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1
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This programme comprises a brief introduction by
Jack Ray followed by clips of railways most of which were later
re-photographed for new programmes.
The Wingham Branch - Deryck Featherstone, featured again
in programme 29
Highland Railway - Arthur Dewar.
In this programme Arthur is seen operating his railway at 92
years of age.
The Last Great Project - Ken Payne, featured again in programme
33
The Gauge 1 garden railway of Robert Head, for steam/battery
power, featuring an impressive Brunel type viaduct spanning the
lake.
Wallsea - Barrie Walls.
A layout which has an impressive viaduct. There is a later programme
(22) covering changes to this railway. See the Digest
page for references to this railway in the model press.
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LNER / M&GNR
Highland
Garden Railway
Gauge 1
LNER |
2
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Linfords Railway - Paul Prior
in which Paul demonstrates superb speed control of his locomotives.
Butcombe Garden Railway - Eddie Lewcock
A course scale railway with a strong S & D flavour. See
also programme 41.
Chiltern Garden Railway - Tony Chubb
Housed in a large purpose built garden shed, and running around
his extensive garden.
See also programme 48.
Crewchester Garden Railway - Jack Ray
A long programme comprehensively covering this extensive
and well known railway.
See also programmes 10 18 and
34
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Coarse scale Garden Railways |
3
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Diggle & Westport - John Penn
John took over this railway by the late Ken Longbottom, and it is
a large garden railway running through several garden buildings. It
features a magnificent LNWR terminus; very highly detailed.
Braemore - Alan Payne
A Highland Railway of the 1920's, characterised by exceptionally
beautiful scenery merged into the railway and the lineside features.
See also programmes 13 and 23
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LMS/LNWR
Highland |
4
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John Hart
The first item in this programme is a tribute to John Hart who
passed away in 1979. Much of the material is based upon old photographs
and cine film from 40 years ago of his large Surbiton based garden
railway, the Midland & Southern Counties.
N & S Junction Railway - Eddie Bye
Eddie's byegone (no pun intended) Southern railway, no longer in
existence due to house moves.
Buxton ME Exhibition 1995
A video presented to the Guild by the late Charles Shoults.
The Phoenix Railway - Cyril Dixon
Cyril lives in New Zealand. He charmingly mixes UK and NZ stock
and runs his railway using interlocked control and signalling equipment.
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Southern
New Zealand
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5
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Derailment at Tilbrook - John Castle
The original Guild programme was not only drastically abridged,
but suffered from being made from a fourth generation copy. This new
version is not only complete and unabridged, but is made from the
original Hi8 tape which John entrusted to Jack Ray for this purpose.
This is the full story of a derailment and the things which happen
in order to deal with the situation. John's inimitable commentary
adds to the enjoyment.
See also programme 8.
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6
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Fort Fay to Invercliffe - George Hinchcliffe
A large garden railway no longer in existence due to house
moves. George is a great fan of the GCR
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LNER/GCR |
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Northolt Junction - Les Roker
Les is also resident in New Zealand, but his railway is based on
the Harrow/Northolt district.
Romney Hythe & Dymchurch - George Barlow
As most will know this is a passenger carrying line and a great
tourist attraction. This was originally shot on cine film by Jack
ray in 1973. Jack reveals his liking for Guinness.
Bridgewater MPD - Joe Brown
A small LMS exhibition layout, extensively automated, complete
with turntable etc.
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LMS |
8
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Bromford & High Peak - Col. Ronnie
Hoare
Col. Hoare's beautiful railway which was professionally filmed,
and the Guild subsequently given permission to use the programme within
the library.
Istrane - Brian Yallop
This is a Z gauge layout, quite extensive and all within a 6 ft.
length. It is well detailed and operates surprisingly well.
Canham - John Castle
This is a follow on from programme 5, this time
featuring Canham Junction.
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Z gauge |
9
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Clatterford - Rae Thomas
This is a very interesting GWR layout. Jack Ray had to go to a
lot of trouble to satisfactorily copy this video.
Linkwood - Sir A Dunbar
This is a Bassett Lowke live steam layout, and will suit the hot
and oily brigade.
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GWR
GWR Bassett-Lowke
Live Steam |
10
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The Hollywood (GWR) Line - Derek Bond
Derek's GWR based garden railway
Crewchester - Jack Ray
This is a second look at Jack's famous railway, this time featuring
Crewchester Junction.
