The Best Attractions In Lavendon

A Brief Tour of Lavendon

#Olney Market and Town#Buckinghamshire

This Beautiful Market Town is well worth a visit

Garden railway: 10 scale miles MASSIVE: Drivers Eye View of Bekonscot Model Railway

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The Gauge 1 model railway at Bekonscot Model Village, Bucks.

Filmed, copyright and edited by Tim Dunn. bek@timdunn.com

It's a 10 scale mile model garden railway of 1/32 scale, in a 1/12 scale miniature village. The line was started circa 1929 and has been updated continuously for 80 years. We strapped a camera to the front of one of the engines and sent it off - we've added some subtitles so you can see what you're passing. Model railways rock.

The huge model railway has evolved since those early years, from Bassett-Lowke LNER and GWR outline stock through to modern image British Rail - when at one time, class 47, class 37, Hymek, western class 53, intercity 125 and even DMU stock ran. In the early 1990s, interest in the railway's heritage regained, and it was decided to revert to a classic 1930s appearance. Therefore you'll now see classic GWR railmotors, EMU, GWR 94xx tank locos, LMS Jinty, SR Q Class and many more freelance locos on the route.

The whole system is controlled by computer, interlocked with hundreds of relays for points and signal operation. Note that the signals are missing in this video, as they are currently all being refurbished. The complex trackwork around Maryloo station is controlled by a Westinghouse lever frame in the signal box (where this video begins and ends) when the signalman wants to intervene. This train was preset to run non-stop - but of course would need to stop if another train was in the block ahead of it. This video took four takes to get right - we had to be nimble with the manual signals to make sure no trains ahead of this one stopped progress, or made it wait on the single track sections! Usually there are 9 to 11 trains in operation at any one time; a selection of them are seen on this video. Perhaps we should get a Thomas The Tank Engine for the line...?

We're in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire - which is on the Chiltern Railways route from London Marylebone to High Wycombe, Banbury and Birmingham.

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Visit to Emberton Park on 5th Sept 2013

Visit to Emberton Park on 5th Sept 2013

Leicester Abbey Pumping Stations Narrow Gauge Railway January 2016

Leicester Abbey Pumping station narrow gauge railway was running a Simplex diesel hauled train service on our visit,the steam loco was having boiler repairs.

Kings Lynn S M E Society August 2015

Four railways visited in a weekend but only one filmed,Wells on Sea Harbour rly,Wells & Walsingham rly,Pentney Park where we were running our locos and this Kings Lynn & District S.M.E. Society.
Great weekend with our friends and lovely weather.

Woking Miniature Railway

Miniature Railway Visiting Locomotives

Ruswarp Miniature Railway nr Whitby 2013

What a great railway,lovely grounds all very well kept,the cafe is next to the river where a boat gives trips up the river this wasn't running when we visited.
A Tinkerbell steam loco runs on Sundays and a Thomas 2 is under construction as can be seen in the video.

#551: Clara leaves the Rhyl Miniature Railway (22/09/2015)

Here we have see Rhyl Miniature Railway's 'Clara' being loaded onto a trailer for its journey to the East Coast at Cleethorpes where it will appear as 'Thomas the Tank Engine'

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