OnThisDay 1969 Blue Peter showed the model train set to end all model trains.
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- The World's Greatest Model Railway.
The elaborate exhibition railway built by Mr. Bertram Otto and exhibited at Eastbourne in 1959 and later at Olympia was sold to Mr. Richard Burge, of New York, and was shown at the New York World's Fair. One of the most popular attractions at the New York World Fair in 1964; Lord Montagu was so impressed by the model railway during his visit to New York that he immediately arranged for it to be exhibited at the Montagu Motor Museum at Beaulieu, where it became an instant success. The World’s Greatest Model Railway covered over 1,000 sq ft and included 500 lineside buildings, 150 factories, over 200 locomotives, plus 50 tramcars and trolley buses, 400 shops plus schools, motorised vehicles, 400 items of rolling stock, 52,000 feet of multi-coloured wires and 8 major control panels, working scenes depicting locations in the US and Europe, including the English Channel and the Alps. In 1996 the railway moved to a private home in Ireland. - Auta a dopravní prostředky
Here is a pamphlet from its time at New York World's Fair in 1965-1965:
nywf64.com/betliv17.html
This model railway spent several years at Colchester Zoo in the late 1960s and 1970s. I still have the cardboard concertina pamphlet you got when you went inside. There were buttons you could press to start some trains. The stock was mainly Fleischman for reliability. When enough people were inside the young operator would switch to night. I can still remember him now.
I was taken to see this layout when it was at Gamages department store I well remember the buttons to make things happen but the one that sticks in my memory is the one that used to operate the helicopter, when it was in the store the lights used to go on and off automatically.
A whole generation of British kids were raised with this programme. The founding father had a model railway in his office apparently.
1:37 Airfix "Platform Fittings" kiosks - that brings back the memories!
My Grandparents visited this when I was very young, and somewhere I still have a souvenir booklet they brought me!
A nostalgic bit at 1:30, as I've just completed a Dapol church made from the same mould as the Kitmaster original shown here. 50 years on and still a brilliant little kit!
It was actually made by Airifx, not Kitmaster, and is a very good model of the church at Bonchurch, isle of Wight. Dapol have resurrected the old Kitmaster name.
Exactly as I remember seeing it on our black and white TV. Purves was a local hero to us. He lived in Earlsfield, Wandsworth ❤
Too early for me. :)
Good old Peter purves 👍
Those were the days when presenters spoke clearly and were articulate!
Yes far too many BBC and ITN newsreaders these days speaking in broad Yorkshire accents saying “Na then it’s time ‘f t’news tha nah” or going all ‘inner city’ and ending sentences with “innit”.
Or are we just posting shite about the “good old days”?
@@user-gi5nh6ng7g "Tomorrow's forecast - there be nowt wrong wi'out!"
@@user-gi5nh6ng7g posting shite I think…
@@user-gi5nh6ng7g That there John Noakes had a proper RP accent!
Or in other words, you're a racist.
J H C! I remember watching this when it first went out on air - It can make one feel rather old!
I saw this layout at the Boys and Girls Exhibition at Olympia in London in 1962.
Reminds me of a similar massive layout that was on display in Dudley during the early 70's. They switched the main lights off and it sprang to life with 100's of small model lights. 50 years later and the memory is still strong 😎😎😎
Roadside America, in Pennsylvania, is / was much the same.
One word says it all: enchanting.
I don't remember seeing this, but I'm sure I watched it at the time .. never missed an episode of Blue Peter. Didn't every kid watch it ?
OK, there was Magpie too, but Blue peter seemed much better. there were pets too 🐶🐶🐱🐱 and the famous🐘
When Pete did the model railway on BP. That was my favourite bit of the show.
The speed is just making me dizzy, for the rest it's just so perfectly build in my opinion! I just hope it's all saved till today's time, to me it's a real piece of art instead of throwing some paint on a canvas calling it word saving for a gallery this is true museum quality i would love to visit and watch all day at it
I was born way to late growing up around the 60s must have been a real blast
Sadly I don't think it survived, it was displayed in the department store Gamages for at least two christmases as my grandparents took me up there on successive years to get my Christmas present and to see the railway. They had a fantastic toy department where you could try out many of the toys.
Very informative and interesting. The only criticism I have is that the trains are running too fast!
I remember this episode when first broadcast and longed to see it in real life but never did. I don’t like the trains running so fast either but remember this was usually the case in other display layouts in the toy departments of department stores, it bugged me back then as well!
I visited this ,at least once ,while on holiday in Eastbourne. Mind blowing for a 10 year old. I am pretty sure that it was 1960 . Most of what I have read here & elsewhere suggests that it was only in Eastbourne in 1959 & that it then traveled around . I still think that I saw it in Eastbourne in 1960. Its creator Bertram Otto seemed to be very much a fixture at Eastbourne also featuring as a daily childrens entertainer at the Redoubt bandstand. AKA "Uncle Bertie"
I remember the Colchester Zoo layout very well. For me, it was far more interesting than the animals. I don’t think my Mum quite understood that, but Dad sure did!
