Thanks ever so much Edward! Hopefully so. Certainly is going to be an interesting build. NGSW was an amazing show. Such a shame it was the only one I ever got too. Devil's Bridge was just outstanding! Really inspirational. Many thanks indeed!
I've always liked learning about world war 1 and being a railway fanatic I think I will definitely enjoy this series of videos :) by the way, love the layout name ;) a great first update very callum and I can't wait to see what you have in store for the next video. Keep the faith - callum
Thanks ever so much mate! I've learnt so much about the war researching parts for this railway, really is interesting stuff. Ah yes, see you spotted it on the planning paper ;) Many thanks indeed!
Thanks ever so much Simon! It really is indeed! Not built a layout for a while and been really meaning to get back into it. Very much looking forward to the scenic aspect of it :) Glad you enjoyed!
You can get get it from a few outlets. I got these items from Parkside Dundas, but also have a number of items on order at my local model shop, Signals Models :)
Wow! I really like the sound of this project and I shall look forward to watching it all come together. I love the idea of the setting and the scope of what you can do with it. Cheers
Thanks ever so much Michael! Certainly is going to be a very interesting project indeed! Can't wait to get around to doing the scenery on this one. Got a few techniques I'd like to try out ;) Glad you like it!
This seems a great idea and have never seen a layout like the one you are planning before. The mini trains stuff does look good and I have been slightly tempted by them sat in the cabinets at my local model shop!
Thanks ever so much mate! Certainly is going to be an interesting project! The Minitrains items are just stunning! Really is amazing how small and detailed they are (plus how well they run). Which shop is that and do they have a website?
Quite an exciting and interesting project. I'd suggest getting in touch with the Imperial War Museum in Lambeth, south London, for further research and advice. I am certain that nurses would not have been seem at the front, but would have provided invaluable help to casualties returning to the UK.
Thanks ever so much Rich. Been looking around and have found some information on them. Someones also pointed out that the could of been seen in a field hospital, far behind front lines, though will see.
Ooooooooooooooooo :D Matthews excited now! U knw i love narrow gauge and this comes with an interesting theme too! V much looking forward to THIS!!!!!!
Thanks ever so much Matthew! Glad you like the plans :) Oh yes, certainly is going to be an interesting project! Might be able to find a little Simplex to add in on here too ;)
Sounds like a fun project you can really engross yourself into. Plastic models can be fun. I plan to start my 3rd girder bridge this weekend while Michelle is out of town. I will be quite interested in what you have to say about working in a small scale. Rob
Thanks ever so much Rob! Certainly is going to be quite different. Oh yes, use to do them all the time, still have load of part and unbuilt ones, so will be great to get back into building them. Looking forward to seeing it! So far it's been quite fun, really can't wait to get onto doing the scenery ;) Glad you enjoyed!
I have also been toying with the idea of a WW1 layout, a bit of good reading material on the subject I suggest is "trains to the trenches" by Andrew Roden. It describes railways on all fronts (including the home front) in the war and describes the trench railways and how they operate. The trench railways had a sort of two tier system. The first was as a sort of conventional railway with a timetable and signals etc. But when they got closer to the front the wagons switched from steam to petrol and diesel, this part of the system had no time table and practically no signalling and largely ran only at night. I'm thinking of modelling a junction where the two systems met. Good luck with your project
Thanks for the info Samuel! Never knew that about the signals. Have been looking out for that book myself. Hope to get a few petrol locos to join the fleet soon, to recreate that sort of seen of them swapping over too. Really is very interesting system indeed, and learning more and more interesting things about it all the time :)
well they would have been basic hand operated signals, not connected to signal boxes or anything like that.I have been looking about for similar engines and I found these 3D printed designs, however like most 009 kits the chassis is not included www.shapeways.com/product/U78ZVFP8Y/b-1-48-protected-simplex-both-doors-open?optionId=62222304&li=user-wishlist www.shapeways.com/product/KMQBKAH2D/009-gauge-simplex-diesel?optionId=57734664&li=user-wishlist
Fantastic project and great to see more OO9 stuff, planning more of mine soon. There theme is perfect and you will have avmassive amount of modelling options to play with. Nurses will have been there to do first aid and escort back to the field hospital or on board the ambulance trains that came about during this conflict. As far as I know mk1 and 5 did battle together. Can't wait to see how this progresses. Make sure to test thise pounts before fixing them, I found them finicky. Top work Callum.
