00:00I'm John Aldrich. I'm the Leeds Modaroa Society Exhibition Manager.
00:04And here we are at our annual exhibition at the Grammar School at Leeds.
00:09We've got a good selection of layouts here, different scales, sizes,
00:14some big low-gauge ones, quite big locos on it, down to this one that you can see behind me,
00:19which is 2mm scale, which is about as small as I think you can reasonably model
00:23and build models successfully in.
00:26Ivy Bridge was a model that I started building after I had retired.
00:31I'd long wanted to build one, but work was far too busy to think about at the time.
00:37And it was finding a suitable location.
00:39And I just happened to come across a book that had a rather splendid picture
00:43of a train crossing this viaduct, the Ivy Bridge.
00:47And I thought, wow, that would make a nice model.
00:49My name's Andy Ross. I'm Chairman of the Leeds Modaroa Society.
00:53I've been a member since 1974.
00:56Built several layouts of different types over the years.
00:59But this is my current one.
01:02And when I say current one, this has been in the build for 15 years.
01:07I did my apprenticeship at Unslut. I was the last works manager.
01:11And one of the features on the layout is my actual bench, where I did part of my apprenticeship.
01:17There is no manufacturing in the UK like this anymore, where you would experience the same things we used to
01:24do.
01:25And although we might not have thought at the time, I now see it as a privilege.
01:29And that's part of the reason to recreate it so people could see what it was like when I started
01:35here back in 1979.
01:37Well, as long as I can remember, modelling-wise, but this is particular in my early years.
01:45It's based on the area I grew up in, up in the south-west Edinburgh.
01:50It's an unusual choice being a paper mill, but it seems to have been very well received.
01:54Just bringing back old memories, seeing things that maybe we'd like to do themselves if we had the time and
02:00space to do it.
02:03The trouble is this sits boxed up most of the time because there's no room to put it up at
02:07home, other than on a drive on a dry day.
02:10I like to think people appreciate the detail and the time taken to do the models.
02:15When we ran one of the locos out of the workshop, in its earlier form, before it was finished even,
02:21when it goes out the door and round the corner, it actually sends a shiver down my spine.
02:25Because it's like being back there.
02:28And some of the locos that we run up and down as if they're untested are the locos that I
02:32tested.
02:33Model railways can be either sometimes a very sort of individualistic activity, or you can join a club or a
02:42group of other like-minded people.
02:44Sharing ideas and techniques, knowledge, how you've done things either individually or how other people have done things is a
02:55really great sort of social activity as well.
02:58So, let's go.
02:58Let's go.
02:59Let's go.
02:59Let's go.
02:59Let's go.
