The Somerset & Dorset Railway at Bath Green Park in 7mm scale December 2022

[@neilpinkett]

I live 1 min from green park station.. I was amazed at the realism of this... literally open mouthed... great work

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thanks glad you think it is a fair representation of the real thing

[@stuhall2689]

My first time on this channel. What a wonderful layout and video this is. Very pleasant watch indeed.

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thanks and glad you have found the railway. There are loads of videos of the railway that I have posted over the last 5 years or so.

[@timbervalleyproductions]

Oh. My. life. This is frankly a superb layout - looks so realistic!

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thank you so much

[@markaustin614]

One of the best yet!! Terrific (new) camera angles, great story telling...It's like actually being there! Thanks very much for the early Christmas,as gift!!

[@bathgreenpark2485]

My pleasure. Glad that you have enjoyed this video

[@jamiekarslake9165]

Daft question it’s hard to tell is it o gauge ?

[@tonywise198]

Just as I remember it back in the late 50s/eraly 60s.

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thanks. This is what I've tried to recreate

[@fergalhedge106]

Thanks for sharing as always. A superb reproduction of Bath Green Park and the trains that used to serve the old S&DJr and the Midland of course. It doesn`t get any better than this and I always look forward to seeing the S&D in action. Thanks again.

[@bathgreenpark2485]

My pleasure

[@AmbroseB1900]

Superb model and video. Loved the Gresley stock and the pigeon special. A 3F piloting a Spam Can - it doesn't get more S & D than that! Thank you for posting.

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thanks. Pleased with the NE set. Its made up with Hattons Gresley, Sparmac, Gresley, Ian Kirk Gresley articulated set a Thompson brake end and now one of the new Ellis Clark Thompson coaches. You can see the additional marron Thompson in the set later in the video. Yes a Bournemouth allocated West Country and a Templecombe 3F pilot. A perfect combination for a Summer Saturday on the S&D

[@robertpearce2244]

Wow...! All I can say is, 'Bravo Sir'! What a layout! The S&D closed 3 years before I was born, so I never got to see it. I have family in the Radstock and Midsomer Norton areas and remember playing on the trackbed in my childhood. I have just started in O Gauge but could only hope to model something as amazing as this! Great work, thanks for sharing.

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thanks. Glad that you are enjoying the videos

[@AndreiTupolev]

I have to say, this is fantastic. Not least because of the accurate speeds rather than 0 to 100 mph in 1 second

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thanks. I try to run the railway as per the prototype.

[@steves5172]

I could not believe the realism. Beautiful just simply beautiful! Many thanks for uploading.

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Pleasure glad that you enjoyed the video

[@markwolf8152]

Absolutely marvellous. Thank you for posting

[@bathgreenpark2485]

pleasure

[@alanbatcheldor2406]

Never tire of watching this awesome model railway. I returned to Bath in 1960 so was lucky to see the last 6 years of the real thing.

[@davidroberts6123]

Really enjoyed the station arrival shots- so evocative. Thanks for sharing 👍

[@bathgreenpark2485]

pleasure

[@studebaker4217]

Stunning stuff, thank you. Wish I had your skill!

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thanks

[@kellypaws]

Stunning layout. I recognise the fell chuffs of the Train-Tech Sound Capsule. I don't know where I hid mine. But, I'm sure a heavy footed tread will remind me all too soon.

[@bathgreenpark2485]

I have to admit that I do have them hissing away in the background. 53802 and 44560 have the 'real' thing and sound so good

[@RustyVanDoor]

Well done, what a layout. I can remember watching Peaks at the LX west of Weston station and a Hymek on removal duties south of Bath Junction.

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thanks. I'm glad that I caught the S&D even though it was towards the end

[@davegower6919]

I really enjoy visits to the S&D via your videos, thank you very much for sharing them with us. Happy Holidays and all the very best for the New Year.

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Many thanks

[@hampshiregardenrailways2822]

Just Wonderfull, brings back memories of summer holidays many years ago and a tear to the eye.

[@nigelduckworth4419]

Elegantly filmed and a fine representation of Green Park, the yard and sheds. A lot of hard work has gone into this project on my favourite railway which I travelled on (on the Pines) as a child. Loved the Gresley coaches often seen on the line. I did not know that any of the Manchester trains terminated at Victoria.

[@johnmillard7555]

This is a work of art.

[@stuartdodd5460]

I very much look forward to your films, this is another very active, interesting piece, the recently completed station and platform structure adding so much more to the whole. Brilliant, very much appreciate the effort involved and inspiration for me to build more of my own locos of type for the line.

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Glad that you are enjoying the videos

[@stretchedits]

Thank you for this latest installment of the layout. It is always a pleasure to watch, I especially liked the new camera angles which show off the work you have done under the station roof...........It is really looking wonderful. Thank you so much for a delightful 30 mins watching your trains coming and going.....Merry Christmas and happy modelling, all the best Dave.

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thanks most kind and The Seasons Greetings to you

[@mikecase2604]

Excellent as always just like being there on the day

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thanks

[@martinwelsford1353]

What a joyous and heartwarming sequence. I felt as if I was there ! I believe the 7F was ordered straight off the drawing board by Mr Clayton as Sir Henry Fowler was not capable of designing something for this grand railway. Heavy on coal and water but it did the job !

