Topley Dale - Grand Farewell 

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The end of an era! Topley Dale was one of the layouts that heavily influenced my own when I was getting back into the hobby but I'm already looking forward to seeing what's next.Your layout building videos are always fantastic and those in charge must see the value in them too if they've given you more space to play with! 👍

Thanks for the memories guys

OMG! Topley Dale is one of my favourite layouts! Don't rip it down - sell it - someone will want it!

Farewell Topley Dale I'm going to Miss you OMG I'm literally crying

I based so many of my builds just on this layout. I’m going to miss it very dearly. There were so many awesome episodes. Still, I’m so excited to see what you guys have planned next! Good luck guys, Sam

A sad day. I have really enjoyed seeing Topley dale grow over its life. It has inspired my own modelling as well. Can’t wait to see the new one guys. 👍

Save the layout please, its to beautiful to face the end of its model world. Love the show guys, super interesting and oh so relaxing, thanks for the great work and the time you put in 🙏🏻👍🏻

I will miss Topley Dale thoroughly as it has influenced me as a 12 year old to make my first layout! But I can’t wait to see what you have I store next !!

It was always a pleasure to visit Topley Dale and watch the trains go by.

onto bigger things, have been watching new junction being created and now topley dale mk2 will be interesting to see its construction. sad to see one layout disappear but now a clean slate to start the next layout.

Got a nice feeling topley dale has gone to a nice home and not been broken up ,all the best 😊👍🏻

Been following Topley for a year. Sad to see it go, but looking forward. Thanks all!

I may be only 21 but that looks like a very nice looking layout can't wait for the new one!

Sad to hear that Topley Dale's demise. Thanks very much Mike and Richard for the entertainment and I am sure the future will be brighter !!!

Look forward to the next project. Things I would like to see include super-elevation to the curves and the new code 83 track......

Wishing you both the very best for the next 10yrs in the new office. May it be bigger, grander and better. So looking forward to hearing about the grand plan which will no doubt change every day, week and month. All best Marc

I always got jealous of other people's layouts, but this one surprised me. A huge layout with double track and a quarry, but I loved seeing the Large Praries being run on here. Was great to watch locos on here, felt really relaxing.

Sad to see Topley Dale go, but judging by your obvious and infectious enthusiasm, the new layout will be amazing. All the best to you!

I imagine over lockdowns these past two years Topley Dale got a lot more eyes on it online than it used to. As one of those, thanks for the entertainment as you've futtered, developed and upgraded bits during that time.

Brilliant guys, can't wait for the new one, Topley Dale was epic. A good point was made too, that lots of locos come without crew, it woul be good if Hornby made a pack of sit down drivers for Diesels, best wishes and thanks for everything

Great layout shame to see it go cheers lads for giving years of enjoyment.

This very sad. I have loved every video you have made. I absolutely love Topley Dale! ❤️ Very sad to see Topley Dale being taken down and gone. Thank you for everything, loved watching. Looking forward to the next adventures. Best wishes.

Thanks for the memories. Like others throughout lock down I really enjoyed watching the progress of Topley Dale - now I’m looking forward to the journey ahead which I will follow with interest. Good luck😀

Sad to see the end of topley Dale but exciting time's ahead looking forward to your plan's thankyou for the video

It's a fine looking layout. So sad that it has run out of time. All that work creating it. But you are building something new so that's not so bad. I'm looking forward to seeing the new layout taking shape. Good luck.

Can't wait to see the new southern-themed layout. Or whatever it's going to be. It's going to be southern though right? 'Course it is, good lads. Exciting times!

RIP Topley Dale, you will be remembered and never forgotten, LOL.

I'll miss Topley Dale as I loved watching all your reviews of the new models like all the Accurascale models plus the others. I really can't wait to see the new layout your going to be doing.

Such sad times Mike love the layout look forward to your next build.

Always amazed how much you managed to pack in to the layout without it feeling like a trackmat train set. Can’t wait to see the new reincarnation and project start to take place. Good luck 👍

Thanks for the journey ! 😁

Sad to see Topley Dale going, but looking forward to the next chapter, thanks chaps.

