Britain's Biggest Model Railway: interview with Heaton Lodge creator
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- With more than 100 baseboards and measuring over 190ft in length, Heaton Lodge is Britain's Biggest Model Railway. This is an interview with its creator, Simon George.
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That really is a "layout of a lifetime". All the best when you take it on the road, wish you could bring it to Australia!
Excellent film and really impressed with the layout.
Fantastic interview. So glad someone has taken the time to make such a fantastic model railway of a real location and one I’ve visited from the 70s 👍🏻 I hope you can find lorry drivers too move such a fantastic layout that I’m sure hundreds if not thousands will enjoy 😉 I’m a lorry driver and wish I had the time to help move such a fabulous project. Looking forward to seeing the dates so I can make a visit 👍🏻 Cheers Stevie.
It’s in Wakefield in December
Just taken it to Bath Western show ground 3 artics 1 7.5 t and a sprinter van was a brilliant job
You really have a fantastic layout, to get one this length and size plus in O gauge then take it on tour is a mammoth task and achievement - it's unique. You really haven't done it justice in this video, please show us the automation, capture the length do a full room shot, show us the undersides of the boards and the control screens - - show it off as a taster and captivate us. I suggest you do this as you talk (so you narrate) and it will be far more interesting. Also I hope you do something about all those gaps in the back scenes, they massively detract from all that other excellent and hard work. Hope this helps you and good luck with your trial assembly runs. All the best Stephen.
I have no idea why this turned up in my suggested videos but I'm so glad it did! Wonderful layout! And another hobby I might need to look into...
Coal trains and general rolling stock like the ones in this video where I live are totally covered in graffiti. Your so lucky to have such clean trains in the UK.
Barron mind the model is set in mid 1980s - there wasn’t much in the U.K. then ( normally football related ), it’s worse now thanks to the influence of US graffiti
Hey man I watched you as a kid.
Wow
Graffiti is a modern curse. Everyone seems to want to tag everyone else's property. There's a place for it I'll agree but it has to be in a designated space.
AMAZING. Been following the progress of this for a while now. When it's out on the road I'm definitely coming to see it!
Wakefield in december
@@johnseeder1557: I thought I detected different seasons on the layout.
Great interview - going to see it tomorrow! Yippee!
simon im so glad there are people like you around to show what can be done ,we all know the costs, but its the time you've put in that's impressed me , i did laugh at david Townsend , mckinley railway another huge layout , who said his layout is cheaper than a yacht ......................tony
Wow, what a layout, I hope it visits down south as I would love to see this layout
Wow this is one highly enthusiastic modeler...what a monster layout..
Amazing..
Oh wow, reminds me of my trainspotting youth at what we called The Triangle & windy tunnels. Great for peaks & 56’s
Absolutely terrific!!! I for one, am please you stuck with the gradient. It’s noticeable and adds a certain something to the layouts dynamic. If your layout comes to suffolk, I will definitely come and gladly pay to enjoy seeing it. Well done and I really hope you enjoy it as much as people who see it will.
Looks incredible! I really enjoyed the interview, and the weathering on the locomotives !
A marvellous piece of work and I hope it all pays off for Mr George. It is not what I would have done but then different folk have different ideas. I really hope it comes to a venue near me so I can see it in the flesh. Truky amazing.
Wakefield in December
Looks absolutely fantastic, good luck with everything and looking forward to the next video.
fantastic layout,i hope there is a few scottish venues being put on the list as scotland seem to miss out on a few good things like this.
Wow that's what you call a layout. Done a good job simon
Wonderful scenics. Like the winter trees effect.
37222 was the first loco I worked on when I qualified at Canton Cardiff
Outstanding layout every child’s dream
mine was a fantasy world...
a naked woman on a table
1train... and a tunnel XD
Fantastic job, you should be proud of your achievement 👍 good luck when you go on the road it will be stunning
I approve of automation! This would be a splendid thing to see in an abandoned branch of Debenham's.
How is the person who built this going to find four lorry drivers, I wonder...?
tricky but not undoable, though it's gonna cost A LOT...
but it will also remain on locations for I assume MONTHS to earn back and make profit
that's why he said NO weekend exhibitions, just ain't worth it...
Looks beautiful. Really hope to get to see it when it goes out.
Is there some way to follow, to see where it will be going on display?
Wakefield in December
WOW! This is certainly something I would like to go and see, but not during school holidays as I'd want to see and hear it without hoards of noise and confusion, so that's a bit of a shame. People do exist outside of school holidays you know lol One can only guess at the cost of all this. An amazing effort. Best of luck.
Right but you need enough people coming through the doors to pay the venue hire and make a profit.
