mow Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 The renowned pianist Bernard Roberts died recently. The Telegraph obit refers to his model railway. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10430930/Bernard-Roberts-Obituary.html "He built a model of the entire LMS railway line between St Pancras and Manchester in the basement of his home and ran the trains along it according to a 1950s timetable. It was lovingly reassembled in the attic when he retired to North Wales." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruffalo Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Sorry to hear of any death but, in this case and in N gauge, his house would have had a basement or attic with a perimeter length of 2,200 yards - accurate reporting by our wonderful press again then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisG Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Sorry to hear of any death but, in this case and in N gauge, his house would have had a basement or attic with a perimeter length of 2,200 yards - accurate reporting by our wonderful press again then. I imagine he did something which was once extremely common - boiling down the essential features of a mainline system to a highly simplified representation of the real thing. I remember the Railway Modeller twice featuring "railways of the month" which represented the key features of the GWR. One by John Jay, whilst the other name escapes me. I have to say that, for me, this is actually more of a "model railway" than is a perfectly scale model of a single station. Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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