See also programmes 18 and 34
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GWR
Garden Railways |
11
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40th Anniversary of the Gauge 0 Guild
(Telford 1996)
General coverage of the Telford exhibition photographed by Jack
Ray. This programme usefully illustrates the size of the exhibition,
and its comprehensive coverage of layouts and traders.
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Gauge 0 Guild |
12
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Rebuilding a Garden Railway - John
Penny
John's video presents the rebuilding of his railway, one of the
main features being the replacement of a simple wooden viaduct with
a long concrete multi arched viaduct. There is a lot of useful constructional
detail for those who are considering a viaduct in their own gardens.
See also programme 26
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Garden Railways |
13
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Braemore (revised) - Alan Payne
A comprehensive look at this wonderful Highland layout.
See also programme 23.
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Garden Railways |
14
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Grinling Junction Ian King
This is a GNR layout based in a garden shed with "doglegs"
on either side.
Also included are a number of interesting clips from a number of other
layouts including live steam railways and David Jenkinson's
garden railway (American and Continental).
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GNR
Live Steam |
15
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The Gadbrook Tramway - Richard Murphy
This is a G scale garden railway.
The N.E. Joint Railway - Martin Bloxsom
A large garden railway with a NE influence.
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G scale
NER |
16
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Guildex 1997, Telford
This is similar to programme 11, featuring the
Telford exhibition in 1997. There are interesting shots of the most
interesting layouts.
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17
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Heworth Garden Railway D Hutchinson
There is a later programme 28, which features
the rebuilt Heworth Garden Railway, reduced in size, but still an
operationally inetersting railway.
Halcyon State Railway - Leslie Bellamy
This is a large and complex loft layout on several levels.
(limited availability)
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Garden Railways |
18
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Crewchester (in detail) - Jack Ray
Jack's extensive garden railway filmed in great detail while still
fully operational. Indeed this programme preserves this very popular
and well known railway, which now no longer exists.
See also programmes 10 and 34
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Garden Railways |
19
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West Riding Joint Lines - Ken Halton
Ken's loft layout. Ken made this video and donated it to the Guild
for the library.
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20
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An Alpine Line (Tasmania) - Messrs.
Jenni
This line is located in Tasmania. The video was commercially produced,
and the Guild has been granted permission to use it. There are some
truly wonderful on board shots of this highly scenic line.
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21
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The Kirtley Branch (LMS) - Don Neale
This famous line with its magnificent viaduct is one of the most
popular programmes in the list. For a number of reasons Don and I
were not entirely happy with the original version, so we decided to
have another go. Eliminating the worst flaws of the original, and
adding fresh (and improved) material, we feel that this is a fairer
account of this beautiful garden railway.
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LMS
Garden Railways |
22
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Wallsea Main (revised and extended
May 2001) -Barrie Walls
A longer look at this layout originally shown in programme 1, and
currently being featured in British Railway Modelling (May/June 2004).
This is an excellently detailed railway with prototypical operation.
The photography on this layout is particularly good.
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BR/ER |
23
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Braemore again - Alan Payne
Continuing demand resulted in a further programme being made, this
time with a digital camera. The detail is particularly well captured
in this interesting programme.
see also programme 13.
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Highland |
24
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Aberfoyle Junction (Canada) - Frank
Dubery
This is a very large Gauge 0 railway based in Canada. The members
made the video to professional standards, and have allowed the Guild
to use it in the video library. The layout has been described in the
modelling press as 'possibly the best ever model railway'.
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25
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Charnwood Forest Junction - Paul Glover
This is Paul's indoor railway. Paul created the video and has allowed
the Guild to use it within the library.
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26
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Upland updated - John Penny
This railway was originally featured in programme
12, and shows the layout now fully operational. The line is shown
at it's best on a beautiful sunny day. This is what all operators
of garden railways aspire to.
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Garden Railways |
27
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Rails in the Fells - David Jenkinson
This is pure Settle and Carlisle. The late David was an excellent
and prolific modeller, and this programme displays both his excellent
railway models, and also the way he captured the railway environment.
David's garden railway can be seen in programme 14.
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LMS |
28
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Heworth Garden Railway (rebuilt) -
D Hutchinson
After a move of house, the railway has been rebuilt and made smaller
to be more manageable. An interesting technique is shown for covering
outdoor trackwork. Note that this railway was originally featured
in programme 17.
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Garden Railways |
29
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The Wingham Branch - Deryck Featherstone
Briefly shown in programme 1, this is a more comprehensive look
at Deryck's railway. The layout is LNER based and quite extensive,
running into the garden, and elevated. There are some nice passing
shots of trains running through the garden.
