A 7mm model of the Somerset & Dorset Railway at Bath Green Park.
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- The railway is based in the 1950's and 60's up to closure. The track layout is as close as can be in a model and includes Green Park station, both S&D and Midland sheds, Midland Bridge and S&D yards, Bath Junction, Devonshire Bank and tunnel, Lyncombe Vale, Combe Down tunnel, Midford station and viaduct, Writhlington Colliery and exchange sidings and is run with correct stock and to timetable for the period
A wide ranging programme of typical S&D motive power and trains including The Pines Express, The Sheffield Express, Semi fast and local passenger, freights down the S&D being banked out of Bath, Target workings to the large yards at Westerleigh on the Midland main line. Light engine movements.
Locos seen
S&D 7F’s 53805, 53806 and 53807; 4F’s 44558, 44560;
West Country class 34042, 34107; Black 5’s 44966, 45272; Class 4 75073
2-6-2T 41243, 82004; Crab 42942; 2P 40509, 40634; Jubilee 45581; Patriot 45506; Jinty 47542; Ivatt 4MT 43012; Collett Goods 2281
With many others in the background
Sit back, turn up the volume and enjoy the video
Great video as always. Never tire from seeing this layout or your narration on your videos. All the best, Clint
Thanks. Most kind
Bath Greenpark, It wouldn't be the Somerset & Dorset without a 7F making an appearance. Over the summer Saturday's Bath Green station and any spare track would be jammed with coaches bringing and returning holiday makers. Looking back I wonder how any trains were able to move. All long before the car took over. When we did get a car,Dad stopped at a little store at the top of Devonshire Bank for icecreams ( Wall's, Waffers ) Mum, Dad, my 2 brothers and myself and 1 Box Brownie. Magic days. Thank You for this. It brought back many memories. Cheers, Chris Perry.
Glad that you have enjoyed this video
Superb! Stunning! - who could ever give this superb model the thumbs down?!
Just love your railway and the large room you have for your hobby! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks and yes very fortunate to have a room 45' x 15' in which to 'play trains'
Thank you. A wonderful visit to Bath and the S&DJR. Your modelling skills combined with the meticulous recreation of typical workings from the period, really bring to life a time I lived through and, at times, witnessed @ scale 1:1, just slices, glimpses, scents and sounds. The whole panoply was lost to bean counters and the inevitable passage of time. But the realisation in miniature underscores the loss to us as a nation of earlier less frenetic times, just after surviving WW2.
Thanks. I caught the S&D at the end and would have been good to have see the line in all its glory prior to 1962
Always a pleasure to see trains running n this fantastic layout.
Many thanks.
Another excellent visit to the S&D. I never get tired of watching the train movements in and out of Bath Green Park Station. Thanks for the time and effort you put into these videos.
My pleasure and no chore to do this I really enjoy making the videos
As always, fabulous entertainment. It is a joy to see what folk do in gauges other than the one that one is used to (N for me) particularly when such care and effort has been lovingly given to the project. Perhaps one day, when you have some time, we could have a closer look and some of your excellent rolling stock.
Many thanks
Stay healthy and safe
Cheers, Bob
Thanks and I'll see what can be done.
Just understanding where all that freight went to and from is a huge and fascinating subject of its own. 45 freights trains in and out of Bath in a 24 hour period kept both yards very busy. I'm hoping to get hold of an S&D gaurds journal which lists each wagon load and destination. Now that would be some great bedtime reading.
Very enjoyable. A great way to spend a lazy Sunday morning. All Best.
Thanks glad that you enjoyed the latest offering
Another enjoyable time spent watching this layout. Stephen
Most kind thanks
A long-suffering victim of "Settle-Carlitis", I have also seen the onset of "Bath-Bournemosis" in more recent times. Your videos of your wonderful recreation of the S&D in O-gauge helps me through this difficult and challenging time. Congratulations to you for all the hard work and attention to detail in this masterpiece.
Thanks most kind.
Log on to the Gauge 0 Guild web site on Saturday 31st October for more Bath Green Park and many more excellent 7mm railways
@@bathgreenpark2485 Many thanks.
I think the civil engineers should be notified asap, the Avon bridge moved at 2.33 & 16.40 !! 😉
It's wonderful, mesmerising, particularly liked the banking scenes great sound match. I could watch it all day. Would love to have seen the old S&D....
I must check that one out.
Yes the banking scenes are possibly unique in model form and I find very satisfying doing them. The 4F 44560
I converted last year to R/C battery and sound operation which makes it even easier and certainly more realistic. I've just acquired another 7F kit and plan to build this with R/C, battery and sound and then these scenes up Devonshire Bank will really be hard to beat.
Certainly brings back memories...also of working at Stothert and Pitt after the S&D had closed.
Thanks. Must have been interesting working at S & P
Hello again. Yet another very interesting and entertaining video of your amazing layout. Cheers Chris.
Thanks. On the 31st October log on to the Gauge '0' Guild Virtual show to see more of Bath Green Park and many more really good 7mm layouts
A fantastic layout that I never get tired of seeing. Congratulations.
Glad that you are enjoying Bath Green Park
Hi
Absolutely superb, I recently bought a book on the S&D after watching your videos for a while and was intrigued to learn more about this route. It certainly shows how well you've modelled it.
Thanks for even more inspiration.
Regards Paul 👍
Thanks and glad that my railway has inspired an interest in the old S&D. It lives on but in 7mm
Another brilliant video of one of the best O gauge layouts I've seen in a long time. Well done A+.
Many thanks
Great video Andrew, they get better all the time. the whole railway is looking superb. Hopefully one day it'll be open again.
