Crackers

Looks all good Chris, I must say that the sight of the green Crompton as well as the 128 DPU and Thumper makes me turn just a very slight shade of green. I believe the paint code is named "envy"? I am well known amongst my mates for having a little bit of a "thing" for thumpers. The signalbox looks great also. Good work sir.

Crikey - if I may put forth my pair of pennies, this all does seem rather alarming! Having designed a 009 layout (not yet built nor parts purchased) that I am quite proud of, reading through this thread has very nearly put me off! I had been hoping to use the Heljan locos and Peco stock to put together "yet another confounded fictional branch terminus" layout as the small gauge allows me to get more out of the little space I have. Fingers crossed, that Heljan do indeed succeed in ironing out the issues before the next batch is produced (if, that is, I've understood the musings of this thread correctly), otherwise I don't think I'll be parting with my precious Pounds - many of them, for these locos . Back to my original plan for a terrible OO layout it may well be. Shoot.

Hi Chris - This is my first post so hope this is alright, but I was just looking over some small layouts and rediscovered Blackhurst through this thread. I remember it from the Woking exhibition and it was one of my favourites, giving me some ideas for a layout I'll hopefully be starting soon. I filmed a few minutes of the layout's operation (you may remember me standing around for some time with a big furry ball (microphone) atop my camera. You can see the footage here (from 9:45 to about 12:30) if you are interested. https://youtu.be/VaVkVY_e99M?t=9m45s All the best-