Up to Pete’s usual high standards, this goes beyond modelling and becomes a public work of art. I hope the visitors treat the building with respect. Pete is one amazing guy and certainly loves challenges even after all these years. The WCML is probably still under modelled. Well done PW and friends 👌👍👍👍
Only one word Pete , Awesome !!!! You are a star ! ( not for music, for model trains lol !! ) Pete, you have inspired me to get back into modelling. I thank you .
We visited the Cathedral today with our daughter and Grandchildren. A huge thank you for helping to make their day so special. Elliott has asked me to say a big thank you for showing him the steam train. After over 4 hours of watching the trains, Elliott was delighted when we found this video for him to watch tonight !
As an organist, train enthusiast and a model railroading modeller, I too appreciated hearing the organ music faintly in the background albeit not the actual pipe organ in Chester Cathedral, but the mere thought of playing a recording of organ music in the background was most appropriate indeed. My dream is to build a quite large dual layout albeit separate yet shared equally between an American theme (the NEC on the East Coast of the United States) and a British themed section to include London since I do have the OO-gauge Bachmann London Underground S-Stock set, and thankfully Pete's layout gives me the direction that I needed to finish the rest of the British section of the layout so that I can run my Virgin Pendolino, Virgin Super Voyager Class 221 and my Class 350 Desiro Apollo Link and hopefully be prototypical all without inquiring with my British model railway friends so that settles it, the British section of my layout will be of London and the West Coast. If I make the layout large enough, I can include the East Coast as well considering that I want to purchase the (Hornby?) LNER in addition to (in general) the GWR, West Coast Pendolino, the Avanti Azuma and any other Class 800 trains. I LOVE the British Railway network and I especially LOVE British model railway sets and the spectacular layouts that the modellers build in the UK! BRAVO to you ALL!!
Lived right next to Tring station for 25 years commuting TRI-EUS for all that time. The modelling here is just sensational, will have to go and see this. Hats off to all involved. Amazing.
Fascinating video. Well done for covering everything from the interview with Pete, the overview of the scenic side, the fiddle yard and even the Cathedral Dean’s interview.
I really like this model railway. I hope one day it will attend the model railway exhibitions in Belfast and Dublin in the future. Great work and well done to all those involved with this project.
Well done Peter Waterman and His Merry Men. A wonderful Layout and really lovely looking Trains. Apart from the Great Western Class Steam Locomotive. I am afraid the rest of it is too modern for me. Nice to people out and about there in the UK. Congregations to the Hornby Magazine on producing a great video and I am glad you left the collision in the Fiddle Yard. in the video. Martin (In trouble with not one but two Bachmann split chassis locomotives in Thailand)
As a former B.R. Driver, (who worked over the West Coast Mainline for many years) I can assure you that there is no such colour as "amber" on the railway. The colour is yellow. Sorry to be critical but hearing someone say "amber" when talking about railway signals really irks me more than it probably should.
It was a brilliant display. So glad I visited. Now... I just have one nit-pick!: The BR Mk I OLE structures looked amazing, but away from slow-speed station areas, yards and depots stovepipe supports are used for the insulators and registration arms. Just saying like...maybe I must get out more. Well done to all who created this work of art.
Ahh wkd! Was literally there yesterday with the wife and daughters. We made a couple of days of it. A little shopping, pottering and cathedral yesterday for the layout and the Zoo today. Cracking layout (coming from a solid 2mm modeller) However I appreciate all gauges. Looking forward to watching this guy's. I hear something special is planned for the final day 😉😉
Sadly won’t get to see it cause I stay in Scotland n can’t drive but what a layout wish u could bring it to the model rail Scotland show if its on in 2022
Brilliant video as ever gents. What a stunning layout, and what a great backdrop to being in the cathedral exhibiting it. Hopefully I'll get to see it at the great electric train show in October (presumably covid permitting) before its no more. Keep up the great work as ever gents and see you for the next one James
I was glad to catch the date of the exhibition ending in the 3rd of September. Can some one please put it in the description, I only caught it in virtually the last sentence of the video. A great layout, venue & video presentation, 10 out of 10.
It would have been really cool to have had a canal make an appearance, with a moving barge, around the tunnel section. And have had it disappear into the mouth of a tunnel just to one side, or, underneath the railway ones. Like the Standedge tunnels on the line between Manchester and Huddersfield. This would have been an outstanding piece of modeling, on what really is quite a boring model(as far as kids go I mean. There's not a whole lot to keep kids interested is there.! They don't appreciate great workmanship like us adults do.🙄). And a barge moving in and out of the tunnel entrance would have been a great talking point. It really is GREAT work tho lads.! HATS OFF.!🤯!
