Island of Sodor?

[thetrainkid]

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

[dhjgreen]

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

[Pacific231G]

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