Wilbert Awdry's Ffarquhar Mrk II at a Train show

[TrackMaster555]

I bet that if Wilbert Awdry was alive and saw what HiT Entertainment has done to his series he would faint!

[speedracer456v]

what gauge is the track? it looks like hornby 00 gauge.

[whitehousefilms]

@speedracer456v Yeah it's the same gauge as Hornby. 4mm/00/1:76

[penninefilms]

Is this the original?

[Alexthemaster33]

I am inspired to build the Ffarquhar Branch, for the United State version on a couple of '2X'4 sheets of foam board. I know it's copy righting, but I think it's a good idea to make a U.S. version for Train Shows and what not. hope it's cool with the reverend. I'll change my mind if he haunts me tonight

[hartleymartin]

@Alexthemaster33

There's nothing stopping you from making your own version of the Ffarquhar layout. It wouldn't be identical anyway, as you would not be able to reproduce all of the buildings unless you made a concerted effort to do so.

[Colonboy234]

Where was this filmed at?

[whitehousefilms]

@Colonboy234 it was filmed at a model railway show in a transport meusem. I've got the footage of the other layouts aswell. Might put them up this weekend.

[crazyracer12]

where did you get that theme? And where was this?

[whitehousefilms]

@crazyracer12 which theme are you talking about? The layout was filmed at a train show near the miniture railway club

[crazyracer12]

@whitehousefilms I meant Thomas you're the leader high pitch remix

[whitehousefilms]

@crazyracer12 That remix I made myself using Audacity, I wanted to make it sound like a girl was singing the chorus, but i'm not so sure if it worked that well.

[crazyracer12]

@whitehousefilms Ah, I have Audicity, though I don't know how to use it whatsoever, could you send it by email please?

[whitehousefilms]

@crazyracer12 i'll send you the link in a PM

[ShaurntheSheep]

thats a nice layout just the layout not thomas

[super58173]

Is there Sonic music playing?

[whitehousefilms]

@super58173 at the end there was super sonic dance attack it was a short version that I extended and edited to make it sound good.

[super58173]

@whitehousefilms- And the music at the start? I've never heard of it.

[super58173]

What's the weird music at the begining?

[whitehousefilms]

@super58173 its the music that was played at the begining of story time with Thomas the tank engine with ted robbins reading Chrisopher Awdry's books

[capmodesty]

nice, i knew that the layout still existed but I wasn't expecting it to still be running. I'm a little surprised to see the Jinty Thomas though, I was under the impression that during the 1980s Wilbert Awdry replaced him with one of the Hornby E2 tank engines.

[RedGemAlchemist]

@capmodesty The original Thomas model was just a blue Jinty. he was drawn as an E2 in the books for some reason of which I do not know.

[capmodesty]

@RedGemAlchemist I knew he was a jinty but Awdry did acquire an E2 that he turned into Thomas in the mid 80s

[kirbyfan600]

3:36 is that a jinty?

[NewController01]

@kirbyfan600 maybe, 1 time Awdry's Thomas WAS a Jinty painted blue

[Alexthemaster33]

thats amazing, I wish I lived in the UK or ireland, but im stuck here in the boring USA, but amazing layout all in all

[StabelyUnstable]

I know how you feel. I wish I was in Canada

[TheNo1andres]

yh that sucks sorry to hear. im trying to make a ffarquar layout for my ertl collection. so far i have thomas' branch line sheds leading to a station (the 1 on the cover of thomas and victoria) which leads onto the mainline layout were gordon and express stuff is. it was very hard to make the slope with trucks ontop of it. the ones that are next to the sheds.i also made a little passthrough to brendam docks. there is only a cranky,some sheds and trucks there though

[JH55000]

I saw the layout in the Awdry Study on the talyllyn railway, it's brilliant isn't it?

[eddierools]

I think i saw Stepney in there, but that's my opinion.  Nice video, i myself would LOVE to see the layout in person.

[dwarflord812]

i wanna see it for real =,(

[courtneydavis433]

Rock on, awdry!

[NewController01]

where was this movie made?

[NewController01]

wats the sonic track called?

[RayTheTrainEngine]

Super Sonic Dance Attack.

[NewController01]

I would give ALOT 2 c this 4 real

[Headbanger142]

Wow, that's a nice set. Love the music by the way!

[thomasandtencents1]

i guess awdry was a master a model railways and such but how can awdry disign h&n coupling and smaller axells any way?????

[RayTheTrainEngine]

Anyone else noticed how Thomas doesn't have his extended tanks and looks more like an unmodded E2 or a repainted Jinty?

[NewController01]

Must be Awdry's 1st version of Thomas I expect

[NewController01]

exactly

[therailwayinspector3]

I saw the engine RWA Had as Duck at the Devon Railway Museum a year or two ago

It's a great layout that. I'd love to see it for real...

[trainboy94]

Does anybody knows what Christopher thinks of this????

[Steamlover824]

OMG, I would give anything to see that setup.

[Cromford88]

They look exactly like the Reginald Dalby and Peter and Guvnor Edwards engines!

[sparkshot]

Cheers dude, this vid was a rare privelidge indeed, gratefull, I thought all the engines looked rather fat! Probly cus they were old, I dunno, but was great to see the layout running mate.

Any chance I can rob the Sonic/Streets of Rage Remix off ya, was bangin' that.

[DoctorTankEngine]

i think they look fat cos of the screen/camercorder has filmed everything slightly narrower than normal. I have seen footage before and the locos dont appear as fat/ squashed

:-)

[IoriYagami288]

Great to see The Reverend's layout in action, it shows that you can create something amazing with little space as opposed to an unrealistic continuous oval. Where did this take place by the way?

[ronanL10]

[whistle][whistle] that's fancy

[SkarloeyFan]

WOW I wish I could of been there I looks amazing and it still runs after it how old... and all the engines look great to. Oh and nice filming it's smooth and not jerky like my videos are at the moment.

[thomasandtencents1]

you know if i ever seen awdry's layout like this i wish that he was still here with us.

[ThomasnBear1D3]

OMG THAT'S AMAZING!

[NemesisHero123]

Awesome!!!!

[DoctorTankEngine]

thankyou so much for uploading this.

His Percy is really nice. After I saw this on the Talyllyn I thought it wouldnt be in opperational mode.

Great, although not a fan of the rap lol

[NewController01]

This was what Percy was meant to look like but Dalby didn't pay any attention to it