This layout is amazing! I get the transpennine express train regularly and have passed Heaton lodge so many times; I love how someone’s full on committed to making a really accurate model of it. He’s really captured the atmosphere of the real thing :D
this goes beyond modelling...its a piece of art. Absolutely love it...what a brilliant piece of work this is. Congrats to Simon. Hope to see it up close!
For a man not to know a lot about trains. The guys is an absolute genius. It will nice to c some vids of live views with trains running, both in the cab, along the track an surrounding areas. Awesome project, well done, Simon!
As soon as he mentioned "this layout is actually about 200 feet long" my jaw dropped straight to the floor and I started laughing "this is just sick". But I had read a bit about this layout in BRM and this video shows it in a more advanced state, and I have to say that the result stands rock solid. It has all the atmosphere of the railway in the rundown industrial West Yorkshire area of the 1980s, and yes, Simon knows his static grass, it looks very like the real living stuff you find on embankments and between running lines. Having done about 90% of the work himself is also a great achievement, this is a slab of base board to cover. So I hope to see this layout for real somewhere in the future, when we are allowed to flock together again.
Bloody brilliant fantastic layout, looks real 😮 can just see myself back there as a kid. Even more important now, with that whole area changing forever soon. 😔
Definitely on my wish list to see this. Brilliant Idea with the mist, when living up on Bradley Grange most days you couldn’t see the railway beyond Coopers Bridge and the start of the sewage works.
Suggest considering building a small dry ice theatrical machine. Basically it is a container with hot water with a fan. Put the dry ice in the hot water and turn on fan. Go to a theatrical lighting supplier and you will see the idea then when understand the principle you can customer build to your needs.
I work in Theatres as a technician and we use Haze machines for the mist effect. They are less tacky & cheesy than a generic smoke machine, plus you can really refine the haze levels and very easy to control. Plus nearly silent. Would highly recommend, tiny machines can fill rooms from 1% to 100% haze level. Plus not as hot as smoke so tends to stay perfectly still like real mist
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Brilliant absolutely amazing that's exactly how I make things to reality because I am a artist as well and I know what you mean by watching trains in the distance very far away coming towards me very quickly with a light on gliming away in the distance and just as you said you need to have it on a bigger scale to create that same affect as you see it with your very own eyes and hearing the sounds of the trains passing over the joints on the tracks as well travelling through the steel frame as it's coming down the tracks long before the train it's self I could make something like this easy because I made my own model grass every colour of the planet and by the way my father was from Yorkshire as well but left the UK before my time
Will you be bringing the layout to ‘ModelRail 2022’ at the SECC in Glasgow 🏴, the second largest model railway show in the UK 🇬🇧? Hopefully so...
@@adriancarter2863 All i wanted to see was a massive model railway like in the title...what i saw was someone talking....go to Gowerton Parkway and see 100% modelling...strange that
@@richardbradley2335 Hey Mister, no not really. "People make a place" as in, this video is about the people (well, Simon George) who made a place (Heaton Lodge). I'm sure lots of folk really want to see this massive model railway, just like you and I. This vid is the story of the layout’s creation, the creator’s motivation, how his plans for showing it have had to change because of the pandemic etc. The views of the layout are teasers. Simon said (hehe) that he was setting up some camera arrangement to be able to best show it off virtually. This is probably very difficult to do since the effect of being in the room with it and one’s brain trying to process the physical scale will be lost when shown on a constrained screen on CZcams. All that effort of the stupid amounts of static grass and ridiculous amount of track just won’t have the same wow factor. It’s the difference between going to the Brecon Beacons and looking at a postcard. Model railways are like theatre productions and their promoters want to be able to show them in the best way they can. By what Simon says (can’t help myself), he is somewhat commercially minded and has other stakeholders (Heljan, Peco) who are keen to ensure it is displayed to best effect. Let’s wait and see what they do...
This layout is amazing! I get the transpennine express train regularly and have passed Heaton lodge so many times; I love how someone’s full on committed to making a really accurate model of it. He’s really captured the atmosphere of the real thing :D
this goes beyond modelling...its a piece of art. Absolutely love it...what a brilliant piece of work this is. Congrats to Simon. Hope to see it up close!
As you say, it's art work, shame that he can't get Arts Council funding for it.
Wakefield in December
For a man not to know a lot about trains. The guys is an absolute genius.
It will nice to c some vids of live views with trains running, both in the cab, along the track an surrounding areas.
Awesome project, well done, Simon!
This is an absolute credit to Simon. What a fantastic layout and can’t wait to see it for real 👍🏻 Cheers Stevie 😎
Wakefield in December
What a wonderful layout...
This is brilliant. Followed it since the beginning and live nearby. Brilliant to hear the story behind it.
Shown in wakefield in december
Amazing - and hats off to you for doing it and not just dreaming about it. Hope to get to see it one day.
Wakefield in December
What an incredible achievement! Well done Simon.
Amazing, layout and, the work involved.
Seen this whilst under construction ,WOW what a layout ,i take my hat off to Simon and looking forward to seeing the finished layout.
What a wonderful layout!! I’m in awe!!
Respect sir !!!!!!!!!!! ,To your scale of modelling !!!!!!!! .
