Bob Symes was the son of an Austrian Count (Baron Schutzmann von Schutzmanndorf). Bob fled the Nazi's (who'd murdered his father) and came to Britain to fight with the British Royal Navy. Post War he became a TV presenter of railway orientated films as seen here. Around 1991 I found Bob fast asleep on the platform at Waterloo. Being the Driver of the last train to his home station, I ushered him into my Drivers cab. He only came too as we trundled out of Waterloo, with the exclamation "Oh I'm in the cab of a train, I hope I'm not the Driver!" At which point I turned the cab lights on for a moment, so he could see who his chauffeur was ! I deposited him safely at his home station around midnight, by which time he had very kindly given me his business card and invited me to his house. (Bob had a large Gauge 1 garden layout at that time). An exceedingly interesting and very well travelled person, with a worldwide knowledge of railways. Sadly he passed away in January 2015 RIP.
awesome i allways love bob symes he reminds me of my late grandfather who got me into model railways . now with hope i am makeing a model railway in memory of him and this has given me some ideas to make one . thank you sir bob /bow
bob symes and model world the best thing ever to appear on tv should never have been taken off..great video bob keep up the goodwork love it...chris kelly
A fantastic video and presentation of a beautiful layout but I do wish that UA-cam could do a little sound engineering to the volume levelling of this video. Not too much to ask for in this day and age.
in the series "Model Magic" Bob visits the pendon museum, the film is accompanied by a piece of music on the harp, I would like to find out what this piece is called. I can't seem to find it anywhere. Any help much appreciated.
Bob Symes was the son of an Austrian Count (Baron Schutzmann von Schutzmanndorf). Bob fled the Nazi's (who'd murdered his father) and came to Britain to fight with the British Royal Navy. Post War he became a TV presenter of railway orientated films as seen here.
Around 1991 I found Bob fast asleep on the platform at Waterloo. Being the Driver of the last train to his home station, I ushered him into my Drivers cab. He only came too as we trundled out of Waterloo, with the exclamation "Oh I'm in the cab of a train, I hope I'm not the Driver!" At which point I turned the cab lights on for a moment, so he could see who his chauffeur was ! I deposited him safely at his home station around midnight, by which time he had very kindly given me his business card and invited me to his house. (Bob had a large Gauge 1 garden layout at that time). An exceedingly interesting and very well travelled person, with a worldwide knowledge of railways. Sadly he passed away in January 2015 RIP.
awesome i allways love bob symes he reminds me of my late grandfather who got me into model railways . now with hope i am makeing a model railway in memory of him and this has given me some ideas to make one . thank you sir bob /bow
Utterly superb...thank you so much Mr Symes.
Awesome, truly an idea for me and my marklin layout. Thank you sir
Fantastic Bob always makes you want to see more.
bob symes and model world the best thing ever to appear on tv should never have been taken off..great video bob keep up the goodwork love it...chris kelly
I remember this super little film used by the BBC as an interlude, appropriately the music is called "Wheels", lovely!!
Wagon wheels probably the late Bert Weedon playing :)
Thanks for upping this Mr Symes. Immensely watchable!
Miss you Bob.
Thank You, the first of many I hope.
He really made the most of that 2 1\2 meter track!
A fantastic video and presentation of a beautiful layout but I do wish that UA-cam could do a little sound engineering to the volume levelling of this video. Not too much to ask for in this day and age.
ooh, I don't think I've seen this before
in the series "Model Magic" Bob visits the pendon museum, the film is accompanied by a piece of music on the harp, I would like to find out what this piece is called. I can't seem to find it anywhere. Any help much appreciated.
Have you tried using Shazam?