One of my favourite layouts, redolent of the atmosphere of the East Midlands in the 1950s/60s, my spotting days based in Derby.

A first class production and layout.

This layout is a great favourite of mine. Too right what Derek says about being involved with a model railway club and being involved in a large layout group. I have similar interest in mainline modelling and real locations, so indoors I go for N Gauge which is fictitious main line. However, I'm currently building Scale 7 wagon kits for a club model of Bow Locomotive Works on the North London Railway's Poplar Docks branch in the East End. It's a line that some ex-colleagues at Stratford used to work over, but by the time I got on the railways it was taken over by the DLR and funnily enough, our club's S7 group leader is a retired civil engineer who was in charge of DLR track alignment at the time. It's all most deeply rewarding.

Sad day that warehouse was demolished (hoping it would become Art block for Demontfort University or apartments), along with Kirby & West Dairy Bottling plant with its vibrant glazed fiance front along with adjoining Great Central Goods office building. Lattice Bow Bridge. This was the 90's. Upperton Road Viaduct was also demolished. Not a Leicester lad, but visiting older sister, but would see the sad demise of BR diesels, few LUL rolling stock coaches, at A E Piggott & Sons Scrapyard. I lived in Yorkshire not far from a busy through line feeding Caldervalley Power Station. Oil and Coal from spur sidings at Lillands Farm. At weekends were diesel hauled passenger excursions. Leeds/Huddersfield to Blackpool. Yup I'm 1965. So remember it all well.

No doubt a labour of love. Nostalgic and a wonderful snapshot of the past. Thank you for your sharing.

Lovely layout & nice to have the money & help.

Breathtaking. Hard to believe it's not real and life size! Well done, all of you.

A first class production and layout. Seen it many times and always entertains! Derek is a gent and a pleasure to meet.

Like all layouts that are a cut above, the most enjoyable element is the evocative sense of a time and a place. That's how I judge the success of a project.

The aging of this is a work of art....realism surreal..takes me back to my childhood with soot and grime...

My Great Grandfather was a signaller at the box near Fosse Road, & lived in Bonchurch Street which backed onto the Rally. I can remember going with my Grandad on a train pulled by a steam engine in the mid 60’s going up to Nottingham. Then in the 70’s spent many a long 9 week summer holiday playing on the “rally” between Tudor Road, Bonchurch Street & fishing off the wharf in theRiver Soar & Grand Union Canal at West Bridge. HappyTimes

Very nice watch - thanks for sharing - beautiful layout - nice relaxed delivery - looks like you have a lot of fun together - well done 👍

A fabulous layout. I know the area well, as I live further down the line in Lutterworth. I love seeing this at shows.

Wow !! 21:55 When it first appeared I actually thought it was a 1:1 scale shot !!

I've stood on that road bridge, the timber yard was still in business, and the goods yard became the infamous Vic Berry's when I was there. I started my railway career at Coalville so have also worked over that railbridge at the engine shed entrance end.

An absolutely marvellous recreated Leicester . Awesome job by every one involved there. Upon seeing this i found myself to be in sensory overdrive lol. high quality of modelling scratch-build builings and surrounding area.

After the GCR closed eventually the trackway became a green route into the city. For 30 years I managed it as part of Leicester Riverside. This layout is as spot on as any layout can be, I just wished I had access to this whilst working as it would be a fantastic tool to bring the past to life. Well done to all involved. Ps do you want to know where the catering van dumped its broken crockery so you can add that for extra realism lol.

Great compliment: a wonderful layout and a perfect dream of past times

Wonderfull layout, spent my time watching this video and separately trying to find back places and buildings on google maps, amazing how much still can be found, altough most of the ralway yards themselves are redeveloped. But found some of the bridges, the arches, the wagon shop? and a lot of the houses and some of the industrial buildings, all still in existance today.

Brilliant layout one of the best in my opinion, Takes me back to my trainspotting days in the late 50s and early 60s.

