How to ballast a model railway & a few little extra details

In this video I show you some of the details I have added to the layout prior to ballasting, before ballasting the north end of the layout using a mix of ballast from several different companies.

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00:00 Intro
01:00 Catch pits
01:49 Filling in the holes in the track
03:20 Cameo scene
04:03 Concrete cable troughs & orange pipe
05:35 LOCs
06:36 Signal bases
07:30 Sleeper colour
08:16 Changes to the layout
11:15 Ballast
12:01 Freeing glued points
13:36 Tools required
16:20 Laying ballast
22:11 Steam Vs modern ballast
23:00 Tidying it up & tamping
33:22 Gluing the ballast
34:20 What not to do!
38:53 Accident

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