Barnsley Model Railway Show 2024

[@susannestoffel2534]

It's great!Beautiful sceneries!

[@TCOnTour]

Definitely they were some great layouts 😊

[@Madonsteamrailways]

Well seen, my dear chap!! You have an excellent eye for videography!!

[@TCOnTour]

Thankyou we do go around and film and photograph the best angles of the layouts that we can. Each layout is not going to be every one’s cup of tea but I think the time and effort spent building these layouts great 😊

[@BritishRail60062]

A nice set of layouts in various scales. I have subbed and here is a like from me. Thanks for the video.

[@TCOnTour]

Absolutely no problem we love making the videos thankyou for the sub 😊

[@Madonsteamrailways]

I want to model a small heritage railway in Brighton. It’s the Volk’s Electric Railway that runs from Aquarium Station to Black Rock Station. It’s only a mile and three quarters long, but it demonstrated that electricity could be used for the transportation of people and freight.

[@TCOnTour]

Good idea 😊

[@Madonsteamrailways]

For me, it’s got to be a lovely layout if it’s done in 00 gauge. The first layout most definitely was.

[@TCOnTour]

😊

[@Madonsteamrailways]

Why is it that 00 and H0 use the same track but the H0 is a little larger?

[@bobprew9373]

Wrong way round. HO (3.5mm) scale is smaller than OO (4mm). 4mm was originally adopted a century ago because British stock, being smaller than continental stock, could not accommodate the large electric motors of the time (at least that is the standard excuse). A hundred years later we are still running 00 on narrow gauge track!

[@railwaymechanicalengineer4587]

DETAIL YES - BUT NO COMPREHENSION OF REAL RAILWAY OPERATION !!! No comprehension of signalling as seen at 5:36 these signals are back to front ! LMS (1923-48) BR type Mk1 coaches, with BR First class yellow bands added 1963. This is toy train set fantasy land. Colour light signals on the wrong side of the line at 15:30 And best of all - curved catenary at 32:27 which is impossible in reality. You have to use what are called "Pull off" to get catenary to go around tram type bends, parts available from Sommerfeldt. Each section of wire has to be straight, you cant bend the real thing, it's called the Laws of Physics !!! And this layout appears to be using Swiss signals rather than German ones. High quality fully functioning German signals (by Railino) have been available for Decades. And double deck Berlin buses in the Allgau (Bavaria) !!! Further it's definately not avisable to use "Clip together" track systems on ANY layout never mind exhibition ones. They cause serious electrical resistance issues. And brakes. At 27:47 you have an "unfitted" (no brakes) 16ton mineral wagon between what appears to be a Vacuum fitted Class 08, and two early Airbraked hoppers !! Steam era "BR grey wagons had no brakes except a handbrake, while red oxide painted wagons were vacuum fitted. And the order of wagons even when being shunted was covered by complex rules to avoid killing people. And why anyone with an exhibition layout is using "toy train set" couplings, when real life type fully functioning couplings have been around for decades, can only be explained by pure ignorance of what is available across the World, despite the existence of the Internet. Are there ANY proper "Model Railways" left in Britain, or is it now all ignorant "Toy train sets", full of unrealistic "gimmicks" ?? Not impressed.

[@louiscadman6728]

You must be fun at parties - it’s an exhibition where if each layout was realistic and the same it would be boring. I’d rather see different interpretations that have character. But I suppose each to their own 🤷‍♂️