Railway Vicar (1967)

Cadeby near Market Bosworth, Leicestershire.
C/U of two model trains passing each other on a rail track. In the parish church at Cadeby we see the Reverend Teddy Boston coming to the end of a service; the parishioners walk out.
We see the vicar at his home, working on a model train. Various shots of him operating his huge model set that recreates the Great Western Railway between Newton Abbot and Totnes; it looks extremely detailed.
Cuts exist - see separate record.
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[@dieseld261]

Teddy Boston was actually a close friend of the Rev.W.Awdry

[@funeralcrow3943]

that explains that Talyllyn railway poster.

[@Gaspode_]

Yes, for those that come accross this in the future, the character of the Fat Cergyman was based on him (Small Railway Engines)

[@steamgent4592]

I'd be surprised if Bishop Treacy wasn't an acquaintance at least as well with those two.

[@johnsplayworld2402]

Where is the tallylyn poster??!?!?!!??????

[@CMFYTOfficial]

he is also the fat clergyman

[@johndavies1090]

The late, great, much beloved Teddy Boston. I met him once at Crich. Rest in peace, Teddy, you are sadly missed. And to what gauge are you and Wilbert Awdry laying those golden rails in Heaven?

[@eliotreader8220]

very well said

[@Mason58654]

Perhaps broad gauge (7 ft like the old GWR) or narrow gauge?

[@JohnJohnson-cn9fh]

rip teddy.jpj

[@robnewman6101]

He's a really useful Church Vicar. How nice of him to have an intrest of model railways. Three cheers for Teddy Boston.

[@howardsmith1320]

I remember visiting Teddy Boston's vicarage in about 73/74, seeing his collection, riding on the light-gauge railway and seeing this model railway.

[@MrNoUsername]

You will certainly find a *model* vicar with a very special *train of thought* which he *signals* to his parishioners. You’ll get the *point* and see the *connection* when the church service is over and there is time for the vicar to get back to his *timetable* routine and for the congregation to disperse Understand the railway terminology?

[@julianmeek2156]

Sadly the Reverend Teddy Boston never got to retire and enjoy more time on his railway activities. He died in harness in 1986 aged 61.

[@bugler75]

Still a young man really. Sad

[@MrDastardly]

A great man! 👏

[@thurstablelane7567]

Lovely Love the model railway hobby

[@EEWW2006]

Teddy Boston - The legend.

[@kmgonyou]

its the Fat Clergyman only railway series fans will understand this.

[@Sclzbot92]

I get it but being across the pond it would’ve been Rev. Topham Hat 🎩 for me.

[@Notch8Films]

Great picture quality for the time.....

[@fp7026]

It was 1967, not the bloody Stone Age.

[@randomclass4653]

it was actually outdated.

[@West_Coast_Gang]

He was a great friend of Awdry

[@jonathanmormerod]

I now know where my Uncle got the idea for his Newton Abbott/Totnes layout (a bit larger than this one, but the scenery wasn't as good), apart from living in the South Hams. He was a cameraman for Pathe before he joined BBC West. Or maybe it was the other way round?? When he retired and moved away, his house was reported locally as "Large model railway for sale. Comes with 5 bedroom house, outbuildings & nearly 2 acres of landscaped gardens.."

[@dandy97]

Thanks for posting!

[@D-v-8]

Amazing. Love the Bossa Nova vibe.

[@masterfarr8265]

the man who rediscovered Duke the Lost engine

[@SR81K9]

Now relocated to my hometown.

[@AnthonyRailwayBVideos]

Nice

[@JojoCat2008]

Go to Church and run model trains after Church. Noice. Gotta say, I like what he does.

[@Mason58654]

What can make a better Sunday than that?

[@JojoCat2008]

Honestly, If my Dad wasn't here, I would cry my Heart and Eyes out and would go to church every Sunday hoping I would see him again. But alas, he's still here so I'm happy. I go to church twice a month to Welcome the Days of the Month into my life and accept all the Day's events when the month ends.

[@sepur_lempung34official]

When i heard Teddy Boston one think that struck my mind was Rev. Wilbert. Awdry himself a close friend of the creator of the RWS himself

[@josephmarrison4606]

He lived in Market Bosworth? He would have loved The Battlefield Line today.