Thanks ever so much Mike! It really is quite a fun little scale isn't it :) Oh yes, certainly will be an interesting project. Excellent news! Might be able to have them on the little make shift field platform then. Just picked up a few more tanks to add to the collection of thinks to build, sadly there's not a Mk5 in 1:76 scale, but there is a Mk4, which is not far off. I've also picked a Wippet Tank, refueling truck and artillery truck. Will do :)
Looks like a great project mate! As for the nurse figures , maybe you could have an aid station scene with the wounded men being treated by nurses (could say they're from the Royal Army Medical Corps) as a way of fitting them into the layout..can't wait to see it progress!
tip: its a must that you create "trench mud" because in ww1, the somme and most other french battle fields would look like ploughed fields. my suggestion is to mix pva or wood glue with earth and bits of rubble. if you want to make it look like it has been rained on paint it with some glossy varnish, just bewhere of warping on the baseboard.
great video. looking forward to seeing this develop. its a area of history i'm also interested in after a visit to northern france and belguim a few years ago. will you be looking to get the bachmann 00-9 alco loco and rolling stock i know they are producing alot of extra stuff to compliment the models figures and scenic items.
Thanks mate! Certainly is going to be an interesting project. Would really love to do a Battle Field Tour at some point (I think that's what they are called). Yep, got one on order. Though it will be larger along side the Baldwin featured here (as this one is really Hoe scale), but that not to much of a worry. :)
SDJR7F88 yes your right battlefield tours very humbling experience. you may be interested in the frossy and dompierre light railway its a surviving section of front line supply railway in somme region of france.
Love the name. This will be great. Set the same time and country as when my Grandfather won his VC in WW1. Good idea to have it moving ll the time. I am considering fully automating Terror St. Laurie.
Thanks ever so much Laurie! Certainly will be an interesting project! Any idea where he served too? Yes, the loop will be very handy for that. Not had an exhibition layout I can just leave trains running on without an operator ;) Glad you enjoyed!
Good luck with the 009 project, you might be persuaded to join the 009 society we're a friendly bunch. Also check out NGRM online a great online modelling community. Best of luck
Thanks Nic! Picked up a flyer from a kind chap at the Warminster Fine Scale Model Railway exhibition the other week :) Will be sure to check them out. So far I got a little topic on the layout going on RMweb; www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/123735-ww1-trench-railway-009-exhibition-layout/ Many thanks indeed!
I think you will find it is pronounced Ammy-on, and not Ami-ens, but no matter - the Brits used their own pronounciation which was awful. Wipers for Ypres (Eeper) for instance. The HOe stuff is 1:87 scale whereas your other stuff is 1:76 so it will show. Better not to mix it too close at least. Things like nurses, heavy artillery and supply dumps were to be found at the rear - not in a forward area, so dont try to model a front line environment. Tanks were more often to be found broken down in repair areas than at work on the front, they were very unreliable. So that is another reason to model a rear area. The steam locos attracted enemy fire so also were unpoplular at the front. Headlights were a definate no no for the same reason. Consider using plenty of camouflage for both rail and artillery, as spotter aircraft took valuable photos for the gunners. Dont fall into the trap of having soldiers in fighting poses. I have seen one or two WW1 layouts that featured this and it is wrong on so many levels. Try to get hold of some of the good books available on the subject of WW1 trench railways as there are now quite a few available. Also dont forget to remove the large wheels at the back of those early tanks as they were soon found to be more of a liability than a help so were removed long before 1918. And dont forget a trench was NEVER straight. It zig zagged and had lots of features rarely modelled by so called enthusiasts. Ammunition was carried in huge numbers before a 'push' but after a battle it was more likely to be empty shell cases, trench building materials (wire, timber, duck boards, canvas, and lots of wounded even when it was 'quiet' on the western front. For that reason it would probably make more sense to have your intended front line in the opposite direction to the one you have decided upon. Have your viewer observe the layout as if their backs were to the front line instead of looking towards it, then your railway will be bringing stuff to and from an imagined standard gauge railhead. I might also mention that your choice of insulated points may come to haunt you later when you find that smaller 4 whl locos dont like them. With such a small scale the locos need all the help they can get to maintain electrical contact at all times and those points do not meet that requirement. That is why electrofrog points are the norm for 009 even though they cost more. The Yankee 2-6-2 and the brigadeloks shouldnt have any problems though, but the British used the 4-6-0 Baldwin & Hunslet steam locos. 0-4-0 types were usually petrol Simplex machines that were used for carrying goods towards the front itself where steam dare not venture. Hope this helps.
