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Another visit to the Main Station at Trenholme Junction, a model railway set in the 1960's when steam was being replaced by Diesel power. The scene is set in the Middlesbrough area of the North East of England and illustrates the complexity of the railways in this area. Filmed from the view point of a nine year old child simply watching this theatre of operations which were an everyday occurrence at this time.

Trenholme Junction is a ficticious model railway which depicts the railway scene in the early 1960's. The view point which it is filmed is looking through the eyes of a nine year old child besotted with the scale and complexity of the subject. This film is around the Main Station and opens with a locomotive exchange after the termination of its journey. The Deltic locomotive leaves its train and returns to the diesel shed and the station pilot removes the train into the south carriage sidings. A steam working of empty mineral wagons drifts slowly past the station on the goods line. A four coach DMU arrives and a two coach unit departs from the south bay platform before the breakdown train passes the south signal box and on to destinations unknown.

Before anybody jumps down my throat, I know that there has been discussion in the past (more than three years ago) about resetting the ZTC214 decoders (I have read them), I was wondering if anybody has had any luck resetting them to factory settings using the ECoS. I have some loco's with these installed and would prefer not to take them to bits to install new ones.

A south bound Black 5 ambles through the Main Station along the avoiding road with 42 wagon empty mineral train followed by a 2 car diesel multiple unit travelling north. Class 25 D7645 arrives at the north carriage sidings to pick up its coaching stock and then places it in the platform. From the south, a Crab arrives at the parcels platform, followed by Deltic into the main station. The Crab and the Class 25 then both continue their journeys. Just a bit of trainspotting in the 1960's.....

At the Main Station again for this weeks film. The DMU, (Diesel Multiple Unit) changed local and Intermediate journeys in virtually all parts of the country in the 1960's and there are eight sets working on Trenholme Junction. We see two of the sets come into the station from the south carriage sidings. The four car formation is two two-car sets coupled together, a practice widely used to increase capacity especially at peak times.

In last weeks film the activities were based around the Main Station and used some of the fleet of Class 47 locomotives and because the film was liked I have carried on the set into this weeks production. Another couple of the 47's have been given the new Hattons decoders and had some extreme wheel cleaning and they feature in this film in charge of the grain train and the breakdown train. Some gentle 08 action on Station Pilot duties completes the scene. And the seventh 47? That still runs like a pig, inching forward, stopping and then inching forward some more grrrrr.......

Thanks Andy, I'll bear that in mind, Kind regards Doug W.

There are seven Class 47 locomotives on Trenholme Junction, but most of them don't feature in any of the films because they have poor running reliability. All are early Heljan models and most have been fitted with three different decoders, all of which have fried. They also need extensive wheel cleaning before each run. I have fitted four of them with Hatton's decoders and they seem to be good, so far, so in this film they are the featured locomotives.

Continuing the theme of viewing Trenholme Junction from inside the various buildings on the layout, this film is mainly centred around the Lower North Signal Box watching the activities at the Main Station.

When David Hockney was asked in a TV documentary, why he had painted the (tree) stump which appeared in more than one of his paintings, he replied that it could be viewed from many angles and was always different depending on the conditions of the day. A model railway on show at an exhibition can only be intended to be viewed from one angle although it's a 3D entity. Trenholme Junction was built to be viewed from all angles and gives the film maker the similar ability, as in this case the artist, to look at the same thing and yet to create other interesting viewpoints. A new, smaller camera now allows views from inside the buildings on the layout gives another dimension. In this film we look out from two of the Signal Boxes, two Goods Sheds and from the comfort of the bar in the local Public House. Although there has been films made from the locations before, none are quite the same as this.

