Britain's Biggest Model Railway - a near 200ft x 50ft model of Heaton Lodge Junction in West Yorkshire - launched its debut exhibition on December 3. Hornby Magazine visited to see the full layout in action. Watch our full video feature here with exclusive subscriber only images.
Above: A Class 47 passes the sewage treatment plant on the approach to the bridge over the River Calder on Britain's Biggest Model Railway.
IT IS ONE thing taking your average model railway layout to an exhibition for a weekend, but when it requires two articulated lorries and weighs over 5tons and consists of more than 90 baseboards it is a whole different challenge. But Simon George and the Britain's Biggest Model Railway team have done just that by taking the mind-bending 200ft x 50ft 'O' gauge model of Heaton Lodge Junction out for its first two week long public event in Wakefield.
The layout has been built in a mill basement with the aim of being taken to larger venues for periods of public display. The Wakefield event from December 4-19 is the first shake down for Britain's Biggest Model Railway and is the culmination of eight years work by Simon and his team to produce a model railway of staggering proportions.
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