Thanks for posting these great photographs and comments. I was one of the operating Team at York and we did notice the layout was getting a lot of attention. I knew Tom Harland well and I'm sure he would have been glad that his work is greatly admired.
What you may not know is that this was the first time that Tom's Sons had had a chance to actually operate the layout. They were all knocked out by it's popularity and winning the Mike Cook Memorial Trophy. On behalf of the rest of the guy's, Tommy, Jack, Sam, Mike, Ken, Richard, Steve, Duncan and James please accept our thanks.
Paul.