Impressive Leicester South
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- An in-depth look at this OO gauge masterpiece from the Shipley Model Railway Society. DVD as offered with the January 2012 issue of British Railway Modelling.
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A first class production and layout.
One of my favourite layouts, redolent of the atmosphere of the East Midlands in the 1950s/60s, my spotting days based in Derby.
Lovely layout & nice to have the money & help.
No doubt a labour of love.
Nostalgic and a wonderful snapshot of the past.
Thank you for your sharing.
Breathtaking. Hard to believe it's not real and life size! Well done, all of you.
Sad day that warehouse was demolished (hoping it would become Art block for Demontfort University or apartments), along with Kirby & West Dairy Bottling plant with its vibrant glazed fiance front along with adjoining Great Central Goods office building. Lattice Bow Bridge. This was the 90's. Upperton Road Viaduct was also demolished. Not a Leicester lad, but visiting older sister, but would see the sad demise of BR diesels, few LUL rolling stock coaches, at A E Piggott & Sons Scrapyard. I lived in Yorkshire not far from a busy through line feeding Caldervalley Power Station. Oil and Coal from spur sidings at Lillands Farm. At weekends were diesel hauled passenger excursions. Leeds/Huddersfield to Blackpool. Yup I'm 1965. So remember it all well.
This layout is a great favourite of mine. Too right what Derek says about being involved with a model railway club and being involved in a large layout group. I have similar interest in mainline modelling and real locations, so indoors I go for N Gauge which is fictitious main line. However, I'm currently building Scale 7 wagon kits for a club model of Bow Locomotive Works on the North London Railway's Poplar Docks branch in the East End. It's a line that some ex-colleagues at Stratford used to work over, but by the time I got on the railways it was taken over by the DLR and funnily enough, our club's S7 group leader is a retired civil engineer who was in charge of DLR track alignment at the time.
It's all most deeply rewarding.
A first class production and layout. Seen it many times and always entertains! Derek is a gent and a pleasure to meet.
The aging of this is a work of art....realism surreal..takes me back to my childhood with soot and grime...
Wow !! 21:55 When it first appeared I actually thought it was a 1:1 scale shot !!
Like all layouts that are a cut above, the most enjoyable element is the evocative sense of a time and a place. That's how I judge the success of a project.
A fabulous layout. I know the area well, as I live further down the line in Lutterworth. I love seeing this at shows.
An absolutely marvellous recreated Leicester . Awesome job by every one involved there. Upon seeing this i found myself to be in sensory overdrive lol. high quality of modelling scratch-build builings and surrounding area.
I used to live in one of the houses shown on this set.
Are you Lilliputian?
Lmao
@Some Shit Productions Idk
@Dan Ball Do I know you?
Yes ! and you were a very noisy neighbor...I lived 2 doors down at "Our Mam's " and X the road from Apricot Lil !
Wonderfull layout, spent my time watching this video and separately trying to find back places and buildings on google maps, amazing how much still can be found, altough most of the ralway yards themselves are redeveloped. But found some of the bridges, the arches, the wagon shop? and a lot of the houses and some of the industrial buildings, all still in existance today.
My Great Grandfather was a signaller at the box near Fosse Road, & lived in Bonchurch Street which backed onto the Rally. I can remember going with my Grandad on a train pulled by a steam engine in the mid 60’s going up to Nottingham. Then in the 70’s spent many a long 9 week summer holiday playing on the “rally” between Tudor Road, Bonchurch Street & fishing off the wharf in theRiver Soar & Grand Union Canal at West Bridge. HappyTimes
I've stood on that road bridge, the timber yard was still in business, and the goods yard became the infamous Vic Berry's when I was there. I started my railway career at Coalville so have also worked over that railbridge at the engine shed entrance end.
I can vouch for the accuracy of this awesome layout. Many a happy hour spent sitting on the wall of the " black pad " watching the trains go by and the shunters working.
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I was stupid lost the password. I would love any tips you can give me.
@Alvaro Porter Instablaster :)
@Krew Carson I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site thru google and im trying it out atm.
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Yes, a truly impressive layout. It is large but with amazing attention to detail. Inspiring.
Brilliant layout one of the best in my opinion, Takes me back to my trainspotting days in the late 50s and early 60s.
