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kiwiAlan		#1 Posted : 03 June 2017 19:03:54(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 23/07/2014(UTC) Posts: 8,101 Location: ENGLAND, Didcot		Coming soon to UK viewers of TV is a TV show to be called 'The Biggest Little Railway in the World'. It will travel 74 miles on plastic track. I don't recognise the track in the pictures, and it is not clear where it will start from, but travels through the Great Glen to Inverness. Show is to start filming late this month and air in July. I think it is a single item, it doesn't appear to be called a series. I'm guessing it will eventually get wider distribution, so keep a watch out for the title on your local channels. Edited by moderator 06 January 2018 09:16:21(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified
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river6109		#2 Posted : 04 June 2017 03:49:52(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 22/01/2009(UTC) Posts: 14,712 Location: On 1965 Märklin Boulevard just around from Roco Square		Originally Posted by: kiwiAlan Coming soon to UK viewers of TV is a TV show to be called 'The Biggest Little Railway in the World'. It will travel 74 miles on plastic track. I don't recognise the track in the pictures, and it is not clear where it will start from, but travels through the Great Glen to Inverness. Show is to start filming late this month and air in July. I think it is a single item, it doesn't appear to be called a series. I'm guessing it will eventually get wider distribution, so keep a watch out for the title on your local channels. Most probably Ian will help to supply tracks for this adventure and here goes his bridge as they need bridges to build the model railway John
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Jabez		#3 Posted : 04 June 2017 23:34:36(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 30/08/2016(UTC) Posts: 636 Location: Brussels		I hope the tracklayers have a better sense of location than the Daily Mail or they will never get to Inverness. The photo accompanying the article is certainly not of the Great Glen but looks like the northwest Highlands, the double mountain massif may be Suilven Jabez
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kiwiAlan		#4 Posted : 04 June 2017 23:47:02(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 23/07/2014(UTC) Posts: 8,101 Location: ENGLAND, Didcot		Originally Posted by: Jabez I hope the tracklayers have a better sense of location than the Daily Mail or they will never get to Inverness. The photo accompanying the article is certainly not of the Great Glen but looks like the northwest Highlands, the double mountain massif may be Suilven Jabez haha, typical journalistic licence ... Actually they say the longest so far was done in Hamburg, but I have a feeling the one james May did around Bideford in Devon went for longer than 8 miles ...
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H0		#5 Posted : 05 June 2017 08:21:32(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 16/02/2004(UTC) Posts: 15,262 Location: DE-NW		Originally Posted by: kiwiAlan Actually they say the longest so far was done in Hamburg, but I have a feeling the one james May did around Bideford in Devon went for longer than 8 miles ... Yes, James May and his team laid the tracks, Miniatur Wunderland came with the Kraut train. The MiWuLa has 15400 meters of track and extension to about 20000 meters is planned. Are they trying to beat that?
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kiwiAlan		#6 Posted : 05 June 2017 10:30:22(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 23/07/2014(UTC) Posts: 8,101 Location: ENGLAND, Didcot		Originally Posted by: H0 Originally Posted by: kiwiAlan Actually they say the longest so far was done in Hamburg, but I have a feeling the one james May did around Bideford in Devon went for longer than 8 miles ... Yes, James May and his team laid the tracks, Miniatur Wunderland came with the Kraut train. The MiWuLa has 15400 meters of track and extension to about 20000 meters is planned. Are they trying to beat that? It wasn't clear to me if they were comparing it to MiWuLa itself, or the collaboration of the brothers with James May. They could do with some clarification in the article. 20km at MiWula would be equal to around 32 miles, so they are looking to travel more than twice that, and as a linear distance (as against a folded circuit like any normal layout).
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cookee_nz		#7 Posted : 22 December 2017 22:05:58(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 31/12/2010(UTC) Posts: 3,953 Location: Paremata, Wellington		https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/video-news/enthusiasts-build-longest-model-railway-ever-constructed-36429827.html Great idea, but not the first of it's type, so I have to wonder, if James May couldn't do it, what advantage do these guys have? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6088019/Vandals-disrupt-Top-Gear-presenter-James-Mays-model-train-record-bid.html But I'll be rootin' for them anyways
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Chook		#8 Posted : 23 December 2017 04:32:50(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 15/08/2012(UTC) Posts: 234 Location: Perth, Western Australia.		How many batteries will be required for this journey I wonder? Regards.........Chook.
