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From the era when machines had breath and beauty. They radiated heat, they pulsed like a living thing, which they almost were.

Is that Stephenson Link motion?

Excelent

A stunning model of City of Nottingham

Awesome view❤

Steam is wonderful

Excellent! A real nice loco! (and train)

Una obra de arte ❤

Very nice session as usual. 👍😃

Very nice. Did you paint those coach bogies that colour or did you buy them like that?

Nice running session, I enjoyed that. Is it me or are there not so many people filming running sessions lately?

I do enjoy watching your running sessions. One day, I'll have a layout to fill a room.

Good to watch another session, the weathering looks great 👍

Beautiful... pastorally perfect!

Another nice running session, which we've enjoyed with a cuppa and a biscuit...cheers James 🙂👍

I do love a pannier tank

Just caught up with this with my grandson. What an enjoyable video we've really enjoyed watching it. Your layout looks great. We've been looking back at your videos over the last few weeks. My grandson posted his latest video on his Dylington Model Railway channel yesterday. He get inspired by watching videos like yours, he spent a good hour and a half filming stop-motion animation for 25 seconds of footage for his latest. Great video again... Cheers James 🙂👍

Nice!

A very nice layout indeed. I like your style of static shots with trains running through so we can study scenery details. Most videos tend to have panning shots which is too fast and makes you giddy😵‍💫. Well done🙂.

Dear Sir, I wish me layout was as good (or large) as yours. Ignore unwelcome comments, as they are, i'm 99.9% sure, from people that doesn't even enjoy model trains or can build layouts, as they just enjoy trying to upset others (welcome to the internet...). Cheers from Brazil!

Hi ya.. Great running session. Brilliant looking layout. Especially like the coal yard. Got two Warships myself not run them yet, re doing the layout at the moment. Great variety of locos, about to put a new motor in my pannier, replace the XO4. Thank you for sharing you're layout with us. DELPH JUNCTION (Pete)

Lovely layout and a nice selection of locos and stock shown. The tracking shots of the Patriot were great! 😊

Great layout

Very nice layout. Thank you so much for sharing it. Sorry to hear that people can be such a pain. Glad to hear that you are enjoying the railway more now.

BR green etc period like me. Nice shots very relaxing to watch. DC or DCC?

Excellent running session , great shots around the layout ..........Peter

Epic running on one of the prettiest and most wonderful layouts on the web! Truly stunning. I especially loved the red train and loco (don't know my classes very well, outside the most obvious... like 43s, 37s, 66s).

Excellent. I love a warship

Very nice

Loving it❤ Regards Elizabeth

Hi. I'm missing your videos, i hope all is well. I've caught the bug uploading videos

The Dutchesses look awful in blue.

A really nice layout. Remember rule1 it's your layout so if you want to mix infrastructure do it. I have subscribed to your channel

Hi Really great video, well I watch them all, and they are all great. I especially like your station canopies, Metcalf I think, I wanted to use them on my own layout, but haven't been brave enough to try making them go around a curve. Anyway, great stuff and all the best Dave.

Great video and a nice layout,I've just been watching it with my grandson, and he's impressed. We like your it should be fun and run what you like attitude, we have just subscribed. Whilst we try to model to the best of our ability, for us, it's all about having fun together. My grandson has started his own Dylington Model Railway channel, featuring his own model railway and some exhibitions and heritage railways. He's just posted his Christmas video. Why not give it a watch and see what you think....cheers James 🙂👍

Good video thanks Lee

You can do the tin bath then.

❤❤❤❤❤ excelent model railway video.

Good video. I like Princesses . I think it’s a hang over from the Tri-ang Hornby catalogue where they always appeared . These models are a step beyond of course . Very nice indeed

Good video thanks lee

Beatiful new loco and quite a fetching rake with it. It plays off you layout and the two make each other shine even more. Nice one!

Good video nice loco thank lee

Lovely details~ Best Wishes~ Elizabeth @Tauraco00🎉

is OO the same as HO scale? I would not mind getting a couple of British locos in my collection some day

I have just purchased the Hornby LNER Teaks (with a discount code so great price) and yesterday I was watching on webcam the Sir Nigel Gresley at Grosmont on the NYMR. Then your video pops up in my suggested. The view as the Sir Nigel exits the tunnel is just amazing and the high angle close ups are very reminiscent of a drone shots. At 4:31 as the train goes through the station the clickety-clack on the rails can be heard which is just how I remember it being. Really enjoyed this session.

What LMS service would have double headed Black 5's? Heavily laden Euston-Holyhead semi-fast? The infamous Leeds-Glasgow evening train? The Bristol-York on a summer Saturday? (BTW, Is that a Renown or a Bridgemaster? Might be a lowbridge Regent, but that's doubtful)

You've done a great job on those coaches transformed them from the Railroad offerings into something that looks very realistic.

