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Yes, the stock has been built over the past 45 years, and used on West Chiltington, Pulborough, Brighton Road, Plumpton Green, and now Ouse Wharf.

Interesting questions. It would need a detailed study of a working timetable to answer your queries. The only thing I can add is that I believe there were occasional slipped carriages at pulborough for onward travel on the Midhurst line. Never seen this on a model but would be possible with DCC?

It moves at 1:16? Possibly it should be a bit higher. Nice to know somebody's looking at the real detail!

​@@barryluck1625: BTW, did the E4 and E5 share the same wheelbase? I've been looking at the modern Finecast E5 chassis etch and wondering if it would be a worthwhile upgrade to the ancient one under the Stenning E4....

@@Night_Ferry They are kits with scratch built interiors. They were produced by a small trader called Smokey Locos. I bought them in about 1995, but they remained unbuilt until my son made them a couple of years ago.

@@MelindaGregory-w9r I'm amused by your comment. Firstly there is no such station as Plumpton Green, just Plumpton. Secondly I have never claimed it is an accurate copy - all of the information I have given out makes it very clear that I have made alterations to make it a more manageable size, and interesting to operate. I've no idea where your comment about colours come from. Are you old enough to have seen the station in 1910. Do you have an amazing colour photo from 1910. Do you know anything at all about LBSCR station colours?

@@MelindaGregory-w9r and by the way I have photographs of the goods yard, and historic maps show the sidings as I have modelled them.

​@@barryluck1625: I wouldn't worry too much about it. "Melinda" only set up his TH-cam account 3 months ago, probably for the purpose of making negative comments about other people's work.

Thank you for your comment, and no I don't worry! From over 60k views of my videos I've only had two adverse comments. This one amused me because it is just so hopelessly wrong on every level.​@@smhorse

Hello Atmakali This is definitely a model! Pulborough is a real place, and the model is an accurate representation of the real place.

For the past six months I've been working on a series of videos of Pulborough, three so far with the final one sometime in June I hope. Search for 'This is Pulborough '. We're also working on a new layout Ouse Wharf. We'll hopefully be making another Plumpton video in the autumn.

This is an Albion Models kit, but there doesn't appear to be a website for this company any more.

A few of the ex-Albion kits were taken on by Roxey Mouldings, but I'm not sure if the B1 class is one of those. It's worth asking them, anyway. Warning: Despite its apparent simplicity, the kit isn't easy to build, and the instructions need several read-throughs. The diagrams are all hand-drawn and not exactly the most understandable, either.

Nice to hear from somebody who knew the station! There are two things which help with good depth of field. One is to use good studio lighting, which I was able to do with the Plumpton videos, under controlled conditions. I have two softboxes, each with five 600w flourescents, giving a total of 6000w. The other technique is to take the video from a reasonable distance (say 6ft) with the focal length at mid-range (ie not telephoto) and use software to pan and zoom to get the close ups. I hope that helps.

@@barryluck1625 hi Barry, yes thanks. I tend to get the camera in really close at F11 but your approach sounds very interesting.

I use a 4k Sony camcorder which has no direct control over aperture so good lighting is the best solution. 4k video allows you to zoom in using editing software by a factor of 2 without any noticeable loss of picture quality.

@@barryluck1625 ah interesting, I don't think I'd be able to edit 4K on my old system lol

Thank you - there's another (much smaller) layout under construction which will appear at the Bluebell show, and then Uckfield..

Thank you. I have enough footage for one last video of the layout, which I will publish in the next couple of months.

Thank you - glad you enjoyed it!

The only sounds on episodes 1-5 are the block bells. I didn't start adding loco sounds until episode 6.

There are fiddle yards at either end of the layout representing the signal boxes either side of Plumpton. There are block instruments in each fiddle yard, (identical to those shown in the video) so there is two-way communication between the Plumpton signalman and the two fiddle yard operators. The block instruments are used in a more-or-less prototypical fashion to control trains arriving at or leaving Plumpton. I hope that answers your question?

In the sequence we run, this train comes from the Midhurst branchline

and reverses at Pulborough before continuing south on the mainline.

I don't know for sure, but perhaps something to do with controlling algal growth?

Sorry.......! There'll be a third video coming along soon. Barry

Thank you - I hope you're not suggesting we should have modelled the 1962 flooding (real water of course)....................?

Thank you. All of the stock (and hopefully some of the atmosphere) can be seen on Plumpton Green.

Glad you enjoyed it. It's sad to retire a layout, but hopefully the videos will keep some of the memories alive!

Yes, that was a long time ago. I recall we had problems setting up because of the internal pillars in the building. Any idea which year that was? It's not in my list of exhibitions so I think possibly before 1990?

Pulborough was built by the Mid-Sussex 1883 group, a Scalefour area group. In 1997 we embarked on a new layout called 'Brighton Road'. Various members of the group moved away and we disbanded sometime around 2005. Brighton Road had a brief period on the exhibition circuit but was dismantled in 2014. In 2012 my son and I started a new layout 'Plumpton Green' which has been exhibited many times over the past ten years. (We own all the stock which ran on Pulborough). We are now building a smaller layout 'Ouse Wharf' which will be exhibited at the Bluebell in July, and Uckfield in October. Details of all these layouts are on my website here: www.lbscrmodels.co.uk/index.html Search for 'This is Plumpton Green' om TH-cam