Just added these

Just beautiful and so many cars in the set. Are there seats in the forward and rear observation decks to place some sitting passengers?

Hi Super, yes there are seats in every car, they even have the correct colour seating for the appropriate cars.  I've also bought two sets of carriage lighting so that I can add that to the train and light all the cars fully as well as I think this one deserves it.  It does have some lighting already of course on the head and tail cars and very fancy lighting as well.  Once I've added the car lighting I'll post some pics and maybe a video of at least some of the train running - I have nearly put together a small test layout (a basic oval with a couple of points and some scenery pieces), but not got a final one started yet.

I was surprised you didn't mention the wagons I posted about before that train (not to mention the station kit) as I thought you'd get a real buzz out of the wagons - a special set of dual container cars featuring 'Maersk' containers.  There is a set of 5 wagons each carrying a pair of scale 40ft containers stacked one on top of the other and yes that is a real type of wagon out there



The station kit is pretty cool as it is modular like the Kato track and you can clip them together just like you do the track.  The kit I went for was for two main platforms (fully assembled apart from small detail parts and stickers which are provided separately in the kit) and two end pieces.  It is designed as an 'island' platform or in other words serves two lines.  You can also get special track pieces for use primarily with the dual lane Kato track.  These special pieces split the dual lines and open them up so that the pieces go either side of the island platforms making for a neat solution to layout design.  Price of this station kit was a mere £18, a total bargain if you ask me.



This station kit can also use one of those signal boxes that I got a kit of recently, basically you can remove a panel from the canopy on one of the platforms and the signal box then fits onto the platform and the top level of it goes through the canopy.  Something I will definitely be doing I hasten to add