Wonderful to see the extended video, have enjoyed a number of the other videos showing this layout, but as always your photography/videography is superb. Can't wait to get the magazine here in US. Makes my 38'x10' layout seem small in comparison, although I do have more than 64' landscaped :)
Excellent, but why not automate the storage roads so that trains move up as the block in front of them is vacated. This woul then allow operators to select the departure road and drive through the scenic part of the layout, the entry road would be set to the same line as the departing train, everything on the used storage road would move up and leave space for the driven train to re enter storage. Ian at the Lighthouse Gorsebank and Bride Garden Railway on the Isle of Man.
All the trains are different lengths, and wouldn’t work when there are derailments and coupling separation. Everything doesn’t run perfectly 100% of the time.
I like to see more if possible about your baseboard and leg work as it does look very sturdy and maybe a gide on how you built them (so much better than mine 😉)
@@hornbymag yes went to see it today. I was amazed by the size must of cost a fortune. It was a bit busy trainwise so there wasn’t like a continuous flow of a train going round. But there was some awesome stuff it deserves more than a well done!
A truly amazing layout, especially to see AC modelled. I would love to see it but its a long way from Thailand just at the moment.. What I would like to know for sure is how long exactly in feet is a OO scale mile? I thought it was 69' 6" but I can't add up so can anybody help!
Hi guys. GREAT WORK by the way.!🥰!. But... Is there a reason why you didn't include a station of some kind.? I understand why you haven't modelled Euston station or something similar, as this would have become ALL of the attraction. But, wouldn't a station resembling something similar to Leyland, near Preston, have been a simple and good idea.?🤔? The layout is certainly long enough to have incorporated this, so, what's the reason for you not to have modelled such a thing.?🤔? And, I would have left the second bridge out. The one towards the middle of the scene. There is already one example of a bridge that you would find along this stretch of line. You don't need two. Plus, it HIDES that GREAT model of that signal gantry behind it.
Hi lads. Where is the layout going AFTER the exhibition at its current venue.?🤔? Surely there is a home for it after these few weeks.! You haven't just built it for this show have you.?🤔? It would be a HUGE SHAME if it has to be broken up, or shortened, after this has finished.!😭😱😭!. I'll have it in mi bedroom if there's no home for it anywhere else afterwards.!🥰!. I'll have to buy a small mansion, with larger bedrooms than I currently have where I am. But that's just a small detail.!😂! One thing at a time eh.!🧐🤣🧐!.
@@hornbymag ok. Then what are the plans for it.? Will it become a permanent display somewhere.? I hope this is the case, and it's not pulled to pieces.😭
Railway signals have YELLOW aspects, road traffic lights have AMBER aspects - they may look the same to observers like you and me - but those are the official names for their lights that ain't either red or green - would you beleive it ? !!
Hi guys.. I'm being VERY picky here, but... I'm pretty certain that, that Virgin liveried class 87, and it's train of lovely looking Virgin coaching stock, WOULDN'T have looked like this in REAL LIFE.!🧐!. There would have been AT LEAST TWO coaches(one of which would have surely been the restaurant\buffet car), still painted in the old SWALLOW livery, that would have ruined the look.!😂😂😂!. And, the same could be said of all of the other trains running on your brilliant model.! There's only a VERY SLIM CHANCE that a train is comprised of ALL identical coaches or wagons, even if it's a single company set.! As I said... PICKY.!🙄! BUT TRUE.!🧐!. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Unfortunately most manufacturers pantographs are either plastic and only posable or if working ones, are chunky, over-sprung and have too much upward force. I use Sommerfeldt as well as a modified Judith Edge 'crossarm' kit on my locos . The layout has 2 Hornby Class 86s fitted with Sommerfeldt cat no. 968 'Stone faiverley' pans modified to fit PH Designs Class 86 pantograph base etch kit and 2 Hornby Class 87s fitted with modified Judith Edge 'crossarm' pan kit, both types work perfectly on the layout.
It is an impressive layout for sure! Although I did get a little tired of seeing that daft blue pullman/HST thing. Thats not really a true reflection of WCML traction, or traction anywhere else really! I know pretend/incorrect liveries are rife amoung railway preservation but that one is pretty wacky even so. I want to see 85/86/87s, 37s, 40, 50s etc. Proper West Coat machines not modern plastic units and silly preserved stuff!! But maybe thats just me..
@@mrbluesky2050 I know I've seen it, didn't say it wasn't real, just that it is a silly / inauthentic livery to put on a HST and doesn't represent typical WCML traffic.
What he didn't give to music I. E fuck all he gave to this. And I know nowt about trains I think they should be given a little bit of grime and dirt though.
Can you make your content inclusive by formatting the auto captioning into closed captioning please? it is extremely hard to watch it relying only on the auto captioning sadly (I'm Profoundly Deaf), hence why I and others don't subscribed.
