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.

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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[awfulguitarplucker]

you Brits are freaking insane geniouses on Trains, both modelistic and real too!

[TheScoops41]

great footage and a fantastic model railway, however i get so caught up in the travel i often forgot that it was a model railway and not a real train drive, this dawned on me when a few times turning a corner and these big massive giant humans would appear gazing down causing for a second or two a freaky moment lol, cool clip, loved it.

[JBofBrisbane]

@TheCoastermann - Computers may be used to control the trains today, but Bekonscot has been around for decades, way longer than PCs. One of my school friends visited it in the 1970s.

[awfulguitarplucker]

@beowulf3075 oh yes indeed! LIMA models stock made my childhood so bad! so many memoures *___*

[beowulf3075]

@awfulguitarplucker - Ha ha, Italy had Lima, who made some great model railway stock. That was praise indeed, your comment. ^_^

[LoserMcBeaver]

These train run on electric right?! Wont the rain if there is any affect the track?

[jsepol]

Awesome!

[TheCoastermann]

how do the trains work

is there a computer to keep them in order

[STbluefox]

Wow. this was so fun to watch. :D I'd so love a garden railway like that...but I nu has the money for it. D: *goes lookit the website*

[brainfart22]

HOLY CRAP! are the trains scycronized so they wait in the loops or are they controlled individually? How much power does it take to run that many trains on such a long distance?

[Rocksey004]

Great Video.

I keep coming back to watch.

I guess that the person falling on the platform will probably be injured in the fall?

RegWhelan.info

[funkyjunkyjai]

BRILLIANT !