[@alexhando8541]

He helped restore it, I'm sure he'd be proud of it today.

[@Tauraco00]

❤love this

[@nnahoj123]

Cool

[@eliotreader8220]

I imagine that the local Kids had a lovely time riding up and down behind his live steam engines too?

[@warrior3456_]

This guy had a traction engine named seighton it the basis for tevor in thomas

[@pierre214]

Les voies du Seigneur sont impénétrables ! 😎

[@pressstart1490]

Wonder what happend to this layout after more than 40 years

[@johnsplayworld2402]

This was the pieces of railway series on british pathe teddy is there another british pathe about the railway series?

[@Domdeone1]

Have s photo of me in about 71 in a wagon of his, pulled by Pixie with him driving, where he laid the track down at a traction engine steam rally..but l don't know where it was this rally?

[@Wayzgoosey]

This obviously predates Mrs Boston and the cadeby light railway - what would British Pathe have made of that? (and what would a modern bishop make of the incumbent spending so much time on non-parish duties!?)

[@alexhando8541]

Teddy once said he actually spent very little time on his collections at all and that he was usually tending to his parishes and the needy. He was only able to do run his layout and drive his engines on every few weekends in his spare time.

[@JasonBrown-mx2kk]

I wander if they still have the train s

[@davepayne586]

was the railway in the church or at his home,

[@johnsplayworld2402]

Actually the reverend Boston had a real steam engine known as a pecked you could see that in a film

[@eliotreader8220]

Pixie a small narrow gauge saddle tank engine built in 1919 alongside a steam roller and traction engine

[@robnewman6101]

Wisbech and Upwell Tramway.

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

Anyone know what happened to the models?

[@firstnamelastname5358]

I ate them.

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

@@firstnamelastname5358 oh.

[@alexhando8541]

Most of the layout and it's rolling stock has survived and is run by a club. I can't remember where, though...

[@Station_Master_13]

We found Trevor's owner

[@joshwilliams0391]

The inspiration for Reverend Lovejoy?

[@ThompsonSteamtrain]

rev Edwin "Teddy" boston's 100th BIrthday as of 2024

[@thisisbob1001]

What happened to the layout can you still see it there?

[@johnd8892]

Unless designed from the start to be transportable, layouts like this are usually scrapped once the owner dies and the room is needed for other purposes. Very hard to move without massive damage when cut up into smaller sections. Some parts like buildings, locomotives and rolling stock may be split up and sold on. Some of the track may be recoverable but worn and outdated. A fate that has happened to many larger model railways.

[@DangerAngelous]

0:25 this gentleman looks familiar

[@lazobooth6783]

I wonder what's happened to the railway vicar now ???

[@jamesaustin1988]

He passed away in 1986.

[@stevenspaziani9159]

Wonder if he is still with us and modeling ?

[@stevenspaziani9159]

@Kabuki Kitsune Sorry to hear he passed away, seemed like a great guy from the video, and if there is one way to capture a kids heart it was with trains especially back then.

[@regularcitizenofffarquhar4698]

pun gallore in the first thirty seconds

[@ethanmyerrailroad1185]

Oo gauge trains

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

0:01 looks like Thomas The Tank Engine express coaches.

[@finnsempire5671]

Please don’t mention my past

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

@Kabuki Kitsune he was, you can see him appear in some of the books

[@chris4321das]

😂 At 69 seconds

[@Q.Cumber1973]

O or OO gauge?

[@tjfSIM]

Looks like OO gauge to me

[@CelestinaakaClonaClox9999]

In memory of our fat clergyman

[@jean-pierrevanineveld3494]

kik dasj ellek die eet ta wel keduld vor jampjer niej aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[@jean-pierrevanineveld3494]

kik corriesj is net lolkemasj koppie koppie wu jonge echt keduld vor aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[@billsmith281]

Mmmm yeah a great way to " lure in the kiddies" , hopefully not for other "reasons" like others have done!

[@likklej8]

What about Christian Left wingers

[@martinconnerty1201]

They gave the Right o' Way. (Apologies, there must be a pun somewhere).

[@tylerkessler4021]

Left wingers 🤣🤣 look what they’ve done to our cities everywhere though. So sad