FREIGHT TRAIN OPERATIONAL TIPS Nice layout, but your freight train as seen, would not have been allowed to leave its starting point, as its current formation doesn't comply with operational rules ! BR wagons painted Bauxite or displaying the letters "XP" are "fitted" wagons, along with a few other types mentioned below. Meaning they had vacuum brakes fitted and controllable from the train engine. ALL BR (pale) Grey wagons had NO train brakes, only a handbrake, so stopping them was an obvious problem ! PART FITTED FREIGHTS Therefore the "fitted" or "XP" marked wagons MUST be coupled behind the locomotive, with the Grey (unfitted) wagons coupled BEHIND the "fitted" ones. In this order you have what is known as a "Part fitted" freight. The front part with the fitted braked wagons can obviously be controlled by the locomotives vacuum brake. The grey wagons at the rear of the train, having NO brakes, creates a minor danger. As the locomotive & fitted wagons have to be capable of holding the non braked (grey) wagons, when the limited braking available is applied. Hence "part fitted" freight trains were usually limited to a maximum 45mph. UNFITTED FREIGHTS With "Unfitted" freights (no wagons AT ALL have train brakes,) so usually a train load of pale grey coloured wagons, & were normally limited to 30mph. FULLY FITTED FREIGHTS "Fully Fitted" freight trains were ones made up COMPLETELY of wagons with vacuum brakes. So Bauxite coloured wagons, ones marked XP; Refrigerated (white) wagons; Banana vans (often yellow). Most types of tank type wagons, including Cement, (but NOT MILK wagons) as most of these carried hazardous loads. Such "fully fitted" freights were limited to a maximum 60mph. MILK TANK CARS These vehicles were often 6 wheeled & Glass lined, and therefore UNSUITABLE to run in freight trains. As a result they were actually part of the passenger fleet, like Horse Boxes & Prize Cattle Vans. They were of course vacuum braked, and could & were often added to secondary passenger trains. They were also often found in complete Milk Trains formed of both Tank cars, Milk Vans & even special flat wagons carrying road Milk lorry trailers. Such special Milk Trains often ran in Express passenger train timings. Many heading in the early mornings to the capital, & beginning their empty return journeys in the afternoon. Both Hornby & Dapol make such models. Hornby also make the "BY" 4 wheel passenger brake van normally used in Southern Region milk trains. WAGONS MARKED "XP" Wagons marked "XP" (meaning Express Passenger) also meant these types could be included between the locomotive & carriages in passenger trains, usually to a maximum of three such wagons. But this also put a speed limit on such a train at 60mph. (All passenger vehicles were of course fitted with vacuum brakes by the time BR began in 1948.) BRAKE VANS Obviously a Brake van was required as the last vehicle of all types of freight trains in BR steam days. On a "part fitted" or "unfitted" freight the brake van at the rear could be a "grey" painted one with only a handbrake ! On Fully fitted freights a Bauxite coloured brake van was obviously required, as it had a brake valve to apply the trains vacuum brake in an emergency. NOTE: Passenger trains were also required to have the last vehicle in the train fitted with a guards compartment with a handbrake & brake valve to control the vacuum brake. Such as a BSK; BFK; BSO; BFO; BCK; PB; SOBS or BG. If for some strange reason the last vehicle did not contain a brake compartment. The passengers were not allowed to ride in any such vehicle, and any "Gangway" connections to such vehicle(s) had to be locked. STOP TO PIN DOWN BRAKES ! Part fitted & Unfitted freight trains, were often required at the top of steep hills to stop. While the Guard walked along "pining down brakes". Which meant he put the handbrakes ON, on a number of the unfitted wagons. To increase the brakeforce available, to prevent "runaways" (trains out of control). At the bottom of the hill, the train had to stop again for the Guard to go along and release those handbrakes he had applied. Because this took time, many dangerous hills like the "Lickey incline" near Birmingham, had freight loops at the top & bottom of the hill. So the freight trains could be "looped" while the Guard did his job, and so avoid holding up other traffic ! REAL LIFE WAGON COUPLING TYPES Unfitted wagons normally had the simple "three link" (chain type coupling). While Fitted wagons often had "Instanter" couplings, where the centre link was a triangular shaped casting, with a "T" shaped hole. This "T" shape hole allowed for a short or long setting. Wagons marked "XP" had to have the "screw link" type coupling, where the centre link had a screw thread with a "wind up" handle, to allow couplings to be tightened up. The Screw link was also used on virtually all LMS & GWR coaches, but NOT mainline LNER or SR types. Which had begun using the Automatic Buckeye couplings from around 1923-25. Locomotives normally used the "Screw link" type, although purely freight locos & Shunting locos often only had three link couplings. LNER steam locos with Gangway tenders (Some class A1; A3 & A4 locos), had to be fitted with the Buckeye Auto coupling. Because these tenders had the Pullman type gangway connection with its sprung rubbing bar & retractable buffers. For the Record: As a real life Railway Mechanical Engineer who has worked for BR and a number of railways around the World, I'm well versed in many railway operational practices !!!