Whilst filming the Christmas special, I don't have time to make the usual weekly film. This is a favourite of mine, made nearly a year ago, re-edited into monochrome, the usual production at the time Trenholme Junction is set. A journey around the Junction viewed from the cab of a 1960's Diesel Multiple Unit

The final part of this trilogy showing the sort of activity you would see if you stood on a railway platform anywhere in the UK in the 1960's. The 08 Diesel Shunter is the Station Pilot whose job is to move the rolling stock around within the station, making up the trains ready for the locomotives coming off shed. Looking from the eyes of a nine year child.

Standing on the platform at the North Bay on the Main Station at Trenholme Junction in the summer of 1962, watching the comings and goings through the eyes of a 9 year old. There is a distinctly western theme about the motive power in the sequence.

Following on from the South Bay activities recently, this film is at the opposite end of the Main Station. The operations of a busy large town railway in the 1960's, the film is made looking through the eyes of a nine year old child, (me) fascinated by what I see.

Model Railway based on North East England large scale junction in the 1960's. This series of films follows the traffic movements around the main station at Trenholme Junction. If you have any questions about the layout or want to know more information, there are several links to the blog in the comments section of this video. Feel free to ask any questions or request video subjects.

Continuing from last weeks film about the comings and goings around the Main Station South Bay at Trenholme Junction, we spend some more time around the same area taking in the views of the traffic. The Station Pilot 08 has a broken axle and from the glimpses you see, it's about to tie itself in knots. Several hours of filming had to be scrapped when this happened and the Marshalling Yard Pilot was mustered to help out. There are a lot of long shots in these sequences, I like the depth of field this camera has and the clarity of the objects far away. It also shows up any defects which have to be remedied. There is a new blog about the equipment used to film the layout - link in the comments section below.

An afternoon filming the comings and goings around the South Bay Platforms of the Main Station at Trenholme Junction. Trenholme Junction is a OO scale model of a typical large town railway network as would have been seen in the early part of the 1960's.

In this film we jump onboard Class 46 'Peak' at the diesel shed at Trenholme Junction and head for the Lower Marshalling Yard. The 08 Yard Pilot removes a train of sand wagons from one of the sidings and places them in the dispatch road. We couple up to them. A Super D and train of mineral wagons ambles past on the through goods road and the DMU slips out from the bay platform in the station. A diesel hauled tanker train passes and clears the road for us to proceed onto the loop at the south end of the main station in preparation to cross all the running lines and into East Tunnel. Once traffic has passed we then pass through the South Bay and on to destinations unknown.

Thanks Lee, Its a photo of the cab from a real DMU superimposed onto a video of an on-board video camera. There's another one published today.

A short cab ride on a DMU testing Camera, software and computer. Filmed in 4k, if you have the device to view it that resolution.

A short film, testing Camera, software and computer.

Another in this series of films in which I've been trying various different techniques for the filming of Trenholme Junction. This short film uses the same background as that used in Experimental Film 7. There is some slight interference, I've not perfected this technique fully yet but I like the possibilities of blending the model and real world seamlessly together. The film is made and uploaded in 4k for those with the devices to view it in. Note the attention the horse gives to the passing train.

Another in this series of films in which I've been trying various different techniques for the filming of Trenholme Junction. The wind is up a bit today and this test film shows how effective it is to have a moving back scene and how the model and the real thing can be blended together. (there is a little interference, limitations of my hardware and software)

Another in this series of films in which I've been trying various different techniques for the filming of Trenholme Junction. This is a refinement on lasts weeks film using real footage of sky used as the backdrop. The flickering caused by the fluorescent lights in the the train shed has now been resolved and the remarkable depth of field this camera has is evident in this clip.

In this series of films I've been trying various different techniques for the filming of Trenholme Junction. One of the things I've come to regret when I built the train shed, was not plastering the walls. I never dreamed cameras would become so good. Although the walls are painted sky blue, you can still see the mortar seams in the films, irritatingly annoying. I've been experimenting this week and come up with this solution, it looks like a sky backdrop..... but look closely, the clouds are moving. There is some flicker on the clip, I know about that, but I think the principle is proved. Neat eh?