Wife joined me (we're mid 60s) as you peeled back the platform masking tape, "It's like Greenford Station". Said with excitement rather than tears (family tragedy there in late 1970s). Then the shops - "That's Ealing Broadway" said in time with you saying it. Essentially, you're evoking her life from early teens to early 20s. Thanks. Your social history approach to modelling where the trains provide moving interest to an environment is great for us. Modelling where the trains and their management is the main thing is less interesting for us. Brilliantly humorously intelligent, as always
What a fantastic video. Well worth the wait! I lived in South Ealing from 1950 to 1976 and my first full time job was at WH Smith in Ealing Broadway so I know the area really well. Reading everyone else’s comments has been a great trip down memory lane. Ealing has changed so much since those days. Bentalls and John Sanders were two big department stores in the town, long since gone now. I thoroughly enjoy watching your progress and I am learning so much from your building process. Thanks for sharing Richard. Roy.
Wow! As a child of the 70's that row of shops was a blast from the past! As I mentioned in a previous video, I love the authenticity of the cracked and broken paving, so realistic!
"SubaSnaps Richard back in the day 1984 -1987 I used to work at Lab in Northampton which by 1990s became Kodak. 14 years I worked there. Really enjoy your layout.
As you showed the shops and said you had talked to co-workers about old classics I said, there is no boots or our price Then you panned over... For a child of the 80s, it was like coming home :D
At this stage I’d think you’re no longer a model railway builder/enthusiast…. You’re an artist in your field. The attention to detail and realising is incredible. Loving the new station ideas.
You have found the beauty in otherwise unappealing post-war architecture. I love the period detail and your efforts to preserve authenticity in every way possible. Thanks for sharing your videos!
I purposefully left the station alone as I improved my skills working on 'easier' parts of the layout. Never build the focal point of a layout first. You'll be disappointed with it as other parts of the layout surpass it.
You, sir, are a master modeler! Many of us could never achieve the quality and detail as you have so aptly shown to us. You are an inspiration to those of us who dream of accomplishing something so grand.
Ah man, loved all the new bits to this episode! I've been here a while but my brother just watched this episode with me. I regret to inform you that his summary was: "Everard sounds like a blue pill" 🤣
Another triumph of modelling artistry, always look forward to your efforts. Having grown up in the 70's and 80's I thought I'd mention a few more shops that were popular, "Etams", ( teenager womens clothing), "Timothy Whites", "Mothercare", "Hepworths"(mens clothing), "Dixon's". Keep up the great work.
I don't want to say I audibly cheered when I saw this appear in my subscriptions feed, but I did. Can't wait to get into the video, it's always so much fun when you upload a new one. Your layout and your techniques never amazes to impress me, and I can only hope to ever reach your skill level.
Fantastic to see the new station ideas making progress. The brickwork looks superb as usual and I love seeing those old signs...as I am of a certain age 😉 Well done Richard, fantastic method for doing the platforms 😎👍
Mate, thete!re is nothing better than coming home from work and finding a new video of yours! I'm not a railway moddler, but have followed you since the beginning and am thankfull for your videos. Bloody well played mate!
I am fascinated by the detail and realism you put into your layout. However watching this build come along I am learning about urban life in the UK during the late 80’s. I must say it is very different from my experience living in the Dallas, Texas Metro area. In the 80’s we were just starting to build a regional passenger rail and bus system. Dallas was the first large major city in the US to have long haul passenger rail service discontinued back in the early 70’s. However we did build large airports. The model for short haul regional airlines with hourly flights to cities within 500 miles began here. Our transportation system is freeways that we drive on in our big air conditioned cars and trucks. And yet it was a rail head that but Dallas on the map. So I am very intrigued by how the rail system has influenced the urban culture in the UK. Thanks for incorporating historical details in your layout.
Outside of London rail really has influenceD British cities, past tense! It's virtually useless for regular, reliable travel outside a handful of big cities. And even when visiting London I've had my fair share of comedy moments, drivers forgetting to stop where they're meant to, or else stopping and opening the doors while the station announcer frantically shouts "do not board! do not board!".
I think the reason I like watching these videos is because I am watching someone who is the total opposite of me. Although I would like to, there is absolutely no way that I would have the patience to do what you do. I would just want to get it built as quickly as possible. When you were messing around changing the canal, and the road layout, and the houses, and the scrapyard, and the track layout on the branch line, and the sidings and the scenery around the bridge at the other end of the layout I kept yelling at the screen "STOP CHANGING WHAT YOU HAVE ALREADY BUILT AND GIVE US THE F##KN STATION!" Now you are there I feel I can relax! Please don't change it! Note to self... relax ... and chill... and look forward to the next installment! 😊
Cheers! I left the station deliberately for ages. Its the most challenging aspect of the whole layout. I wanted to build up my skills so I could make a decent job of it.
