no one would believe you... And I'd certainly rather live at the bottom of the hill if I'd been in the three pubs.

First experiments with making hedges tonight, horse hair and a couple of different scatters, I think it's gone quite well, the sheet of hair is about an inch thick so a half inch-ish wide strip was cut off and this torn in half, it was a bit regular so I rolled it between my hands which opened it out a bit, I'd tried teasing it out but it easily became a bit too open. The piece was about 8 inch long and I stuck a skewer through one end so it could be sprayed with spray mount then the bulk of the green scatter sprinkled on, next a coat of matt varnish then a bit of lighter mixed scatter and another coat of varnish, they will need a bit more work and trimming and it should be OK.

It does look like it bobs in the video, not noticeable in real life, could be a slightly wonky wheel from re gauging, something I need to look at. Yes, there is a dodgy track alignment in the yard, also a couple of spots where the loco bounces through the turnouts, all to look into. The site I've chosen for the station is between the village and the beck, squeezed together a bit to fit them in, hopefully bits of the village will be visible behind the hedge. The goods yard has been arranged to be shunted by goods trains originating from Middlesbrough.

First passenger train has run!

As we progress towards adding green stuff, got stocked up at York yesterday, I've been thinking about adding gates into fields. Looking at a few old photos around Bilsdale many of the field gates seem to be a similar style to the ones over our side of the moors. Below is an example probably made by my grandad 40+ years ago, I may even have helped with it as I remember helping gim a couple of times when I was a kid. So, a couple of gates for board 1, opposite the goods yard entrance and along the back above the signal cabin. Built from 60x20 and 50x20 thou plastic strip with 'stone' gate posts carved from balsa.

Spotted that a couple of weeks ago, they've cut a lot of the under growth out down there.

Yep, summat like...

Road surface around the yard entrance and down to the beck. Backs of boards 2 and 3 covered. And a first coat of paint on the culvert.

Bit more brown and somewhere for the station building to sit.

A bit more landscaping, this time at the back, just ordinary filler as there's no need for the texture like along the river bank and the road surface needs to be smooth.

Some bits have gone brown. 'Nothing to eat here, you said there was good eating here...'

To break up the plain lines of the slope on board 4 there's a drain from the road through the village that runs through a culvert under the railway and down into the beck. I'd cut a slot in the board top behind the railway ready for it then covered it all over with the landscape and now I've cut out the shape of the ditch on both sides. I've made the front of the culvert from plasticard and this slots under the board. I'm thinking for the slope down to the beck to make a stone chanel as its quite steep.

As long as it doesn't lift it's tail you should get away with it.🐎

Ah, the reason for the crane, another two loads ready for away. Well, he wouldn't want to get his boots wet... fettled the bridge planks to fit better and cut a notch in the ground to bed it in. Cut a slot out of the platform ramp to drop the signal in.

And done. It will eventually be sunk into the platform ramp.

Starter, going.