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Hello Bill Yes its all brush painted (no airbrush) and the excess removed with thinners. I do go through a lot of cotton wool buds! (Nice MG Midget in your sig pic by the way!)

Hi Peter, I do plan to have a good-sized stud of Vacs, but they are not cheap (a mate of mine has SIXTY!!!). Anyway, a few more weathered locos have entered service. 25054 enters Ely Bridge exchange sidings with a short load of wagons for the coal yard. In the headshunt. Dropping back into the coal yard. Having dropped of her load, the 25 draws forward. The crew will be baling out for a cuppa in the crew room. Meanwhile, on the mainline, 37207 approached with a train of china clay from Burngullow to the Staffordshire Potteries. St Blazey were hoping to have their loco staight back, but the controller at Severn Tunnel has sent the loco on a trip to Ely Bridge. This is a limited edition Kernow Models Bachmann 37. I've fitted the etched nameplates, frostgrills and snowploughs. Next on the workbench is this lovely Hymek, D7042. I've already fitted the bufferbeam detailing and added a crew.

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Thanks Rob AAAARRRGGGHHH the great book cull, carried out during the years when I lost interest in the railway following the withdrawal of the 50s!! I regret getting rid of them now, but I'm glad they have gone to a good home and are being made use of. I've spent a fortune replacing books that I gave away to the Growler Group!! DOH!!

Thanks Stuart. It's slowly coming together. A couple more locos have been weathered. 37238, an NB Immingham monster back in the day ..... 33019 runs light past the steelworks complex. The other side of the layout, where scenic work is sparse!

40152 has returned to service and has arrived in the headshunt to find 37038 already present. Spotter's eye view from Green Lane. A 40 in her natural clothing .... ... i.e filthy.

Thanks for the comments. I've had a go at weathering (a first for me!!) .... 37038 arrives in the exchange sidings ..... .... before posing alongside the Coke Oven ...

Thanks Jules..... The steelworks is complete bar a few finishing touches, which I hope to complete by the end of the week. The small 'box controlling the yard also bears a BSC sign now ... The yard throat from the other direction. S&T staff at work on some felled telgraph poles. Nothing is wasted with model railways ... a pile of scrap from my parts bits.

Since I last posted the layout has undergone a rebuild. The depot area has been cleared and ELY BRIDGE steelworks now occupies the site. MARSHFIELD depot now occupies the opposite side of the layout, with this Traverser as the centrepiece.

Hello, wishing everyone on here the compliments of the season ... I've used the freezing weather as a chance to stay in and do a bit of work on my kit building backlog ... The first is this WILLS boiler house, which has a wealth of detail and took ages to finish. It's quite a complex little building. Here it is in situ in the PW yard, which has changed from being a dead space to my favourite part of the layout. I like the run-down decrepitude and industrial decay feel. Next job is the steelworks gate house.

Thanks Grimley, having followed your progress that is a real compliment The aptly-named High Street now nearing completion. Track level view Looking from HIGH STREET towards ELY BRIDGE along the Causeway. 'Bill' Cookworthy about to pass under HIGH STREET. Hear that Sulzer splutter.

Thanks for the comments - Owen, the layout is 14'x11' in the loft, with an operating well in the centre. The higher level line is actuallly in a figure of eight from the lower level Up Slow line. Trains pass over the crossover just before Bute Tunnel, ascend an incline along one side of the layout, traverse the upper level line to ELY BRIDGE HIGH LEVEL, pass to the left of BUTE TUNNEL as per the DMU in the previous picture, then descend to MARSHFIELD on the Up Slow again. One of these days I'll sort out a track plan, but it will have to be a sketch, I can't be doing with all this track-plan software,.

That is a jaw dropping video. I shudder to think how many hours of my life I've wasted watching terrible model railway vids on YouTube ... and then along comes this. Stunning work, the Deltic sounds awesome.

A bit of progress, this area christened 'Bute Tunnel'. Box-fresh 45053 on her running-in turn.

Hello Marc The buildings are from the Walthers Ashland series ... quench tower and coke oven. Not cheap, but excellent quality.

Thanks, James. I always wanted a chaotic roundy-roundy and this layout is the one I promised myself when I was much younger! As I say, it's not for the purists but MARSHFIELD has given me immense pleasure over the last 4 years. I'm looking forward to super-detailing the steelworks area, which is going to be a mass of pipework and associated buildings.

I've had a few days to get some work done in the up corner. I've also built this overhead pipeline for the steelworks .... made out of 15mm copper pipe, scrap wood, pipe clips and Knightwing girders. Here it is in situ in the steelworks complex. I've also extended the baseboard to allow for a terrace of house overlooking a cutting, which looks much better in my opinion. The area above the tunnels is now to be used for the offices/stores for the steelworks. 37238 is exiting the steelworks complex in this shot. 50004 passes on an Up van train from Milford Haven.

Hello Bri, Some of us get on with it, rather than talk about it! D

A few more pics KESTREL on the Down Fast (wrong headcode!) Depot shots Visiting preserved kettle ... I hope this gives the impression that the layout is great fun - because that's what I intended it to be - my motivation was to build, then crack open a beer and watch the trains go by.

Thanks for the comments. I don't have a track plan, its all in my head! The layout is 14'x11' in the loft, with an operating well in the centre. It started as a 4-track mainline with a fiddle-yard on the opposite side, but I got bored so added the depot. Then I fell into the classic trap of adding too much track, from which I had to withdraw! However I did install the upper frieght/dmu circuit with the other station - Ely Bridge - shoehorned into one corner. The opposite side is now BUTE WHARF STEELWORKS, next winter's project ...

Cheers, Ian. A few pics of the layout as it stands, after 4 years of graft ...... I've replaced the shed with the Bachmann model, which looks far better IMHO. The station end, which is where I've spent most of this winter! Still loads of detailing yet to do.

Hello I did have a thread going on the old site, so thought I'd post on here also. As an intoduction to my layout, here's a short vid on YouTube. This layout is not for the purists, by the way!