Great update Richard. An important point for accuracy, is that with the Ladbrokes shop, you have to have a blank window, it was usually green, with no advertising on the window. The law well into the mid to late 90s was that you weren't able to see into a betting shop, and they weren't allowed to advertise on their windows, completely unlike the modern versions. The only indication of a betting shop was the name, like it would have had Ladbrokes licenced bookmakers over the shop, and the name of the shop manager over the door like pubs have. Looking great though, brings back memories with those shop names, don't forget a small independent pawn brokers on the opposite side of the street, and you could add a small private shop at the other end of the street, for a typical late 80s, early 90s feel lol. Keep up the good work, look forward to seeing how it progresses
This is amazing Phillip, I was a kid in the late 80s and early 90s and I’d forgotten all about this! I remember going past William Hill near me, the glass frontage was covered in blue paint with the odd picture of sport on it…every time we passed I’d ask my Dad what was in there…and he’d just say “betting shop…” and that was it… Such a smash of nostalgia when I read your comment.
Absolutely! I seem to remember my local bookies had those multicoloured plastic streamer things so they could leave the door open in the summer whilst not allowing a view inside.
@@planetpeckham1 Correct actually I think they had them up all the time. Doors were usually glass from what I can remember. With the plastic curtians behind them, (lots of cigarette smoke also came out when someone left the shop as well lol)
"I wasn't around in the 80s". In that short sentence, I suddenly felt very old indeed....but perhaps a bit smug at the same time for having been around in the 80s. Exceptional work once again and well worth the wait for this latest video. I do love it when a new Everard Junction video pops up.
@@EverardJunction I was lucky. My dad was a signalman so I spent most weekends with him in his signal box from 1975 to about 1980. The Upminster box had the Grays branch, so I used to hand the tokens over. Got me an invite to drive a Class 302 one Saturday on the branch line. All great memories, but I'm not sure my old grey matter could remember the details to the level of your superb work.
If you can imagine yourself walking on those platforms, waiting for a train, getting on and enjoying the experience then I think this says how well the modeller has achieved the experience. I for one think I have stood on one of his stations at some point in my life. Just Fantastic and I am an engineer so I love all of the steps and processes.
Brilliant!! Platforms varied as much as the places that rails run through, up and down through the country. Weeds as well as ivy are great at covering up joins as well as the old staff crossing steps built into the platform edges. I remember taking a short cut from one platform to another, but split my uniform trousers from crutch to belt up the back, one night and worked a whole shift with my winter coat on. I have worked on real platforms where they didn't pay as much attention as you did on yours. Next you'll be running a scrubbing train or sandite to help the tracks. I once when laying sandite, needed to pass two signals at danger ( 1 failed ), protecting a junction and a well known slipping point. Now i could only pass 1 signal at danger, but you have to lay sandite at 20 mph. I slipped down the embankment, but the next day after five trains had slipped, i was given dispensation to pass 2 signals at danger, which prevented other slips.
As usual another interesting a fascinating update. My goodness this has brought back some memories as I was born in 1956 and lived right next to South Acton railway station. I thought I knew this area very well but when I checked my old stomping grounds I hardly recognized the area. All these new and very futuristic buildings along Acton High Street and continuing to Ealing Broadway and further afield. My goodness it has changed and for the better by the looks of it. Regards Chris
I say it everytime. Wow!! Absolutely superb, Everard Junction update, cuppa, grab the biscuits, sit back and enjoy. Them shop fronts took me back to when I was a kid, so I guess I'm one of them blokes of a certain age too.😊. May I suggest a Woolworths, Co-Op or even a Wimpy. Funny how theres always a WH Smith's near a train station. Hopefully you can put a couple of Brutes on the platform with trainspotters sitting on them, that was a fairly common theme back in the day too. Thank you for sharing. Excellent.
Excellent stuff, as ever. Your Ladbroke's reminded me of when as a boy the barber in a parade like that did one cut and one cut only, with blunt shears hanging from the ceiling. Very often, my mum would take me into his shop, and then have to go across to the betting shop across the road and shout through the plastic strip curtain thing over the bookie's open door for Tommy (the barber) to come back to his own shop. So you need a scuzzy barber's in the parade opposite. 😀
Oh yes, Bejams was such an 80s store. I'll also add that WH Smith always seemed to be the huge corporate newsagents, doublesized stores in key high street locations as opposed to all the smaller corner shop style independent paper shops. I said it before on an older video, but something people forget about the 80s was how ubiquitous cigarette advertising was. For billboards, nothing sums up the time period more than a giant poster for ciggies which hasn't been legal (or socially acceptable) for years now. All your little newsagents on the layout would be covered with ads for them too.
Lovely job. I worked for 'Our Price' in 1989. Hell of a fun job. Then they were bought out by WH Smiths, and it went horribly 'Pete Tong'. 'Tandy' would be a good 1980's shop to have. I spent an awful lot of money in my local branch. Always stocked stuff you never knew you needed. I love your videos. Thanks for sharing!
Great modelling, Richard. The grout platform surfaces look really nice. The track weathering is also superb. Amazingly, a handful of Happy Shopper branded stores remain, but most are now called Premier Stores. Thanks for some wonderful modelling!
