Model Tramways (1958)

[@tominnis8353]

What a fantastic hobby, tramway and film. It's inspired me to have a go and build something similar (my garden slopes steeply down too). Except, just like the trams, my personal time is running out.

[@Tuckaway]

Wow I've never seen this film in colour before ! I have Jackson-Stevens wonderful book and I know these model trams are still running in the West country.

[@LeeAirVideos]

I wonder what became of Nigel? Did he carry on with this wonderful hobby. Superb film.

[@postscript67]

A few minutes' search of the internet and I found that Nigel Jackson-Stevens still (in 2021 anyway) has a model tram layout but at a different location. His father wrote books on trams and model trams.

[@Del350K4]

He'll be 80 this year.

[@Eddy2730]

Fortunately, he's still alive. I sent him a Christmas card not too long ago.

[@huntsbychainsaw5986]

Beautiful countryside.

[@alanmusicman3385]

What a great layout and fantastic models - so much detail. He must have been quite some engineer. Love the fact that father and son are wearing suits and ties - bet they didn't do that every day! You could almost script it. Mrs Stevens: You can't wear those old clothes, the film people are coming! What will people think when they see you up there on the screen in that? Go and change into your best suit and tie - you too Nigel. From watching old Pathe films like this it would be easy to conclude that, no matter how messy or dirty the task being filmed, no matter whether ballroom or factory or sewer and whatever the weather, men in Pathe Britain always wore a suit and tie and had a white handkerchief in their top pocket. Hurrah for the stiff upper lip!

[@flitsertheo]

My Scottish acquaintance, born in the 1920s, always walked around in suit and tie. Even did his gardening in it, without coat and sleeves rolled up.

[@candycorn6268]

Nothing more beautiful than a wonderful comment section in a quaint video

[@misterkefir]

Absolutely beautiful.

[@sinistershenanigans965]

Beyond genius. That’s inspired me to build A time machine and go back . Absolutely fantastic pice of Social history. Am so envious.🇬🇧👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@dodgydruid]

What an amazing setup and they must have been pretty happy in Glastonbury as the old S&D was still open and like so many towns and villages serviced by the S&D, Glastonbury visibly withered since the lines closed. I remember the old tram lines they had simply tarmac'd over at Grove Park bus depot and they had to dig them out as the tarmac had sunk exposing the rail troughs like broken teeth, imagine if London had them trams and trolley's still going today how much cleaner and cheaper transport in London would be?

[@rey6349]

I remember myself watching this video 7 years ago.

[@markamd1]

No, no you don't. 😂

[@WilliamSmith-mx6ze]

Trams are "disappearing altogether, much to the relief of practically everyone" - an insight into how people thought in the 1950s, not the nostalgic drivel about them (from people who are too young to have ever been on one) that we get today.

[@sparqqling]

Trams are fantastic, a big mistake to get rid of them. Luckily Hong Kong kept them, still take them a few times a week.

[@harri2626]

Yes, that was the reasoning in those days, but the pendulum has swung back to realising just how valuable the trams were. Thank goodness hundreds of cities throughout the world kept them, unlike in the UK until recently.

[@flitsertheo]

@@harri2626 Edinburgh trams disappeared in 1956, only to return "recently" and not without certain "difficulties".

[@harri2626]

@@flitsertheo Indeed, when the Scottish government tried to re-invent the wheel instead of using tried and tested technology from overseas. I went to ride their trams on the first day of operation, then rode the new extension last week. Sadly, their traffic management in streets leaves a lot to be desired when trams are held at traffic lights or queueing in mixed traffic on Leith Walk.

[@johnsamu]

He must have been an staff engineer at that company or something like that because building that was not easy, requires intimate knowledge (pre internet days) and was quite expensive (especially in those years, about a decade after WW2).

[@Isochest]

True. You need access to a lathe milling machine etc. A retired work colleague of mine builds miniature live steam engines and he has spent a fortune on building a garage and equipping it with machine tools

[@jcameron2554]

@Isochest for building models such as this the only turning job is on the wheels and axles, even then these can be bought pre turned from the tramway and light railway society. Everything else can be made using hand tools and time.

[@robharding4028]

back in the 50's they replaced the trams with buses, But the strange thing is, most major towns and cities brought them back, and they have never been as popular as they are today.The only real difference, is they are more modern, and the old tuppenny fare has morphed into a pound fare !

[@dariussaulenas6603]

the award for the best dad goes to...

[@thiagopaesdeandradesilva8047]

Impressive!! Can we see these tram ways today?

