New Layout Build - Track changes to the branch line
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- I'm back at work on the layout itself after completing various rolling stock projects. Over the past week I've focused on making some significant changes to the branch line. I was never satisfied with the branch on that side of layout. Despite the visual issues and contrived appearance it also had a number of operational issues.
Link to my original setup in case you missed it. • New Layout Build - Bra...
I've fixed most of the problems to the best I can with the available space. Much happier with the appearance now. I've just started the process of adding scenery to the area and hope to provide an update in about another week or so. Cheers
This one was quite tricky to film due to the nature of the work and the small space to work in. It wasn’t practical to film most of the carpentry or electrics for various reasons. I hope you’ll excuse the vlog nature of this particular video. Scenery has just been started today and I hope to return to the usual format in the next video. As always thanks for watching. I hope to have the next one ready in about a week. Cheers
Will you be uploading more cause of lockdown
@@poler_games I'm at home so will be making the best of it and progressing with the layout.
Thinking that the "old route" could be transformed into a road and or stream/canal under the mainline...
Looking good look forward to seeing the Scenics’s coming along
You've made a commitment to the frog juicers already on your layout. But if you had it to do over, would you use "keep alive" capacitor units in your units to pass over the dead frogs, or go with the juicers again. I'm wondering if keep alive fitted units would work better for less, or if the juicers are less expensive and/or work better.
BTW, the new branch reverse curves look a lot better.
There aren't a lot of youtubers that make me stop watching other videos and immediately click on their videos but when you see Everard Junction with a new video, its impossible not to click straight away!
Cant wait till "about 1974"!
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Scientists say people are happier when Everard Junction videos appear in their notifications
Went right back to the unboxing of this futuristic piece of work:
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And yes, people are shurely happier with this videos. Well, at least, i am. What makes Mr E. Junction (i once called him that...) such a success? I suggested here that it may be because his videos are about the modelling. Mr. R. does not want, as so many out there, to be the star of his own videos. His talent and inconspicuousness makes him the best producer of railway videos, as numbers clearly show, in views and "likes". Mr. R. is a celebrity, despite of himself. And i mean celebrity in a good way, as someone who is admired for talent and deeds, not in the tv stuff meaning.
Eight out of ten cat owners who expressed an opinion said their cats had to wait an extra hour to be fed when Everard Junction posts a new video.
As a scientist, I can attest to this.
The opening sound byte just took me back to the "Mindless Optimism" commentaries that you used to hear on the Look at Life films of the sixties. The music just nailed it too.
Grab the popcorn sit back and relax and be amazed by Everard Junction 👍
Love the Intro to Everard Junction with the APT just fantastic, thanks for a great video too.
I appreciate your logic in your decision making. Everything from your reasons for soldering to the outside of the track rails for hidden trackwork, to the use of code 100, to the switching and display panel. Very impressive.
I will attempt to incorporate your methods as I go forward with my layout. Very nice layout and video! Thanks
The soldering from 11 minutes forward was so satisfying to watch ❤️❤️
Loved the intro! Was waiting to see the Thunderbirds!
i would like to thank you for being the person who has influenced my model making by getting me interested in making dioramas, or i guess scenery like what you make, I've been watching your videos since your first set and have been inspired.
Excellent video as always.
This takes me back to when I was younger and had a big layout in my bedroom I collected and built over many years.
I'd be tempted to add a reversing loop to the Sidings you just constructed, going under the main layout. Everyone's a critic.
I would add the leg otherwise someone will sit or rest themselves on the edge and break it - Sods law etc.
Redesgning your branch made a lot of sense and had taught me a few things why it had to be done. Im in the process of designing my new layout and im not rushing it.
I think the longer scenic section will give you a lot more scope and it gives a more natural look. Really look forward to seeing what you do with the overall scene! Loved the intro! Joe
This video has highlighted so many issues with my layout plans
Some great adjustments made and the moving of the fiddle yard is going to give a much better experience especially access. It’s all looking really good. All the best, Clint
Hi Richard. Some more smashing progress going on 👍. I do love the sound of the APT-E, it just stands out wonderfully! Can't wait to see this side of the layout with its scenery, you always make a fantastic job 👌🙂. Stay safe mate, GWR
Fantastic! Man, I left for a bit, came back to check out your videos, and there has been so many changes and so much progress. Very cool! Inspiring work for sure.