Happy Shopper was a national chain, that sort of superceded 'VG', 'Waitrose', 'Mace' and 'Fine Fare' mini-markets/newsagents. Other 80's period small shop logo ideas might be: 'Woolworths', 'Richer Sounds' (HiFi chain), 'Dorothy Perkins', 'Rumbellows', 'Currey's, 'Athena', 'MFI', 'Do-It-All', 'Tandy', 'Kwik Save', 'John Menzies', 'Somerfield', 'Radio Shack', 'Dixon's', 'Redifusion', 'Comet', 'BHS', ... Just off the top of the head. Not forgetting the one shopping chain that has outlived them all... The brilliant and ubiquitous - 'Co-op'.... . Love that 'scenic break'... Potentially so authentic. Can't wait to see what happens with the 'road to heaven' though...(lol). Great work as always.
Your attention to detail is brilliant. You are like a set designer for some top class Hollywood movie but only better. Keep it up as it will only get better and better. However don’t let it it take over as I know it would with me.
Well done. I often travelled the London area in my early years, and your layout invokes memories of my travels. Yes they are still looking dour in most parts of the region. Love the trains running around and they look very authentic. Great videos. Thanks for sharing. Magical.
When I saw the first part of the video I thought it looked like Ealing Broadway. A great representation of the area. Looking forward to see this progressing. A great video thanks for posting. Jeff
@0:43, I'd live there. No more tedious walk to the station. @39:09, radio rentals and our price are a blast from the past. I look forward to the next instalment.
Of all the excellent work and new stuff you've added, and all the hard work, the one thing that stood out to me were the blinds in the windows. I have seen many blinds, but those looked very realistic and added so much to the windows already and you have not added interiors or lights. I guess I am easily amused, but those blinds really popped there. Anyhow, I wondered how much the heat got you. Joyce and I spent the month of June int he UK and left, just before the first real heat wave hit, but even 27 in York and London at the end of June felt really hot there.
Thought I might not see this following a nasty bout of Covid...at my age not good!! However I live to enjoy more of your excellent work Richard. Excellent video and it really all looks rather good. Eagerly awaiting the next one. Cheers, Bob
@ 34:30 I actually worked in that ‘building monstrosity’ you mentioned at Ealing Broadway station 44 years ago when it was BBC Television Enterprises and we produced all the foreign versions of BBC shows 🙂
Great to see the scene above the station coming together, seeing the old shops from when I was a teenager was cool. Looking forward to seeing the finished scene.
A small point of accuracy I'd like to add is that usually a Boots the chemist shop spanned two shop front lengths I think. I've never seen a single unit Boots or WH Smiths (lots of items inside) unless they have them in London. Maybe you could also include a Public house of your own devising and naming somewhere on the layout. Great work.
Another excellent video, the way in which you produce these are fantastic. Step by step, inspirational. The whole layout is. Looking forward to trying some of these platform construction myself. Can’t wait for the next instalment guide. Thank you. All best Marc
Liking the period shop fronts. I think your ‘80s shoppers might want to grab a bite to eat in a Wimpy, and I recall a British Gas shop next to the Radio Rental in the high street I frequented in those years. Perhaps something for the other side of the street.
My first visit to Everard Junction ..excellent verbal and video description of stage by stage development of your platform construction..I feel I could easily follow that and get similar results ..some ppl spend ages doing same process , which can get tedious ..you got it just right ..enough to clearly see whats needed ..not too much to get boring ..will be watching many more of your posts ..many thx Lance
I believe that Happy Shopper was an "Own Brand" owned by one of the large Cash & Carry chains used by small grocery stores etc, loving the update, thank you
Great video as ever Richard, never would have thought of grout as a Concrete surface, certainly something I'll look at in the future. Watching your videos make me realise how much I need to get my modelling skills up to scratch, great inspiration. Keep up the great work and hope I find you well Cheers James
Wonderful as always, so much useful information and all provided with am engaging video presentation! I am enjoying watching your layout grow & change; it serves as inspiration to get my finger out and get on with it...many thanks!!
Would be nice( and authentic) to add diesel soot stains to the overbridge, with it being low-ish. Correct alignment to all loco exhausts of course. Superb layout and great to see modern image with correct length trains. Excellent 👏🏼
Looks great the surface of the platforms will look spot on once you have all the detail in place. It looks just how you would imagine in your minds eye.
Brilliant work as always. Love those shop fronts which bring the memories flooding back. Everard's Our Price - a touch of class !!!! Very interested to see what Cricketmaker brings to the hobby. Thanks
I was thinking about 80's shops and you have to have a Woolies and a Victor Value, which was bought out by Tesco in 1986. Even a small Tesco store would fit. Even more obscure was Huckleberry's Burger bar, which was like Wimpey. Actually, I have just remembered that Dad worked at Ealing Broadway for London Transport. This must have been back in the 70s though.
Enjoyed the video as always. The new platforms are a massive improvement to the old ones! and that platform surface looks amazing. I might have to try using tile grout for when I do my station. Loving the scratch built row of shops as well. - Nicholas.
Outstanding, really like the tunnel portal with the shops on top. Ref the shops don’t forget Curry’s and Dixon’s were on most high streets in those days. Also independent Satellite Dish shops were popping up every where back then.