[@alexhando8541]

Yes, you can find the full-size equivalents at the National Tramway Museum in Crich, Derbyshire; Beamish Living Museum, County Durham; Black Country Living Museum, Preston and Heaton Park Tramway, Manchester.

[@borisyarkov2288]

Hong-Kong still use these trams

[@archerman152265]

@@borisyarkov2288 yep, but only in Hong Kong Island, the cheapest and most wonderful way to go around Hong Kong island. In New Territories, there’s another smilier transportation called “Light Railway”.

[@alexndroogs]

Hi, does anybody know what happened to these model trams and the layout?

[@scottyboy7462]

amazing

[@Eddy2730]

By coincidence, Nigel is a colleague of mine from the Tramway & Light Railway Society.

[@luisvalencia4038]

God wins Q saludos patriotas 🇨🇱🥰🇨🇱🥰🇨🇱🥰🇨🇱🥰🇨🇱🥰

[@CindyDijkema]

does this place still exist?

[@landsurfer66]

Nigel would be 81 years old now (Apr. 2024). Perhaps his grandchildren enjoyed the hobby too.

[@loveafrica9268]

Nice!!!

[@alvaroboshs6408]

un señor que en tiempo libre repara autobueses en miniatura vestido con traje en su jardin

[@robnewman6101]

Wow.

[@stevenspaziani9159]

That was cool, I wonder if the son ever kept it up ?

[@r0y538]

My question now is what they do when it rains?

[@Ubersnuber]

We all have interests, I suppose.

[@ЛЬВИНИ]

Great video. Like me

[@doodemog]

The kids about 78 now 😬

[@nickgallon8817]

So do I

[@K-Effect]

I hope all of this has survived

[@leong.c]

0:51 what's the model of the green tram?

[@johncunningham5784]

That looks like a Blackpool tram.

[@hugoverdeguer6891]

Wish he was my dad.

[@abc-ng8vt]

✅️👍👍👍✅️

[@irsanyanuar]

is there any tutorial to make those model trams?

[@ORV1868]

Bit hard as they are probably made from brass, white metal etc. And there also probably build from scratch and you need a actual tram control Handle and tramway (including overhead wires) to run it. Paper tram tutorial maybe? There amazing models anyway.

[@jcameron2554]

Ashley Best wrote an article on building trams in model engineer starting November 2012, and continuing into the following year, also Alan Hearsum shows how he built a Preston type tram from 27th August 2010 in the same publication over 9 issues. A lot of the work is wood work, and trucks fully made can be supplied by TLRS.

[@stephenguppy7882]

I so disagree with the sentiments of these times re: eliminating the tram noises 'much to the relief of everyone'. Oh yeah! Everyone misses the old trams.

[@sparqqling]

No more tram noises, welcome bus and car fumes!

[@luisvalencia4038]

La caída del cabal es inminente lo dijo Q saludos patriotas 🇨🇱🥰🇨🇱🥰🇨🇱🥰🇨🇱🥰🇨🇱🥰

[@guntherschock1663]

So seeet 1958

[@johnsplayworld2402]

I could make a guage 1 replica model of toby the tram engine

[@Univer3eTwist3ers]

You could make it yourself

[@jwebstersmithii7459]

Cheerio British Pathé, would you be interested in creating new content just as quirky and artfully/tastefully done as these old films? And done in VR? I'm your man if so. Reach out.

[@jwebstersmithii7459]

@@Gaming-Shed Probably smarter to use a "'," coma after a statement, when addressing a subject. Since we're being so tight to the rules.

[@alanmusicman3385]

@@jwebstersmithii7459 That would be a something to see - Pathe-VR :-) While we're nit-picking, "Cheerio" is a British idiom for goodbye - is that what you intended?

[@jwebstersmithii7459]

@@alanmusicman3385 My usage of the word was incorrect. Thanks for the lesson. And interestingly, upon a review of the word's origin...it looks like it was originally spoken as: Chair Ho. It had to do with entering into a Sedan Chair. This looks like how royalty would travel in the 17th and 18th centuries, in England. So, by default, I put myself into that category by saying Cheerio. I've got places to go, and people to see...so, Pathe, if you read my message, you're gonna have to catch up to me. LOL.

[@nippezdel]

Var anasını dedem 1 yaşındaymış o zamanlar...

[@Adam-wl8wn]

I'd have loved to have lived back then. England in my lifetime (90's - present) is too narcissistic and hyper sexualised.

[@paulfharris175]

Sorry to say that was the biggest mistake ever made in getting rid off the Trams 🚊 and Trolleybuses

[@kenet71]

By this time the boy might be 80 + years old. Are the trams still working by the grandchildren? 🚋