I can still remember the late Mike Birch taxying into the studio with his stunning looking F3A aerobatic competition plane Capricorn International. The Phil Greeno mentioned here was a top class pylon racer and designer of the famous Manneater. Designed to beat rival Wayne Mann.

Now this is interesting! Never knew they threw this whistle on 487, I knew 489 had it for a bit then 484 during the early half of the 1990s

Bumped into Bob once at the national railway museum York.

Hard to think it’s 50 years since Follyfoot premiered on British TV, as I still remember so vividly.

Good job🎉🎉🎉

Loved this guy, my childhood hero.

Fantastic Bob! RIP

Have we steamed up Bob?

I am not well but I would walk to Norfolk from Scotland to say hello to Gillian. I wish I knew her address 😥😥😥😥😥

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0:50 Your attention please, the train to Jebel Ali will arrive at Jebel Ali platform

just found this ...I remember the TV series ...........Bob was always so enthusiastic .....wonderful guy

A lovely man.

I saw this man as a kid and totally loved his passion. 40 years later I wanted to know his name and through Facebook I found out. What a man so full of passion and aliveness, a true inspiration 🥰

It's a shame Follyfoot didn't have as much work put into its transfer as a lot of other series restorations have, But of course it's not as insanely popular as The Avengers or The Professionals for example It's really good that it was previously available on DVD in its entirety before Network shut down and it's a shame it won't be easily available anymore. I wish I was a business with lots of money who could get distribution rights, I'd be happy to take over from network pressing DVDs, CDs and Blu-Rays, working on new material and improving previous material.

487 with a Reading 6-chime!

I still know all the words to the theme song.

Rest in peace bob Symes 1924-2015

Wuooo very good

Surprised to hardly see any Tangaras in this video clip . Same for Chopper sets . S & K sets in pairs are great though .

I've a colleague who is an absolute ringer for the late, great Bob, even down to the beard.

A glimpse of an older world. I'd all but forgotten the Baron. Always seemed very humble and understated. A true gentleman in a world fast forgetting his kind. Rest easy, Bob. There are none like you now

This bloke is a legend. I use to love the model railway programs he made and I met home once, he was very complementary of my layout and it made my day👍👍

Nice video, cool to see a few various stations in the city circle, though this was surely before 2010, as the door dvas that are heard on the silver sets as well as the millenniums were gone by then, there are heaps of silver sets with the original livery etc.

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Bob Symes has unfortunately passed on. But he was a BBC TV personality and known for doing rail related programmes. He had a Gauge 1 layout around his garden, and later 10 inch gauge. Bob was in reality an Austrain Baron, who's father was executed by the Nazis for trying to resist the takeover by Germany of Austria. Bob managed to flee Austria and came straight to Britain, where he signed up with the British Royal Navy to fight the Germans, for the duration . He remained in Britain post war and married a BBC lady Programmes Producer. I knew Bob for some years. I found him fast asleep one night on Platform 1 at Waterloo. He had been in the BBC staff club having a little tipple, and they had Chauffeured him to the station in time to catch the last Guildford New Line train home. As I was the Driver of the train, I helped him still half asleep into the cab, and let him sink into the Guards seat. Being in the dark he continued to doze until the bell to start from the Guard woke him up. I flicked the cab light on for a moment so he would know where he was and with whom, and of course he was now wide awake, as it seems he'd never been in the cab of an EMU before. Fortunately he was with me, because when we got to Clandon station where he got off, some idiot had turned off all the station lights and locked up the station, so he couldn't get off the platform. Obviously I couldn't expect an elderly Count to climb over the station railings, so I found a gate with a standard No 1 lock I had a key for. So I was able to let his wife who was waiting outside the fence take him home in a dignified manner !! I made a number of visits to his beautiful house near Guildford, which was strangely very Austrian looking, and even set in a little dell surrounded by Pines that made it all look as though it could have been in the Alps. Bob at that time had Gauge 1 Association meetings at his house regularly, with tea and cakes on the lawn. And crazy members with Nitrous Oxide fueled Fulgurex Gauge 1 locos, that hurtled down the track like rockets and took off at the first bend to land in the Tulips, literally. Bob of course was known in the Gauge 1 modelling world for building a Gauge 1 BR Class 47 with a fully working scale model of the original Sulzer 2,750hp 16 cylinder Diesel engine. A feat not thought possible.

A charming gentleman. Sadly I never got to meet him, my father did, lovely knowledgeable man. RIP Bob, his model making programmes inspired me no end👍😊😊

How things have changed in the last decade. CityRail has been replaced with Sydney Trains. One of the train lines has been turned into a metro and given to Sydney Metro. The Carlingford line has been closed and is being turned into a tram line. The display boards are now white instead of navy blue. Ticket barriers are activated by an electronic card rather than paper tickets. Almost all the steel box looking trains (L, R, S, and C sets) have been replaced by the Waratah trains (A and B sets). In a couple of years the remaining steel box K and intercity V sets will be retired too when the intercity Mariyung trains (D set) arrive. The Tangara (T set) was the newest train set when I was a kid. They're about to become the oldest.

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I Hoping that MRT7 Will be The Same as Dubai Metro. The MRT7 Could be Upgraded Soon to Fully Automated and Driverless and Also Remove Catenary and Overhead Line, It Will Also Do it in All Metro Manila Rapid transit in Greater Metro Manila Area.

BEAUTİFUL 👍

This train journey was very good.

I've only found this man today 19/11/20. He reminds me of one of my favourite characters Fred Dibnah. They are the same but different.

What a lovely man! I don't care much for model trains however he presents things in an interesting way.

You can tell he spent his life smiling. His face has just become a warm smile. Wonderful stuff from Childhood

I remember Bob in Model World during the 70's and i loved it. Happy days. RIP Bob, thanks for the memories

RIP Sir

Is his surname pronouncee Sims or sYmes?

In 1986 our train derailed! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z7yPnqiSxq7Zm4E.html

The United States has a long way to go!

Bob Symes I want to thank you for giving your happy memories that u shared with me and the rest of the people around the world who always like your talent as the inventor

Hermoso recorrido en el Perú Rail. Magnífica atención de todo su personal. La comida es muy sabrosa. Los paisajes de ensueño. Volvería con muchísimo gusto a ese hermoso y hermano Perú. Machupichu una experiencia inolvidable !!

He’s such a great character and a great man who always be remembered doing commentary on the train videos

My heart goes out to him and his family and the narrow gauge railway fans

Zig Zag rail it won't be open a long time after bushfires 2013 and 2019 to 2020 in lithgow nsw Australia

Delightful - what it is to have so many friends with all the right skills ! Bob will be missed by many

R.I.P. I feel very privileged to work with him in the last 6 years of his life. My last meeting with him was in summer 2014 in his house near to London. Thank you Bob for all your ideas and help.

Great character. Great man. You'll be missed. Personally, I think he deserves a nice headstone with a model train on it.

Couldnt you just sit and listen to Bob for hours talking about railways......what a great guy.