Peter walking past the helium factory at 0:42
Remember seeing this, and the following week visited chessington zoo with there large indoor model railway.
I like to get inspirations from this
The days when the bbc produced quality children’s programmes, AND you could understand what they said. It’s amazing how the bbc has sunk below the IQ of a cabbage and stooped to such low moral standards.
Yes because Prof Brian Cox’s shows on the solar system and universe are so low. And yes locking people just because of who they love is so much better…
Fantastic 👏🏻
Germany saw this layout and said challenge accepted
Amazing.
I'm still waiting for that city of the future to become reality...
Cool 😎
It seems like it's from before 69,,, but, it's pretty good for it's day
Now that's what I call a REAL LAYOUT!!! It be ideal for some young ( ish) to enjoy & a VERY LARGE!!! building to have it in. That is something to be EXTREMELY PROUD!!!! to have the HUGE AMOUNT of time & equipment & expense of finance of putting it together. NEVER to be dismantled Mind you trying to keep it clean WOULDN'T!!! BE EASY Probably take at LEAST!!! a month to do a third of it VERY CAREFULLY!!!! & Maintenance of the trains & locomotives & other moving vehicles would have to be touched with EXTREME CARE!!! I wonder what has happened to this BEAUTIFUL & FANTASTIC LAYOUT!!! over the years I do hope it's still around & ready to run again in the not too distant future.
I wonder how they got the idea for miniatur wonderland in Germany
Then he ended up in a 'city of the future' when he went on Doctor Who!
He was on Doctor Who before Blue Peter
Chris Trace had a one in the studio
There was a story that someone replaced that layout with a replica that was smashed up, as a prank to shock Chris Trace. After causing him some distress, they then revealed his own layout, still intact.
It had the Tri Ang "Grand Victorian Suspension Bridge" along the back, and a pulley system to raise it up for storage.
I saw a very similar layout at Gamages in the mid sixties.
Anyone know if it was made by the same people.
Did he not say it was in a London Store, although I was assuming it was Hamleys
@@andyaccount. The stated year is 1969, and this would be too late. The Gamages layout would have been in 64 or 65. I remember walking down a corridor and passing from one scene to the next. The best part was when the lights went down and all the tiny houses were illuminated. There was just something magical to it. If only we could revisit the special days of our life.
For several years my family went up to Garages to do Christmas shopping in the mid 60's and I can remember a similar layout as this! I distinctly remember one year that there was a layout featuring the channel tunnel (the tunnel being made of clear plastic so that you could see trains passing through under the sea) I remember being totally enthralled!
@@gerrywatson261. I don't remember the tunnel, but perhaps I was just too fascinated by the trains going by. The store was called Gamages by the way, and stood at the junction of Holborn and Hatton Garden. Perhaps we passed in the crowd all those years ago.
Sadly if this was done in 2021 the BBC would show nothing British as the very notion of being British is a dirty word.
The 60s were a good era and Blue Peter was good as was the lovely Valerie Singleton.
Oh shut up. Idiot
@@tonyhancock8479 I'm so overjoyed I have annoyed you.
Have a bad day
The BBC always reflects the attitudes of the London Middle Classes, in the 50s/60s it was respectable, safe, Anglican conservatism and now it reflects the attitudes of the affluent socialists of the new London elite.
We would have the Teen Transgender Express bringing 13 years olds to a clinic for hormonal and corrective surgery. Miniature passengers with Digital Vaccine Passport being refused to take the train because their Social Credit Score is low from once watching a Bernard Manning show 48 years ago. Halal only Dinning Cars. Rainbow Flags everywhere and an LBGQT only carriages. Carbon Neutral trains powered by Wind Turbines and train staff dropping dead on the job because the Vegan diets they are told to eat can't keep them alive. There would be no City of the Future because everyone with four brain cells and an ounce of sanity would prefer suicide.
@@ArcadiaJunctionModelTrains yes we live in an age of left wing extremism and they mean well so everything is ok
The word BS springs to mind.
I'm glad I lived back then and mo it wasn't perfect in many ways but today the answer seems to regulate everything.
The BBC wouldn't show it now because it goes against BBC content of not appealing to a religious group from India who 9believe that model trains are a sin.
Lost my blue peter badge huhu
Ahh...yes the future.... or so we're told...
Another video of it here: czcams.com/video/UrPgorpbkhk/video.html
Minatur wonderland
I was2 then wow ,horrible world now
I was in junior school when Concord gain its "e", "She flies, She flies" entoned Raymond Baxter., then it was "one giant leap backward for man" after Gonesse.
1:51 city of the future! Cue the porno music.