All the best Jules
Hi Jules. Thanks very kind. How are you? Able to work under present regulations?
Now got to get busy on the railway after a couple of months sorting the oil gush from the MG engine!
Bath Green Park is featuring in the Guild Virtual Show on the 31st October so a few things to do in preparation.
Off up there this afternoon to crack on. OK I might run a few trains as well ..............who could resist
One of the best I have ever seen. Love the S&D
Thats most kind thanks
Another excellent display. Liked the new recording angles. Many thanks,
Thanks and yes I do try to find new angles
From one who was there at the time - extraordinary!
I'm glad that I have caught the flavour of Green Park. Construction of the layout was all about running exactly as the prototype did.
I never tire of watching your videos - what a fantastic layout, and everything runs so smoothly in 7mm. Just inspires me in my long term aim to model Midford - in 4mm.
I've been fascinated by the S&D since some friends who lived outside Bath took me for a walk along the trackbed there. I'd have loved to have seen it when it was up and running. Your model is the "next best thing"!
I would encourage you to crack on and build your Midford. Its such a small little station that belies the fact that 12 coach double headed expresses rushed through there.
@@bathgreenpark2485 ...and "rattled the signal box windows" according to Mike Arlett! The space I've got available will rather limit my ability to replicate a full-length train, and I'm figuring out the construction processes involved in a viaduct which will need to have a bit more curvature than the original.I'm told that in the real world of engineering, "tapering" arches is not a proposition.
I was at Midford station site one summer Saturday afternoon some years ago, having walked from Limpley Stoke following the old Camerton line where the "Titfield Thunderbolt" was filmed, when a bloke came over from the "Anchor and Hope" car park and asked if this was an "old railway line".
I think he only half-believed me when I told him that it was the Somerset & Dorset, and if we'd have been standing where were at that time of day any summer afternoon up to 1962 we'd have been witnessing a succession of long double-headed expresses full of holiday-makers heading down the line to Bournemouth!
I first fell in love with Midford in 1982, when some friends who lived just south of Bath took me for a walk there, and we came along Lower Twinhoe Lane to see that majestic viaduct striding across the beautiful valley.
@@hughrainbird43 We are all subject to compromise unfortunately. My maximum express is limited to loco and 7 coaches.
My Midford viaduct is on a 6ft curve and rises by 1" from left to right. Complex but not impossible. I would encourage you to move forward with your project
@@bathgreenpark2485 Thanks for your advice. Your layout videos will continue to inspire!
@@hughrainbird43 Good luck with the project
So lovely to see again.
Revisits over the years since I lost my LICENCE. TV one of course.
More time for making models. OO, O and 5 inch gauges. Jinty, Black 5 and now just starting upon a Fowler Dock tank sweet little 2F. David and Lily Reading.
Thanks. Now 5" live steam is of interest. I've just been offered a 5" LNER B1. Wondering whether I can make the time to take on yet another project!
Well done! Always a treat!! 👏😊
Many thanks, as always
Hi, always a pleasure to watch a new video from you, I just love the narration you include with each clip. Did I see a few new camera angles in this video, if so, very nice they were too. I notice many of the more important passenger trains seem to use Platform 1 for arrivals and departures, was this platform longer than Platform 2 or was their another reason, or maybe no reason at all we know of today. Great video as ever, very enjoyable, best regards Dave.
Thanks and I do think its important for the viewer to understand what they are seeing. This is not random trains running round and round but a railway working to the real timetable.
Platform 1 was the longer of the two and so where ever possible the expresses used P1. Even then the last 2 or 3 coaches would overhang the Avon river bridge and the gaurd on these trians was under standing instructions to go through these carriages informing passengers alighting at Bath to move through the train.
@@bathgreenpark2485 I know how much work goes into checking through old working timetables, I did it once to get an idea of trains on the ECML in the late 50's early 60's, it is very much appreciated that you have done so much work to get the videos so realistic..............Thanks very much.
@@stretchedits True but its so facinating. I was very fortunate last year to be given the WR working timetables for the Bristol division. Makes really interesting reading and for a wide area.
Modelling a real location brings with it the requirement to run the actual trains and is my Raison D'etre for the railway
Green Bay Wisconsin USA says Hi!! May I suggest a GoPro video camera on a flatcar ahead of the engine, to give an engineers eye level view of your layout, track, signals, and scenery. Nearly 35 years ago in 1984 I used my Kodak Super8mm movie camera attached to an All-Nations Co.depressed center flatcar, to take home movies of the Appleton, WI., Paper Valley "O" scale model railroad club. But only 2 years later, the Club was evicted, and the x-C&NW RR station was razed by the land pwner. So now, my home movies are extremely RARE!!!!!
Hi
Glad that you have found the link to BATH GREEN PARK, Welcome. Shame about your Model Railway Club.
Check out the July video as there is some video exactly as you describe.
This is always a joy. How many people does it take to operate this layout?
Thanks. For the videos I do them all myself. Its actually easier that way as I can retake some shots several times over to obtain the best sequence. for multiple movements in shot.
When running to timetable there is an operator for the fiddle yards; I tend to act as signal man at Green Park (the Fat Controller); Green Park main line driver, Midland Bridge shunter; Green Park shed & S&D yard shunter; Writhlington Colliery and main line driver. The Fiddle yard operator is the key sending out and receiving S&D line trains AND Midland line trains - a very busy job
@@bathgreenpark2485 That all sounds very fun.
No token exchange?
The Whittaker apparatus is on the list but will I be bale to make it work!!!!!