During our annual pilgrimmage to the Model Railway Show at Derby, this O scale layout caught my eye. An overall view The locomotive depot A standard class 5 arrives in the station A Gresley B17 "footballer" 2865 Leicester City calls in the station The locomotives ran very well indeed, and were fitted with smoke units.
If you look at the top of the top photo of Alan's post above you can see some illuminated 'windows' at the back of the layout. In there is the fiddle yard (staging). On a deck above this is a diorama of an English country village with narrow gauge tracks running through it. It was a bit darker back there but I took some pictures of this village which just about came out: Teacher and boys at the duck pond. Typical village school and phonebox. (I was there on the Saturday, which may make a difference )
That was a good way to cover an extensive staging yard! But as the scene was typically English, including the phone box, all the vehicles were American!
I asked the operator about the distortion of the time-space continuum. He said the guy who normally ran that section couldn't come, so a few of his mates offered to cover it for him . He also said few visitors seemed to notice there was anything amiss. Should we worry about this . Does it have implications for anyone building a 'show' layout .
Mike, did you look in the lighted window in the station building? I took a picture, but not sure I dare show it on here
Only for the purists, Mike. The general public would not notice any inconsistencies for the most part. And the brighter coloured the details the more the kids notice.
Sorry Alan. Whatever it was I missed it . I'm intrigued now - it didn't seem the kind of layout to have anything 'naughty' in it.
