Urmston & District Model Engineering Society May Day Rally 2018

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6 жыл бұрын

Founded in 1948, the object of the Society is to promote and encourage model engineering of all kinds, and to bring together people interested in the hobby.
The Society operates a miniature railway in Abbotsfield Park, Chassen Road, Flixton, in the Borough of Trafford, Manchester on most Sundays throughout the year, and on some Bank Holidays, weather permitting. The railway is a continuous circuit of 2200 feet (670 metres) of raised track comprising both 3½” and 5″ gauges. It is one of the largest elevated tracks in the country.

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@stestepney 11 ай бұрын

Great video, i spent the day there yesterday what a great thing to do on a Sunday cheers Steve

@MrPafleouf 6 жыл бұрын

This place is amazing !!! they really build built a nice track with a lot of really convenient systems , and still functionnal to this day, well preserved !

@locowerke 6 жыл бұрын

Very nice video, well produced! Thanks for posting.

@jasonlau6115 6 жыл бұрын

Excellent video. Thank you.

@Willowfs4472 6 жыл бұрын

Great clip, looks like it was a fantastic day, thanks for sharing.

@flippop101 6 жыл бұрын

Great film. Thank you!

@joelightrailway2362 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing miniature scale standard gauge locomotives in action 😉

@SammyBFilms 6 жыл бұрын

12:08 Such a pretty loco! Jenny Lind tops it for me though! :-D Gorgeous loco.

@gregegan4231 6 жыл бұрын

Nice to see RAOC loco. My dad was CRAOC at the drill hall on Flixton rd late 50s early 60s. if I remember correctly, the fare you charged was 1p per circuit! I was even a member for a short while! So many fond memories. I was just a teenager then! I see that your club is one year younger than me!!!!

@garthhanson7923 5 жыл бұрын

I lived at number 8 Chassen overlooking the railway,it was only a small oval track when I was a kid.

@zhardoum 5 жыл бұрын

Funny, you can take the lad out of Manchester but 40 years later KZfaq still sends him random links to the track he rode on as a kid...so many years (and 1000’s of miles away) later

@themidlandcompoundarchive9430 6 жыл бұрын

Very nice.

@jlg4880 5 жыл бұрын

Splendid! Especially LMS 6238 "City of Carlisle". Be nice if there were plans/blueprints available for these engines and associated rolling stock. After all, if you're gonna be a gear head, best to be a Victorian gear head.

@DAKOTA56777 6 жыл бұрын

Nice to see a Jenny Lind in HD, shame it wasn't running. Problems it seems.

@ukmodelengineering 6 жыл бұрын

Hi DAKOTA56777, the Jenny Lind was having a hydraulic boiler test which it passed, the problem was the owner forgot to bring the grate so couldn't steam it. I hope to return to Urmston and capture the engine running at some point.

@DAKOTA56777 6 жыл бұрын

LMS4767 Ah I see, and I'll be looking forward to seeing it run, the only other Jenny Lind video I've found on youtube seems to have been recorded with a potato. I was thinking of getting a casting kit for one from Reeves as my first ground up build after I finish working on an old Mabel upscaled to 5inch gauge that I got mostly complete, but in needing of an overhaul. So it's certainly nice to see what the finished engine would look like in high quality.

@pega17pl 6 жыл бұрын

(14:12) & (14:39) Are only these two the hope of the club?

@peterflitcroft9756 6 жыл бұрын

pega17pl 14.39. That's Jeanne Walker. Her mum's Diane Carney the editor of Model Engineer Magazine.

@peterflitcroft9756 6 жыл бұрын

I also think if young people are attracted to Steam they tend to gravitate to the full size . Steam railways and traction engines. It's a lot easier to progress on these for young people than it used to be.