Gopher

Don’t Wanna Be Like That - Joe Jackson

Foremarke Hall waits for signal to clear at Harewood Halt, before continuing it's journey to Dewchurch. Bachmann model - modified Hall, renamed and renumbered by me. I've fitted the usual detail (crew, lamps, coal), plus a sound decoder and speaker in the tender, and of course weathered it.

Hinton Manor heads into the goods yard

Here is the nerve centre of the layout (well it makes me nervous). Digitrax DCC controller, and my home made analogue, points, signals turntable control panel. If you want to see how to do it properly look at @St Enodoc Thread. Polperran Points Panel. Work of art along with the rest of John's brilliant layout.

Go to the Mirror - The Who

George Street, or at least the end of it. Gresley brake parked in the headshunt siding, whilst the Royal Oak receives it's weekly delivery of ale

64xx Panier finished shunting at Dewchurch so heads off with the daily pick up goods

Downbound Train - Bruce Springsteen

The station throat with Britannia Lord Kitchener reversing onto the turntable

Mogul at the coal stage

15xx Pannier on a parcels trains heads towards Dewchurch

Thanks so much for the kind comment. The B&W photo does add a bit more realism to the scene Best Wishes Clive

Beware of the trains - especially the Collett Goods

Variety of locos on shed including a BR 2mt, G2, ex GWR 43xx Mogul, and a 47xx lurking in the background

I've come to the conclusion there must be a human body in the crate. Has LM ever had a murder ? 😱

Collett Goods heading towards Dewchurch with a train of military equipment

64XX Pannier shunting

I agree John, and absolutely no criticism taken. It seems particularly bad with some Dapol and some Rapido rolling stock. In this photo the coach and loco are both Dapol. I started to standardise on the short straight Bachmann NEM tension lock couplers, but these still leave quite a gap with some rolling stock. Mainly because the NEM socket is quite long on the rolling stock. I could of course cut the NEM socket or shaft of the coupling and superglue it to the NEM socket. I have just bought some Hunt magnetic couplers for my BR ex LMS corridor rake. These definitely give a closer coupling, and there appears to be a variety of couplings to cater for different gaps sizes track geometry. So I think I'll start using these for my coaching stock. Thanks and Best Wishes Clive P.S I'm astounded by your great modelling on your own layout. It is a huge project. I came across an article in one of my old Railway Modellers (1980s) - which I think was one of your previous layouts.

Large Prairie with a very short local passenger train, pauses at Harewood Halt

Heart of the Sunrise - Yes

Deltic on an inter regional passenger train.

Time for a chat before hitting the road

Roisin Dubh (Black Rose) - Thin Lizzy

Pannier shunting in the goods yard.

Mogul arrives at Platform 1 with a local passenger train