Thanks for all the info Shanty! Oh yes, I covered my pronunciation in the video description, as I knew I had said it wrong after I filmed that take ;) The layout certainly will depict a rear area of the battlefield, nearly all the locos I got are steam so far, though I hope to get a Simplex for hauling the troop train. Been looking for figures, and as you say most are in fighting positions, though I have found a few standing and sitting ones, that will be perfect. As for the tank, it's all ready been done ;) I've just built the kit, minus the wheels, as covered. I've also added a couple of rails to the top. Thanks for the info on the stock too. Got a 4-6-0 Baldwin on order, along with a 'Tin Turtle' Simplex Kit. Thanks ever so much for all the very helpful info! Will be sure to keep coming back and recapping from it :)
Looking forward to seeing this at a show. Glad you enjoyed narrow gauge south west. We had a fantastic day with Devil's Bridge.
Thanks ever so much Edward! Hopefully so. Certainly is going to be an interesting build. NGSW was an amazing show. Such a shame it was the only one I ever got too. Devil's Bridge was just outstanding! Really inspirational. Many thanks indeed!
Lovely loco, rolling stock and accessories. Good luck with the project.
Thanks ever so much mate! Glad you like it! Certainly is going to be an interesting build :)
fascinating subject cheers from Southern California
Thanks ever so much mate! Glad you like the plans!
Great project looking forward to seeing the progress.
Thanks ever so much Dave! More updates to come soon :)
I've always liked learning about world war 1 and being a railway fanatic I think I will definitely enjoy this series of videos :) by the way, love the layout name ;) a great first update very callum and I can't wait to see what you have in store for the next video. Keep the faith - callum
Thanks ever so much mate! I've learnt so much about the war researching parts for this railway, really is interesting stuff. Ah yes, see you spotted it on the planning paper ;) Many thanks indeed!
Wow! That layout is going to be amazing!
Thanks ever so much mate! Certainly is going to be an interesting project ;)
Great idea Callum, alway exciting to see the start of a new layout, good luck with it!
Thanks ever so much Simon! It really is indeed! Not built a layout for a while and been really meaning to get back into it. Very much looking forward to the scenic aspect of it :) Glad you enjoyed!
Oooh, these two videos have given me ideas for a 009 layout, looking forward to seeing this layout finished.
Thanks ever so much Luke! Glad your enjoying the progress :) Hopefully more to come soon!
SDJR7F88 also, where do you get your minitrains stuff from?
You can get get it from a few outlets. I got these items from Parkside Dundas, but also have a number of items on order at my local model shop, Signals Models :)
SDJR7F88 thank you
oh now you have surprised me Callem! this is going to be brilliant
Glad you like the plans! Certainly is going to be a very interesting project :)
Wow! I really like the sound of this project and I shall look forward to watching it all come together. I love the idea of the setting and the scope of what you can do with it. Cheers
Thanks ever so much Michael! Certainly is going to be a very interesting project indeed! Can't wait to get around to doing the scenery on this one. Got a few techniques I'd like to try out ;) Glad you like it!
This seems a great idea and have never seen a layout like the one you are planning before. The mini trains stuff does look good and I have been slightly tempted by them sat in the cabinets at my local model shop!
Thanks ever so much mate! Certainly is going to be an interesting project! The Minitrains items are just stunning! Really is amazing how small and detailed they are (plus how well they run). Which shop is that and do they have a website?
Transport Models Preston. They have only really branched out into 009 recently but they have a nice bit of stock.
Will give it a look :)
Another excellent project. You must be running out of space in that house!! Looks like it'll be fab, good luck with it!
Thanks ever so much mate! yes, running out of space very quickly. Might need a clear out soon. Many thanks indeed!
Quite an exciting and interesting project. I'd suggest getting in touch with the Imperial War Museum in Lambeth, south London, for further research and advice. I am certain that nurses would not have been seem at the front, but would have provided invaluable help to casualties returning to the UK.
Thanks ever so much Rich. Been looking around and have found some information on them. Someones also pointed out that the could of been seen in a field hospital, far behind front lines, though will see.
Ooooooooooooooooo :D Matthews excited now! U knw i love narrow gauge and this comes with an interesting theme too! V much looking forward to THIS!!!!!!
Thanks ever so much Matthew! Glad you like the plans :) Oh yes, certainly is going to be an interesting project! Might be able to find a little Simplex to add in on here too ;)
This is going to be awesome !
Oh yes, certainly is! Very much looking forward to the build! :)
SDJR7F88 me too!
Looks amazing!! I can't hardly wait for the final result!!!