Yes, a truly impressive layout. It is large but with amazing attention to detail. Inspiring.

my era and wonderfully modelled. well done all of you

very impressive; living in Leicester not far from the area modelled it is tremendous how lifelike everything is

Great insight into a superb model, well done guys.

I love all the weathering effects, especially that 9F

I can vouch for the accuracy of this awesome layout. Many a happy hour spent sitting on the wall of the " black pad " watching the trains go by and the shunters working.

Astounding work, well done.

I used to live in one of the houses shown on this set.

Top en succes met de verdere bouw van jullie modelbaan Ik vind het helemaal te gek wat jullie hebben uit gekozen gr. Harry

fantastic modelling and weathering. Wow

Fantastic layout,well done to all concerned.

I really enjoyed that. I'd love to get involved with model railways again.

Nearest I've seen to perfection, lads. Travelled from Quorn behind 'Tornado' to what was left of Leicester South when she was still in workshop grey, (back through Quorn to Loughborough and finished at Quorn). Must've been about the time you built this...

thanks for these videos!

Quality, absolute quality.!! Thanks.

Fantastic layout you got there

you can hear that brass music playing and outdoor toilets flushing very realistic

Simply awesome!

Awesome work

Have you thought of doing into the old gcr station and out futher north

Wah,wah, wah. Never mind the layout. I do like the realistic joimts in the sky, which ends just above the rooftops.

I heard you mention Apley Park School. Not the one by the River Severn in Shropshire? My son went to that one in the early eighties. they had a model railway club then.

wow that's a lot of track to build from scratch!

Wonderful stuff. Although seeing No52 made me want to make an offer… After all, she was the final A3 in service, and should have been saved… Then I remembered it was a model!

PERFECT!!!!

7:28 *60052 "Prince Palatine" - actually seen this loco on GC at Leicester*

awsome layout.

Very good. I can remember most of that from back in the day. Just a pity that the bus on Upperton Road Bridge[?] was not in the old Leicester City Transport colours of chocolate edged in cream rather than the later colours, of your bus, of cream edged in chocolate. Otherwise marvelous.

Great layout

Fabulous!!!

Epic layout

Love this vid 😁

I think the bus is the wrong colour. I was born in 1952, and grew up in Leicester. The Corporation buses were mainly purple, with a cream window surround when I was a kid. They only switched to mainly cream with a purple stripe, like the one on the bridge here, later, in the 1960s. Well... if the layout is supposed to model 1948-1963, I suppose it might just scrape in, as I think they did start to roll out the new livery in the early 60s. Certainly an impressive effort, and mostly it does look very familiar. I particularly like the allotments - very typical feature of the time.

I do want inspirations from this for my layout project

Great video. Nice people. Thanks.......

AWESOME!!

Very nice video.

Fine layout.

Awesome

it takes about 4-5hours to set up at ehibition

what gauge is lionel

Congratulations Leicester City!!!

how comes in videos peoples trains never stop for no reason at slow speeds, mine do it all the time.?

How long does it take to set up at an exhibition?

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Nice video, interesting commentary. The music loop gets a bit irritating after a while, top marks otherwise.

Indeed nice looking modern commercial model steam locos, that become shy when faced with a gradient ! I quickly found steam tender locos from the current manufacturers couldn't pull the skin of a rice pudding when hauling real life 12/13 car trains up a 1 in 100. Virtually all have had to have anything up to 150g extra weight added internally to make them perform, as well as their real life counterparts. Nice to see there are a few real Model Railways still around? Not impressed with the increasing number of childish DCC toy train sets with their nice scenery but total lack of comprehension when it comes to operation !!!!

Very nice layout but do you have to have that annoying musak. It detracts from the super sound of the railway.

Brill

Do you allow children to come around and possibly join

*What does the BRM logo on bottom right stand for ? **_Black Railways Matter ?_*

Кто из 2019?

I can't tell where Matthew Jude's hat ends and his hair begins.

There are no people ....

A good film, but the music is so annoyingly intrusive. It doesn't need it!

actually right after the virus threat and moved in to a new place...

Would be better without the music.

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