O Gauge Layout

[port perran]

I was in two minds as to whether to post this or not, especially as it is O Gauge related, but in the end I decided to.
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A friend of mine who lives literally 10 minutes away in Dawlish is an O Gauge modeller.
He has a pretty large, probably 30ft by 20 ft layout under construction  at my old club down in West Cornwall but back in the period roughly 2008-2015 he built, with assistance from a few pals, a rather magnificent layout in a purpose built building.

It is based on South Devon - mainly Rattery Bank and the Plymouth area.

Due to a house move the railway was dismantled.

My friend had some video footage but it was in various formats, several CDs, some files on his laptop, various memory sticks and a little bit of early phone footage.

Malcolm asked me if I could collate all of that into a watchable format as a memory of the layout for him which was a bit of a challenge as the videos were in various formats.

We had about 4 hours in total but a lot of it was of rather poor quality and taken, unfortunately, in less than ideal lighting  conditions.

Nevertheless I managed to do my best with what was available.

We took the decision to overlay the video with background music because the videos were a mixture of sound and no sound with in many cases a lot of background noise and chatter.
Please do turn the sound down if you don't like it.

It was, to my mind, a magnificent layout so, if you are interested, here goes.
Just a warning though that it is about 80 minutes long.
Oh and I do know that there are a few errors in the textual info but that's for another day to correct.

[Papyrus]

What a fabulous layout! It shows the level of realism achievable in the larger scales. I've only watched the first ten minutes or so but I will watch the rest in due course.

However, what is this I see? Did I spot an interloper, a Gresley carriage at about 4:45? I'm not well versed in GW carriages, or GW anything to be honest, so it could be from the right neck of the woods after all.

Thanks for posting, Martin.

Cheers,

Chris