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kiwiAlan		#9 Posted : 05 January 2018 19:06:34(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 23/07/2014(UTC) Posts: 8,101 Location: ENGLAND, Didcot		This was mentioned in a post in another thread where someone provided a link to a newspaper article about it (moderators, if you can find the thread, feel free to move this to there). The series on TV about it starts this Sunday (7th Jan) in the UK on Channel 4 at 8pm. It is repeated on tuesday at 10am on 4Seven. The series appears to be fronted by Dick Strawbridge, a retired army engineer, who has also recently featured in other programs such as Channel 4s 'Escape to the Chateau'. [edit] Ah, I can see that the thread has much in it past where the program is mentioned. Here is a link to an article on it. [/edit] Edited by user 06 January 2018 13:48:32(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified
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kiwiAlan		#10 Posted : 06 January 2018 13:50:05(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 23/07/2014(UTC) Posts: 8,101 Location: ENGLAND, Didcot		Bump, now edited post with link to article ...
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cookee_nz		#11 Posted : 06 January 2018 16:01:12(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 31/12/2010(UTC) Posts: 3,953 Location: Paremata, Wellington		Three different topics now merged into one by BD and myself.
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kiwiAlan		#12 Posted : 06 January 2018 17:42:57(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 23/07/2014(UTC) Posts: 8,101 Location: ENGLAND, Didcot		Originally Posted by: cookee_nz Three different topics now merged into one by BD and myself. Thanks cookee. Alan
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cookee_nz		#13 Posted : 06 January 2018 22:15:42(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 31/12/2010(UTC) Posts: 3,953 Location: Paremata, Wellington		Originally Posted by: kiwiAlan Originally Posted by: cookee_nz Three different topics now merged into one by BD and myself. Thanks cookee. Alan All good, I had a wee hiccup (senior moment) when I sent your first post off into never-never land via an unrelated topic about motor bearings and fortunately your 'bump' follow up led me to it so I could redirect correctly. Just in case you wondered how you got there from here Cheers
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hennabm		#14 Posted : 08 January 2018 20:04:18(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 22/09/2009(UTC) Posts: 2,041 Location: Edinburgh,		I watched the first one yesterday and so far so good. However the commentator kept saying that the Victorians did not succeed in getting a railway up the great glen. That's not fully true as the railway did get as far as Fort Augustus from Fort William. The pier bases at Ft Augustus are still visible where the bridge crossed the water to get to the station. Passengers then alighted and took the boat from Ft Augustus to Inverness. Let's see what episode 2 brings.
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Rwill		#15 Posted : 08 January 2018 20:17:07(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 04/05/2015(UTC) Posts: 777 Location: England, London		Originally Posted by: Chook How many batteries will be required for this journey I wonder? Regards.........Chook. Looking at last nights episode the answer is - nil Very nice real steamer in G1 from these guys: http://www.roundhouse-eng.com/ However in the clips from the next episode it appears not to make it across the canal so I trust they have a spare ot two!. Wasnt that impressed last night the usual format chaotic start, volunteer team leaders couldnt organise a piss up in a brewery suppose all will be rescued later by Strawbridge and Co
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kiwiAlan		#16 Posted : 09 January 2018 10:17:03(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 23/07/2014(UTC) Posts: 8,101 Location: ENGLAND, Didcot		Originally Posted by: Rwill Originally Posted by: Chook How many batteries will be required for this journey I wonder? Regards.........Chook. Looking at last nights episode the answer is - nil Very nice real steamer in G1 from these guys: http://www.roundhouse-eng.com/ However in the clips from the next episode it appears not to make it across the canal so I trust they have a spare ot two!. Wasnt that impressed last night the usual format chaotic start, volunteer team leaders couldnt organise a piss up in a brewery suppose all will be rescued later by Strawbridge and Co Anything with Dick Strawbridge seems to be somewhat chaotic.
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danmarklinman		#17 Posted : 09 January 2018 14:33:55(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 18/10/2012(UTC) Posts: 1,378		What an amusing program. There were a lot of chiefs and not many Indians? And what were they thinking? Without the stability of the track, it’s going to fall off? Just a bit of dirt under it would had done, Typical of paper engineering
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