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I used Peco Streamline flexi-track.

Thank you.

I use several things to clean the track, although by running the trains frequently helps keep the dust down. Here are some photos in the Layout's FB page. facebook.com/WestCoastSouthernSection/posts/pfbid02Wwrw8UKouryjvKMgADJpY6W5diJ6e2yJTdXWvnojThkHxWgfULE6XdWs1YGr4q3cl

@@MrGettingtooold Thanks much appreciated

Many thanks!

It is based on three specific places on the West Coast Main Line, at Harrow & Wealdstone, Watford Junction, and Linslade.

Glad you like them!

Thank you very much!

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@@MrGettingtooold OK, I'll amend my post to, "There are of course, short stretches where there are no trees, nearly always where there are houses, and sites where there used to be warehouses. Interesting how the photos do show stretches of tree just around the bends, or in the distance".

Wow, thank you!

I have my own adapted train which consists of six wagons which have some 'Dust Devil' foam rubber pads which clip to the axles. Pushing the six wagons with a Loco usually suffices to clean day to day grime. Sometimes I put some Cleaning fluid on the pads of the two leading wagons which remove more stubborn patches of dirt

@@MrGettingtooold I found your track plan, I’m envious of all those staging tracks - do you have a video showing where they are. How you get ti them

@@johnwhatmore163 I don't have a particular video of the 'behind the scenes' storage area in action (perhaps I should ?), but this picture shows the Storage Sidings on one side of the layout. They run in Automatic mode most of the time so that a train arrives and sends the next one out. In the picture you can see the backscene boards are kept in place with some furniture brackets so the boards can be lifted out if anything needs looking at in the 'hidden' areas. facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=849007393910334&set=pb.100064032432686.-2207520000&type=3

Many thanks!

Glad you like it!

The layout was about five years in the planning stage, along with making some of the buildings before hand. It took around six to seven years to build, a lot of stuff having been reused off previous layouts. There are just over 10,000 pictures now on the layouts FB page at facebook.com/WestCoastSouthernSection

@MrGettingtooold oh thanks, I'll have a look at your fb photos. I like a layout which has evolved over many years. It's more like a living thing which grows as time moves on. Brilliant, thank again, Dave.

The BOC Tankers were made by converting standard Farish TEA Tankers. Some photos showing the process can be found here facebook.com/photo/?fbid=902214643750380&set=a.142604599711392

Thank you Bob, yes, still working on some more. It's a bit of a slow process to edit down the material, and on average a half hour video usually takes eight to ten days to get enough material together and splice it together with the sound track.

@@MrGettingtooold But so worth waiting for. Your hard work is very much appreciated.

The sound effects come from a number of sources. Some recordings I made back in 1977 on a portable tape recorder. Around the same time I had a Sound Effects record, and I had transferred some of the railway sounds onto tape. Originally I had uploaded them onto my Laptop to play back through a pair of speakers to give a bit of added 'atmosphere' to running sessions. Later I found that by using 'Vegas 14 Movie editing' I could not only edit the video, but synchronise the various sound clips directly onto the video, sliding the sound clips along the timeline. Each 'overlay' can have the volume adjusted to try and even out the background noise. There are also now a few places on the Internet where you can get 'Royalty Free' sound downloads, which I might have a go at. Here's a photo of editing a video underway on my Laptop. facebook.com/photo?fbid=796811525796588&set=pcb.796818932462514

The buses are all Oxford Diecast ones.

The gardens were laid out on planks of balsa wood which were painted brown. Then static grass was added using PVA Glue. The fencing was made from corrugated plasticard to represent plank style fence, and small strips of plasticard stuck on to represent the posts, yes, a fiddly and time consuming task. There are some pictures here of the construction phases. facebook.com/photo/?fbid=138401723465013&set=a.138401533465032 Some of the garden accessories came from Harburn Hamlet models www.harburnhobbies.co.uk/acatalog/-N--Gauge.html The flower beds were made using brown scatter material, with various coloured scatter to represent flowers.

Thee Layout has been around now for nearly ten years. It has featured in Model Rail October 2017 Hornby Magazine November 2018 Traction Magazine September/October 2019 British Railway Modelling (BRM) April 2022 Underground News May 2022 It has also featured in the N Gauge Journal a few years ago. The Underground Stock was all scratchbuilt from plasticard motorised with Tomytec mechanisms. A few photos and descriptions can be found here facebook.com/WestCoastSouthernSection/posts/pfbid02iGwn62B2PBMF4ZsomBmSzaKkdoAxyqwQZvqBupQUVKkxdhxKWbd89xx4QjtrYxwVl The layout has its own Facebook page which contains over a 1000+ photos now, and I usually add about eight more photos every other day or so, along with an ongoing blog of day to day rail operations from my work diaries of the period. The page can be found at facebook.com/WestCoastSouthernSection

Thank you so much 😀

Thanks Bob, reciprocal greetings of the season to you.