Leon

Jessop Yard of course, Im a regular viewer of that one, keep thinking wow how can someone afford all those 66's !..lol. Im only up to a whopping two mainline locomotives.....! Thanks for the interest and keep up your good work, those barriers will fit in great on your MPD along with some CCTV cams I have just purchased...Will show you the results once they arrive... All the best Leon.

Hi George and thanks. The barriers are from Pikestuff in the US for HO scale, the only UK supplier I know is www.m-s-i-m.co.uk Have you got a layout on the go ? Regards Leon.

Stuck most of my fingers together today, constructing barriers.

Need to finish the steel loading complex.

Graffiti added to stored RES stock.

Clams

AWSOME !

More static grass arrived yesterday for the surrounding yard area, (hope I dont over do it)... Also the roof extractors for the steelworks so work can resume on completing that.

Some Departmental Clam arrive at the PW siding.

I dont get to use my garden spay booth here in wales...Too wet. My conservatory now has a 5mm coating of grey primer dust. Looking good, well done. Leon.

Thanks Anthony, its a CR Signals model, they have only recently started to produce a 4mm version. They have been producing 2mm for sometime now. ??30 a tower thats why progress is slow. lol

Hello, cant get my head into doing anything tonight other than take some pics....So much to do still and dont know which part of the layout to carry on with / finish !!! Looking for some advice on how to improve, all welcome please speak up....Help ? 0758.JPG shows close up of static grass 0760.JPG shows Canton's ClS 60 & 56 0763.JPG shows overview from yard to wagon works 0766.JPG Graffiti 0767.JPG Powell Duffryn workshop still to be completed 0772.JPG Corner of yard I mat filled with used ballast ? 0777.JPG Class 56 under the lighting tower 0751.JPG 56032 removing freightliner wagons 0753.JPG 60062 arrives 0754.JPG Petroleum owned 60062 outside unfinished steelworks All comments and advise welcome. Thanks all Leon.

Thanks Brian, I work next to Lord & Butler in Chicos, maybe I can rent out my balloon to them ?

Thanks to Grimley (Your HAA's inspire me), Anthony, Archonix & Ian. Glad you like the ballasting, I was'nt sure ! Its just a Woodland Scinics medium buff ballast then spayed with sleeper grime. Still some work on the track in the yard to do yet, I want the far sidings to look not used on a regular basis so will be painting the rails with Humrol rust. Also need to add a few more lighting towers and yard items etc. I have spent yesterday growing Static grass, Im really pleased with the results, really is much better than the picture shows. Dont use the ??129 Noch static do dar thingy, sprinkle then blow up a baloon, rub on your chest then drift it over the grass and hey presto it all stands up....! The low relif building in the background are far from complete, sort of moved onto the grassing sorry. Still need to weather them and add more detail such as graffiti and piping. The wagon workshop opperated by Powell Duffryn is still under contsruction, lots of little bits on the go, just need to complete before starting the next. Ian its end to end, starting at a fiddle yard, passing a small fuel/stableing point then round into the marshelling yard, through the yard along a branch using a Canton 09 to the dock and hidden fiddle yard, off the docks branch is two sidings to a steel loading warehouse. Thanks for the interest all. Leon

Thanks Poindexter. Lol yeah the steel warehouse...well its built, but still waiting for detailing bits like extractor fans, pipes and walkways etc so its a little neglected until they arrive.

The RES coaches in the far siding are going to represent the heavily weatherd ones stored at Cardiff Tidal sidings. None of the stock or locomotives have been weathered yet, will wait until the layout is complete and detailed.

Thanks Squeaky, Yes lots of 60's, 56's and 37/9's on steel trains big T. However I do like the 66's. Tempting...Unless I just go for an ARC or Foster Class 59 maybe....?

Hi, finally come over from the old RMweb forum on which I was building a layout called Newport. "Hi all just thought i'd start a thread with progress of my new layout based in Newport, South Wales in the 90's. I Will be opperating Railfreight Sector traffic mainly Steel, Coal and Petroleum and also Rfd Speedlink. The layout will consist of a 6 road, 12ft marshelling yard based on Tidal or ADJ, with adjoining small Powell Duffyn wagon repair facility for local steel wagons, Small stable/fuelling piont, Steel works and branch line to docks. Will be looking to run class 37,56 & 60's on coal trains to and from the Vallies and Power stations, 37 & 60's on the Petroleum trains and 37,60 & 56's on the steel trafic. Will also have Tinsley Rfd 37 & 47's on the speedlink service with visiting FP 37's bringing depot fuel. There will be a fiddle yard at both ends with the one being at the end of the docks branch which will able me to run a large varity of tracfic through the layout to the unseen docks" I have now decided to base the layout not just around the Newport area but Newport/Cardiff dock areas with ideas and inspiration from Cardiff Tidal sidings and also ADJ and East Usk yards. Progress still quiet slow due to time and costs. Hope you enjoy.