I used to go to school at Ealing Green so im very familiar with this station as lived in Acton and commuted to school everyday 11 -15yrs old :) nice work i love how you have captured the feel of it :)
Back in the day just inside the station entrance was a bakers and they made some AMAZING Chocolate Eclairs! AMAZING... they were like a foot long and stuffed....lol
Great work as usual, Richard. I've added some discarded lumber and newpapers to my layout recently. It makes the scene look more real, but it's hard for me to do as I'm an overly tidy person! You continue to inspire me with your work. Cheers from Wisconsin!
Brilliantly done video! I really hope I can do a layout again in future. I'd a landscape oil painter, so I enjoy the technicalities of replicating effects and illusions! Some vertical strip blinds would look great in some of those windows as they were very popular back in the day (although I was born in '95) 😂
Excellent viewing. I followed your recommendation for Tajima1 bushes in an earlier video and have been very impressed with them, so thanks for the tip 👍🏻
Terrific video as usual. It may be worth looking at Chandwell as he has done receding roadways on his back scene. Also Eric French did a great photo backscene for an over bridge. Keep up the good work.
I might take you up on a rental... if the price is right. Mind you, we would have address the safety issue of that walkway with no banisters. Great work! I always love your work. Inspiring.
Brilliant update, The Happy Shopper "Brand" (aka Crappy Shopper) was a Line of Discounted products sold by Nurdin & Peacock, Cash and Carry, it was extremely unusual for a shop to nave Happy Shopper signage. Nurdin and Peacock is now owned by Booker / Tesco
I found numerous photos of branded Happy Shopper stores. They had the small happy logo in the corner and then the main shop signage just read 'The Happy Shopper'. They certainly looked a bit odd.
@@EverardJunction Where I lived in the 70's and 80's The Happy Shopper was normally, but not always a small Logo at beginning and end with the main store owners name prominent in the middle, I lived next door to one in Nottingham in the 70's. Booker will still to signage for stores who sell their "Euro Shopper" range in a similar style. Not that we see much signage in English now day's!!
Looking good, many thanks for showing what you do. Regarding the shops on the other side of the street you should have a greengrocer and maybe a flower stall.
Love the walk down memory high street, just a suggestion for another shop, Woolwoths and a shoe shop maybe, there was Freeman, Hardy & Willis or Stead & Simpson amongst others, also C&A was a popular clothes shop 😃
When I got a train set in the early 90's, it came with a Hornby casette tape with audio from a station, probably recorded at the same time your layout is set. It had muffled station announcements, diesels starting up and so on. If you can find it, or a digital rip, a bluetooth speaker could be hidden in the station to add a soundscape for the visuals.
Wife joined me (we're mid 60s) as you peeled back the platform masking tape, "It's like Greenford Station". Said with excitement rather than tears (family tragedy there in late 1970s). Then the shops - "That's Ealing Broadway" said in time with you saying it. Essentially, you're evoking her life from early teens to early 20s. Thanks. Your social history approach to modelling where the trains provide moving interest to an environment is great for us. Modelling where the trains and their management is the main thing is less interesting for us. Brilliantly humorously intelligent, as always
Brilliant! Glad it brought back some memories, cheers!
I was a Driver at Reading for 19 years. This is like "I recognise that" .. And, Ah, that reminds me of.
What a fantastic video. Well worth the wait! I lived in South Ealing from 1950 to 1976 and my first full time job was at WH Smith in Ealing Broadway so I know the area really well. Reading everyone else’s comments has been a great trip down memory lane. Ealing has changed so much since those days. Bentalls and John Sanders were two big department stores in the town, long since gone now. I thoroughly enjoy watching your progress and I am learning so much from your building process. Thanks for sharing Richard. Roy.
Wow! As a child of the 70's that row of shops was a blast from the past! As I mentioned in a previous video, I love the authenticity of the cracked and broken paving, so realistic!
I'm also a child of the 70s and I love how evocative of my childhood environment this is.
@James Hodson I never quite understood why people would get to a rail station and suddenly need ties and socks.
"SubaSnaps Richard back in the day 1984 -1987 I used to work at Lab in Northampton which by 1990s became Kodak. 14 years I worked there. Really enjoy your layout.
As you showed the shops and said you had talked to co-workers about old classics I said, there is no boots or our price
Then you panned over...
For a child of the 80s, it was like coming home :D
At this stage I’d think you’re no longer a model railway builder/enthusiast…. You’re an artist in your field. The attention to detail and realising is incredible. Loving the new station ideas.
You have found the beauty in otherwise unappealing post-war architecture. I love the period detail and your efforts to preserve authenticity in every way possible. Thanks for sharing your videos!
That’s a good picture of Chippenham, The scenics have certainly changed a lot since then.
I’ve been waiting for a station video for like 2 years. Finally!!!!!!!!
I purposefully left the station alone as I improved my skills working on 'easier' parts of the layout. Never build the focal point of a layout first. You'll be disappointed with it as other parts of the layout surpass it.
*Never* clicked on a video so quickly... Always excellent.
Those final shots from inside the station tunnel looking out onto the platforms were perfection! glad to see the station coming along nicely!