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LNER
M&GNR |
30
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| Gainsborough Model Railway - the Gainsborough
MRC
An LNER line. The GMRC made the video and have provided it to the
Guild. Kings Cross and Hatfield stations are modelled, and trains
are seen departing to Doncaster and Leeds.
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LNER
Club Layout |
31
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Stoke Bishop
This is the Chelmsford MRC's East Anglian branch line terminus.
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LNER/BR |
32
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Barrow-on-Soar Exhibition
This video was made by John Castle (see programmes 5, 8 and 40),
and it features the layouts on show at the exhibition.
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33
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The Last Great Project - Ken Payne
Briefly featured in programme 1, this is a more comprehensive look
at Ken's railway. The layout is LMS based and is a wonderful railway
for watching the trains go by. All that's missing is the steam.
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34
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The language of Signals - Jack Ray
We visit Jack's railway again, this time to learn the language
of semaphore signals. Jack's railway is comprehensive and serves well
to illustrate the correct use of signals.
See also programmes 10 and 18
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signalling |
35
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Ackle Street - John Smith
This is John's GWR terminus.
The programme is followed by a preview of Norwich Thorpe by Colin
Aldis, which is featured more fully in programme 47.
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GWR |
36
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Treetops Garden Railway - Roy James
This is an enormous Garden/indoor railway with 30 scale miles
of track, and a height range of some 12 feet. It is remarkable in
that it has been built and is operated by 1 man. There is a significant
amount of on board video.
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37
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Ring of Steel - Sandy Fraser
This programme is concerned mainly with Sandy's 16mm narrow gauge
system running on 0 Gauge track, which winds its way all over a huge
garden, with many spectacular scenic effects. Mostly live steam, but
also a smattering of other forms of propulsion, this railway is fully
signalled and even the little human figures occasionally come to life
in a most intriguing manner. The commentary is lively but sparing,
and the photography is imaginative and artistic. At the end of this
programme we are given a foretaste of the second of these two videos,
entitled "TIN SOLDIERS" - but do not be misled by the title.
This has nothing to do with miniature military exercises carried out
on a dining room table, but refers to the fact that tinplate trains
are far from being archaic relics of a bygone age, but still soldier
on. This absorbing programme could well constitute an evening's entertainment.
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16mm Narrow Gauge
Garden Railways |
38
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Tin Soldiers - Sandy Fraser
In this programme Sandy has accumulated a bewildering assortment
of tinplate models, ranging over most of the 20th century, and all
of them in full working order. There are two ways of viewing such
a collection. Firstly, as an extravagant exercise in nostalgia for
old greybeards such as myself, those who cut their teeth (often
literally) on such toys, and secondly as model railway history,
recalling the heyday of such firms as Bassett-Lowke, Hornby, Mills
Bros., Rex Steadman, Walkers & Holtzappfel et al. Bowman live
steam is included. Seldom have tinplate models been seen running
in such splendid surroundings. A mere procession of vintage toys
could soon pall, but such is Sandy's artistry in his shots, the
entertaining interludes, occasional reference to the prototype which
inspired the model, that interest never flags.
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Tinplate |
39
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Abbottsdene - Graham Sheppard
A garden railway on which both live steam and electric propulsion
are employed. The dog-bone formation lends itself ideally to live
steam running, but a terminus and a branch line make out-and-back
operation possible. Nature, aided by Graham, provides an attractive
backdrop to this railway.
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Live Steam
Garden Railway |
40
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Canham Junction - John Castle
This is a feast of nostalgia for the steam days enthusiasts. The
most remarkable feature of this railway is the almost incredibly smooth
slow running and shunting. John has produced this little masterpiece
on his own and his photography matches the artistry of the railway.
It is an evening's entertainment on its own.
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41
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The Butcombe Railway - Edgar Lewcock
This garden railway was seen very briefly in programme.2, but
here the entire layout is seen in operation. The accent is on operating,
and a wide variety of trains are seen, with a very markedly strong
flavour of the Somerset and Dorset Railway.
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Garden Railway
S & DJR |
42
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The Isle of Skye Railway - Nigel Goff
Twenty years ago exactly, a slide/cassette programme was made on
this narrow-gauge system, and later brought up to date. Now we see
it in action. Inspired by a plan to build this line on the Isle of
Skye, Nigel has used 1/2" to the foot scale, which, although
not strictly Gauge '0', nevertheless runs on Gauge '0' track.