Thanks ever so much mate! Certainly is going to be an interesting project! Can't wait to get started with it :)
Sounds like a fun project you can really engross yourself into. Plastic models can be fun. I plan to start my 3rd girder bridge this weekend while Michelle is out of town. I will be quite interested in what you have to say about working in a small scale. Rob
Thanks ever so much Rob! Certainly is going to be quite different. Oh yes, use to do them all the time, still have load of part and unbuilt ones, so will be great to get back into building them. Looking forward to seeing it! So far it's been quite fun, really can't wait to get onto doing the scenery ;) Glad you enjoyed!
Great project! Can't wait to see it in action.
Thanks ever so much mate! Glad you like the plans! Hopefully more updates to come soon :)
I have also been toying with the idea of a WW1 layout, a bit of good reading material on the subject I suggest is "trains to the trenches" by Andrew Roden. It describes railways on all fronts (including the home front) in the war and describes the trench railways and how they operate. The trench railways had a sort of two tier system. The first was as a sort of conventional railway with a timetable and signals etc. But when they got closer to the front the wagons switched from steam to petrol and diesel, this part of the system had no time table and practically no signalling and largely ran only at night. I'm thinking of modelling a junction where the two systems met.
Good luck with your project
Thanks for the info Samuel! Never knew that about the signals. Have been looking out for that book myself. Hope to get a few petrol locos to join the fleet soon, to recreate that sort of seen of them swapping over too. Really is very interesting system indeed, and learning more and more interesting things about it all the time :)
well they would have been basic hand operated signals, not connected to signal boxes or anything like that.I have been looking about for similar engines and I found these 3D printed designs, however like most 009 kits the chassis is not included
www.shapeways.com/product/U78ZVFP8Y/b-1-48-protected-simplex-both-doors-open?optionId=62222304&li=user-wishlist
www.shapeways.com/product/KMQBKAH2D/009-gauge-simplex-diesel?optionId=57734664&li=user-wishlist
Thanks once again. Both very interesting little kits. Will have to have a think
Fantastic project and great to see more OO9 stuff, planning more of mine soon. There theme is perfect and you will have avmassive amount of modelling options to play with. Nurses will have been there to do first aid and escort back to the field hospital or on board the ambulance trains that came about during this conflict. As far as I know mk1 and 5 did battle together. Can't wait to see how this progresses. Make sure to test thise pounts before fixing them, I found them finicky. Top work Callum.
Thanks ever so much Mike! It really is quite a fun little scale isn't it :) Oh yes, certainly will be an interesting project. Excellent news! Might be able to have them on the little make shift field platform then. Just picked up a few more tanks to add to the collection of thinks to build, sadly there's not a Mk5 in 1:76 scale, but there is a Mk4, which is not far off. I've also picked a Wippet Tank, refueling truck and artillery truck. Will do :)
Morning Callum, check here mate there is a MK5 conversion fro0m Airfix www.scalelink.co.uk/acatalog/Great_War_Range___1_76.html
Ah thanks for the link! Will check it out :)
hello from the united states!
its a very unique project you are doing! it will be very interesting seeing all of this come together
Thanks Kurtis! Glad you like the plans! More progress to come hopefully soon
Looks like a great project mate! As for the nurse figures , maybe you could have an aid station scene with the wounded men being treated by nurses (could say they're from the Royal Army Medical Corps) as a way of fitting them into the layout..can't wait to see it progress!
Thanks Alex! Glad you like it! Thanks for the info! Might have to do that :)
tip: its a must that you create "trench mud" because in ww1, the somme and most other french battle fields would look like ploughed fields. my suggestion is to mix pva or wood glue with earth and bits of rubble. if you want to make it look like it has been rained on paint it with some glossy varnish, just bewhere of warping on the baseboard.
Thanks for the tip! Been trying out a few other techniques too.
superb! good show. :-)
Many thanks
great video. looking forward to seeing this develop. its a area of history i'm also interested in after a visit to northern france and belguim a few years ago. will you be looking to get the bachmann 00-9 alco loco and rolling stock i know they are producing alot of extra stuff to compliment the models figures and scenic items.
Thanks mate! Certainly is going to be an interesting project. Would really love to do a Battle Field Tour at some point (I think that's what they are called). Yep, got one on order. Though it will be larger along side the Baldwin featured here (as this one is really Hoe scale), but that not to much of a worry. :)
SDJR7F88 yes your right battlefield tours very humbling experience. you may be interested in the frossy and dompierre light railway its a surviving section of front line supply railway in somme region of france.
Yes, saw there was a tour featuring the railway last year! Shame I missed out on it. Might have to do it if it comes up again.
Love the name. This will be great. Set the same time and country as when my Grandfather won his VC in WW1. Good idea to have it moving ll the time. I am considering fully automating Terror St. Laurie.
