I'm 81, too young to remember the war years but I do remember the post war years in north London. Ration books - boy did I get in trouble for losing one, playing on the bomb sites, air raid shelters in the local park, gas masks in the derelict buildings, bright green, food scrap bins on the corner of the street, collected to feed the pigs.
Patrick, What a nice layout! Great operations idea (I did see most of your other videos)! Splendid tour! One of the - if not the - best I have seen on the hobby. Cheers. Filip
I have one of these it’s not as pretty as yours does yours run RC or is it just for show? I’m looking for somebody that can help me work on it where do you live? Would you be interested? I bought it for my dad passed away missing the windshield, I put two big propeller and shaft on it and snapped the shaft so I need a new small or a size appropriate motor and propeller and pitchers would like to be your friend
fantastic animation, a must to add to mine. I have on youtube "kendra train 3 bridges" the animation I have, but must look at making the things you have done.
With the lock bridge there is a another wonderful aspect. There is no loss of water from the cannel unlike the multiple traditional locks. Your model is wonder and also the video editing. It's like watching a historic documentary. Love it !
So wonderful to see this but sad its the last harvest. I'd love to see interviews in situ with all the people who worked on this day. Nancy has been helping each year for years - would be so good to see her and others in the barn talking about the experience and what it means to them. I have some photos from years ago - will try and find them!
Amazing layout ,Just beautiful ❤️Love the Falkirk Wheel ❤love all the other structures also to The Haunted house ,Bram stoker would be proud of you for this ,Now where is Count Dracula 🦇
Under signalling regulations on what was BR,at no time do you ever have two trains in one section, but then you get the list of exceptions to the rules, mostly for permissive working, where another unit either goes into an occupied section to assist a broken down train, or to couple up or un-couple to/from another unit. Nice touch having the bell for green signals, bet you don't have the spinning sunflower as well. But to be technical, every single set of points, cross overs etc. are protected by signals and you only go past any signals at danger, with the signalmans permission.
Great, i recognise a lot of those places, i got my job with BR via a friend who worked at Tunbridge wells and when i did my traction at Waterloo training school, we were told a tale about one of the nuclear flasks that were berthed at Tunbridge wells overnight, coming up from Dungeness on its way to Windscale. A well meaning (but ill informed) member of the public crossed over the sidings on a footbridge and looked down and saw "Something", dripping from one of these flasks. Now up until then it had gone on for years, but suddenly it came to the publics' notice and they panicked. However it was reported by the public person to a policeman, who in turn spoke to the platform staff at Tunbridge and an exclusion zone was established. But the platform staff told his manager who reported it back to the police. By 07:00 the following morning there was a seven mile exclusion zone, but having caused no end of panic and delays to trains and roads, the relieving driver inspected the flask and reported back that the flask was intact, and what was dripping was in fact pis where somebody had leaked from the footbridge. Red faces all round and the importance of checking all facts before actions was rammed home. Secondly, the best ever excuse i was able to give to my passengers when driving a 465 networker into Victoria, was due to a platform change due to the Sir Nigel Gresley being berthed on platform two and was waiting to get up a head of steam. You could feel the whole train lurch as we went into platform three. O.K. to use this if you wish, i retired from driving trains twelve years ago and BR doesn't exist any more. I learned to drive on class 415/6 amongst others, the 1951s, 1957s and 1963 units. We reckoned they were more reliable than those wretched networkers.
Excellent models. The croosing gates and the canal bridge are fantastic. When i visit a model exhibition i always pay more attention to the scenery than the trains.
Brilliant. Mines totally dismantlable which is handy as all the parts can be removed and solve the issues illustrated in your very interesting video. The layout looks excellent