[@bathgreenpark2485]

They certainly did. In 1959 and withdrawal of the first 7F they tested a WD 2-8-0 over the S&D. It failed with flying colours. Inadequate braking

[@jb-fy1oc]

Thanks very much for sharing always love these videos

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Pleasure

[@updistant]

Absolutely spectacular. Take a bow for your efforts.

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Most kind

[@mpeterll]

Excellent as always. Thanks for posting. I'd never noticed the opening in the station roof before - always wondered how you reached in there to uncouple - now I know.

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Ah. Its more than an opening. The Combe Down tunnel track cuts across the platforms. Not ideal but the only way I could work the whole track layout. Its not too obvious but it creates a natural opening to be able to reach in and uncouple locos at the platform ends

[@datalasse]

Great video!!! Very well done.

[@Kivetonandrew]

A fabulous layout of a line I sadly never travelled on. Very atmospheric. Spoiled by some unrealistic sounds but didn't deter from the excellence of the layout.

[@ericlovett9022]

A wonderful evocation of the past. Afraid I didn't get to stand where that spotter is at 15:22 until 1978 and there wasn't a Jinty, or any railway to seen any longer. Is the chap reliving those days and if so how superb is that.

[@bathgreenpark2485]

I placed that train spotter there as it was a popular position with the local lads. They climbed up the embankment.

[@dodahspeak]

Quite delightful to watch.

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thanks

[@xaneckstein455]

Real interesting to see 53802 hauling a freight train to Templecombe tender first!

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Its rather a might have been scenario. A bit of modellers license. Normally they would go south chimney first and then on the return run from Templecmobe would stop at Evercreech Junction and turn on the table there to be chimney first for the northerly run over the Mendips. I have read that occasionally on really hot summer days that crews might elect to ignore the stop at Evercreech and save the time for an earlier return into Bath.

[@tomcarlos7929]

This is a great video. Thanks for sharing.

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thanks

[@keithbridle8679]

Super really enjoyed the running of the trains thanks 😎

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thanks

[@michaelmiller641]

Gosh! That was amazing! I've stood under that roof, I can see now how everything relates to it! Such a busy railway, how could they justify closure?

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thanks. We lost so many lines in the 60's and unfortunately the S&D was so expensive to operate that it was an inevitable casualty, I'm afraid

[@westhavengwr4613]

I always enjoy these videos especially as I know the line well and have S&DJR elements on my own railway.

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thanks. I have tried to create a realistic model of the S&D within the normal space constraints

[@DennosManCave]

What an incredible model. Brilliant! New subscriber for your page here. Love the captions of the routes the trains were coming and going on. I wonder, if the S&D and Midland Lines had remained open, would a modern motive power unit (for example a Class 220 Voyager) do the journey Bournemouth to Man or Sheffield via Bath quicker than the current route via Basingstoke, Reading and Oxford!

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thanks Don't know whether it would have been quicker but ever so interesting climbing up over the Mendips and down again

[@khalidnafees498]

Where did you get those maroon coaches from. They look pretty good and metallic. 0:39

[@philnewstead5388]

Lovely video, my only memory of the S&D is being taken to Bournemouth West in the summer as a small boy to see the steam trains although I seem to remember seeing green Warships there as well but my memory may be playing tricks it's hard to think it was nearly sixty years ago.

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thanks. A Warship at Bournemouth West, probably unlikely but then I've only recently seen a picture of a Jubilee at Parkstone so who knows!

[@andrewganley9016]

Superb layout of a mush missed railway along with the Waverly route and the Great Central one of the worst decisions of the Beaching era what a great diversionary route this would be today?!

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Yes a great shame although in fairness the S&D was an expensive line to operate due to the steep banks requiring double heading and banked freights and so with little local traffic generated on the line it was kept going by through traffic which was falling away rapidly after the 2nd World War so sadly it was an inevitable casualty

[@leedholden9427]

Lovely layout

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thanks

[@theinspector1023]

I like the models, but why does everybody seem so keen on unconvincing sound generators? My favourite bits are those without them.

[@heatherpearce408]

Great ASMR

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thanks

[@djburland]

Brilliant

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thanks

[@svrdriver]

The big end nock needs looking at!!!

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Definitely. A trip to works is on the cards soon!

[@musoseven8218]

As always, superb! Could I ask, did you make your own complex track formations or are they Marcway points. Thanks in advance 👍😊 Also has the layout ever appeared in print, I'd like to read more about it✌️👍😊😊

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Morning. A mixture of Peco and Marcway. I went down this route for speed. I have to admit if I were doing it all again I would go down the handbuilt route

[@musoseven8218]

@@bathgreenpark2485 Thank you👍😊I'm inclined to agree (your track looks very convincing though), but I may choose the route you've taken because of health considerations now. Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you and yours🍻💜👍✌️😊

[@bathgreenpark2485]

@@musoseven8218 Peco and Marcway are very good and do give reliable running

[@a11csc]

another hindsight,but this is like being there

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thanks

[@zacharykoplin6543]

The thumbnail made me think it was real!

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thanks Glad that you are enjoying the videos

[@iankennedy2074]

superb, top of the line in the uk. i defy even the germans or the swiss to do better

[@bathgreenpark2485]

Thats very kind thank you

[@markaustin614]

Yes… O gauge!!!