So sad to see Topley dale go but every good thing comes to a end 🥲can’t wait to see the new version with no expense spared 👍

Well guys I have enjoyed the last 4 years with you guys, looking forward to the new layout.

Looking forward to seeing the new start to a layout enjoyed seeing this develop 🙂

Thank you so much for all the great Topley Dale content over the years. Here's to the next layout!

Sad times! Catching up on all of the old TD videos kept me sane during the last 2 years, and has inspired me to finally get started on my own layout! Can't wait to see what the new place and layout look like 😀

The end of an era. I am sure that the new layout will be even better. The videos filmed in the various lock downs were a great tonic and inspiring for our layout build. Here's to the future. If the materials are being recovered for reuse it would be interested to understand how it's done and what is worth keeping

I remember the first layout and being so in awe of it! Amazing to watch the layout grow and be apart of it's journey! Look forward to see what you both do next! - James

All the best with the new build and I look forward to following that. Many thanks for all the vids. I agree with your comments about platforms. I did my layout with a Hornby Mk 3 as an example of the longest overhand of any coach. Then Mk 4 coaches started running on normal lines and Hornby bought out the 800 trains!.

It's a shame to see it go but bigger and better is always the way forwards.

Wow, didn’t see this coming, but as you say onwards and upwards. Just want to thank you Mike, and the team for the last …. years. You have inspired me and I am sure thousands of others. It was a great layout and I for one Hope you keep a London Midland theme. May be you could have a modern quarry based on Peak Forest as there is a lot of stock available. What ever you chose, I will continue to eagerly await the next updates. Thank you and can’t wait to hear and see more on the new project(s). Rob 👏👏

Hi Mike, We in this part of the world have done away with using Plywood sheets for the Base Board and moved on to using PVC FOAM BOARDS with excellent results. They are less susceptible to bending or wrapping (provided correct thickness selected and adequate bracing done) and it is far more durable and long lasting since it is waterproof and do not attract termites or wood rot. It also withstands varying temperatures and comes in the exact size of a plywood board. You might wanna try it on the new layout. Cheers and all the best with the new build. Michael Ceylon Model Railway

Well done guys looking forward to the new layout…Paul from Dublin

You both got new layouts to build now, can't wait to see what's in store for new New Junction and Topley Dale Mk2. :)

hello i was the person you spoke to today with jack

Good luck on moving

Some great footage. I'm really looking forward to seeing the new layout develop.

I'm devastated to see Topley Dale go. I started reading Hornby Magazine just before you started building it, so I can picture when it was just a baseboard, when you put the platforms in, all the times you used it as the background for reviews etc, and to me Hornby Magazine is inextricably linked to the Topley Dale layout as if they were one and the same. I hope Topley Dale gets resurrected somewhere, as (at least to me) it's everything a model railway should be. If not, I'd try to buy part of it and ship it here to Australia; it's just too good to let go.

Farewell Topley Dale my favourite bit is where you had Locos with sound especially with Flying Scotsman hauling a rake of Pullmans

Shame to see the layout go guys but as you said on to the new and better layout look forward to seeing the next chapter cheers Dave C

Great layout, sad news… Great video as usual. 👍

Ripping down a layout.. I've got that to come soon 🥺 Rip topleydale Here's to the next layouts 🥂

wonderful video

The King is dead, long live the King!

Looking forward to Biggerly Dale… and i agree with 4th rail… non biased of course 👀

Very sad as I have enjoyed watching it grow. But very excited about the next video.

Always a photogenic layout, I’m sorry to see Topley Dale go.

Sad to see Topley Dale go but looking forward to what’s coming next.

That’s real shame as watched Topley Dale develop over the past few years in some great videos! It’s however exciting to see what your going to undertake next as Topley Dale was complete in terms of major development. Cheers Gary

Hi To You Both, All good things must come to an end and as Mike said this was a good learning curve so the same problems will not be built into the new layout so bring it on and as it is going to be new from the baseboard up can I suggest that a thought be given to doing what is needed to control it by the computer softwares like Traincontroller or iTrains this would then give you another string to your bow for interesting videos and for the growing number of modellers now using these systems maybe a whole new group of people will look at your channel. I look forward to seeing the build but please put some of it out on YT as we are not all signed up to keypublishing. I wonder what Mike will now do with his garage it is possible that a car my fit or his own new layout!!!!!. Cheers Robert.