I would be hopelessly overcome with the temptation to put in a removable terminus scene where that fiddle yard is.... Unnecessary complications, as you say less is more!
Magnificent, Richard, thank-you!
What a gem to us all you are!
Very best wishes,
John
Another fantastic video Rich. Always a pleasure watching your updates, especially during this lockdown. Very much looking forward to building my loft layout which will be inspired by yours.
at first i could not tell where the track was going at the start of the video but when you showed the new fiddle yard it made a whole lot clearer where the trains go.
Great intro. Thank you for the update. I believe you will be better off and happier in the long run now.
That intro though 😍😍😍
That is a lot better - much prefer it. Lots of fun to be had with the scenics there now.
I like the changes. That control panel is my kind of panel, simple and working. Great work. Thanks for sharing.
Nice new version Richard it looks so much better. Thoroughly enjoyed watching, as always. Thank you. Cheers Iain
Nice work Richard on the branch line looks a lot better with the storage yard and the control panel loving the new intro
Evening Richard hope your keeping safe and by the look at your latest video you are lol 😂 Thanks too you Charlie Bishop Dave class 47 and others I've started working on my model railway in my garage after being furloughed from work 🙄 You give great instructions on what your doing and I especially take some good tips from what your doing 👍🏻 Keep safe and looking forward to seeing the next Everard junction 😄 Cheers Stevie 😎
Much better arrangement - can get to the units much better - loks more realistic too. Well done.
Amazing video Everard always watching your videos
Well done Richard and again an awesome video. Your attention to detail is excellent/ Thank you Kevin NZ
Absolutely brilliant Richard it does look load's better now I'm looking forward to seeing do the scenic side's of things. Take care and stay safe kind regards Gary leicestertmd 👍😉
This is why you’re better than most standard modellers, you’re not afraid to admit to your mistakes and cut your losses to make it more like how you want. Too many of us plough on compounding our errors...
Also, how many point motors could you power from that power supply?
Thanks, I try to sort stuff I'm not happy with before it's too late. I didn't do any scenery on that side because I knew that yard was coming out.
You could power loads of points from the CDC. As you often only operate one or two at a time it doesn't really matter how many are connected.
Another great video Richard ... like the changes you have made . Keep safe
Just an idea, but how about making your abandoned bridge a Beeching legacy feature when doing the scenery? A defunct branch line with overgrown track bed or an old entrance to a goods yard that has since been redeveloped, might open up some opportunities for some scenic dilapidation. It might show how the industrial landscape has changed. I'm thinking of the part coming into Reading from Waterloo, where there was a spur that passed under the main Paddington lines, for a bit of inspo. A pretty scruffy area back in the NSE era.
I'm going to play with some disused elements if I have the space. There isn't very much room to play with so I may settle on a disused bit alongside the branch. Cheers
wish l had your knowledge on electronics Richard ,you keep saying its quiet simple to me it aint, your an inspiration always look forward to your next video....
Just a suggestion Richard, The area that had the carriage shed that as gone since you re-did the branch line could be replaced with a mill and canal. The canal could enter from a tunnel which disappears under the branch at one end and into a tunnel under the fiddle yard at the other.
Nervous about things ? Those look like nails they have been gnawed! Seriously great video, love the changes and the layout as a whole. I hope you and your family are keeping well in these crazy times.
Great work as usual Richard. I’m a chippy and and your works ok bud. Very practical use of materials. Look forward to catching up hopefully at MK in October like last year, Nick and George.
Always a pleasure Richard.
Hi Richard.
Another excellent video. You have a most interesting back catalogue of videos.