@@beeble2003 oh yes I get that after such a huge investment, but it would be nice for those that wanted to calmly come and see it if it was not packed.
@@ModelRailwaysUnlimited he did mention it would be in place for 2-3 weeks each time, and other than the summer hols, most school holidays are only a week or 2, so hopefully there will be time for the rest of us to see it without too much hustle and bustle!
Wow! How entitled!
@@archerry6457 Not entitled at all. They say they would like something, not that they're entitled to it.
I have to post a comment for obvious reasons. Fantastic layout.
Wonderful video
Great stuff. But obviously I’m too old for the hobby and rather out of touch. Weirdly, one has to employ operators nowadays. Volunteers are obviously a thing of the past. Not intended as a criticism, more of an observation. Lovely layout, beautiful models, subbed!
It's a business venture. You can't have volunteers staffing your business because that's a violation of the minimum wage.
@@beeble2003 You read into shit too deep.
There's plenty of rail enthusiasts who would volunteer to participate in this without cash rewards. Compensation is being able to operate it as many of them do not have layouts of their own.
@@Denniss7420 Right but, as I said, if you're running a for-profit business, it is a legal requirement to pay your staff the minimum wage.
Superb, just superb.
Amazing layout. But what's that long car train supposed to be? Not a Motorail, because there are no passenger carriages. But not a car manufacturer's train either - because the cars are all different. Did batches of used cars ever move by rail?
Hurry up I've got a fiver in wallet waiting! Can't wait will defo see in Wakefield as not so far from me
Fantastic 👏👏
Amazing. 7 years of building and the last 3 "full time, flat out".
Ur layout is amazing multi deck trailer like John Lewis use well done mate 🚂🚂🚂🚂
AMZING LAYOUT MATEY ? WILL YOU BE BRINGING IT TO NOTTINGHAM LOVE TO SEE IT FOR REAL CAN YOU LET US KNOW OR THE NEAREST PLACE TO NOTTINGHAM :)
Wakefield in December
Amazing layout…
I like his accent.
Very impressive
I never realised it was o gauge. I just presumed it was OO.
Nice but a bit more of a walk around with commentary would have been even better.
That's what I thought, it was a dull as dishwater
absolutely agree... but if they showed to much, it might distract from the story...
and they want people to see it for themselves ;)
do wish they add some automation-shot during that part of the story
or include the 'banking' height difference somehow into the shots...
each part could've used a focus fit in with the storytelling!
I guess automation is the new world . If it works for you it works but for me manual with block bells , peggers and sections is always how a railway should be run .
Operating it manually would be great fun but you have to remember that it is partly a business venture and having to employ several people to run the layout would completely kill it, financially. And, before everyone says, "I'd help operate it for free!" it's illegal to employ somebody for less than the minimum wage.
Bring it down under!!!!!
Fantastic layout but how do you make a living if it’s taken you all these years to build ?
Any chance of a list of where and when it will be exhibited?
Wakefield in Decembee
Is the class 40 on Red Bank empties?
How Fasinating, Can we see some trains now please instead of Listening you you Yacking ?
this is possibly not the biggest system in the uk their is a system 120ftx45ft 0 gauge with 250 diesel locos and thousands of pieces of rolling stock in Oswestry running on British rails electronic set up it takes 6/8 operatives to run the display
Looking at the track , looks like you need a tamper in there 😮
you must have some bank balance pal!! wow!
if that dont make money then the sky is not blue its awesome and on my doorstep
Hate to break it to you but the sky isn't blue. Not in Yorkshire, anyway. 😂
@@beeble2003 it's the absence of other colours in the refracted spectrum of our ozone layer that make it seem blue XD
why the eighties
He spent many hours (12-years old in 1983) happily watching the freight trains rumble by whilst standing on the fence by the bridge. Picture taken by a.n.other showed Simon & his mates on that fence & Simon realised this. He appears in the layout!
I spy a trans pennine unit.....love it.
Typical of O gauge - always the bridesmaid and never the bride! HLJ's operating system - designing such - is beyond most mortal folk and migraine inducing by the sounds of it. I wonder if the system Pete Waterman used on his 4mm scale exhibition layout might have worked?
Hopefully the military can provide drivers for fuel tankers to get HLJ on the road🙄😆😆🙄😆👍🤔🤔
that's why the Military layouts are so popular cuz lot of them retired folks wanna help invest their money and effort!
make sure you have massive insurance for transport...
imagine some idiot polish (or whatever) trucker crash into your transport lorry!!
cuz you won't be losing just ... material and time, but also lost in income due to not being displayed
blind me bjutifull.
image 200 feet with N gauge !! mmmmmm