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Peter_L · Posted: Sun May 01, 2016 3:54 pm Post subject: Model Train Layout

I am slowly working towards having a model train layout, something I have promised myself for 65+ years.

Maybe I should copy this idea, after all who would notice a bit of track on the floor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai7DHG4w1U0

Rich5ltr · Joined: 28 Mar 2008 Posts: 681 Location: Hampshire, UK

Very good! There must be hundreds of chaps in their 60s who had train sets as kids and who now dream of having a model railway!

I'd love one...

D4B · Joined: 28 Dec 2010 Posts: 2083 Location: Hampshire UK

Brilliant

Ellis · Posted: Sun May 01, 2016 7:57 pm Post subject:

Fantastic!

The owner of that layout must have very deep pockets.

Does anybody remember a Channel 4 programme from the early 1980s by a well known railway preservationist and enthusiast called Bob Symes?

In the programme he visited what he considered the then best working model railways in the country. An hour long, I used to watch it time after time until I loaned it to someone and never got the VHS cassette back. Sad

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Rich5ltr · Joined: 28 Mar 2008 Posts: 681 Location: Hampshire, UK

Check out Ace Trains they are wonderful modern versions of the O-Gauge tinplate clockwork trains of our youth. They're however, very specialist and rather expensive. Watch some of the videos. Here's a starter Smile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMkwq1mKW2g

Dipster · Posted: Mon May 02, 2016 11:07 am Post subject:

Apparently the singer Rod Stewart is a model train fan. I believe the first floor of his Los Angeles home is given over to a mega installation.

MikeEdwards · Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2722 Location: South Cheshire

I thought the Bob Symes programme was on the BBC, and I thought perhaps the late seventies rather than the early 80s?

I've also heard about the Rod Stewart interest, apparently he sometimes takes it with him when he goes on tour. Pete Waterman was another one with a layout, though when it was on the TV it didn't look all that extensive. A local school used to have a large LNWR layout, a neighbour was a teacher there and would sometimes take us there after tea if they'd got it set up. The school is something like a Sports Academy now (whatever that is), but I think the layout was still around quite recently.

There's a chap on Pistonheads building an O-gauge replica of a certain main line section near to him, which is being built in 45 4' sections so it can be taken to exhibitions in an artic trailer. http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=159&t=1574695