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It's looking great! Can't believe how much it's changed over the years... I really hope you're staying safe during this global mess
Quite simply, great stuff Richard, keep it up!
great intro to the video. i'm guessing that the shot of stock leaving the fiddle yard will feature quite a bit in subsequent videos. Have you any plans to darken down the inside of the Tunnel interior so that the interior stock lighting shows up even more ?? fabulous rebuild your doing a great job.
Love the APT intro there :D!
It’s been awhile since I’ve watched your videos so I apologize in advance if you’ve done this. For the control panel you can use a piece of lexan plexi. Drill your holes, no worries of cracking or splitting with lexan. Paint the backside black and it will looks clean. When I do watch your channel, your videos are excellent, thank you for taking the time to make them!
Excellent video Richard, thoroughly enjoyed watching this.
If it were me, I’d already be toying with the idea of what that small section of the fiddle yard could become, perhaps a small terminus? Would certainly add some operational interest, not that you need some but does give some closure to the branch line.
I love your videos, thank you for sharing 👍🏻best wishes Andreas
A former junction with abandoned track bed would probably be a nice feature
Great correction to a difficult area, reminds me of the duct under lines at the soon to be old Euston
Excellent. Just in time for a post dinner beer! 👍
Excellent layout and love the APT-E.
The start of this is exquisite!
(It just so happens that the next #RailNatter is on this very subject!)
Nice introduction film.
Very well done !
Really does add something more that s bend , well done mate
Nice work Richard. I sold my APT-E on (for the price I paid) to a friend. I found that it was just too dominating and became out of place. A bit like owning Flying Scotsman or Hogwart’s Express!
It is rather dominating isn't it. I don't run mine often as it's way out of era. I don't use the sound either, very noisy! Cheers
I use DPDT centre off switches on all of my lines, for example on the storage yard I use the switch down for power and up for programming, in the up position I can find out what loco is on a section
by inquiring its address, this saves the need for separate information to be kept elsewhere.
love this kind of thing, want to make scenesand railways like this myself, unfortunatly just no room for it!
“4’ x 2’ is not huge...” - big enough for a wee N gauge layout! 😀 Great video, thank you. Keep safe.
I could have a lot of fun with N gauge up there!
@@EverardJunction with n that 4 track layout would be about 12 😆
@@GWRailFan Yeah - not too late to rethink and model Wimbledon MPD ;)
Good stuff fella can't wait to see the rest of the changes you make stay safe
Great job man, looks great! Can't for you start the scenery! Maybe the country side for now? The city can expand into it later.
Just remember, I stopped watching A touch of Frost for you. (and it was well worth it)
Interesting. The four track station with the single line branch reminds me a little of Slough with the Windsor branch.
My home town. Windsor that is, not Slough 😂
@@anonymoususer502 I grew up (in the 1980s) very near Slough/Windsor.
If you turned your section switches 90 degrees you could have your switches in up position for off , down position for on as in automotive use, and saving extra wiring etc!
I was able to get my hands on a lot of leftover oak because my uncle does construction and used that to build the legs and frame of my layout while using cheap plywood for tops and side. And quite frankly a carpenter i am not but turned out okayish. if I ever get around to writing the siwtches in.
Super gebaut, meinen Glückwunsch und weiter so.
Gruß Klaus 👌👍👍👍
those switch machines are nice, do you have a video on how to make them, or what products you use?
Brilliant intro! Much enjoyed.
Wonderful, authentic looking , intro.
Would the branch have been double track originally or has it always been single?
Could also put a mill / factory in that spare bit of space, once served by rail but no more. It could then be derelict or converted if appropriate to your area at the time your layout is set.
That APT sounded like it was either going take off at mach 5 or blow up! Can you imagine what they would have sounded like in a covered station?
Really like the changes, great report
Great vision!
Thanks for the video. . Keeping us sane. .
Just wondering if you could do a wiring diagram, or point me in the right direction to one or a video on how to add led’s to point motor switches as what you have set up is exactly what I want to do, but I’ve been unable to find out how to till now
HELP!!!!!