You, sir, are a master modeler! Many of us could never achieve the quality and detail as you have so aptly shown to us. You are an inspiration to those of us who dream of accomplishing something so grand.
WOW FROM CANADA Awesome work TOP NOCTH GREAT VIDEO AND DEATIALSTHX.😊😊😊👍👍
Ah man, loved all the new bits to this episode!
I've been here a while but my brother just watched this episode with me. I regret to inform you that his summary was:
"Everard sounds like a blue pill" 🤣
Another triumph of modelling artistry, always look forward to your efforts. Having grown up in the 70's and 80's I thought I'd mention a few more shops that were popular, "Etams", ( teenager womens clothing), "Timothy Whites", "Mothercare", "Hepworths"(mens clothing), "Dixon's". Keep up the great work.
I don't want to say I audibly cheered when I saw this appear in my subscriptions feed, but I did. Can't wait to get into the video, it's always so much fun when you upload a new one. Your layout and your techniques never amazes to impress me, and I can only hope to ever reach your skill level.
Fantastic to see the new station ideas making progress. The brickwork looks superb as usual and I love seeing those old signs...as I am of a certain age 😉
Well done Richard, fantastic method for doing the platforms 😎👍
I am 50 years old and from the area you are modelling, brings back memories, don’t forget a Dixons electrical shop and McDonalds or Wimpy
Again I marvel at your complete attention to detail. Perfection is always your goal. Thank you 😊
Wow, didn't realise you were so young! Amazing video and work as always. One of my favourite TH-cam channels for sure 😊
Mate, thete!re is nothing better than coming home from work and finding a new video of yours! I'm not a railway moddler, but have followed you since the beginning and am thankfull for your videos.
Bloody well played mate!
I am fascinated by the detail and realism you put into your layout. However watching this build come along I am learning about urban life in the UK during the late 80’s. I must say it is very different from my experience living in the Dallas, Texas Metro area. In the 80’s we were just starting to build a regional passenger rail and bus system. Dallas was the first large major city in the US to have long haul passenger rail service discontinued back in the early 70’s. However we did build large airports. The model for short haul regional airlines with hourly flights to cities within 500 miles began here. Our transportation system is freeways that we drive on in our big air conditioned cars and trucks. And yet it was a rail head that but Dallas on the map. So I am very intrigued by how the rail system has influenced the urban culture in the UK. Thanks for incorporating historical details in your layout.
Hey Jack. Thanks for the past history lesson of your part of town mate 🙂👍
Outside of London rail really has influenceD British cities, past tense! It's virtually useless for regular, reliable travel outside a handful of big cities. And even when visiting London I've had my fair share of comedy moments, drivers forgetting to stop where they're meant to, or else stopping and opening the doors while the station announcer frantically shouts "do not board! do not board!".
I think the reason I like watching these videos is because I am watching someone who is the total opposite of me. Although I would like to, there is absolutely no way that I would have the patience to do what you do. I would just want to get it built as quickly as possible. When you were messing around changing the canal, and the road layout, and the houses, and the scrapyard, and the track layout on the branch line, and the sidings and the scenery around the bridge at the other end of the layout I kept yelling at the screen "STOP CHANGING WHAT YOU HAVE ALREADY BUILT AND GIVE US THE F##KN STATION!" Now you are there I feel I can relax! Please don't change it! Note to self... relax ... and chill... and look forward to the next installment! 😊
Cheers! I left the station deliberately for ages. Its the most challenging aspect of the whole layout. I wanted to build up my skills so I could make a decent job of it.
@@EverardJunction 👍
When you do the other shops you must have a Wimpey cafe 👍
Great update Richard. An important point for accuracy, is that with the Ladbrokes shop, you have to have a blank window, it was usually green, with no advertising on the window. The law well into the mid to late 90s was that you weren't able to see into a betting shop, and they weren't allowed to advertise on their windows, completely unlike the modern versions. The only indication of a betting shop was the name, like it would have had Ladbrokes licenced bookmakers over the shop, and the name of the shop manager over the door like pubs have.
Looking great though, brings back memories with those shop names, don't forget a small independent pawn brokers on the opposite side of the street, and you could add a small private shop at the other end of the street, for a typical late 80s, early 90s feel lol.
Keep up the good work, look forward to seeing how it progresses
Excellent info. I'd have never of known that, cheers!
This is amazing Phillip, I was a kid in the late 80s and early 90s and I’d forgotten all about this! I remember going past William Hill near me, the glass frontage was covered in blue paint with the odd picture of sport on it…every time we passed I’d ask my Dad what was in there…and he’d just say “betting shop…” and that was it…
Such a smash of nostalgia when I read your comment.
Absolutely! I seem to remember my local bookies had those multicoloured plastic streamer things so they could leave the door open in the summer whilst not allowing a view inside.
@@planetpeckham1 Correct actually I think they had them up all the time. Doors were usually glass from what I can remember. With the plastic curtians behind them, (lots of cigarette smoke also came out when someone left the shop as well lol)
@@bryemycaz haha! Spot on! Plus lots of screwed up betting slips littering the pavement outside!
When you have finished this part it's going to be so brilliant I'm sure. Amazing realism.
