thetrainkid Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 Are there any modellers of the Rev. W. Awdry's fictional Island of Sodor here? I am considering a model of Tidmouth or Crovan's Gate station and am wondering if anybody is doing the same/similar. Thanks, Kepler Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dhjgreen Posted May 21, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 21, 2022 19 minutes ago, thetrainkid said: Are there any modellers of the Rev. W. Awdry's fictional Island of Sodor here? I am considering a model of Tidmouth or Crovan's Gate station and am wondering if anybody is doing the same/similar. Thanks, Kepler Try this Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 (edited) Back in 2016, WhitehouseFilms of this parish built a layout based on Rev. Awdry's Ffarquahar https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/110663-the-ffarquhar-branch/ He also has a topic, last updaed in November, about the North Western Region layout, based on the line from Tidworth to Knapford, he and others are currently building https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/150073-the-north-western-region-the-nwr/#comment-4641001 It's based on a plan drawn for Awdry by Peter R. Wikham, a wartime Spitfire pilot who became a professional modelmaker and was comissioned by the publishers to buid 7mm scale models of the Sodor engines. If you're planning to use the Sodor engines you'll probably find this article by Wickham useful https://trlottte.com/mm_prw.htm That site also has a good number of other articles about Sodor and Awdry's model railways based on it including a reproduction, with permission, of the original Railway of the Month article on Ffarquahar mk1 in the December 1959 Railway Modeller. There's quite a lot on that site that I didnt know, though no doubt everyone else who's followed W. Awdry does. This includes the role of his brother Geroge who, as a librarian, supplied Wilbert with many of the stories he incorporaed in The Railway Series. I also didn't know that BBC TV had broadcast a story from The Three Railway Engines live on 14th June 1953 from Lime Grove Studios. It seems to have used Hornby Dublo track along with three possibly modifed Duchess of Athol locomotives and a tank engine chassis. From all accounts it was a bit of a disaster as the models were very jerky and a miss-set point caused one to derail and to be put back on the track by a very obvious human hand. As usual, the popular press lambasted the BBC and the other two planned broadcasts were abandoned. Edited May 21, 2022 by Pacific231G Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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