Volunteers wanted for Great Glen Model Railway project

[sprinterguy]

Love Productions, the makers of The Great British Bake Off amongst other things, are looking for volunteers for an ambitious project to lay a 74 mile model railway along the length of The Great Glen from Inverness to Fort William.

I've no idea of the intended scale that will be used, though I rather thought that James May's much smaller, though still impressive, effort between Barnstaple and Bideford proved the limits of 00 gauge.

Filming is intended to take place for two weeks from June 19th, and core volunteers would need to be available for the full period. There are also opportunities for volunteers available for a smaller portion of the filming period, and the producers are looking for a wide scope of volunteers including carpenters and engineers as well as model railway enthusiasts.

I can't find any information on their website and don't have contact details (though can provide them on Monday), but here's a local BBC News article:

'Ambitious' bid to build model railway in Scottish glen
28 February 2017
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-39114195

Model railway enthusiasts and volunteers are being sought for an ambitious plan to lay a model railway track along Scotland's Great Glen.

The bid, to be filmed for a TV show, involves laying 74 miles (119km) of track from Fort William to Inverness.

Love Productions, the programme makers, hope the "slightly bonkers" undertaking will be as popular as its Great British Bake Off.

Engineers and construction workers have also been sought for the project.
Construction is planned for two weeks over the summer and is to be filmed for Channel 4.

The working title for the show is The Biggest Little Railway in the World.
Producer of the project, Charlotte Armstrong, told BBC Radio Scotland's Out of Doors programme the new show would celebrate British enthusiasm for model railways.

She said: "It's massively ambitious. We want to bring together Britain's model railway enthusiasts and all the different skills they have, but also local volunteers, engineers and people with construction experience."

The programme would also celebrate a Victorian era idea to build a full-scale, working railway through the Great Glen.

 

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Did anything come from their Liverpool ad? http://www.hattons.co.uk/NewsDetail.aspx?id=96