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Narrow gauge |
43
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The Norfolk Railway - John Hobden
This picturesque railway represents the M & GN line Norfolk,
and was featured in the Guild slide/cassette collection in 1989. Since
then it has been moved to a more spacious venue and now occupies the
entire length of the loft in a bungalow.
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M & GNJR |
44
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Cokehampton - Brinsley Sheridan
This railway, running through four basement rooms, is a joint GWR/LSWR
system, with the GW comprising most of the stock. The line has been
featured in the Guild slide/cassette collection, and also, very briefly,
in Guild video No.14. The large area in which the railway is built
gives a great impression of distance, and has some extremely attractive
scenic figures. This is the first programme shot with a digital camera.
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GWR
LSWR |
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Ipswich - Maurice Moss
65 feet long by 15 feet wide, this model of Ipswich Town station
fills the loft of a large bungalow. It is set in the early 1950s (with
a little licence!) and represents 12 years hard work.
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BR/ER |
46
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Steam to Stranraer - Michael Mather
A course scale centre 3rd layout representing the old G.S.W.R.
"Port road" to Stranraer in the 1950's.
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LMS(GSWR) |
47
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Norwich Thorpe - Colin Aldis (48 mins)
The centrepiece of this extensive garden railway is a magnificent
scale reproduction of the fine station building in Norwich. Housed
in a commodious disused private cinema, the huge station layout and
its approaches enable Colin to run scale-length trains. The outdoor
section, not yet scenically finished, allows trains room to show their
paces in the beautiful garden.
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Garden Railway
ER |
48
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The Chiltern Railway - Tony Chubb
This layout was shown in its early stages in a Guild slide/cassette
programme, and is now very much further developed. Mainly GWR, full
length trains have plenty of room to move through a large garden.
Vintage Hornby trains run alongside fine scale models.
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GWR |
49
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Ambergate - Richard Chadborn
A garden layout with a very fine model of the unique triangular
station at Ambergate, as well as the original Sheffield line via Toadmore
tunnel. Stud contact, battery and clockwork power is used.
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50
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Nethercreech - David Sedgman
Housed in a large farm outbuilding, this is real Somerset and Dorset
country, with two famous tunnels featured (Chilcompton and Windsor
Hill). The station, a copy of Evercreech Junction is, for reasons
of modelling expediency, not in the same place as the prototype, although
the branch to Bournemouth is there, so it has been christened Nethercreech
Junction.
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S & DJR |
51
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Alan Brackenborough
Alan is too well known as a model painter to need introduction,
and in this programme we do visit his workshops. Not quite so well
known is his magnificent garden railway in 0 gauge, including an impressive
viaduct. This G.W.R. layout provides scope for full length trains
and is scenically impressive as well as being a fine example of ingenious
civil engineering.
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Painting
GWR |
52
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Maidenhaste - Kendal MRC
This programme was filmed at Telford in 2003. It features the layout
of Kendal MRC. The lineside building are interesting, all with a historic
interest, and there is a beautifully modelled interior to the loading
dock building.
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53
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Lakeside - Ken Ormrod
This is a superb model of Lakeside station. Those who know the
Lake district will recognise the scene. The programme tells the story
of how this layout was rescued and restored by Ken. The model also
features impressive backscenes of the lake, reproduced photographically.
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LMS (Furness) |
54
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Lambourn Valley GWR - B Banks
This is a GWR branch line based on the Lambourne Valley branch
line from Newbury to Lambourn. The terminus at Lambourn is modelled
circa 1905, and the west end of Newbury station is also modelled together
with a section of the line between.
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GWR |
55
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Winster Valley - W Atkin
The railway is live steam, controlled by radio control. Interestingly
the railway runs right through the house. Idyllic!
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Live Steam
Radio control |
56
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Layouts seen at Telford 2002
A competition was held at Guildex 2002, for the most appealing
small layout occupying an area of 2002 square inches. There were 16
entries, and all are featured in this programme. In addition a number
of club and demonstration layouts were at the show, including the
well known Stoke Bishop to Filbridge, and Hassell Rode. All these
layouts are also featured in the programme. The layouts were filmed
digitally but separately by Jack Ray and Chris Simpson, and the footage
combined to create a coherent programme.The programme was edited digitally,
therefore this programme retains very good picture quality in both
VHS and DVD formats.
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Slide
collection
The slide collection, which was largely built up by Jack Ray, contains
163 programmes featuring layouts which still survive and others which,
sadly, do not.
A guide to this collection will eventually appear on this website,
but until then please contact Roy Davis on 01380 812523
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