From Empty Garage to Running Trains! | 00 Gauge Model Railway | Episode 16

🚂 From an empty garage to running trains—this is the story of how Welbeck Junction came together! Welcome back to Welbeck Junction, my 00 Gauge UK modern image model railway inspired by the West Coast Main Line. In this Episode 16 Special, we’re taking a journey through the build so far—from the bare garage and early plans to the first complete lower-level running circuit. Bringing together the key moments from Episodes 1–14, we follow the transformation as the room takes shape, baseboards appear, the fiddle yard comes to life and the railway begins to grow around the garage. But there’s one final obstacle standing between the trains and a complete circuit: the doorway. Whether you’ve followed the journey from the beginning or this is your first visit, join me for a look back at the work, challenges and milestones that have brought Welbeck Junction this far. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚧 In This Episode ✅ Transforming an ordinary garage into a dedicated railway room. ✅ Building the foundations using kitchen base units and custom baseboards. ✅ Turning the plans into a thirteen-road fiddle yard. ✅ Wiring the railway and celebrating the first locomotive movements. ✅ Adding backscenes and watching the layout change character. ✅ Building the lower level and extending the running lines around the room. ✅ Engineering two removable doorway crossings to close the loop. ✅ Seeing today’s layout in action—and getting a glimpse of what comes next. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚆 From Empty Garage to Running Railway This Special brings the build together into one story, showing how each stage made the next one possible. From bare walls and timber to track, wiring and the first complete circuit, it’s a chance to step back and appreciate just how much has changed. Welbeck Junction is still very much a railway under construction. With trains now running around the lower-level loop, the next chapter moves towards scenic work—and the station is where that journey begins. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 Continue the Welbeck Junction Build Journey Watch the Official Main Build Series Playlist here: 👉    • Welbeck Junction Build Series | 00 Gauge M...   Want to explore a particular stage in more detail? Follow the individual episodes from the beginning and see how this modern-image model railway has developed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe If you’ve enjoyed seeing the transformation, give the video a like and subscribe to follow the next stage of the build. New main episodes are released on the last Sunday of every month at 6pm (UK), with new YouTube Shorts throughout the month. 👉    / @welbeckjunction   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📸 Follow Welbeck Junction Behind-the-scenes updates, layout progress and more from the build: Instagram 👉   / welbeckjunction   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 I’d Love Your Opinion Which part of the transformation stood out most to you? 🚧 Turning the garage into a railway room? 🚆 Bringing the fiddle yard to life? 🛤️ Watching the running lines grow? 🚪 Solving the doorway crossing? And if you’ve been following along, when did you first discover Welbeck Junction? Let me know in the comments—it would be great to hear from regular viewers and those joining us for the first time. Thanks for watching and being part of the journey! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #ModelRailway #ModelRailwayUK #00GaugeModelRailway #WelbeckJunction #ModelRailwayBuild #ModernImage #RailwayModelling #ModelTrains #GarageModelRailway #WCML