Great video 👏🏻
On the areas where I used solenoid point motors I have used the Peco point switch, which is a momentary switch but remains in the position of last throw, so that identifies the throw of the point direction.
Hi richard
What do you use as a shuttle for the branch line and does it work on all 5 sidings and could it change the points to send another train out of the branch line ???.
Peter from Birmingham
:o ... THE APT-E IS BACK
Hello Richard, please,can I ask a,quick question. I'm in the middle of building my layout and just about to start on the transversers I'm using for the fiddle yard. Could you let me the know the total length of your 2epb please and thank you
Have you thought about farm in the area where you put the old shed and woodland seen
@EverardJunction - idea regarding where you took the old bridge from, have an old disused tunnel with some dead, overgrown track going through it.
Excellent control panel!
A small criticism from the outside, the first central and bottom leds (just after the two first switches) seem a bit confusing. Maybe put the central and bottom siding leds in between first and second switches? (sorry, it's complicated for me to try to explain, if it doesn't make sense and it piques your interest let me know and I'll try harder, I'm just going to assume that as it is now, it's totally good for you.
I will be revising things when I build a nicer panel. Theres always a better layout, cheers.
@@EverardJunction Nice! Can't wait to see it finished.
Great video Richard!
Nice. Like the rethink to make more of the branch. Do you have easy access to service the 3 way turnout when it acts up or are they dead reliable?
That whole board with the points can come out in about 5 mins. That 3 way point was on my old layout for 5 years and I didn't have any problems, cheers.
Really nice curve to the branch line now.
Does this mean the end for your engine shed?
This was my worry when watching - what happens now to the carriage sheds built with care.... put them in the fiddle yard.
Great video- I liked the VLOG nature of it as well. You are setting fun expectations for openings- your last two have been extremely clever (no pressure, they have been fun). Always a pleasure. (BTW- did you ever have a channel for your old car project?- I lost track of that over the years).
There will be an update on the car at some point. I decided to keep that project to myself and just enjoy it. I do post progress on a forum but thats about it. More silly intros are on the way :)
@@EverardJunction Thanks for the answers. The car project was of interest, as re-tooling cars was a passion of mine, too (my last name might be hint, even for the UK). Anyhow, cheers!
"SAH-DER" or "SOLD-ER" ? I know, American-to-British translation problems....
Bloody excellent that rich. The changes are much better.
Would love to see this in the flesh one day. Epic!!!
Which shuttle module are you using??
I'm using Lenz BM1s. Not totally reliable and quite a bit of messing about however they are working(ish) now. I've not covered them due to the issues I've had. I'm looking to replace in future with something else if possible.
EverardJunction ahh ok! Fair enough mate!
Just an idea, where you were going to have the small TMD area, now that you have changed the plan could you not instead have a small freight operation there instead perhaps for ballast trains or similar, with a hopper house ect for discharging,
Would only need 2 roads probably, and would be something different, whilst still leaving you space at the front for scenery.
You get them in all sorts of unusual tight spaces just off of small branch lines ect,
Much better, how about an old factory being demolished with the remains of an old siding on it? Seen that on a layout years ago and it looked fantastic?
For points I use Tortoise and again DPDT switches and the direction of the switch shows me the throw of the point direction.
You're fooling no one, we all know that bit of wood at the end of the sidings was placed after a DMU found its demise down the loft hatch! 🤣 nice intro btw 😉
Would have been going at some speed to reach the hatch! I've have lost a wagon down there in the past, it didn't survive! Cheers, always like a silly intro :)
@Liskwithiel Road ah, I guess you've not been introduced to the inverse square law ;)
I'd be interested to hear your opinion of frog juicers. I swapped my PM1 point motor switches for juicers and I'm slightly disappointed, the relay isn't as fast as I'd hoped and you can hear it switch (its quiet). Could you include your opinion in one of your future productions. P.S as usual nice work
Great return...love the slow speeds you get too...due to design of the electrics?
Place a leg under that shelf! It's a lot cheaper than buying new models :)
Love you work
you could use where the branch line used to go as a ex railway with the mainline still going over it