You don’t need to have a river, stream, pond, harbour, or canal to have water on your layout, especially if your layout portrays a part of the UK where it rains a lot (most places ). You can add ‘pools’ of water in and around your railway to suggest recent rainfall. Think about where water would collect when it rains. You can also represent the inevitable water spillage around your water cranes, or, if you have one, the railway’s washing plant. Of course, you can’t beat the drama of a waterfall or rapids, or the atmosphere surrounding a rural canal if you have the space to include one on your layout. There are numerous products to help you recreate water in its many forms. One such product is this one from Woodland Scenics. This will assist you in creating an area of still or slow moving water, so could be used to represent small puddles. The bottle contains 473ml (16fl.oz.), sufficient to cover an area that is 43cm (17”) in diameter to a depth of 3mm (1/8”).