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Prototoype copies Gamages 50's Xmas layout?
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Re: Prototoype copies Gamages 50's Xmas layout?
So what is the connection to Gamages?
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grovenor-2685 wrote:So what is the connection to Gamages?
The extent of it possibly Keith. I remember it well, my parents took me there for several years consecutively. It was the most vast model railway I had ever seen, impressed a sub-teen mightily. The quality did not compare with the Gorre & Daphetid though..
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Re: Prototoype copies Gamages 50's Xmas layout?
The Gamage's model railway featured Lionel American O (sometimes called Q) gauge tinplate models and Gamages also sold Lionel items. The layout was certainly large and impressive. For a period in the 1950s it was managed by Frank Briggs who was then a prominent member of The Model Railway Club (and, indeed, subsequently Chairman thereof) and the Crawley Model Railway Society.
I have heard it said that Bertram Otto, the entertainer, was involved in the initial set-up of the Gamage's railway, which is possible, he was a lifelong model railway enthusiast and certainly later exhibited a large layout at various seaside locations, but I have seen no actual evidence that that was the case and certainly Frank never mentioned it.
The Gamage's store at Holborn Circus closed in 1972 but I suspect that the railway had gone long before that.
I have heard it said that Bertram Otto, the entertainer, was involved in the initial set-up of the Gamage's railway, which is possible, he was a lifelong model railway enthusiast and certainly later exhibited a large layout at various seaside locations, but I have seen no actual evidence that that was the case and certainly Frank never mentioned it.
The Gamage's store at Holborn Circus closed in 1972 but I suspect that the railway had gone long before that.
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Re: Prototoype copies Gamages 50's Xmas layout?
I hope they didn't run these on there!
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Re: Prototoype copies Gamages 50's Xmas layout?
Taking a 1 foot radius curve in O gauge with no control over the speed doesn't sound good.
Re: Prototoype copies Gamages 50's Xmas layout?
I was struck by the article's real vistas of towering mountainsides alternating with deep gorges and spidery railroad bridges crossing between. That very popular display layout concept was very cleverly modelled on a floor to ceiling section of the aforementioned Gorre and Dapheteid. And the Gamages layout strove for an obviously commercially limited similar impressive effect. But even, so it inspired me and I suspect a lot of other Home Counties then pre-teen youngsters, to labor away making some sort of scenery on their own train sets.
One awkward problem is that such real life vistas are in mostly uninhabited areas, so the modelling of also usually desired busy train stations, freight yards, urban and industrial landscapes can't be believably modelled in close proximity. You need a space such as "Miniatur Wunderland's" to achieve it in a really credible way.
Andy
One awkward problem is that such real life vistas are in mostly uninhabited areas, so the modelling of also usually desired busy train stations, freight yards, urban and industrial landscapes can't be believably modelled in close proximity. You need a space such as "Miniatur Wunderland's" to achieve it in a really credible way.
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Re: Prototoype copies Gamages 50's Xmas layout?
Ah yes, the Gory and Defeated (that is how, apparently, it was pronounced), stunning model making full use of vertical as well as horizontal real estate. I was reading in Model Railroader that it was destroyed by fire a couple of days after the owner's death.
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