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With regards to the Hornby Kinomatic couplings. In my view, they're useless. If you have a heavy train, the ones nearest the loco will not centralise coming off of a curve, especially if it's 3rd radius. My Hornby later type Pullmans were a problem when 10 were hitched up. I ripped out those couplings and fitted boxes that come with the Kaydee couplings. The back of the knuckle is level with the buffers. These will easily negotiate 2nd radius curves. I see you use Kaydees already. Steveo

loving it, having spent many a morning on Wolverton station and indeed working at the works the atmosphere is wonderful

happy new year from ponders End MR

What brand of flux do you use please ?

I haven't brought a model magazine for a few months, but do still purchase one motorcycle mag (Ride manly due to kit tested and suggested rides), the main reason for not purchasing railway mags of late is I model in O gauge, very rarely seen in mags, in each issue all mags state baseboard construction (how many times do I need to know 1/2'' ply on a 1''x2" frame? adverts are handy for quick reference if your into common scales OO or N. Yes I do also think mags are in the state of every model is great bring or give use more category and also they seem to be like the motorcycle world if its not packed with TECK its no good just more bloody expensive to repair (if you can get the parts) that's why both Dans Model Railways & OO Bill are popular You Tube channels

You make some very valid points here. I have subscriptions to Hornby RM and Model Rail, the latter only because I got it through Tesco Clubcard points or I wouldn't buy it. Personally I prefer a printed copy and I think after all these years the Railway Modeller is still the standout magazine and as you say you get free access to all their archives which I find helpful. What annoys me about Hornby magazine is that they will often put extra stuff relating to printed articles on line and then you have a website subscription to view them. I also don't understand why where magazines have printed and digital copies, if you have a printed subscription you can't also have the digital for free. You usually need to pay more for both when their costs are no higher. Like you I would like to see unbiased reviews and comparisons between duplicated models - Model Rail claims to do this but in reality it is not the case. How is it for example that all the magazines missed or ignored the fact that the suspension details on Heljan's O gauge CCT are completely inaccurate or their BR MK1 carriages have a completely inaccurate body shape when viewed end on. I don't buy BRM at all now as I find the articles recycled and too basic. Also Warners have become an exhibition company that happens to produce a magazine. All these major exhibitions do is suck money out of the hobby as the profits (if any that said) support their shareholders not an organising model railway club. Their RM Web forum has become almost unusable unless you pay a subscription. I find TH-cam is the best source of unbiased information.

I have bought maybe one magazine in the past 5 years. My local hobby shop as old copies they give away for free. I picked up several the other day some going back more than early 2000s. So, yes these magazines can still be useful and interesting, however, most of what they have inside can be found online.

Yes but no! I like a tactile copy but I have specific interests in modelling so at best you only get one article and issue that maybe of interest.

Interesting you don't buy these magazines so what's the problem. I buy many of them and find them very useful and informative and i make the choice to have 2 on subscription and 2 I check out each month. if there were fewer adverts then the cost of the magazine would go sky high. Not sure you should have done this video as you don't read them regularly.

I ignore the ads and know from first hand experience that BRM / RMweb puts the interests of Hornby over and above that of their customers. I do however cut out interesting construction articles & plans and inspirational layouts and file them for use later. I now have well over a dozen lever arch files full, some from magazines published decades ago which I have hunted down. (But I refuse to buy BRM;) I only buy printed magazines which have content I want (which saves subscribing to all of them) and the colour reproduction is better than my work's laser printers'. I can also highlight key points in the text, which is not possible on TH-cam.

I don't buy any magazine simply down to cost plus never get round to reading them.

I stopped buying printed magazines some years ago mainly due to the space they were taking up. I will only buy a printed one now days if they really catch my eye and as you’ve said in the video if there’s a free item that interests me. I switched to online versions. I decided to drop my model rail subscription as I just lost interest in it ( I had been buying since it started out as a extra magazine in another one then it went to quarterly ) all I have now is my subscription to hornby magazine but only in the last few days I’ve been considering getting rid of that too along with their extra cost of key model world. Working full time and having a young family I get very little time to do any modelling let alone trying to read a magazine and I probably haven’t read my online ones since last year even though I am still paying for them. Like you pointed out I get a lot of info and step by step guides etc from TH-cam and other social media sites.

I haven't bought a magazine in months; I look through them regularly in WHSmith but mostly put them back as there is little of interest to me.

DON'T BUY THEM NOWADAYS it's all online and magazines recycle the same tings every year , and as you say biased ,, but you need to pick your youtube reviewers too as some of those are in company pockets too ,, i trust sams trains reviews the most as he refuses any sort of company favours and buys everything himself

I am fully of the opinion that TH-cam is currently a better portal for railway modelling content compared to the magazines, for various reason that you already highlighted. I did LOL when you name checked Sam 1st without even giving a mention to Jenny Kirk.