Many many hours to go but I'm really liking this scene. Cheers
"I wasn't around in the 80s". In that short sentence, I suddenly felt very old indeed....but perhaps a bit smug at the same time for having been around in the 80s. Exceptional work once again and well worth the wait for this latest video. I do love it when a new Everard Junction video pops up.
I wish I was about in the 80s haha. Being able to refer to my memory would be very handy for this layout!
@@EverardJunction I was lucky. My dad was a signalman so I spent most weekends with him in his signal box from 1975 to about 1980. The Upminster box had the Grays branch, so I used to hand the tokens over. Got me an invite to drive a Class 302 one Saturday on the branch line. All great memories, but I'm not sure my old grey matter could remember the details to the level of your superb work.
If you can imagine yourself walking on those platforms, waiting for a train, getting on and enjoying the experience then I think this says how well the modeller has achieved the experience. I for one think I have stood on one of his stations at some point in my life. Just Fantastic and I am an engineer so I love all of the steps and processes.
Invent us all a shrinking machine and you’d be a £zillionaire overnight 😆👍
man i can remember seeing happy shopper crisp packets beside pretty much every footpath when i was a kid. memory unlocked lol. great video again!
Brilliant!! Platforms varied as much as the places that rails run through, up and down through the country. Weeds as well as ivy are great at covering up joins as well as the old staff crossing steps built into the platform edges. I remember taking a short cut from one platform to another, but split my uniform trousers from crutch to belt up the back, one night and worked a whole shift with my winter coat on. I have worked on real platforms where they didn't pay as much attention as you did on yours. Next you'll be running a scrubbing train or sandite to help the tracks. I once when laying sandite, needed to pass two signals at danger ( 1 failed ), protecting a junction and a well known slipping point. Now i could only pass 1 signal at danger, but you have to lay sandite at 20 mph. I slipped down the embankment, but the next day after five trains had slipped, i was given dispensation to pass 2 signals at danger, which prevented other slips.
As usual another interesting a fascinating update.
My goodness this has brought back some memories as I was born in 1956 and lived right next to South Acton railway station.
I thought I knew this area very well but when I checked my old stomping grounds I hardly recognized the area. All these new and very futuristic buildings along Acton High Street and continuing to Ealing Broadway and further afield. My goodness it has changed and for the better by the looks of it.
Regards Chris
I say it everytime. Wow!! Absolutely superb, Everard Junction update, cuppa, grab the biscuits, sit back and enjoy. Them shop fronts took me back to when I was a kid, so I guess I'm one of them blokes of a certain age too.😊. May I suggest a Woolworths, Co-Op or even a Wimpy. Funny how theres always a WH Smith's near a train station. Hopefully you can put a couple of Brutes on the platform with trainspotters sitting on them, that was a fairly common theme back in the day too. Thank you for sharing. Excellent.
Agree with a Wimpy, McDonalds were around but not in the numbers they are now. A Chippy would also be very close to a station.
A Ratners Jewellers would be an amusing addition in a 1980s row of shops.
Excellent stuff, as ever. Your Ladbroke's reminded me of when as a boy the barber in a parade like that did one cut and one cut only, with blunt shears hanging from the ceiling. Very often, my mum would take me into his shop, and then have to go across to the betting shop across the road and shout through the plastic strip curtain thing over the bookie's open door for Tommy (the barber) to come back to his own shop.
So you need a scuzzy barber's in the parade opposite. 😀
Love the platforms and shop fronts.
Bejams which is now Iceland, Safeway which is now Morrisons or Woolworths would be good brands for a double store.
Oh yes, Bejams was such an 80s store. I'll also add that WH Smith always seemed to be the huge corporate newsagents, doublesized stores in key high street locations as opposed to all the smaller corner shop style independent paper shops.
I said it before on an older video, but something people forget about the 80s was how ubiquitous cigarette advertising was. For billboards, nothing sums up the time period more than a giant poster for ciggies which hasn't been legal (or socially acceptable) for years now. All your little newsagents on the layout would be covered with ads for them too.
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There was also Gateway which had some shops, later to become Somerfields.
@@bryemycaz that’s a great shout, I see your Gateway and raise you International!
@@TheHongKongHermit Can't wait for things to get better and Lambert and Butler ads to be all over towns again, those were always good.
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Looking good Richard, don't forget, good old Woolworths !!
Lovely job. I worked for 'Our Price' in 1989. Hell of a fun job. Then they were bought out by WH Smiths, and it went horribly 'Pete Tong'.
'Tandy' would be a good 1980's shop to have. I spent an awful lot of money in my local branch. Always stocked stuff you never knew you needed.
I love your videos. Thanks for sharing!
Tandy kept popping up in my searches. I've got the logo on file should I need it! Cheers
Great modelling, Richard. The grout platform surfaces look really nice. The track weathering is also superb. Amazingly, a handful of Happy Shopper branded stores remain, but most are now called Premier Stores. Thanks for some wonderful modelling!
Happy Shopper was a national chain, that sort of superceded 'VG', 'Waitrose', 'Mace' and 'Fine Fare' mini-markets/newsagents.