Thanks ever so much Laurie! Certainly will be an interesting project! Any idea where he served too? Yes, the loop will be very handy for that. Not had an exhibition layout I can just leave trains running on without an operator ;) Glad you enjoyed!
Thanks for the info. Will give it a look. Could fit one of those Auto Shuttles?
Yes I have a Gaugemaster one for the viaduct already. Might just use another one.
Parkside dundas is a great place to go mate :)
Thanks mate. Funny you say that as I purchased the loco and wagons from them ;) Been eyeing up a number of there kits too
this project am looking forward too
am a fan of ww1/2 and railway
WWII for me
Thanks Adi! Certainly is going to be an interesting project ;)
Where did you get your baldwin?
I believe I purchased this one from Kent Garden Railways, honest can't remember off the top of my head :)
I am building one myself but it's being kept TOP SECRET due to the fact that my idea hasn't been looked into by other WW1 Modellers
That would be interesting to see :)
Good luck with the 009 project, you might be persuaded to join the 009 society we're a friendly bunch. Also check out NGRM online a great online modelling community.
Best of luck
Thanks Nic! Picked up a flyer from a kind chap at the Warminster Fine Scale Model Railway exhibition the other week :) Will be sure to check them out. So far I got a little topic on the layout going on RMweb; www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/123735-ww1-trench-railway-009-exhibition-layout/
Many thanks indeed!
How many layouts do you have now?
This will be the 5th :p Though hopefully like Compton Quay, it will be attending shows :)
do the rolling stock need paint
Nope, they are pre-painted in US Army Grey, though I do plan to make them a bit dirty at some point to tone them down.
they run on n gauge track tough
yes they do
cool
Thanks!
To all Thomas fans, find this engine if you want to make Stanley
From the railway series.
Badlwin 2-6-2T
I think you will find it is pronounced Ammy-on, and not Ami-ens, but no matter - the Brits used their own pronounciation which was awful. Wipers for Ypres (Eeper) for instance. The HOe stuff is 1:87 scale whereas your other stuff is 1:76 so it will show. Better not to mix it too close at least. Things like nurses, heavy artillery and supply dumps were to be found at the rear - not in a forward area, so dont try to model a front line environment. Tanks were more often to be found broken down in repair areas than at work on the front, they were very unreliable. So that is another reason to model a rear area. The steam locos attracted enemy fire so also were unpoplular at the front. Headlights were a definate no no for the same reason. Consider using plenty of camouflage for both rail and artillery, as spotter aircraft took valuable photos for the gunners. Dont fall into the trap of having soldiers in fighting poses. I have seen one or two WW1 layouts that featured this and it is wrong on so many levels. Try to get hold of some of the good books available on the subject of WW1 trench railways as there are now quite a few available. Also dont forget to remove the large wheels at the back of those early tanks as they were soon found to be more of a liability than a help so were removed long before 1918. And dont forget a trench was NEVER straight. It zig zagged and had lots of features rarely modelled by so called enthusiasts. Ammunition was carried in huge numbers before a 'push' but after a battle it was more likely to be empty shell cases, trench building materials (wire, timber, duck boards, canvas, and lots of wounded even when it was 'quiet' on the western front. For that reason it would probably make more sense to have your intended front line in the opposite direction to the one you have decided upon. Have your viewer observe the layout as if their backs were to the front line instead of looking towards it, then your railway will be bringing stuff to and from an imagined standard gauge railhead. I might also mention that your choice of insulated points may come to haunt you later when you find that smaller 4 whl locos dont like them. With such a small scale the locos need all the help they can get to maintain electrical contact at all times and those points do not meet that requirement. That is why electrofrog points are the norm for 009 even though they cost more. The Yankee 2-6-2 and the brigadeloks shouldnt have any problems though, but the British used the 4-6-0 Baldwin & Hunslet steam locos. 0-4-0 types were usually petrol Simplex machines that were used for carrying goods towards the front itself where steam dare not venture. Hope this helps.
Thanks for all the info Shanty! Oh yes, I covered my pronunciation in the video description, as I knew I had said it wrong after I filmed that take ;) The layout certainly will depict a rear area of the battlefield, nearly all the locos I got are steam so far, though I hope to get a Simplex for hauling the troop train. Been looking for figures, and as you say most are in fighting positions, though I have found a few standing and sitting ones, that will be perfect. As for the tank, it's all ready been done ;) I've just built the kit, minus the wheels, as covered. I've also added a couple of rails to the top. Thanks for the info on the stock too. Got a 4-6-0 Baldwin on order, along with a 'Tin Turtle' Simplex Kit. Thanks ever so much for all the very helpful info! Will be sure to keep coming back and recapping from it :)
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