Diwedd y Llinell

[Mike Buttell]

Hello all
After lurking for a few weeks since joining, I have made enough progress with my new 009 layout to film a preview. I am adding scenery to one section at a time as things move along, and currently waiting for a large box of trees to arrive, some of which will be planted into the section filmed. Anyway, this is all you are allowed to see just yet!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6eCe6zrfGz0

Cheers
MB

[MickT]

A very nice looking layout indeed Mike and I (and I'm sure others) look forward very much to seeing progress reports as you develop things even further.

A splendid range of well running stock that if I am not mistaken is currently all ready to run, including a superb Fourdees 0-6-0T? If so, it's all certainly a very good advert for how far 009 has come in recent years.

Well done!

Mick

[Mike Buttell]

Yes Mick, all ready to run. I have spent many years kit building and bashing, and some scratch building in all sorts of scales from N to 15mm, the idea of this is that is to be nice and relaxing and not to strain the eyes and temper too much, working well so far

[Andrew Emery]

Looks absolutely lovely, Mike. It shows what can be done by judicious selection of proprietry models. I am jealous!

Kindest,
Andrew

[Mike Buttell]

A couple of pictures as things progress
This one didn't quite make any of Ivo Peters albums. An exchange of greetings between stationmaster and driver as the Fourdees Peckett takes the late afternoon service through the passing station

[Mike Buttell]

Over at the other side of the layout ideas are being tried for the terminus

[Jeff Schumaker]

I take it that you were building structures before commencing with the layout?

Jeff S.

[Mike Buttell]

The buildings are all "off the shelf" Jeff, most are from an abandoned 00 gauge layout

[Mike Buttell]

A bit more done over the weekend, the station yard laid in its final position and ballasted, buildings set in place and backscene fixed.

[Jeff Schumaker]

It's coming along nicely.

Jeff S.

[Mike Buttell]

A little activity at the coaling stage. The loco shed and corrugated goods shed are both Bachmann Scenecraft buildings, cut down in size. In the background you can just make out the ruined castle.

[Mike Buttell]

Another Fourdees Peckett has joined the loco roster

[Mike Buttell]

Perhaps any of our Welsh experts can help out here, I ran "end of the line" through an English to Welsh translator and it came up with "diwedd y llinell". It struck me that this would make a mighty fine name for my terminus station. Would this be the correct spelling and wording taking into account any variables in the language?

[Mike Buttell]

Updated video
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi_LdZcGq1k

[Tom Haythornthwaite]

Very very nice.