Other 80's period small shop logo ideas might be: 'Woolworths', 'Richer Sounds' (HiFi chain), 'Dorothy Perkins', 'Rumbellows', 'Currey's, 'Athena', 'MFI', 'Do-It-All', 'Tandy', 'Kwik Save', 'John Menzies', 'Somerfield', 'Radio Shack', 'Dixon's', 'Redifusion', 'Comet', 'BHS', ... Just off the top of the head. Not forgetting the one shopping chain that has outlived them all... The brilliant and ubiquitous - 'Co-op'....
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Love that 'scenic break'... Potentially so authentic. Can't wait to see what happens with the 'road to heaven' though...(lol). Great work as always.
Your attention to detail is brilliant. You are like a set designer for some top class Hollywood movie but only better. Keep it up as it will only get better and better. However don’t let it it take over as I know it would with me.
Well done. I often travelled the London area in my early years, and your layout invokes memories of my travels. Yes they are still looking dour in most parts of the region. Love the trains running around and they look very authentic. Great videos. Thanks for sharing. Magical.
Watching trains while on the train. This my journey sorted 🙌🏻
Better than the real..this looks just perfect ... great work .. Salutations de france
Have a great new week! ✔✔
Outstanding attention to detail!
When I saw the first part of the video I thought it looked like Ealing Broadway. A great representation of the area. Looking forward to see this progressing. A great video thanks for posting. Jeff
Funnily enough your Supa Snaps reminded me I have some photos to go pick up!
@0:43, I'd live there. No more tedious walk to the station. @39:09, radio rentals and our price are a blast from the past. I look forward to the next instalment.
Of all the excellent work and new stuff you've added, and all the hard work, the one thing that stood out to me were the blinds in the windows. I have seen many blinds, but those looked very realistic and added so much to the windows already and you have not added interiors or lights. I guess I am easily amused, but those blinds really popped there. Anyhow, I wondered how much the heat got you. Joyce and I spent the month of June int he UK and left, just before the first real heat wave hit, but even 27 in York and London at the end of June felt really hot there.
Thought I might not see this following a nasty bout of Covid...at my age not good!!
However I live to enjoy more of your excellent work Richard. Excellent video and it really all looks rather good. Eagerly awaiting the next one. Cheers, Bob
great little parade of shops... lacking only some punks and a ghettoblaster (as I recall). fantastic mate, nice one
@ 34:30 I actually worked in that ‘building monstrosity’ you mentioned at Ealing Broadway station 44 years ago when it was BBC Television Enterprises and we produced all the foreign versions of BBC shows 🙂
Great to see the scene above the station coming together, seeing the old shops from when I was a teenager was cool. Looking forward to seeing the finished scene.
A small point of accuracy I'd like to add is that usually a Boots the chemist shop spanned two shop front lengths I think. I've never seen a single unit Boots or WH Smiths (lots of items inside) unless they have them in London. Maybe you could also include a Public house of your own devising and naming somewhere on the layout. Great work.
Another excellent video, the way in which you produce these are fantastic. Step by step, inspirational. The whole layout is. Looking forward to trying some of these platform construction myself. Can’t wait for the next instalment guide. Thank you. All best Marc
Great video. Glad you posted something new as its been a bit. I've learned so much from you 'how to' videos. Thanks again.
Another great update Richard looks fantastic awaiting the next
Yessssss made my Sunday, never clicked so fast.
Liking the period shop fronts. I think your ‘80s shoppers might want to grab a bite to eat in a Wimpy, and I recall a British Gas shop next to the Radio Rental in the high street I frequented in those years. Perhaps something for the other side of the street.
My first visit to Everard Junction ..excellent verbal and video description of stage by stage development of your platform construction..I feel I could easily follow that and get similar results ..some ppl spend ages doing same process , which can get tedious ..you got it just right ..enough to clearly see whats needed ..not too much to get boring ..will be watching many more of your posts ..many thx Lance
I believe that Happy Shopper was an "Own Brand" owned by one of the large Cash & Carry chains used by small grocery stores etc, loving the update, thank you
I think it was Bookers
Brilliant as always.
I worked on the railway throughout the 80s and your work takes me back to that time, great memories, thanks
Haha Richard I’m a guy of a certain age, I remember the shops very well. Looking Great 👍
Another great video thanks lovely work.
Great video as ever Richard, never would have thought of grout as a Concrete surface, certainly something I'll look at in the future. Watching your videos make me realise how much I need to get my modelling skills up to scratch, great inspiration. Keep up the great work and hope I find you well
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Cheers James. I find the grout sets like rock with PVA and use it for lots of areas. Doesn't shrink or crack over time either.
Still watching and still fascinated by your progress. The shopping building and the progress around the plattfoms is really wonderful.
Another fantastic update Rich! Really love seeing this layout come together. That station looks gorgeous!
I'm a Hayes and Harlington boy so just up the road from some of you. Love your layout, process and attitude. Keep the vids coming.
Wonderful as always, so much useful information and all provided with am engaging video presentation! I am enjoying watching your layout grow & change; it serves as inspiration to get my finger out and get on with it...many thanks!!
