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What a great layout! I'm impressed by the wonderful level of detail... except that station poster advertising the Bucks School of Music, Principle Frederick Bailey (2mins 22 seconds into the video). I guess it's a tiny mistake in EM gauge, but still...

Super layout ,excellent work !

Excelent. ❤😊

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Its crazy that today maidenhead to high Wycombe is via london.

I used to go and watch the trains there ❤️

Fantastic work.

😊 molto bello davvero!!!.....

I visited the show and filmed it on Saturday, I enjoyed it very much, thanks to all involved - traders, exhibitors, layout builder's and the volunteers who organised it Looking forward to next year. 👍Greasy rails -Dan 👍🚂🚃🚃

No mention of the builder of Pottendorf?

How big is this layout?

Very beautiful layout 🤩 Thank you for sharing 👍

Having lived in Wycombe all my life your model of the old station brings memories flooding back. One thing that the station is really famous for is the Brunel engine shed to the West of the station, did you include that?

You did an outstanding job on your layout.

I grew up in Wycombe. I watched steam going past from my Primary school in Priory Road in the early 1960's and meeting my Dad off the Marlebone train. As others has said many features you have modelled like the shed next to the phone box I remember. Was it once a taxi office? Very nice layout. Thanks for sharing it.

I found this video very interesting as I was brought up in HW and spent many evenings watching the trains.

Terrific layout. Some memories for you. I went to Wycombe Tech school in nearby Easton Street in 1963 (aged 13). I distinctly remember watching a young guy shunting 6106 in the station sidings and spinning the wheels. 6106 is preserved at Didcot. I also remember Wren. There were 2 or 3 other similar carriages named and unnamed. I lived in Deeds Grove on the southern side of the valley and could see the railway line towards West Wycombe on the opposite side. There were plenty of Kings in those days and WD hauled freight. I watched the Kings disappear to be replaced gradually by Western diesels as their colour schemes were experimented with. I had a friend who lived on the A40 and whose house backed onto the line which was in a cutting. We used to put pennies on the rails in front of those clanking WD locos to flatten them and we fired cob nuts and apples at the passing freights using a bicycle inner tube mounted in a garden tree. Fun days! Cheers, Stewart

An amazing depiction of a sadly under represented railway, marvellous piece of work . All I can say is fantastic.

I crossed that railway twice a day to and from Queens Park Primary and Junior school. We would stand on the bridge and get covered in steam and smoke as the engines were shuntered across Park Street. The station was called Aylesbury High Street, being at the bottom of the High Street. It was also the first station in Aylesbury, as the Great Central did not arrive until the 1890s.

As a newcomer to EM gauge, this is a very inspiring layout.

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Used to use this station 1975-1982 and this model really brings back memories of the architecture and general layout!

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Lots going on enjoyed your video and like and share thanks DD.

Great Railroad. Locos performed very well, coal level in the steam locos was down, not often modelled. Oh, and locos crewed. * Thumbs up*

What sound decoders are you using, they sound better than most

I really enjoyed the layout tour, Mick! Great modeling.

Beautiful modelling! ❤️

Beautiful model, particularly the sweeping quadruple lines. I am thinking of EM or P4 for my next project to produce some realistic track work (still wonder whey OO wasn’t phased out decades ago!) Can I ask, what made you go for EM rather than P4 - was it easier of conversation of rtf rolling stock?

Outstanding modelling! I wish the video were longer. What was behind the decision to use EM over P4? If you started again today would you make that same choice? You have some operational licence on the branch line. Although in later years the branch only handled short passenger trains, as the line was the first into Wycombe from London, it previously handled goods that would have later taken the joint line. It was originally built as broad gauge and later narrowed, so the curvature of the line itself would have been limited. Loudwater continued to handle goods through the mid '60s, with paper mills there needing materials and providing goods out. The '50s and '60s saw excursion trains, including the 9F Evening Star, so we know the line could handle large engines. I'm in the early planning stages of something along that branch, probably Bourne End, either Edwardian, or just post-WWII. Edwardian might entail some baulk track - I believe it was relaid with sleepers after 1914 but before 1919. I might cut my teeth on Loudwater - there's a photo showing the original line in baulk, next to the later loop on sleepers.

I'd love to see more of High Wycombe and neighbouring towns in model format

Brilliant recreation of an area I remember well. Looking forward to seeing more!

Absolutely superb.

Excellent detail and great video. My old mate Allan Downes would have loved this.

Excellent!

Superb layout. Brings back many memories especially as my school backed on to the sidings. Also of the Maidenhead branch through my home village of Wooburn Green.

Where did you find the K-28, K-36, and K-37 DCC locos? I’m guessing they’re brass? DRGW and RGS have some interesting history.

Very Nice layout!

Brilliant

I lived in Wycombe for fifteen years (until February this year) and I think you have captured the curve in the platform perfectly. I didn't notice it on the layout but are you going to model the old Brunel trainshed as well? From my recollection it's the last remaining one in the country (I admit I could be wrong there), I was glad to hear before I moved that they are going to do something to properly preserve it.

What a fabulous layout! Congratulations - the details are incredible, and you've got a project for life on your hands there! Thank you for sharing. Really, really enjoyed seeing a station I use occasionally in its former glory.

Can you tell me the size of the text used on your station name board? I have a filament 3d printer but have gad a fried print some items on his resin printer. I recently purchased a Cricut Maker and am in the process of experimenting with it. Before I retired I was in Cad and hood to remember how to use it🤣 I have z friend from Aylesbury- small world. Great looking layout and I love everything youhave designed and built.👍🖊📐

Spent the first 3 years of my career standing on platform 3 waiting for the class 306 to Liverpool Street back in the late 70's. Then in 1982 I moved out to Billericay and spent 4 years travelling on the 305/307's to the city. Your model building really is superbly accurate and brings back many memories! I now live in NZ and one of the things I really liked was how well you have portrayed the over bridge. I remember as young kid looking up at the B.R. illuminated blue neon sign writing on it's side.

Just waiting for Alan Freeman to appear and endorse Brentford Nylons! Nicely done layout.

As a youngster in the early 70s myself and my two brothers travelled every day from Risborough to H Wycombe to attend the local Grammar School. Whilst the steam era had long-since passed, the 4-track was still in place and provided a good viewing spot for some interesting thru-traffic. In the morning, we would cross from the up-line side of the station via the underpass, which I see you have faithfully reproduced. and make our way through the station which, even in the70s, had not really been altered much from the condition that you have captured. At the end of the school day (16.00) I would have to run hell-for-leather down Amersham Hill to try to catch the 16.24 Birmingham Express to Risborough, but often I would arrive too late only to see the train pulling-out under the bridge. The telephone box that you have also reproduced, would have often have be my next port-of-call to let my mother know that I was going to be late home. You have done a marvellous job in recreating this unique slice of time. It certainly brings back many memories for me.

What's the best way of ballasting pointwork. Just building a new oo layout using Bullhead track, thanks in advance

Very true as I know Romford....

Well done

Incredible true to life....hard work and dedication to bring an important piece of history alive...

An excellent video. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. 💙 T.E.N.