Goodby TOPPSY, it's been great to be part of your evolution as it was with BOLSOVER and BAY STREET before you. Looking forward to meeting your replacement. Come on Mike and Richard get a move on, we're waiting with baited breath! Regards Bobby 'T'.

Sad end to the layout, I have found some useful tips for my own layout as you built yours, including the construction of the platforms. A Somerset and Dorset type layout would be nice next, so much variety possible.

Can't wait for the 50 foot layout lol Gonna be Largeley Dale or Longley Dale

OMg, are you going to rip down the layout 😱? That’s sad news 😢 What about selling it and give it a second life with another owner and maybe that new owner will show us more of the layout on RU-vid, albeit on another channel?

It will be sad to see this layout disappear it would be nice to see it donated or sold to a club or another model railway enthusiast. It will be interesting to see what comes next. I guess it will be a multi scale layout with 00 gauge and 009 gauge?

RIP Topley Dale. One thing that's always bugged me is the gap on the viaduct in the middle of the front, just how it isn't covered by a board or anything, just a void. But, it was a fantastic layout, much better than my own, and it will be missed.

Any chance of publishing the track plan for the final incarnation of the layout so those who wish can copy it? I have always like it, and have the original plan in the year book but not the final incarnation.

Ahh so sad but from the old will come something new. Can't wait to see what Mike has planned and it might be an idea to make it Richard proof so I'd avoid catenary.

Wow, we actually get to see the whole video for a change!! How unusual.

I hope the next one is not going to be hidden behind a paywall. If so, thanks for some great videos and good-bye. Some of us do not have the money to go that way however small you think the price you charge after buying the magazine.

What's the industrial building at the back right of the set???

Farewell Topley dale.

Did you invite those lads from Lincolnshire to breakit up?

Wow… I hope someone bought parts of it.. Sad to see it go..

An end of an era…. With a beginning of a new…..

The engines should have crews and smoke!!?? What a about s competition to name the new layout?

How about N Gauge! 😀

Farewell Topley Dale...

New layout? Interesting. How about a nice automated layout?

It’s a shame the layout and scenery couldn’t be donated to a struggling model railway club . Sad to see it go. It might be years before you can build something in the new premises.

What !! 😥End of an Era

I think I would construct a smaller Trakmat-sized layout for your next project. A large layout like Topley Dale is an albatross around your neck - it is inevitable that you would end up dismantling it! If you construct a smaller layout on a single board, then that is more typical of what the average reader of Hornby magazine would be able to construct. Thanks for uploading.

Please tell us it's not going to be hidden behind a Paywall?

Sad to see the layout go.

I can’t believe that you can be so dismissive of Topley Dale after all the love and effort that you’ve built into it. I do sincerely hope that you’ve found a good loving home for it where it will continue to be cherished. It’s far too good to throw into a skip. That would be not only sacrilege -but in this age, unsustainable and a waste of resources. I do hope you’ve thought this through carefully guys!

I will be sad to see it go.

Noooo don't break it down it kills me to see the wonderful efforts be gone

What a shame 10 years to build gone in hours😭Is that realy the end of it just end up scrap.😟Look forward to what is coming in the future.😁

Wheres the now old Topley Dale going hopefully not scapped or incorporated into the next as an an inner loop

Onwards and upwards

Are you removing the Garden Railway?

Such a shame to take up all that work, but, it will be great to see your new venture.. Can you pick off all the bits of Ballast and static grass one by one with tweezers and send it to me ??... :)... Joke!!

Sell it and proceeds to charity surely

Have you thought about donating the layout to a struggling club.

Sad news!😢

Dr Beeching Strikes Again!

Nooooooooo! You cant bin off Topley Dale!! Surely you can sell it on to someone?

Sad Sad :(:(:(