Brilliant can’t wait to see it up close
Wakefield in December
What he has achieved in only 8 years is incredible
Just beautiful diorama work. Incredible.
Just seen this huge set at Wakefield Market Hall. Its amazing!!
As soon as he mentioned "this layout is actually about 200 feet long" my jaw dropped straight to the floor and I started laughing "this is just sick".
But I had read a bit about this layout in BRM and this video shows it in a more advanced state, and I have to say that the result stands rock solid.
It has all the atmosphere of the railway in the rundown industrial West Yorkshire area of the 1980s, and yes, Simon knows his static grass, it looks very like the real living stuff you find on embankments and between running lines.
Having done about 90% of the work himself is also a great achievement, this is a slab of base board to cover.
So I hope to see this layout for real somewhere in the future, when we are allowed to flock together again.
Wakefield in december
Fabulous layout. I loved Allan Downes articles in the Railway Modeller: really interesting and very witty.
The cost !! Wow amazing absolutely amazing
I love to see a LMS (BR) Garratt 2-6-0 + 0-6-2 showing the full 88 feet length of this class as a model pulling a 72 wagon load.
Wow that is impressive!
This is really impressive
Bloody brilliant fantastic layout, looks real 😮 can just see myself back there as a kid. Even more important now, with that whole area changing forever soon. 😔
Absolute madmad...Respect!
Definitely on my wish list to see this. Brilliant Idea with the mist, when living up on Bradley Grange most days you couldn’t see the railway beyond Coopers Bridge and the start of the sewage works.
Suggest considering building a small dry ice theatrical machine. Basically it is a container with hot water with a fan. Put the dry ice in the hot water and turn on fan. Go to a theatrical lighting supplier and you will see the idea then when understand the principle you can customer build to your needs.
Wakefield in December
I work in Theatres as a technician and we use Haze machines for the mist effect. They are less tacky & cheesy than a generic smoke machine, plus you can really refine the haze levels and very easy to control. Plus nearly silent. Would highly recommend, tiny machines can fill rooms from 1% to 100% haze level. Plus not as hot as smoke so tends to stay perfectly still like real mist
There's another giant model railway on CZcams that takes one whole hour to watch it it's that big in the USA I think
I look forward to seeing this at Warley, if we are allowed to go in November 2021. But we shall see!!
Wakefield in December
What an incredible layout
Has anyone seen the worlds largest ever model airport in Hamburg Germany that too is very impressive and must be seen
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McKinley Railway Time Machine is bigger and IMHO better. But this is still an outstanding Railway. Well done.
I would say this one is much more realistic in terms of scale.
stunning..i can only dream
amazing.
Hi Simon - what sort of building is this fantastic model housed in? Regards Graham
Some warehouse in Wakefield
Brilliant absolutely amazing that's exactly how I make things to reality because I am a artist as well and I know what you mean by watching trains in the distance very far away coming towards me very quickly with a light on gliming away in the distance and just as you said you need to have it on a bigger scale to create that same affect as you see it with your very own eyes and hearing the sounds of the trains passing over the joints on the tracks as well travelling through the steel frame as it's coming down the tracks long before the train it's self I could make something like this easy because I made my own model grass every colour of the planet and by the way my father was from Yorkshire as well but left the UK before my time
Will you be bringing the layout to ‘ModelRail 2022’ at the SECC in Glasgow 🏴, the second largest model railway show in the UK 🇬🇧? Hopefully so...
I see plentty of freight.
Will we see express passenger workings
I hope so. I was wondering that too.
Wow!
S*it te bed......thats one huge layout. Looks really good.
I saw a bigger model railway than that. Place in London, went down some steps....
how do you finance this sort of project and at what cost???
dont ask
@@rivergladesgardenrailroad8834 ha ha i take it a lot....
hi great layout hope you like mine diesel dave
lots of this was a bloke looking into the camera
There’s always one “Moaning Minnie” out to spoil the party 🙁. Well, as they said in the video, show us yours!
People make a place :)
@@adriancarter2863 All i wanted to see was a massive model railway like in the title...what i saw was someone talking....go to Gowerton Parkway and see 100% modelling...strange that
@@xylicable like going to a 'place' like a cinema and spend the whole time talking to someone eh
@@richardbradley2335 Hey Mister, no not really. "People make a place" as in, this video is about the people (well, Simon George) who made a place (Heaton Lodge). I'm sure lots of folk really want to see this massive model railway, just like you and I. This vid is the story of the layout’s creation, the creator’s motivation, how his plans for showing it have had to change because of the pandemic etc. The views of the layout are teasers. Simon said (hehe) that he was setting up some camera arrangement to be able to best show it off virtually. This is probably very difficult to do since the effect of being in the room with it and one’s brain trying to process the physical scale will be lost when shown on a constrained screen on CZcams. All that effort of the stupid amounts of static grass and ridiculous amount of track just won’t have the same wow factor. It’s the difference between going to the Brecon Beacons and looking at a postcard. Model railways are like theatre productions and their promoters want to be able to show them in the best way they can. By what Simon says (can’t help myself), he is somewhat commercially minded and has other stakeholders (Heljan, Peco) who are keen to ensure it is displayed to best effect. Let’s wait and see what they do...
TOO MUCH WAFFLE................SRI
To bad you don't model in N scale.