Tony Wright's wonderful layout "Little Bytham". The video includes shots of the whole layout including the main fiddle yard and the M & GNR fiddle yard and line. Recorded during a visit I was privileged to make on the 17th June 2019.
What an amazing layout it's so good it could be the real thing. I am in awe of the skill and time and effort that has gone into creating such a masterpiece 10/10 from me.
A stunning layout, could watch this all day, the MGN line is excellent too, shows what can be done with lines not considered mainline in model form if you give it a lot thought and time. Really good to see the skillful buildings and landscape too.
I remember asking an experienced modeller at an exhibition some years ago why a guards van had to be attached to a fully fitted train. He said just one word: Unions.
Even though I have seen several videos of this excellent layout I hadn't "put it together" that the fiddle yard was opposite the viewing side we usually see. I now realise it has to be there - otherwise it would be in the garden!! Still not really worked out how the fiddle yard for the M & GN line fits in. Couple of trains near the end looked as if they have annihilated Mallard's record.
I don't have any more videos of the layout I'm afraid, although several exist on RU-vid by others. Tony's passion is running the non-stop expresses so they form a considerable majority of most videos you'll find.
David, the Princess Coronation had just been built by Tony Wright. Obviously it had yet to be painted. He offered to put it on the layout for me and I was pleased to include it in the video.
@@TallboyDave Tony has confirmed for me that the loco is made from a DJH kit for a Princess Coronation. It is now completed and is 46245 City of London.
Tony very interested in your hinged hatch. As I reach my 79th birthday ducking under is becoming out of the question. I have never been able to make a successful hinged flap. I was interested how you made yours as I noted the connections with a form of slide, at the lift end, and how can you avoid the damage at the hinged end. Excellent modelling a pleasure to watch always. John P
Hi John, my name is Archie and the channel on which this video was added to RU-vid is mine, not Tony Wright's and so he has not seen your comment. Tony is however a good friend of mine and I have e-mailed him today to let him see exactly what you have said. As soon as I have his reply I will post it on here for your information. I am sure Tony will be very helpful.
John, Tony has been very busy but has now replied to my request for information regarding the construction and operation of the lifting board at one end of the fiddle yard. The short answer is that he didn't build it. Someone else made it for him. However, he has sent me some photos which clearly show how it is constructed and how it is made to line up the track across the joins. If you are happy to tell me your e-mail address I will e-mail the photos to you.
Juan, the couplings are made under the commercial name Spratt & Winkle. They are sold by Wizard Models. They are worked by permanent magnets buried between the sleepers. If the loco is stopped with the coupling over a magnet the end of the coupling is pulled down by the magnet and so the hook at the other end lifts up, the wagon is uncoupled and the loco can move away.
Fantastic Work. I worked the next Signal-boxes towards London - Essendine North, Essendine South and Greatford, and was learning Corby Glen when I was promoted away. I am now going to pray that one day - before I die - he, or one of his cohorts, model Essendine. That was a truly remarkable arrangement, with a Branch Line on one side to Bourne (closed 1951) and another to Stamford on the other side (closed 1959) I have always wanted to see that modelled too. But NOTHING I have written detracts from the magnificence of BYTHAM