Would be nice( and authentic) to add diesel soot stains to the overbridge, with it being low-ish. Correct alignment to all loco exhausts of course. Superb layout and great to see modern image with correct length trains. Excellent 👏🏼
Looks great the surface of the platforms will look spot on once you have all the detail in place. It looks just how you would imagine in your minds eye.
Fantastic progress, you are quite a craftsman Richard, kudos great effort begat great results.
Brilliant work as always. Love those shop fronts which bring the memories flooding back. Everard's Our Price - a touch of class !!!!
Very interested to see what Cricketmaker brings to the hobby.
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I was thinking about 80's shops and you have to have a Woolies and a Victor Value, which was bought out by Tesco in 1986. Even a small Tesco store would fit. Even more obscure was Huckleberry's Burger bar, which was like Wimpey. Actually, I have just remembered that Dad worked at Ealing Broadway for London Transport. This must have been back in the 70s though.
Thank you for another brilliant video
Yet again another very realistic build, if you look hard enough you can see the clouds move, well done 👍
I was a kid in the 80s (I was born in 1982) and those shops are all pretty much what I remember from my childhood. Happy Shopper was life 🤣
I learned a lot doing the research. Not heard of most of them!
@@EverardJunction I definitely remember the "Our Price" shops.
@@JamesPetts I still have some Cassettes and CDs from Our Price!
Enjoyed the video as always. The new platforms are a massive improvement to the old ones! and that platform surface looks amazing. I might have to try using tile grout for when I do my station. Loving the scratch built row of shops as well. - Nicholas.
A WONDERFUL VIDEO. Brilliant job many, thanks, to all at Everard railway, many thanks 🤩
Outstanding, really like the tunnel portal with the shops on top. Ref the shops don’t forget Curry’s and Dixon’s were on most high streets in those days. Also independent Satellite Dish shops were popping up every where back then.
I used to go to school at Ealing Green so im very familiar with this station as lived in Acton and commuted to school everyday 11 -15yrs old :) nice work i love how you have captured the feel of it :)
Back in the day just inside the station entrance was a bakers and they made some AMAZING Chocolate Eclairs! AMAZING... they were like a foot long and stuffed....lol
Hi Richard, Enjoyed the video and the progress you have made and really look forward to your next installment. Cheers Greg
Enjoyed the build update.👍 You've made some amazing progress considering the hot weather lately. The station is looking great. Regards Graham 👍😀🚂
Great work as usual, Richard. I've added some discarded lumber and newpapers to my layout recently. It makes the scene look more real, but it's hard for me to do as I'm an overly tidy person! You continue to inspire me with your work. Cheers from Wisconsin!
Wow! It just looks so real!
Brilliantly done video! I really hope I can do a layout again in future. I'd a landscape oil painter, so I enjoy the technicalities of replicating effects and illusions! Some vertical strip blinds would look great in some of those windows as they were very popular back in the day (although I was born in '95) 😂
Excellent viewing. I followed your recommendation for Tajima1 bushes in an earlier video and have been very impressed with them, so thanks for the tip 👍🏻
Hi Richard , enjoyed the video, a suggestion for a shop on the other side of the road, Woolworths.. 👍
Great layout and scenery looks fantastic 👍🏻👍🏻
Terrific video as usual. It may be worth looking at Chandwell as he has done receding roadways on his back scene. Also Eric French did a great photo backscene for an over bridge.
Keep up the good work.
I might take you up on a rental... if the price is right. Mind you, we would have address the safety issue of that walkway with no banisters. Great work! I always love your work. Inspiring.
Brilliant update, The Happy Shopper "Brand" (aka Crappy Shopper) was a Line of Discounted products sold by Nurdin & Peacock, Cash and Carry, it was extremely unusual for a shop to nave Happy Shopper signage. Nurdin and Peacock is now owned by Booker / Tesco
I found numerous photos of branded Happy Shopper stores. They had the small happy logo in the corner and then the main shop signage just read 'The Happy Shopper'. They certainly looked a bit odd.
@@EverardJunction Where I lived in the 70's and 80's The Happy Shopper was normally, but not always a small Logo at beginning and end with the main store owners name prominent in the middle, I lived next door to one in Nottingham in the 70's. Booker will still to signage for stores who sell their "Euro Shopper" range in a similar style. Not that we see much signage in English now day's!!
anither great video Richard , thanks for a great video and looking forward to the next one
Looking good, many thanks for showing what you do. Regarding the shops on the other side of the street you should have a greengrocer and maybe a flower stall.
Love the walk down memory high street, just a suggestion for another shop, Woolwoths and a shoe shop maybe, there was Freeman, Hardy & Willis or Stead & Simpson amongst others, also C&A was a popular clothes shop 😃
Great work. Very enjoyable to watch
Nicely done
Our Price Records! ❤
Should've used a paint roller without the fluffy part on the grout.
When I got a train set in the early 90's, it came with a Hornby casette tape with audio from a station, probably recorded at the same time your layout is set. It had muffled station announcements, diesels starting up and so on. If you can find it, or a digital rip, a bluetooth speaker could be hidden in the station to add a soundscape for the visuals.