Little Bytham From A Slightly Different Angle

Tony Wright's wonderful layout "Little Bytham". The video includes shots of the whole layout including the main fiddle yard and the M & GNR fiddle yard and line. Recorded during a visit I was privileged to make on the 17th June 2019.

[@garym3407]

What an amazing layout it's so good it could be the real thing. I am in awe of the skill and time and effort that has gone into creating such a masterpiece 10/10 from me.

[@andrewblake2254]

Just love watching this from Australia. A real inspiration for my own much smaller BR(E) layout.

[@SuperArtmachine]

A stunning layout, could watch this all day, the MGN line is excellent too, shows what can be done with lines not considered mainline in model form if you give it a lot thought and time. Really good to see the skillful buildings and landscape too.

[@robertmiller5258]

This a work of art and should be treated and valued as such - as good as many of the things in Tate Britain.

[@stratman9449]

very good layout...superb.....and the shelfes are full....:-)....i like it....

[@novakingood3788]

I remember asking an experienced modeller at an exhibition some years ago why a guards van had to be attached to a fully fitted train. He said just one word: Unions.

[@TheDaf95xf]

Hi. It's a long time since I watched Tony do his stuff on this little Bytham 😁 Looking superb 👍🏻 Cheers for the video Stevie 😎

[@Whiteknightab]

Thanks Stevie. One of the best layouts in the UK in my opinion.

[@DepakoteMeister]

20:32 Wow!

[@learningoogauge3452]

That bridge for actual humans is insane

[@paddycoleman1472]

Wow, that is a lot of coaches!

[@jw4620]

This is amazing! Thanks!

[@MarkHenstridge]

Unfortunate but true statement 11:53

[@stuartdeboer8030]

Even though I have seen several videos of this excellent layout I hadn't "put it together" that the fiddle yard was opposite the viewing side we usually see. I now realise it has to be there - otherwise it would be in the garden!! Still not really worked out how the fiddle yard for the M & GN line fits in. Couple of trains near the end looked as if they have annihilated Mallard's record.

[@SuperArtmachine]

Beautiful layout

[@LNER_HST_43290]

4:35 HST Passing by, what livery ?

[@dibley1973]

Fantastic layout. Any more vids which focus on the goods yard operations?

[@Whiteknightab]

I don't have any more videos of the layout I'm afraid, although several exist on KZbin by others. Tony's passion is running the non-stop expresses so they form a considerable majority of most videos you'll find.

[@dibley1973]

@@Whiteknightab Shame, but thank you for replying.

[@ioanekirarahu951]

"OO" Scale?

[@johnpriestley3714]

Tony very interested in your hinged hatch. As I reach my 79th birthday ducking under is becoming out of the question. I have never been able to make a successful hinged flap. I was interested how you made yours as I noted the connections with a form of slide, at the lift end, and how can you avoid the damage at the hinged end. Excellent modelling a pleasure to watch always. John P

[@Whiteknightab]

Hi John, my name is Archie and the channel on which this video was added to KZbin is mine, not Tony Wright's and so he has not seen your comment. Tony is however a good friend of mine and I have e-mailed him today to let him see exactly what you have said. As soon as I have his reply I will post it on here for your information. I am sure Tony will be very helpful.

[@Whiteknightab]

John, Tony has been very busy but has now replied to my request for information regarding the construction and operation of the lifting board at one end of the fiddle yard. The short answer is that he didn't build it. Someone else made it for him. However, he has sent me some photos which clearly show how it is constructed and how it is made to line up the track across the joins. If you are happy to tell me your e-mail address I will e-mail the photos to you.

[@johnpriestley3714]

Hi Mr Brown my email is [e-mail] Thanks ur kind information John

[@TallboyDave]

Bit of a twist there at the end, with the unpainted flagshipper from "The Old Enemy"; whose Princess Coronation was that?

[@Whiteknightab]

David, the Princess Coronation had just been built by Tony Wright. Obviously it had yet to be painted. He offered to put it on the layout for me and I was pleased to include it in the video.

[@TallboyDave]

@@Whiteknightab Fair enough, so which of the various "Duchess" engines is she?

[@Whiteknightab]

@@TallboyDave Tony has confirmed for me that the loco is made from a DJH kit for a Princess Coronation. It is now completed and is 46245 City of London.

[@juanfer5657]

what system does the locomotive use to uncouple the wagons the minute 10:22?

[@Whiteknightab]

Juan, the couplings are made under the commercial name Spratt & Winkle. They are sold by Wizard Models. They are worked by permanent magnets buried between the sleepers. If the loco is stopped with the coupling over a magnet the end of the coupling is pulled down by the magnet and so the hook at the other end lifts up, the wagon is uncoupled and the loco can move away.

[@juanfer5657]

@@Whiteknightab Tank you very much

[@mossmonaco9061]

Is that a Raven A2 in progress?

[@Whiteknightab]

I think that loco is 60528 Tudor Minstrel which is a Peppercorn A2

[@thomasm1964]

I hate to think what the monetary value of all that rolling stock might be!

[@Whiteknightab]

Tony Wright says that if his wife survives him she is to advertise the layout for sale at £700,000 to include a free house!

[@dionisiodana5750]

Me gusta

[@RichardSpendloveMBE]

Fantastic Work. I worked the next Signal-boxes towards London - Essendine North, Essendine South and Greatford, and was learning Corby Glen when I was promoted away. I am now going to pray that one day - before I die - he, or one of his cohorts, model Essendine. That was a truly remarkable arrangement, with a Branch Line on one side to Bourne (closed 1951) and another to Stamford on the other side (closed 1959) I have always wanted to see that modelled too. But NOTHING I have written detracts from the magnificence of BYTHAM

[@learningoogauge3452]

That bridge for actual humans is insane