Hi, I prefer the Hornby magazine to Railway Modeller because they have more in-depth reviews and extra magazines within at times, I guess it’s a matter of choice down to individual modellers, the hints and tips are very good and very useful.

I subscribe to a handful of magazines and for me, the cost vs the excitement I get when they drop on the doormat each month is worth it. Mostly this is attributed to recapturing the feeling I got 30-35 years ago when I would visit WHSmith on the way home from school each day on the off chance a new magazine was available and that there might have been a layout in it which inspired me. From the point of view of the adverts in them, it’s entirely irrelevant and although I understand commercially they need to be there but personally I wish they weren’t as by the time they go to print, most of it is out of date old news anyway and any “new releases” which may appear have most likely already sold out on pre order!

Hi, very good progress on a layout that’s progressing nicely, it’s going to be a gem once it’s finished, many thanks for sharing.

Subbed dont let me down as you seem very interesting 😂 all the best

best bit with the concept you have, the works _entrance_ but not the actual works is you have the mainline, and the excuse to run anything you want into and out of the works When I was there is was a mix of passenger stuff, multiple units, a few freight wagons - indeed anything except actual locomotives (bridge weight restriction). there would have been more freight stuff but for %REASONS%.. that little shopping centre was where I did a lot of shopping as I lived round the corner :)

Wow, there’s some interesting plans right there. You’ll get some fantastic shots when looking down the layout at ground level with the new buildings in the background. Looking forward to seeing how it progresses 👍

Hello, I was wondering if you could advise if you had a video on how you constructed your road bridge? I am keen to see how you did as I would like to make something similar myself. Thanks Tim.

Nice one Steve, really keen to see your future plans for the scenic areas and definitely looking forward to your progress with the OHLE 😃👍 cheers Darrell

looking good Steve 👍

Wow 🤩 great trains and layout! The trees are marvellous! Greetings from a new subscriber! 🙋‍♂️ Erik

great video, added to a play list for modellers. thank you

as someone who used to live in Wolverton, and worked at the works for a while I love what you have done here

The trees look incredible, has to be one of the best autumnal scenes out there! Thanks for sharing.

Thats a rate little forest coming along mate, and 10:09 is an impressive fiddle yard full to the brim!

Hi just found your channel and it look fantastic so I have subscribed, and I will go back over your past videos. It made me smile when you said there about 150 trees on the banking and i suppose you will need more. It's amazing how many we need for a layout, I've estimated I'll need about 10,000 of all different type because I'm building 4 layouts and each been a different country and each is going to be a different season all connected together. looking forward to seeing more. Colin

The new trees are looking good! Love the variety in the colours.

Beautiful train layout. First time viewer, i enjoy watching. 👍

What a stunning layout and video . Your track is so neat and tidy it looks brilliant. No massive joins in the track like most layouts have ( including mine ) Pro track layer you must be ! Nice stock to 👍

Great progress on the scenery Steve and never bored of watching your progress mate ! 😃👍

Fantastic running session Steve, enjoyed that ! 😃👍

Love the concept of this video 👍

Fantastic idea with the wheel spinner app, will certainly be recycling your concept, haha! 👍

Great looking layout and collection 👍

How do you couple & speed match two motorised power cars on the same unit.

Fascinated by your railway and really appreciate the efforts and hard work put in. I wanted to watch it all and particularly to hear your narration, but after a while, the music became too distracting. Please could you reupload this episode without the music in the background?

Dr Who 👍

Nice linework 👍

Is this about Wolverton MK ?

Great video and i love seeing pogress like this, it's especially interesting to see what otheres focus their time on and what order people do things in. Not sure if it's my sound settings but i struggled to hear your commentary over the background music, but with subtitles and muted sound it was fine 🙂. Hope all goes well with the horses, managed to avoid that one myself, maybe one day i'll get my calling...! haha Cheers, Dave

Great job 😊

Excellent video Steve great layout

Brilliant video. I just watched it with my grandson (12), who found it very interesting. He's just started building a 009 layout, which he's documenting on his own Dylington Model Railway channel. Along with his other videos, some featuring stop-motion animation on our model railway Dylington... Cheers James 🙂👍

Great video, especially love that whole little depot area with the blokes filling the bags and jet washing bloke, that bird flashing her knockers is ace 😆👍

Hi, great video content on a seriously cool layout, keep the videos coming, thanks for sharing.

How much are your rail track wagons