I love all the weathering effects, especially that 9F
Very nice watch - thanks for sharing - beautiful layout - nice relaxed delivery - looks like you have a lot of fun together - well done 👍
very impressive; living in Leicester not far from the area modelled it is tremendous how lifelike everything is
Great compliment: a wonderful layout and a perfect dream of past times
After the GCR closed eventually the trackway became a green route into the city. For 30 years I managed it as part of Leicester Riverside. This layout is as spot on as any layout can be, I just wished I had access to this whilst working as it would be a fantastic tool to bring the past to life. Well done to all involved.
Ps do you want to know where the catering van dumped its broken crockery so you can add that for extra realism lol.
my era and wonderfully modelled. well done all of you
I really enjoyed that. I'd love to get involved with model railways again.
fantastic modelling and weathering. Wow
Fantastic layout,well done to all concerned.
Top en succes met de verdere bouw van jullie modelbaan
Ik vind het helemaal te gek wat jullie hebben uit gekozen
gr. Harry
Fantastic layout you got there
Nearest I've seen to perfection, lads. Travelled from Quorn behind 'Tornado' to what was left of Leicester South when she was still in workshop grey, (back through Quorn to Loughborough and finished at Quorn). Must've been about the time you built this...
Quality, absolute quality.!! Thanks.
you can hear that brass music playing and outdoor toilets flushing very realistic
Wah,wah, wah. Never mind the layout. I do like the realistic joimts in the sky, which ends just above the rooftops.
Astounding work, well done.
thanks for these videos!
wow that's a lot of track to build from scratch!
I think the bus is the wrong colour. I was born in 1952, and grew up in Leicester. The Corporation buses were mainly purple, with a cream window surround when I was a kid. They only switched to mainly cream with a purple stripe, like the one on the bridge here, later, in the 1960s. Well... if the layout is supposed to model 1948-1963, I suppose it might just scrape in, as I think they did start to roll out the new livery in the early 60s. Certainly an impressive effort, and mostly it does look very familiar. I particularly like the allotments - very typical feature of the time.
Wonderful stuff. Although seeing No52 made me want to make an offer… After all, she was the final A3 in service, and should have been saved… Then I remembered it was a model!
I do want inspirations from this for my layout project
Awesome work
Simply awesome!
I heard you mention Apley Park School. Not the one by the River Severn in Shropshire? My son went to that one in the early eighties. they had a model railway club then.
7:28 *60052 "Prince Palatine" - actually seen this loco on GC at Leicester*
Very good. I can remember most of that from back in the day. Just a pity that the bus on Upperton Road Bridge[?] was not in the old Leicester City Transport colours of chocolate edged in cream rather than the later colours, of your bus, of cream edged in chocolate. Otherwise marvelous.
Very nice video.
PERFECT!!!!
awsome layout.
Great layout
Love this vid 😁
Epic layout
Fine layout.
Fabulous!!!
Have you thought of doing into the old gcr station and out futher north
it takes about 4-5hours to set up at ehibition
Awesome
Congratulations Leicester City!!!
Indeed nice looking modern commercial model steam locos, that become shy when faced with a gradient ! I quickly found steam tender locos from the current manufacturers couldn't pull the skin of a rice pudding when hauling real life 12/13 car trains up a 1 in 100. Virtually all have had to have anything up to 150g extra weight added internally to make them perform, as well as their real life counterparts.
Nice to see there are a few real Model Railways still around? Not impressed with the increasing number of childish DCC toy train sets with their nice scenery but total lack of comprehension when it comes to operation !!!!
Nice video, interesting commentary. The music loop gets a bit irritating after a while, top marks otherwise.
how comes in videos peoples trains never stop for no reason at slow speeds, mine do it all the time.?
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Very nice layout but do you have to have that annoying musak. It detracts from the super sound of the railway.
what gauge is lionel
*What does the BRM logo on bottom right stand for ? **_Black Railways Matter ?_*
How long does it take to set up at an exhibition?
My late brother in law had a 009 layout and that would take about 3 hours to set up from arrival to running, that included hoovering the track followed by intensive track cleaning. There was normally 5 people involved, as the layout required 3 operators, allowing two to take a break. Hope this helps.
3 hours, far canal!
A good film, but the music is so annoyingly intrusive. It doesn't need it!
Do you allow children to come around and possibly join
I can't tell where Matthew Jude's hat ends and his hair begins.
Brill
actually right after the virus threat and moved in to a new place...
There are no people ....
Would be better without the music.
hear, hear
Agree
Кто из 2019?
show something new
Great insight into a superb model, well done guys.
AWESOME!!