The Story Of Model Railways

[Mr Frosty]

Excellent BBC TV programme featuring the history of model railways (from a UK perspective) from the 1900's to the present day.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q9vhy

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01q9vhy/Timeshift_Series_12_The_Joy_of_%28Train%29_Sets/

 

Those overseas members may need to use a UK proxy to view.

http://www.justproxy.co.uk/

[VJM]

Saw this.  Quite good.  Fascinating stuff about Basset-Lowke.  I guess I'm too young to appreciate the tinplate / 3-rail / wind-up era, so I was somewhat disappointed that there was so little modern models featured.

[Claude_Dreyfus]

It makes a change to have a sensible program on model railways!

 

It was nice to see Pempoul featured so heavily (the Gravatt's French layout)...it is an amazing layout; if any layout should be seen as a show-case for the hobby, this is it.

[Ochanomizu]

I look forward to viewing it.